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Upgrading the Quad 2.o Mac Pro to 8 core

oceanzen

oceanzen

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Dec 4, 2006
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Madrid, España
My Uni, are very kindly buying me a Quad 2.0 Mac Pro (the current one, I can't tell them to wait for the upgrade)
I will be doing pretty heavy Final Cut, Motion, Logic work on it, so I'm interested in upgrading to 8 cores. Doesn't have to be 3.0GHz as you pay a big premium for them.

But, would the 2.4GHZ Quad Core chips work?

Is this one a Clovertown?
http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.asp...1022&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11022&InMerch=1
Thanks for your help :)
 
Those will not work.

You will have to look for Xeon processors with the X53x0 naming nomenclature, which are Quad-core socket 771 processors the Mac Pro uses.
 
also

it's been shown that you can use overclock certain clovertown chips using a method called BSEL which basically involves sticking a small piece of tape on the cpu. I have two 1.6 ghz clovertowns (CHEAP) in my mac pro running at the 1333 fsb, and 2.0 ghz per core. do some googlin'
 
Thats an idea too, but I thought it may be cheaper to just upgrade the CPUs and then sell the 2 dual 2.0s
Seeing that they're £900 (in UK) I suppose I might as well sell it and get the new one.

I wonder how much I'd get for a Quad 2.0 once the new, possibly all 8 core Mac Pros are finally out. 75%?
 
The Website you want is http://o0o.it/pro/ Then Mac Pro > Upgrade.

He documents how to take any Mac Pro up to 2.33GHZ 8-Core with cheaper 1066FSB Chips.

These can be had for a steal. Look at the Handbrake results, almost 400FPS!

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