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Upgrading the Processor in the Mac Pro

WardC said:
...you'd be better off snatching this pair of puppies off eBay to give you a 3.0GHz 8-core mac, and it's practically the same price as your 2.0GHz harpertowns:

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Intel-Xeon-...yZ158888QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

(these are the x5365 quadcore Clovertown chips)
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Interesting. I'll watch these and see what price they eventually fetch. You do realise that they're being sold individually and not as a pair, don't you?

My inner Scotsman is whispering in my ear, telling me that the current premium being asked for the 5365 over the 5355 is rather exorbitant.
 
upgrade to x5365

If Intel need to mod their server boards to work with the new cpu's....
Most of the cheap CPU's on ebay are ES, buy a new production unit and you are paying more for the x5 series than the new chips. The x5 series are EOL and can only be purchased from current stock ( what I was told from a few retailers in Aus).
Anyway I did purchase 2 ES cpu's to upgrade.
 
I've now finished installing and testing my new 2.66 GHz quad-core clovertowns. Installation was a breeze, following the instructions available online at various sites. One thing to stress, though. Where they state that you need a long T20 torx or 3mm hex driver, they really do mean that you need it! Snap-on to the rescue, once again!

As for benchmarks, Geekbench (4931 → 7212), PowerFractal (34603 MegaFlops → 71907 MegaFlops) and Handbrake, using the iphone preset ( avg 95 fps → 151 fps) showed the best improvements. Cinebench 10 showed an increase in Multiprocessor speedup of 3.38 → 5.74 but no significant change elsewhere. Xbench gave its usual poor showing as far as multiprocessing is concerned.

All in all, worth doing from a computational point of view. I'll have to wait until I've sold the second pair that I bought in order to see if it's going to be good from a financial standpoint.
 
Masher500 said:
Didnt someone take a mac pro dual core and put a quad core processor in it?
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Yes, but they were pin-compatible and the FSB speeds were the same. Those were the 4-core demo chips that Intel made available. The new 4 core chips have a faster bus (667 vs 800) so you could not do that now.
 
krye said:
Yes, but they were pin-compatible and the FSB speeds were the same. Those were the 4-core demo chips that Intel made available. The new 4 core chips have a faster bus (667 vs 800) so you could not do that now.
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Did you read any of this thread?
 
Harpertown old mac pro hope!!!

Listed1.com's feed back on oOo.com's site is misleading. I was speaking to him on insanelymac.com and he told me that his logic board was version #1 "MacPro1,1". There might be hope for people with "MacPro2,1".
 
digitalperforme said:
Listed1.com's feed back on oOo.com's site is misleading. I was speaking to him on insanelymac.com and he told me that his logic board was version #1 "MacPro1,1". There might be hope for people with "MacPro2,1".
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What ones are they? the first octos?

My June 07 quad is a 1.1
 
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