New to the forum, just thought I'd share how my upgrade from a 4,1 2x2.26 to a 5,1 2x3.33 went.
Never knew much about computers until this year when I had to learn to buy the laptop I needed. Heard about the cMP upgrade and could not resist.
Picked up a 2009 dual cpu, couple 5680s, promptly wrecked them delidding, despite practicing on some old xeons. I think where I went wrong is that I was anxious about getting the cpu too hot while melting the solder, so I applied force with the razors I had wedged under the ihs to hurry it up. I think this bent the chip slightly. In any case, when I try to post with either cpu in the A socket...with one of them, the comp turns on, no LEDs, but nothing happens. With the other, a red LED comes on near the ram. Then nothing, no chime.
Anyways, I ordered a bunch more 5680s from China, installed them with some washers, lidded. One plastic washer coupled with one small metal worked perfect. First one installed in A socket chimed first try and recognized all ram. Second one only resulted in 40GB recognized (out of 64), with each careful tightening resulting in 8 more GB until 64. Success!
I did not have any thermal pad to bridge the gap over those other chips under the heatsink (not sure of name). So I went to the craft store and found some aluminum bracelet blanks that look exactly like popsicle sticks, but aluminum. I cut these, put a bit of thermal paste under them, and they perfectly bridge the gap to the thermal pad still on the heatsink (see pic). I'd guess this is much better than doubling up on thermal pad.
I ran geekbench 4 and got about 20500 for multi core.
Anyways, just wanted to share how it went for me. Decent so far, I've got a few more questions though.
Cheers
Never knew much about computers until this year when I had to learn to buy the laptop I needed. Heard about the cMP upgrade and could not resist.
Picked up a 2009 dual cpu, couple 5680s, promptly wrecked them delidding, despite practicing on some old xeons. I think where I went wrong is that I was anxious about getting the cpu too hot while melting the solder, so I applied force with the razors I had wedged under the ihs to hurry it up. I think this bent the chip slightly. In any case, when I try to post with either cpu in the A socket...with one of them, the comp turns on, no LEDs, but nothing happens. With the other, a red LED comes on near the ram. Then nothing, no chime.
Anyways, I ordered a bunch more 5680s from China, installed them with some washers, lidded. One plastic washer coupled with one small metal worked perfect. First one installed in A socket chimed first try and recognized all ram. Second one only resulted in 40GB recognized (out of 64), with each careful tightening resulting in 8 more GB until 64. Success!
I did not have any thermal pad to bridge the gap over those other chips under the heatsink (not sure of name). So I went to the craft store and found some aluminum bracelet blanks that look exactly like popsicle sticks, but aluminum. I cut these, put a bit of thermal paste under them, and they perfectly bridge the gap to the thermal pad still on the heatsink (see pic). I'd guess this is much better than doubling up on thermal pad.
I ran geekbench 4 and got about 20500 for multi core.
Anyways, just wanted to share how it went for me. Decent so far, I've got a few more questions though.
Cheers
