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Used Mac Pro Quad Core/2.66 GHz upgradeable??
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<blockquote data-quote="Nethfel" data-source="post: 1017578" data-attributes="member: 89124"><p>You can't upgrade those machines like that. The architecture has changed, and the current xeon systems are very different from yours.</p><p></p><p>You can upgrade them to an extent - see this page:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2832&p=3" target="_blank">AnandTech: Apple's Mac Pro - Upgrading CPUs, Memory & Running XP</a></p><p></p><p>but AFAIK you'll be limited to dual core xeons but who knows - the socket should be a LGA771, which is what the 5100-5400 series used - according to the anandtech article, they did get the quad cores to work, but they were reported odly in the OS - but then again, it was also before Apple released their quad core Mac Pro.</p><p></p><p>BUT the new processors, the nehalem quad are LGA1366 sockets and eventually 6 core looks like will be LGA1567, they WILL NOT WORK in your system as it's designed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nethfel, post: 1017578, member: 89124"] You can't upgrade those machines like that. The architecture has changed, and the current xeon systems are very different from yours. You can upgrade them to an extent - see this page: [url=http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2832&p=3]AnandTech: Apple's Mac Pro - Upgrading CPUs, Memory & Running XP[/url] but AFAIK you'll be limited to dual core xeons but who knows - the socket should be a LGA771, which is what the 5100-5400 series used - according to the anandtech article, they did get the quad cores to work, but they were reported odly in the OS - but then again, it was also before Apple released their quad core Mac Pro. BUT the new processors, the nehalem quad are LGA1366 sockets and eventually 6 core looks like will be LGA1567, they WILL NOT WORK in your system as it's designed. [/QUOTE]
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