My experiences upgrading to a 3.33 6-core Westmere

[allbald]

If the motherboard was "hosed" during the processor swap what do you mean by "I would try to have Apple take care of it"?

I'm sure you're not suggesting Apple fix customer damaged HW free.

congrats on the new HW
JohnG

No of course not ...

This thing is lightning fast -- just put in a 256gb Crucial SSD for the hell of it. Want to see if I notice the difference.

 

[johnnymg]

No of course not ...

This thing is lightning fast -- just put in a 256gb Crucial SSD for the hell of it. Want to see if I notice the difference.

OK.............

I might do the same mod if I keep my MP for a couple years. ??? Waiting to see where the product line goes before making that decision. Hopefully in a year or so the SW will catch up with these machines.

cheers
JohnG

 

[allbald]

OK.............

I might do the same mod if I keep my MP for a couple years. ??? Waiting to see where the product line goes before making that decision. Hopefully in a year or so the SW will catch up with these machines.

cheers
JohnG

Yeah -- well let me put it this way -- the machine was sickly fast with the 2.8ghz and 3Ghz ram and the 5770.

The upgrade to 3.33Ghz and 12gb is somewhat if barely noticeable in games (granted I had this for 2 days before starting my upgrades).

Let me put it this the SSD is almost unnecessary the machine is so fast. I barely notice it ... and the only time I do is when booting a new game like LoTRO. And difference is like ok before it was taking literally 2 - 3 seconds to load into memory now it takes 1 second (nearly instant).

What i think is funny is that the Windows / Mac boot times don't seem to be that difference on the SSD (made it the boot drive) which is what everyone says is better -- I still thinks it super slow for a modern computer to boot from cold start.

I think you could easily hold off on SSDs while the price drops and upgrade memory and video card instead. I have been sorely disappointed in the re-boot times. Still seems to be in 40 second plus category instead of what others seem to say.

 

[sskino]

Core i7 Extreme

Has anyone attempted to upgrade an '10 Mac Pro 2.8GHz to either a Core i7-980X or 990X??

I recently purchased one and was about to purchase the W3680 to upgrade myself but am curious as to whether the Core i7 Extremes in the same clock rate or 3.46GHz clock rate work.

 

[ActionableMango]

Why not get a Xeon? It's very nearly the same price as it's matching Core sibling.

And if you are talking about a dual processor MP, I believe you have to get Xeons.