Upgrading Mac Pro 2010 (Completed)

[flowrider]

Hi Kenny

Since my last post I have received and installed my W5590 CPUs. I have discovered, among other things, that Geekbench shows a higher score in OS 10.7.5 than in OS 10.8.4. IIRC, I recall reading in the past that arond the time of the release of 10.8.3, something in the OS changed the Geekbench readings. As far as your GTX580, yes IMO, 85°C does seem too hot. I know a lot of the temps in my Mac, but not the GPU. Are you running smcFanControl? I am, and I upped the speed of my Mac fans slightly to compensate for the higher TDP of the new CPUs.

I am attaching various benchmarks that I am getting {both Geekbench scores (10.8.4 Vs. 10.7.5)} LuxMark (the scene you ran) and OceanWave. If you recall, my video card is an overclocked Gigabyte 3 fan GTX570 with an EFI flashed by MacVidCards. My three fan card is very quiet. The Mac makes a little more noise now, since I sped up fans. Nothing objectionable though.

Lou

 

[SilvioM]

^^^^^"Nice" With more RAM, the OP probably has the fastest Mac Pro on this site and maybe the planet

Lou

The fastest Mac Pro on the planet is one with Dual x5690 + 128 GB RAM + Dual GTX TITANs

Like mine, and I've made it even faster with 32 GB RAMdisk, I'll soon upgrade to dual K6000s.

The 2013 Mac Pro has no chance

 

[kennyman]

Hi Lou,

Nice Geekbench Score!! Congratulations!

Update on my situation, my GTX 580 was overheating and shutting down my mac, so I took it to the nearby computer repair shop for a quick check. Apparently it looks like all the screws including the ones around the heat-sink are loosed and worn-out, no good contact between the card and heat-sink, hence it was overheating.

I am now looking for a third party GPU cooler that will fit my case (as I want the remaining 3 PCIe slots accessible for use. But I cannot find one with the same height. I can see only 2.5 or 3 pci slots heat sinks...I am stuck, will try to look for an old GPU and remove the cooling parts, will have to do some modding.

 

[flowrider]

^^^^In your last post on the previous page, you had the option of returning the card. Why don't you do that? From what you have said, it appears to be a defective card. Why mess around with someone else's problem?

Lou

 

[kennyman]

The fastest Mac Pro on the planet is one with Dual x5690 + 128 GB RAM + Dual GTX TITANs

Like mine, and I've made it even faster with 32 GB RAMdisk, I'll soon upgrade to dual K6000s.

The 2013 Mac Pro has no chance

Hi SilvioM,

I believe you are well aware that the new Mac Pro is equipped with the latest technologies and has a more efficient CPU (raw power).

I am not a big fan of Geekbench or other benchmark either but the early ES samples of E5-2697 V2 looks very promising, can score a nice 30000+ on Geekbench (64bits). And scores 17.63 on Cinebench lol

But it will cost over USD 3000 for the processor alone

But performance-wise, I believe your quote should read "Current Gen of Mac Pro has no chance against the Mac Pro 2013"

 

[MacVidCards]

Hi SilvioM,

I believe you are well aware that the new Mac Pro is equipped with the latest technologies and has a more efficient CPU (raw power).

I am not a big fan of Geekbench or other benchmark either but the early ES samples of E5-2697 V2 looks very promising, can score a nice 30000+ on Geekbench (64bits). And scores 17.63 on Cinebench lol

But it will cost over USD 3000 for the processor alone

But performance-wise, I believe your quote should read "Current Gen of Mac Pro has no chance against the Mac Pro 2013"

I'm guessing that you missed the Geekbench score already posted by one of those 2013s?

Worth spending a moment searching before you post anymore.

 

[kennyman]

I'm guessing that you missed the Geekbench score already posted by one of those 2013s?

Worth spending a moment searching before you post anymore.

Hi MacVidCards,

I am kind of worried when this comes from you, I thought you were among the knowledgeable people on this forum.

I know the famous "23901" from a presumably Mac Pro 2013 leaked benchmark, running from a 32 bit Geekbench. I am cool with that. I do not know if it is a real Mac Pro 2013 or not (you seem pretty confident about it, I do not want to question you about that). But I do not want to be ignorant and I enjoyed news about technology and stuffs.

