- UPGRADE MY MAC PRO PROCESSOR MOD
- UPGRADE MY MAC PRO PROCESSOR UPGRADE
- UPGRADE MY MAC PRO PROCESSOR FULL
It is easily accomplished with a VERY thin strip of insulator tape. cover) the sixth contact on the last row (look at the picture below). Here it is a cleaned (at its best) copper plate.Īccording to the Intel datasheets, to bypass cpu's BSEL (from 1066Mhz to 1333Mhz bus) you only have to isolate (i.e. Notice twice the cache! From 4MB to a whopping 8MB per CPU!!!Ĭlean carefully the new cpu and the bottom (the copper plate) of the heatsinks with acetone and a CLEAN cloth (i suggest to clean the old cpus too right after removing them, much better!). Here you can see one of the new xeon, soon to be installed! -)
When you successfully remove the heatsinks you'll see the 5150 xeons! Yup! Then unscrew the 8 screws (4 for every cpu hs) with the long torx.
When only the cpu heatsinks remain, pay attention to the cpu thermal sensor headers!! Open the MacPro as seen on many sites like HardMac or, if you have it, on the official Apple Service Manual. With PowerFractal: average of 30-35GigaFlops, not bad indeed!!!!!!
UPGRADE MY MAC PRO PROCESSOR FULL
Now let's see how good it is without any modifications, simply as Apple sells it, with only some more ram and storage the estimated power consumption under idle: 147W (about 200 real watts).Ī quite effective ffmpeg auto option for threads calculation:Īnd under full load: 242W (about 300 real watts). Here's how my Mac Pro was before the upgrade: NOTE 2: Fans speed were configured to 1000rpm and 1500rpm on the eight cores upgraded system. NOTE 1: Hardware Monitor's Power Consumption (in watts) estimation is about 40-60W less than the real one. Hardware Monitor smcFanControl MenuMeters FFmpeg (cli) HandBrake PowerFractal Torx T15 (al teast 20cm long) Software Tools Screwdrivers for some screws to open the MacPro (about 5, not much!) Genuine Apple nVidia 7300GT 256MB Hardware Tools: So maybe i should call it the El Cheapo Mac Pro Upgrade!!!! Test Mac Pro configured as follow: For reference, you'll go from a total of 10,64Ghz to 18,64Ghz!!!Īnd, best of all they cost about 350Euros each, or only 250 on eBay.
UPGRADE MY MAC PRO PROCESSOR MOD
It's power and thermal specs are quite similar to the 5150: 80W instead of 65W!!! Also it's the best for trying the BSEL mod since it has a default bus of 1066Mhz, so modding it to 1333Mhz we can push it to 2,33Ghz from the stock 1,86Ghz!!!Īfter following this guide you'll have an 8 cores Mac Pro from a "normal" 4 cores one. HardMac, AnandTech and others tried this way already with positive results but they used two X5355 ES (Engineering Sample) which aren't production samples readily available and worst of all, cost more than 1000Euros EACH!!!!Ībout 2 months ago i found the ideal choice: the nice E5320 (SL9MV). They don't draw much more power (on charts) BUT they give you plenty of computational power.
UPGRADE MY MAC PRO PROCESSOR UPGRADE
Since i bought almost a year ago my Mac Pro, i dreamed about the upgrade possibilities with other Woodcrest (x51xx XEON Socket 771) processors or, better (yup!), with Clovertown ones (x53xx XEON Socket 771). As usual.warranty is void!Ĭreated on Last Modified on 26 June 2007 Neat Video: noise reduction to make video cleaner.
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