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Mac Pro + X5687... had to try it
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Probably not... but if I had one I would.So who's going to try an X5698? 4.4GHz!
(probably won't work)
There isn't a single one for sale on Ebay right now. Back when I bought my X5687, there were 2 X5698's for sale.
First off does anyone know if a real life production x5698 exists?So who's going to try an X5698? 4.4GHz!
(probably won't work)
I have an engineering sample. I tried it as recently as the mp51.0087 firmware when I was on High Sierra. Tested it in a 2010 and 2009 single cpu tray. Black screens in both if I remember correctly. Didn’t work.
I considered selling it but I was hopeful with all the microcode updates that were being done that this would be a update on the horizon so I hung onto the processor.
I haven’t tried it yet since upgrading to 140.0.0.0. I’ll give it another shot when I have some free time this weekend.
[doublepost=1544663857][/doublepost]I’ll give this guy (X5687) another shot as well when I get a chance but I suspect it will give the same results as user Slash-2cpu reported back in post #22 of this thread.
What he saw was exactly the same behavior I experienced with the x5687 when I last tested it on the high Sierra firmware. I’ll try it again in 140.0.0.0/Mojave even though it sounds like my configuration is similar to what Slash-2cpu tested in on.
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Where is the one for sale on eBay? Curious what they're asking. I did and the only computer related X5698 that comes up is for an HP StoreServ what X5698 in the description. I don't think the X5698 is with reference to the processor configuration though because it shows "w/ 24 x 5698-1288 900G 10K SAS".
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There isn't a single X5698 for sale on Ebay as of right now. I saw 2 of them for sale back when I bought my X5687, but that was at the beginning of the year. Back then, if I remember correctly, they were asking somewhere north of $200.
I believe they all were all engineering samples. I don't think any were actually produced for consumer use, but I could be wrong.
If so, don't ANY engineering samples have a hit or miss record for working when installed in the cMP? That would mean pretty much any X5698 isn't going to work due to all of them being engineering samples.
If so, don't ANY engineering samples have a hit or miss record for working when installed in the cMP? That would mean pretty much any X5698 isn't going to work due to all of them being engineering samples.
X5698’s were shipped in HP blade servers. S-Spec number for production parts is SLC32. I give it a <1% chance of working in MP 4,1/5,1.
OK. Did the install and... X5687 does not boot. So, we can be sure about that. X5677 comes next.
It's probably related to the higher multiplier needed for X5687 and X5698. Seems Mac Pro CPU initialisation code supports up to the 26 multiplier, the one needed for X5677 and X5690. To support X5687/X5698 we have to change that code.
this doesn't look like a hack. the ram / fw looks correct. the performance also looks crappy like a dp mac pro.
sadly thats a Hackintosh, notice the 1.2 next to the Mac-F221BEC8
real MP4,1/5,1 dont have anything after Mac-F221BEC8.
Result - X5687 doesn't work with a proper 5,1 either.