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Geekbench results posted.

Hi,

I've posted my Geekbench results on my blog too, but for convenience I've also put them below. I have a 54% increase. I do realise that these results aren't conclusive but they do demonstrate performance in it's most basic state.

BEFORE: 4952

mac-pro-quad-core-geekbench-results-before-8-core-upgrade.jpg


AFTER: 9436

mac-pro-8-core-geekbench-results-after-cpu-upgrade.jpg
 
Ordered Quad Core X5365 3.0 GHz 8MB LGA771 1333 PAIR

Hi folks ordered few days ago via ebay "Quad Core X5365 3.0 GHz 8MB LGA771 1333 PAIR" for my 2007 macpro 1,1.
I will needone Eklind 3mm hex wrench?, im from Spain were can i buy some of this or similar? any other thing is needed? any advice?
Thanks
 
Another one...

Hi,

Great thread! I just found it...after upgrading to 5355 over the weekend.

So far, all is well. One question: About This Mac shows "Unknown" for the CPU. This is cosmetic only--but does anyone know a fix (Beyond changing AboutThisMac.strings)? I remember seeing something about a new plist file with CPU definitions but of course can't find it now. (OS 10.6.2, by the way)

I'll add my experiences with this upgrade in case it helps someone else down the line.

The sites (pix) that were most useful:
http://www.anandtech.com/Mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2832&p=3
http://www.hardmac.com/articles/70/
http://www.o0o.it/pro/
MacPro Service manual (find it online).

The blog post above was great, too! I had just as much dust on the heatsinks, so it was good to clean it out.

Memory Cage: Same trouble as nearly everyone. Apple has a little wrench that fits over the hex standoffs. Someone enterprising could make one from a thin piece of metal. That would have helped. Instead, used the trick from Anandtech: remove the plastic partition at the left side of the memory cage. (Slip a thin putty knife around all sides except the one near the motherboard. There are 2 latches on each side, near the corners).

Heatsinks: used ArcticClean & Arctic Silver (Radio Shack) for these. FYI, manufacturer recommends only a thin line of thermal compound above the cores. (http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm). For the 5355 as far as I could tell, the cores are oriented vertically. Verified that this method coats evenly by pulling the heatsinks.

Hex Key: In US, check bargain bin at Ace--I found a knockoff set for $2 that did the job fine.

One scare: if a cpu heatsink cable is not plugged in all the way, the fans spin up to full speed, which is amazingly loud. I did this.

Otherwise, well worth it if you can find the CPUs for the right price on eBay.
 
Help, Problem dismounting macpro

there is no way of retiring the plastic case that covers the devices without breaking it, because they are anchored to a female srews that are downside the motherboard and turn with them.
Any solution?
 
i cant remove the screws, any trick of geting them out?
 

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In the pic it looks like you've bugger it up. If not, then just a short phillips screwdriver. If you have, then a pair of pliers and a lot of patience.
 
Is this for both screws or just the one in the pic? Can you get a needlenose pliers down into the gap to hold the post?
 
I think your best bet at this point is to grind those screws off (or drill them out, your choice) and replace them when you're finished. you can try to use a pliers to turn the screws out while using another pliers to hold the shaft in place preventing it from spinning, but that prove to be a major pain in the ass.
 
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And I had no luck idiocy! spent a lot of money for 2 CPU xeon 5320 1860 1066 mhz bus. At the beginning of this excellent work 2 nuclear 2GHz 5130 as you have read the article and boldly ventured on such spending, after intense manipulations as on a video I earn per cent and load the operating system 10.6 , the computer worked fine until I did not reset option + function + p + p. Then 5 minutes later the computer stopped and stammered sound and darkened screen with the characters, I rebooted the force and looked Report:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 206971 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 3
Anonymous UUID: 58F8DD61-A583-4C29-A4FB-29E2648B08E5

