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fabj

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 3, 2020
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I own a single CPU cMP 2009 and a dual CPU cMP 2010, both working well.
The older 4,1 machine has been flashed to 5,1 and both have Bootrom v144 installed.

I like the case of the 4,1 machine better as it looks nicer from the outside and seems less worn from the inside, so I want to use it with the more powerful inner life of the 2010 machine, what means that I have to swap parts.

My questions is, what should be swapped/what can be left (logic board, fans, PSU, expansion card…) given that I want the dual CPU tray to be running in the nicer 2009 case? And how to make sure that I use the better parts in all regards (fans, cables …)?

Thanks for any hint.
 

Macschrauber

macrumors 68030
Dec 27, 2015
2,987
1,494
Germany
You need to swap backplane and cpu board.

Other parts are same.

take a look at the psu, use the Delta, thats the better one.
 
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