Hi everyone, I'm thinking of upgrading the processor on my MacPro 5,1 (mid 2010). I've done processor upgrades (and overclocks) on my old G3 and my G4, but am kind of a neophyte on processor upgrades on the 5,1. Mac Pro 5,1 workstations shipped with an ATI Radeon 5770 1GB GPU and could be upgraded to an ATI Radeon 5870 1GB GPU. This means unrivalled customisation and a never ending supply of new components that make the Mac Pro 5,1 better every year.
Hallo, grate touturial at first! On your video you are installing w36800, on other video I had seen installed successfully X5690. Whether w or x series seem to fit in Mac Pro 2009 quad with w3250, however comparing booth videos you had not used any additional thermal pads whereas x5690 required that.
That's because of CPU 2mm size difference. Does it mean that as long as I stick to W series:, no additional thermal pads are required neither on cpu or heat sensors? Cheers!
Good job making the You Tube video. Have you tried installing OS X 10.13.2 yet on your Mac Pro, it installs a new updated EFI firmware, after I got it installed I could no longer hold down the option key at startup to select which drives to boot from, I also could not reset the PRAM using the Command + Option +P +R keys, holding them down only cause's me to boot into the recovery partition. I also could not downgrade back to the 2009 EFI OEM Firmware version, I tried flashing three times, each would start the flash and then boot about 5 seconds later? Any suggestions?
Before Update: 2009 Mac Pro Boot ROM Version: MP41.0081.B07 SMC Version (system): 1.39f5 SMC Version (processor tray): 1.39f5 After Update to 5,1 EFI Hackware Boot ROM Version: MP51.007F.B03 SMC Version (system): 1.39f5 SMC Version (processor tray): 1.39f5 After High Sierra Firmware Update Boot ROM Version: MP51.0084.B00 SMC Version (system): 1.39f5 SMC Version (processor tray): 1.39f5. A few things I would note, you should not clean the old processor until you remove it from the logic board as the old thermal compound could fall into the board. No need to clean it until you get it out.
Second is when adding the new thermal compound on Xeons you should put a horizontal line of compound on the processor, from left to right or not the way it is done here. Here is a link for proper compound placement. They say Vertical but the way the cpu is on the logic board you want horizontal as the actual processor is rectangular in shape under the heat spreader.
Nice video just adding a few helpful notes:). Hello, thanks for the video! I need to renew my mac pro 5.1 2.8 Quad-Core Intel Xeon and I would like you to help me, I need to expand cpu, graphics card and hard drive. I would put as powerful as possible CPU (now I have 16gb ram 1066Mhz DDR3), a graphics card much better than the original but it's not too expensive. What do you recommend me?
I would also like to know how to change the original hard drive and one solid as pass all information from old to new. It is better to upgrade my Mac Pro 2010 what I say or better to buy a new imac 5k?