I used the Arctic Silver 5 kit also from amazon. ( As mentioned in earlier reports, you can often find the long (t-handle) 3mm hex wrench at hardware stores (ACE, etc) for under $5.) You also need a Cpu heat sink paste/grease kit. You need a hexagon 3 mm (Allen) key wrench about 20 cm long.
Here is the Link for the original CPU: Intel Xeon Processor W3530 (8MB Cache, 2.80 GHz, 4.80 GT/s Intel QPI) with SPEC Code(s) SLBKR This can be found for about 600 to 660 from real resellers. This CPU came out Early March 2011: Intel Xeon Processor W3670 (12MB Cache, 3.20 GHz, 4.80 GT/s Intel QPI) with SPEC Code(s) SLBVE. The same Mac Pro with an Intel hex (6-core) 3.2GHz (w3670) now gets a 15260 64-bit geekbench score. A 2010 Mac Pro quad 2.8GHz gets about 9950 score with geekbench 64 bit. Upgraded to 6-core 3.2GHz Xeon W3670 (12MB cache)įirst off this is a very cost effective upgrade big bang for the buck. (Found this mail from last month during catchup today - not added to reports db yet.)
See the previous 3 days' news summary or the Archives.Ģ010 Mac Pro CPU Upgrade Report (2.8GHz Quad-core to 3.2GHz 6-Core) Macs | CPU Upgrades | Video | Storage | Audio | Apps/OS/Network | Contact News Archive for Wednesday April 20, 2011: Accelerate Your Macintosh! News Archive for Wednesday April 20, 2011
