Buying a used 2010 Pro. Some advice?

[CanadaMaple]

Im going to be buying a used 2010 Mac Pro 2.4 8 core this week.
Comes with 32gb ram.

I currently am running a 2008 8 core 3.0.

From what I understand I should be able to upgrade the 2010 to X5690 Xeon's?

Are those the best CPU's I can put in it?

Also what are the differences between the 2010 model and 2012? Just CPU?

Thanks

-CM

 

[bax2003]

- You will be able to upgrade to X5690s
- Those are the fastest and most expensive CPUs for Mac Pro 5.1
- 2010 vs 2012 - just CPU difference

 

[CanadaMaple]

- You will be able to upgrade to X5690s
- Those are the fastest and most expensive CPUs for Mac Pro 5.1
- 2010 vs 2012 - just CPU difference

Thanks!

I was looking around, didn't seem too bad. about 250$ a CPU. Compared to original CPU's should be a major difference?

Thats what it seemed re: 2010 vs 2012 but wanted to make sure.

 

[bax2003]

Thanks!

I was looking around, didn't seem too bad. about 250$ a CPU. Compared to original CPU's should be a major difference?

Thats what it seemed re: 2010 vs 2012 but wanted to make sure.

If you are using apps which take advantage of lots of CPU threads and lots of RAM (Adobe After Effects for example), yes, it is a huge difference. Even where single core speed is important, there will be quite a jump because of clock speed differences.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

Since you are having to buy two Xeons, you could save significant money getting X5680's instead of X5690's. There is about 3% speed difference, yet you can save quite a bit since X5680's are $167 shipped (not to Canada, though, if that is where you are).

Bragging rights and benchmarks aside, you'll not notice a difference.

 

[IowaLynn]

Im going to be buying a used 2010 Mac Pro 2.4 8 core this week.
Comes with 32gb ram.

I currently am running a 2008 8 core 3.0.
Are those the best CPU's I can put in it?
Also what are the differences between the 2010 model and 2012? Just CPU?

Thanks
-CM

Even dual 4-core @ 3.xGHz would be a nice jump from those.

6-core (single processor) is often best and sweet spot. Dual gives you twice the DIMM slots and when memory prices were high, it was (in 2009 especially) a better trade off to get slower 8-core and use cheaper 4GB DIMMs to get 32GB RAM.

In the last year, using PCIe adapters along with a XP941 or the Apple blade SSD has proven to give systems a nice boost in IO performance.

The only difference I heard of was on Barefeats where some GPU tests showed a slight edge to 2012 over 2010 and of course 2009, so maybe PCIe support (2.2) saw some change or newer chipset perhaps.

Enjoy - should be a wonderful gem.