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2006 mac pro CPU upgrade: where can i get...
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Mine always ran a bit hot. Bought it as a refurb. Its in my room too so probably why it runs a little hotter. Not sure why the temp differences though between the two processors.
Could be. Did find allot of dust bunnies when it was apart. Needed a good cleaning. After a week of on and off, will crank up crunching full time and see how the temps compare from the quads.
Can you play a dvd without raising your fans? Wants to see what your temps on both processors are. Give it about 15 minutes. tnks
bearcat, there should be no reason that your fans get bumped playing a dvd. I mean, i'm playing one now and it's taking up ~1% of CPU. If your fans ramp up when watching a DVD, i've gotta guess that your software is playing nice. check it out.
I just wanted to see his temps running a movie without using smcfancontrol. Mine doesn't ramp up when playing. Just goes up to what i posted earlier. Kind of comparing temps from other mac pro owners of the same generation to see differences in cpu temps. Still bothers me that i have about a 15 degrees difference between cpu's. Just wondering if its a bad mobo. Been running this one almost 24/7 for 3 yrs without problems so guess if it was bad, would have died by now.
Don't know exactly what temps your looking for, but here's the full shebang:
Ambient Air: 75.2
CPUA Heatsink: 95
CPUB Heatsink: 100
CPU Core 1: 125
CPU Core 2: 120
CPU Core 3: 116
CPU Core 4: 116
CPU Core 5: 109
CPU Core 6: 109
CPU Core 7: 107
CPU Core 8: 107
Ambient Air: 75.2
CPUA Heatsink: 95
CPUB Heatsink: 100
CPU Core 1: 125
CPU Core 2: 120
CPU Core 3: 116
CPU Core 4: 116
CPU Core 5: 109
CPU Core 6: 109
CPU Core 7: 107
CPU Core 8: 107
Thanks for the info. Guess its time to put this one out in the living room were it has more air to breathe. Bedroom stays nice and toasty in the winter time running 24/7.
cpu temps
I think CPU B is always going to run a little hotter... CPUA its next to the open air spot of the case, while CPU B sits next to CPUA on one side and the solid case on the other.
Just out of curiosity, did you reinstall the curved L-shaped aluminum flap that covers the 2 CPU/heatsink assemblies?
I think CPU B is always going to run a little hotter... CPUA its next to the open air spot of the case, while CPU B sits next to CPUA on one side and the solid case on the other.
Just out of curiosity, did you reinstall the curved L-shaped aluminum flap that covers the 2 CPU/heatsink assemblies?
Yes I did. Looks to help the air flow. I figured since the tower stands up, cpu b being lower, heat rises, that cpu b would run cooler.
Yeah, 8X1gb modules. Its best to have all slots filled (from what I have read) on this generation mac pro. Still going through the cycling process (periodic on and off) until sunday, then it goes on full time. How did your reinstall go? Think it had anything to do with the ES chips you got?
reinstall went fine. the problem was that certain (or all) of my privileges were messed up, so the folders said I had access to everything, but whenever i tried to do anything, it said i didn't have sufficient privileges. I'm about 99.9% sure that the problem arose from my messing around with my root folders to make "about this mac" display the chips correctly. I was messing with things I shouldn't have been, and it affected my system. It was 100% my fault. So, my advice would be to NOT mess around with the tip detailed at this link. I had trouble getting "permission" to make this change, so I gave myself permission for everything in my entire system folder. Dumb move, and I paid for it!
P.S. I have 4x2GB of RAM, so that probably has something to do with why my system seems to run a little cooler. those FB-DIMMs get really friggin hot!
P.S. I have 4x2GB of RAM, so that probably has something to do with why my system seems to run a little cooler. those FB-DIMMs get really friggin hot!
Interesting article. Guess i'll move to 4 modules instead of 8.
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2811&p=5
Thanks cal6n!
But from what I can gather from those they're basically saying that it can not be done and further that they haven't actually tried it either.
Bummer, I was getting all hopeful and stuff.
Thanks cal6n!
But from what I can gather from those they're basically saying that it can not be done and further that they haven't actually tried it either.
