#Mac pro 4 upgrade
#Mac pro 4 pro

#Mac pro 4 pro

The CPU sockets donвЂ™t have clamps, so the chip will most likely lift out of the LGA socket attached to the heatsink.Д¬arefully twist and pull the CPU until it comes off of the heatsink and youвЂ™ll be greeted with the first surprise from Apple: the 8-core Mac Pro ships with lidless Nehalems. With all four screws removed you can just lift the heatsink straight up.

The screws are attached to the heatsink and spring loaded you donвЂ™t have to physically remove any, just wait until they pop up. Stick the hex key in any one of the holes, move it around until it grabs, and then unscrew. Apple actually made removing the heatsinks very easy, all you need is a long 3mm hex key - about 3вЂќ long (plus a handle) should suffice. There are four screw holes at the top of the heatsink. The heatsinks have an integrated fan and thermal sensor (black cable) Remember all of the hoopla a few pages ago about Turbo Mode? ThatвЂ™s the reason for these beefy heatsinks thereвЂ™s actually a fan inside each heatsink, as well as two large fans moving air across the entire board in the case. Two towering heatsinks, eight DIMM slots an X58 chipset are the main attractions. Remove the side panel then unlatch and remove the processor tray and youвЂ™ve got this: Getting inside the new Mac Pro is much easier than the old one. They built sockets for a reason after all. Regardless of when or why you want to do it, I figured we should give it a try.

#Mac pro 4 upgrade

The even more sensible option would be to wait a while and upgrade the Xeons once these ones fall in price. If you donвЂ™t mind voiding your warranty, you are better off buying the base Mac Pro (4 or 8 core) configuration, upgrading the CPUs yourself and ebaying the originals. I get that Apple wants to commoditize everything that they donвЂ™t make, but thatвЂ™s just ridiculous. I should also point out the sheer ridiculousness of Apple putting a pair of $373 CPUs in a $3300 machine. The only CPU upgrade offered there is the Xeon W3450 retail cost is $562, AppleвЂ™s benevolent self will only charge you $500. The same applies to the single-chip Mac Pro. Here is IntelвЂ™s pricing: CPUДЄ single Xeon X5570 costs $1386, Apple is charging you $2600 for two - but thatвЂ™s on top of the base cost of the 8-core Mac Pro youвЂ™re effectively paying for the two Xeon E5520 chips and the two X5570s, but only getting the latter. To AppleвЂ™s credit, these CPUs are expensive. The 2.66GHz upgrade will set you back $1400, while the 2.93GHz upgrade will basically cost you another Mac Pro at $2600. Apple offers two upgrades: a pair of 2.66GHz or 2.93GHz Nehalems, how nice of them.

LetвЂ™s say you get over the $3299 price tag of the 8-core Mac Pro but arenвЂ™t really happy with the paltry 2.26GHz clock speed of the quad-core Nehalems in the box. Upgrading the CPUs in the Nehalem Mac Pro