As I mentioned earlier to SilvioM, early ES sample of E5-2697 looks good.

30000+ on Geekbench 64 bit (It is an ES Sample running on Windows), please refer to the link below.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ivy-bridge-ep-xeon-e5-2697-v2-benchmarks,3585-2.html

17.63 on Cinebench

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ivy-bridge-ep-xeon-e5-2697-v2-benchmarks,3585-6.htmlhttp://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ivy-bridge-ep-xeon-e5-2697-v2-benchmarks,3585-6.html

I see you posted "Research won`t kill you" on another post, it applies to you as well my friend

 

[SilvioM]

I'm guessing that you missed the Geekbench score already posted by one of those 2013s?

I haven't made my self clear, when I said the 2013 Mac Pro has no chance I was referring to GPU power. I know the 2013 has a CPU that 3 years ahead of the ones I have.

BTW The 2013 Mac Pro leaked score is 23K, mine is 27K in 32 bit and 30K in 64. Even if the leaked score where from a base model Mac Pro, I believe they aren't as high as expected

 

[kennyman]

I'm guessing that you missed the Geekbench score already posted by one of those 2013s?

I haven't made my self clear, when I said the 2013 Mac Pro has no chance I was referring to GPU power. I know the 2013 has a CPU that 3 years ahead of the ones I have.

BTW The 2013 Mac Pro leaked score is 23K, mine is 27K in 32 bit and 30K in 64. Even if the leaked score where from a base model Mac Pro, I believe they aren't as high as expected

Hi SilvioM,

Great, thanks for sharing, please create you own post if you would like to share more about your mac

 

[kennyman]

^^^^In your last post on the previous page, you had the option of returning the card. Why don't you do that? From what you have said, it appears to be a defective card. Why mess around with someone else's problem?

Lou

Hi Lou,

I exceeded the return period (only eligible for 48 hours for full refund). I had to figure out how to lower the temp. So I searched around and found an old GTX 470 heatsink and did some modding to install 2 fans. I also bought a cheap GPU cooler for parts, I have put it together...will be running some tests in the coming days.

http://postimg.org/image/wsffsji4h/

 

[flowrider]

(only eligible for 48 hours for full refund).

Wow, I've never heard of such a short period of time to return a defective product.

Lou

 

[kennyman]

MP 5,1 upgrades completed!

Just want to update my post, I had some time over the weekend, so I did my mac upgrade. Added 2 x SATA 3.0 card on PCIe + 2 SSDs and finally replace my old 9800 with a GTX 680. Every thing looks good so far, booting Windows and ML without any problem, GPU temperature is also nice with a custom GPU cooler

I am now looking into purchasing a 3TB drive by end of the year. Right now I have couple of sata ports free;

2 x SATA 3.0
3 x SATA 2.0

A nice 31xxx score over geekbench, which I do not really care about, but not too shabby for a 3 years old Mac

 

[jetjaguar]

Just want to update my post, I had some time over the weekend, so I did my mac upgrade. Added 2 x SATA 3.0 card on PCIe + 2 SSDs and finally replace my old 9800 with a GTX 680. Every thing looks good so far, booting Windows and ML without any problem, GPU temperature is also nice with a custom GPU cooler

I am now looking into purchasing a 3TB drive by end of the year. Right now I have couple of sata ports free;

2 x SATA 3.0
3 x SATA 2.0

A nice 31xxx score over geekbench, which I do not really care about, but not too shabby for a 3 years old Mac

Beast of a machine you got there I installed a 3.46 hex in my single cpu .. should of went dual lol. I dont see your sata cards.. I might want to install one for a ssd for windows install. Which one are you using ?

 

[kennyman]

Beast of a machine you got there I installed a 3.46 hex in my single cpu .. should of went dual lol. I dont see your sata cards.. I might want to install one for a ssd for windows install. Which one are you using ?

I am using sata pcie card, I bought my card from ebay. It is little old now, I saw new ones with new Marvell chips. Just check ebay

Just want to clarify on this post, I mean mine does not have a brand (nothing on the card). I received it in bubble wrap and bought it from ebay.