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2009 Mac Pro (8 core): Processor Upgrade

Flag Reply by PC2Mac Mar 13 @ 6:12 PM

I'm about to dish out my life's savings on a 2*2.26GHz Mac Pro. My budget just doesn't allow me to go for the 2.66 or 2.93 GHz versions I really need.

Will the Mac Pro hardware allow me to upgrade the 2.26GHz processors at a later time or am I stuck with these slower cpu s?

Flag Reply reply by Chris Green Nov 2 @ 6:07 PM

you might be able, I believe the mac pro uses the Standard LGA771 Xeon socket, but knowing apple, the CPU's would have to be in matched pairs, and the clock speed would have to match up with one of the possible current configurations available on that computer, and have a compatible front side bus, and the right socket. But, remember, these are Nehalem Xeons, they can out-preform an equally clocked Hex Core Opteron. they are pretty heavy duty cpu's

Flag Reply reply by Skippy722 Nov 2 @ 9:49 PM

you could try just getting the faster processors with bare minimum specs or just barely upgraded to save mo ey

or you could look at apples refurbished ones (the iPod I got looked brand new) or you could get an iMac like the 27" and a 3.06ghz duel core

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