![]() ![]() I've tended to upgrade to a new Mac after around 5 years but the new Mac Pro cylinder is more focused to a few specific markets and only the D700's would be any upgrade over the 7950 for games which price wise would make even a CTO Quad core machine well beyond my budget. ![]() Over the years I've owned this machine I've added loads of storage, driverless PCI-E cards for eSata Newertech ( this 6G one?) and then USB 3.0 (Innatek) and swapped the GPU from the original configure to order Radeon 4870 to an Apple upgrade kit Radeon 5870 and then, around a year ago, to a Sapphire Radeon 7950 Mac Edition so I could upgrade to a 1440p display. Although I wasn't regularly maxing them out the extra cores came in handy encoding H264 (Handbrake) and with Logic 9 then X and meant I could encode in the background whilst playing games and working in other apps. I've always gone with desktops (Sawtooth G4 then the G5) so I could upgrade the GPU over the years as I'm one of the small and hopefully growing number of folks who also really enjoy playing games in OS X. ![]() Just thought I'd drop you a quick report on my recent CPU swap on my trusty 2009 Mac Pro.Īlthough I'm more a hobbyist than a true pro when upgrading (from) my Power Mac G5 back in April 09 I chose the Mac Pro dual CPU 2.26GHz model as it wasn't much more than the quad core and it was cheaper to bump up the RAM with prices at the time because of the extra slots. (using Mac Pro 5,1 Bootrom for 6-core CPU/1333MHz ram support) Mac Upgrades/Repairs | Storage | Video & Displays | Audio/Home Theater | OS Updates/Tips/Wi-FiĢ009 Mac Pro Dual 3.06GHz X5675 CPU Upgrade ![]() 2009 Mac Pro 12-Core CPU Upgrade (Dual 3GHz Xeon X5675) ![]()
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