Thu Apr 8 2010 00:04:11
Machine-check capabilities (cpu 4) 0x0000000000000006:
family: 6 model: 15 stepping: 7 microcode: 0
Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E5320@1.86GHz
6 error-reporting banks
Machine-check status 0x0000000000000005:
restart IP valid
machine-check in progress
MCA error-reporting registers:
IA32_MC0_STATUS (0x401): 0x1000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC1_STATUS (0x405): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC2_STATUS (0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC3_STATUS (0x40d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
IA32_MC4_STATUS (0x411): 0x0000000000000011 invalid
IA32_MC5_STATUS (0x415): 0xb200001806000e0f valid
MCA error code: 0x0e0f
Model specific error code: 0x0600
Other information: 0x00000018
Status bits:
Processor context corrupt
Error enabled
Uncorrected error
panic (cpu 4 caller 0x2a7c94): Machine Check at 0x00fe5bc5, thread: 0x6303b7c, trapno: 0x12, err: 0x0, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0xb0103c58, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x052cb4c0, ECX: 0x00000001, EDX: 0x00000000
ESP: 0x393e3b10, EBP: 0x393e3b48, ESI: 0x0526d000, EDI: 0x00ff0668
EFL: 0x00000002, EIP: 0x00fe5bc5

Backtrace (CPU 4), Frame: Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x302c4fb8: 0x21b449 (0x5ce420 0x302c4fec 0x2238a5 0x0)
0x302c5008: 0x2a7c94 (0x590140 0x59022d 0xfe5bc5 0x6303b7c)
0x302c50f8: 0x29f912 (0x1 0x6b2e656c 0x702e6970 0x61766972)
0x393e3b48: 0xfdbf0b (0x301b60a4 0x1 0x526d000 0x0)
0x393e3c28: 0xfdda5b (0x540725f3 0x800000ab 0x0 0x0)
0x393e3ce8: 0x2a9aa5 (0xffffffff 0x7fffffff 0x393e3d28 0x302ec000)
0x393e3d08: 0x2256c6 (0x302ec49c 0x5407231f 0xab 0x302ec488)
0x393e3d68: 0x2264b0 (0x1 0x6303b7c 0x52cf884 0x0)
0x393e3dd8: 0x2270d4 (0x6303b98 0x6303b98 0x393e3e38 0x232817)
0x393e3e48: 0x227178 (0x0 0x0 0x0 0x514b740)
0x393e3e68: 0x22193c (0x0 0x2 0x80 0x2)
0x393e3e88: 0x485c67 (0x598e55c 0x1 0x598e73c 0x2)
0x393e3ef8: 0x461f37 (0x0 0x0 0x0 0x598e55c)
0x393e3f78: 0x4ec84e (0x598e540 0x62d3f80 0x62d3fc4 0x6303b7c)
0x393e3fc8: 0x29eef8 (0x5c5ba20 0x0 0x10 0x5c5dd00)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement (104. 3.0) @ 0xfda000-> 0xff5fff

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: QTKitServer

Mac OS version:
10D573

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.3.0: Fri Feb 26 11:58:09 PST 2010; root: xnu-1504.3.12 ~ 1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacPro1, 1 (Mac-F4208DC8)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 735849704264
unloaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver 2.0 (addr 0xe33000, size 0x12288) - last unloaded 96147174542
loaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.3d0 - last loaded 29997288897
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 1.8.4fc3
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.4
com.apple.GeForce 6.1.0
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleMCEDriver 1.1.9
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelMeromProfile 19
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 4.1.1d0
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.4.11
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 2.1.0
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 2.6.2
com.apple.BootCache 31
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTyp eZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntel8254XEthernet 2.1.1b7
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 1.6.1
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.5.7
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 3.9.6
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.1.1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 3.9.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 3.9.6
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClien t 104.3.0
com.apple.security.sandbox 0
com.apple.security.quarantine 0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 2.1.11
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 104.3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction 17
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 1.8.4fc3
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction 14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction 20
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal 6.1.0
com.apple.NVDAResman 6.1.0
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.1
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 74.0
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 2.3.1f4
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.7.6fc2
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 1.8.4fc3
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.1
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 1.8.4fc3
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily 41
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.0.1d2
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 4.1.1d0
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 3.9.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 3.9.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 2.6.2
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.6
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com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.3
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com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 3.9.6
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.3.0
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.6.2
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 6
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com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.6
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Model: MacPro1, 1, BootROM MP11.005C.B08, 8 processors, 1.86 GHz, 2 GB, SMC 1.7f10
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, PCIe, 512 MB
Memory Module: global_name
Network Service: Ethernet 2, Ethernet, en1
PCI Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, Display, Slot-1
Serial ATA Device: ST3250820AS P, 232,89 GB
Parallel ATA Device: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D
USB Device: USB Keyboard, 0x04d9 (Holtek Semiconductor, Inc.), 0x1603, 0x5d100000
USB Device: USB Full Speed, 0x09da (A-FOUR TECH CO., LTD.), 0x8090, 0x3d100000
FireWire Device: built-in_hub, Up to 800 Mb / sec

