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 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
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Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Apr 17, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Chris Blouch<[email protected]> wrote:
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 setting
expectations too high after your upgrade.
I would also note that a brand new 1TB drive in the box with warranty etc. is
only about $85 with free shipping. So you might find selling your old drive
probably isn't worth it. Maybe just leave it in there as some scratch space.
You have four bays afterall.
CB
On 4/16/12 7:08 PM, Cody wrote:
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 $10 shipping. If interested, please hit
me back.
One x 1 tb internal sata3 drive, will be whiped before selling, asking $50.
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