Bummer, I was getting all hopeful and stuff.
As I read it, the 4870 works in the 3 GHz Clovertown Mac Pro, but only if the boot drive from the new Mac Pro is used. This would suggest to me that the 4870 will be usable in all the Clovertown range eventually, either through an OS update or a very simple hack.
*edit* Remember that 10.5.7 is just around the corner and that no retail 4870s have shipped yet. Basically, we just don't know!
Mmmm... I don't know enough to make a case but I think it's the MB and not the proc. The 2006 Mac Pro will accept a clovertown as this very thread indicates. Yet the expansion slot bus between the 06/07 MP and the 08 MP is of a different speed and controller. I guess it will work in the 08 MP but not prior. They tried it in an 08 right? And even then they NEEDED an HDD that was installed with OS X as sitting in an 09 machine. So if you don't have that or don't know the hack to make up the difference it can't even be installed in an 08 machine.
So I read it as Barefeats more wishful thinking; 08 maybe, 07/06; not a chance.
I hope I'm wrong tho!!! I would spend a few hours getting the 4870 to work in my 06 2.66 8-core! Right now it's the 7300GT
Where do you see that? I see:
"Since writing this article, we tested the Radeon HD 4870 in the first generation Clovertown Mac Pro and published those results. We booted with the same build of OS X 10.5.6 that ships with the Nehalem Mac Pros."
Which are not 2006 MPs right? At least Clovertown wasn't available when I bought mine in Feb. 2007.
EDIT:
Hmm after rereading all the articles they do say that "a friend" did it:
"Apple is officially supporting only 2009 and 2008 Mac Pros with the Radeon HD 4870 kit. And it requires either the build of OS X 10.5.6 with the February 2009 ATI drivers -- or OS X 10.5.7 (not yet golden).
As with the Radeon HD 3870 and HD 2600, ATI included both a 32-bit and 64-bit EFI driver in the ROM, so it should work in all models of Mac Pro with the latest drivers. We installed in the Clovertown first generation 8-core Mac Pro (as you can see from the graphs above) and a close colleague installed it in a 2.66GHz Woodcrest 4-core first generation Mac Pro. As long as you have two power feeds for the card in your first generation Mac Pro and have the correct drivers properly installed, it should work fine."
As with the Radeon HD 3870 and HD 2600, ATI included both a 32-bit and 64-bit EFI driver in the ROM, so it should work in all models of Mac Pro with the latest drivers. We installed in the Clovertown first generation 8-core Mac Pro (as you can see from the graphs above) and a close colleague installed it in a 2.66GHz Woodcrest 4-core first generation Mac Pro. As long as you have two power feeds for the card in your first generation Mac Pro and have the correct drivers properly installed, it should work fine."
Hmmm.. Hope?
As I understand it, Clovertown and Woodcrest are merely processor names. I could be wrong but I don't believe Apple changed their motherboard significantly, and certainly not in their PCIe specs, when they started using the quad-cores.
Personally, I'm running an 8800GT with an Accelero S1 Mk2 passive cooler and I don't see any need to change yet. I wouldn't want to upgrade my graphical power at the expense of fanless silence.
I do keep an eye on ebay for some X5365s, though, so I've not finished upgrading yet. And maybe the Accelero will be efficient enough to take on the 4870...
Time will tell.
Personally, I'm running an 8800GT with an Accelero S1 Mk2 passive cooler and I don't see any need to change yet. I wouldn't want to upgrade my graphical power at the expense of fanless silence.
I do keep an eye on ebay for some X5365s, though, so I've not finished upgrading yet. And maybe the Accelero will be efficient enough to take on the 4870...
Time will tell.
A 2006 mac pro is the same as a 2007 mac pro. Technically, there's no such thing as a 2007 mac pro. There is a 2006, 2008, and 2009. the clovertown mac pro is the same as a woodcrest mac pro, other than the processor. they're both 2006 mac pros, technically, in that they both use the 65nm process. if the card works in a 2007 mac pro, it will work in a 2006 mac pro. if it works in a clovertown mac pro, it will work in a woodcrest mac pro.