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Dual hex cpus in a 2009 mac pro?

Yeah i did think that as well, but i thought i remembered seeing a thread talking about flashing the 09 to take hex cpus. My biggest thing with the auction is he has no actual pics and also no reserve at 1500 when that machine easily cost much more!
 
hammten said:
Yeah i did think that as well, but i thought i remembered seeing a thread talking about flashing the 09 to take hex cpus. My biggest thing with the auction is he has no actual pics and also no reserve at 1500 when that machine easily cost much more!
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it never worked out

and anyway, there is hardly any profit to buy a mac, upgrade cpu, and then resell on ebay

smells like scam
 
Transporteur said:
Considering that that person posted "Seems fake" in this thread (post #2), I highly doubt that he's the seller. :rolleyes:
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Are you saying that nanofrog is a faker too? If you look at his threads I think he was one of the first people in the forum to get an ES chip in a 2009 model. Thanks to this I was able to upgrade my 2,26ghz to 3,2ghz.
Also beto2k7 background info says he is a CS Engineer and has a 2009 2,26ghz. So asumming he has the knowledge to get the EFI from his 2010 (sig) and into the older 2009. He might as well be the seller.
 
fabriciom said:
Are you saying that nanofrog is a faker too? If you look at his threads I think he was one of the first people in the forum to get an ES chip in a 2009 model. Thanks to this I was able to upgrade my 2,26ghz to 3,2ghz.
Also beto2k7 background info says he is a CS Engineer and has a 2009 2,26ghz. So asumming he has the knowledge to get the EFI from his 2010 (sig) and into the older 2009. He might as well be the seller.
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You can make your 2009 to a 2010 mac pro by replacing the daughterboard (atleast I think that was it) and then use any 2010 compatible CPU's.

But there is no software way of replacing the EFI on any Mac, as it's hardcoded to not allow updates.

He might as well be the seller? Why would he say that the auction is fake then?
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Cindori said:
You can make your 2009 to a 2010 mac pro by replacing the daughterboard (atleast I think that was it) and then use any 2010 compatible CPU's.
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I was under the impression that you had to change the backplane as well to use westmere processors in a 2009 MP
 
fabriciom said:
Are you saying that nanofrog is a faker too? If you look at his threads I think he was one of the first people in the forum to get an ES chip in a 2009 model. Thanks to this I was able to upgrade my 2,26ghz to 3,2ghz.
Also beto2k7 background info says he is a CS Engineer and has a 2009 2,26ghz. So asumming he has the knowledge to get the EFI from his 2010 (sig) and into the older 2009. He might as well be the seller.
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Where did I ever say that either one of the bespoken persons here is fake? :confused:

I never did such a thing and neither did you grasp the idea behind my post.
Why would someone who sells this machine on ebay, say that it is fake? Doesn't make any sense, does it?


And just FYI, nanofrog does not have a 2009 Mac Pro (in fact he uses a PC), therefore probably never put an ES chips in it. IIRC, gugucom was the first user here to mod the 2009 Pro in terms of processors.
 
Cindori said:
But there is no software way of replacing the EFI on any Mac, as it's hardcoded to not allow updates.
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Really? I'm confused. What is happening when I run a Mac Pro firmware update from Apple? Is that a different firmware than the EFI firmware?
 
ActionableMango said:
Really? I'm confused. What is happening when I run a Mac Pro firmware update from Apple? Is that a different firmware than the EFI firmware?
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1st, to even manipulate the efi firmware flasher requires extreme reverse engineering or access to source

but the hardest part is that when apple releases final EFI update, noted by the addition of _locked in the filename of the EFI image, it prevents any further updates being made. the only way to flash the EFI firmware at that stage, is using the EFI Restore CD. But that only works if the EFI firmware is corrupt or missing.
 
Cindori said:
1st, to even manipulate the efi firmware flasher requires extreme reverse engineering or access to source

but the hardest part is that when apple releases final EFI update, noted by the addition of _locked in the filename of the EFI image, it prevents any further updates being made. the only way to flash the EFI firmware at that stage, is using the EFI Restore CD. But that only works if the EFI firmware is corrupt or missing.
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This and the EFI Firmware Update utility shipped for example in EFI firmware update 1.5 for 2010 mac pro will only work with the firmware device (EFI update) bundled with it and 2010 mac pro models. @Cindori: The _locked suffix is only to prevent you from flashing a lower version.
 
Transporteur said:
Where did I ever say that either one of the bespoken persons here is fake? :confused:

I never did such a thing and neither did you grasp the idea behind my post.
Why would someone who sells this machine on ebay, say that it is fake? Doesn't make any sense, does it?


And just FYI, nanofrog does not have a 2009 Mac Pro (in fact he uses a PC), therefore probably never put an ES chips in it. IIRC, gugucom was the first user here to mod the 2009 Pro in terms of processors.
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>Considering that that person posted "Seems fake" in this thread (post #2), I highly doubt that he's the seller.

nanofrog: I take it you tried a B1 stepped DP processor capable of running memory at 1333MHz successfully then.

How does that "seem fake"?
 
fabriciom said:
>Considering that that person posted "Seems fake" in this thread (post #2), I highly doubt that he's the seller.

nanofrog: I take it you tried a B1 stepped DP processor capable of running memory at 1333MHz successfully then.

How does that "seem fake"?
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Again I am not the seller.
 
fabriciom said:
>Considering that that person posted "Seems fake" in this thread (post #2), I highly doubt that he's the seller.

nanofrog: I take it you tried a B1 stepped DP processor capable of running memory at 1333MHz successfully then.

How does that "seem fake"?
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Seriously? I rest my case.
 
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