It is to be hoped that this discrepancy is the memory bus and the bus of the processor because the processor is running at 1066, and the memory is not reduced the frequency to 533 and remained at 667, but should work on the 533, yet the number of cores in the system are defined here as the name of the processor is unknown. What to do? How do I know what the problem is on the report? in memory or processor? Now it crashes every 5 minutes. CPU temperature is not no more than 34 degrees celsius while watching hd video.
 
Bad experience

Hello guys,
I just found a good deal on Ebay at $400 per processor (X5365 3.00 2x4 1333 120) but when I received them today, I looked at one of them and it is clearly damaged as you can see in the picture, it has a broken/missing transistor and the one above it is bent. I'm sure that it cannot fit in my MacPro this way, I won't even bother, unless one of you guys has installed a similar/crippled processor and worked :D
What do you guys think that I should do beside contacting the seller and ask for a replacement/refund?

Should I try installing it this way? :eek:
[img=http://img261.imagevenue.com/loc207/th_95344_IMG_4003_122_207lo.JPG]
 
Hello guys,
I just found a good deal on Ebay at $400 per processor (X5365 3.00 2x4 1333 120) but when I received them today, I looked at one of them and it is clearly damaged as you can see in the picture, it has a broken/missing transistor and the one above it is bent. I'm sure that it cannot fit in my MacPro this way, I won't even bother, unless one of you guys has installed a similar/crippled processor and worked :D
What do you guys think that I should do beside contacting the seller and ask for a replacement/refund?

Should I try installing it this way? :eek:
[img=http://img261.imagevenue.com/loc207/th_95344_IMG_4003_122_207lo.JPG]

Straight-out no.
 
I thought so guys so I sent today the processor back for a full refund, now I'm stuck with one processor(hopefully good) and must chase on Ebay for a second bargain on an X5365.
Thank you.
 
A general power consumption question.
Will I have any problems, mainly Power Supply, by installing 2 x X5355 2.66 QUAD CORES and a ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB which requires both power connectors on the motherboard?
I want to play it safe and avoid any problems related to the voltage.
I love my MacPro and I keep it clean and don't want to ''kill'' it with a voltage surcharge.
I personally don't see any problems but maybe some of you guys already have a similar configuration and can confirm me that all its fine :) and I have nothing to worry.
Thank you guys!
 
A general power consumption question.
Will I have any problems, mainly Power Supply, by installing 2 x X5355 2.66 QUAD CORES and a ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB which requires both power connectors on the motherboard?
I want to play it safe and avoid any problems related to the voltage.
I love my MacPro and I keep it clean and don't want to ''kill'' it with a voltage surcharge.
I personally don't see any problems but maybe some of you guys already have a similar configuration and can confirm me that all its fine :) and I have nothing to worry.
Thank you guys!
The voltages in that line are the same (VID = 1.000 - 1.500VDC). Only the TDP differs (i.e. X5355 = 120W, X5365 = 150W, which means the current requirement of the X5365 is higher <p=iv; i is current, v is voltage, and p is power>).

The PSU and board's voltage regulators can handle it (PSU = 980W BTW). :)
 
Regarding Screws

Can anyone specify the waternose pliers to use to hold the shaft?(And screwdrivers you used by the way) and were to buy those? it would be useful to people wanting to open the Macpro.
 
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