Yup. I'll be curious to know how it goes. My last attempt at upgrading a
CPU was back in the Sonnet Systems and NewerTechnologies days
(pre-Intel). Today my fleet of Macs is a Mini which I can't upgrade, a
MacBook which I can't upgrade and my old G4 tower, which isn't worth
upgrading. So I hadn
depending on the CPU installation, the same heat sink and fan can be used, that
is depending on how far the processor upgrade goes. it's an easy job to do as
long as you're careful. I've done this on various macs in my time including
major overhauls, turning a G3 blue and white into a monster sy
Typically, you would be right, but as I said before in this case, the W3680
Comstock in the Mac Pro six core. So like I said, nothing new here and no
modifications needed.
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On Apr 18, 2012, at 12:30 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Ah!
>
> Ok. Because faster processors general
Processor upgrades are fairly simple. You just have to do reading beforehand.
In this case, all parts will fit together properly with no extra modification
needed. Just today, I installed and SSD hard drive and added 16 gigs of ram my
computer. So I'm used to all of this.
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No, the heatsink and processor will fit together just as they would otherwise.
The six core Mac Pro comes with a W3680 Xeon chip. So, this is nothing new, and
it will fit right from the factory. Nevertheless though, I am used to working
on, and building computers.
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On Apr 18
True.
I guess if its going into a 17 inch MBP, 27" iMac or, Mac pro, a new heat sink
is almost guaranteed to fit. Apple only uses a hand full of cases, and only
certain models can support that processor on the board.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.apple
Well, not saying the info in that article was correct :) They may have
not bothered upgrading and if you did, would it still fit in the Apple
case, and would it be cost effective if you had to add two new heatsinks
into the equation.
CB
On 4/18/12 12:30 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Ah!
Ok. Be
Ah!
Ok. Because faster processors generally mean more heat and sometimes a new
heat sink is needed to dissipate that heat. I'm studying for my A+
certification so, I'm a newby to this and I'm soaking it all in.
Thanks.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.a
I was googling around and the upgrade process sounded non-trivial with
acetone used to clean the heat paste off the old heat sinks to re-attach
them to the new processors. Dunno if I would attempt that.
CB
On 4/18/12 12:23 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
Hi,
I was thinking the same thing. In more
Hi,
I was thinking the same thing. In more cases than not, upgrading your
processor is more trouble than what its worth. Won't upgrading the processor
also mean a new heat sync and fan as well? The easiest way to improve
performance is to always upgrade RAM
IMO.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appl
I'm curious about your upgrade. In the past CPU upgrades were kind of
diminishing returns since you then just hit bottlenecks in other parts
of the system, such as RAM, system bus, drive IO and video IO. Are you
doing something that is compute intensive but low bandwidth? Just hoping
you aren't
Good evening all,
I'm upgrading the processor in my mid 2010 mac pro from a Xeon W3530 quad-core
chip to a w3680 6 core chip. The W3530 runs at 2.8 GHZ. Nothing at all wrong
with the processor, just want to upgrade and get 2 more cores for productivity.
I'm asking $250 for the processor, and $1
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