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Post by odyssey76 on Oct 23, 2014 6:21:17 GMT -6
I have a mini 2011 works great. Going to put SSD in soon. yes the mini upgrade would be great for audio... . I'm about to pull the trigger on one of these with 2.0Ghz quad core i7 and put an SSD and 8 GB Ram. Was wondering how big your sessions are and plugin count? Just a ballpark figure, I'm thinking it'll be plenty of power for what I do. Thanks! |
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Post by adogg4629 on Oct 28, 2014 13:31:14 GMT -6
I'm really glad this is working out for you Tony. I just wish the guys who was de-lidding the CPUs would start selling them on ebay again. As to the Mac Mini...well...all I will say about this is that I'm praying I can make it another two years until I have to upgrade. I hope that by then, there will be new Xeon based Mac Pros that are at least use the two 12 core Xeon E5's and will let me choose to downgrade the Graphics cards. If not, then I will just make a PC system to run Pro Tools and slap one of these cheapo Mac Minis into it to run email, internet browsing etc. AD |
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Post by mrholmes on Oct 29, 2014 14:58:42 GMT -6
The new MAC Pro was the first hint, Apple no longer makes computers Apple would want to work on, It's now a Consumer Company, Jobs had a fit that the Apple Store credit card system was Windows based, imagine if he walked into one of their Data Centers and saw all the generics servers. I keep saying Its time for The real video and Audio companies to go to a real enterprise OS! When I saw the new mac pro I had the impression of an 80s ashtray… |
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Post by tonycamphd on Oct 29, 2014 16:39:47 GMT -6
I'm really glad this is working out for you Tony. I just wish the guys who was de-lidding the CPUs would start selling them on ebay again. As to the Mac Mini...well...all I will say about this is that I'm praying I can make it another two years until I have to upgrade. I hope that by then, there will be new Xeon based Mac Pros that are at least use the two 12 core Xeon E5's and will let me choose to downgrade the Graphics cards. If not, then I will just make a PC system to run Pro Tools and slap one of these cheapo Mac Minis into it to run email, internet browsing etc. AD ad, what do you mean by this? |
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Post by adogg4629 on Nov 11, 2014 11:55:57 GMT -6
I'm really glad this is working out for you Tony. I just wish the guys who was de-lidding the CPUs would start selling them on ebay again. As to the Mac Mini...well...all I will say about this is that I'm praying I can make it another two years until I have to upgrade. I hope that by then, there will be new Xeon based Mac Pros that are at least use the two 12 core Xeon E5's and will let me choose to downgrade the Graphics cards. If not, then I will just make a PC system to run Pro Tools and slap one of these cheapo Mac Minis into it to run email, internet browsing etc. AD ad, what do you mean by this?First off, let me apologize for both my lack of context and poor use of the English language (it's only my native tongue). The "guy" (singular) I was talking about is named Paul. He's an engineer in the mid-west who has figured out a way to successfully "de-lid" the intel Xeon CPUs. This allows somebody to install a pair of new CPUs in the 2009 dual socketed (the eight core version) Nehalem Mac Pros without having to put in washers and that heat spreading fabric that adjusts the spacing between the heatsinks and the processor. You have to do that in the 2009s because for some reason Apple ordered de-lidded CPUs from intel and have the heatsink literally touching the CPU with just a bit of thermal paste between. This was due (presumably) because the Nehalem Xeons ran hot and this process was an old modders trick to help cool things down. Because the Westmeres Don't run as hot, it's not an issue like it was (if it ever really was) and Apple went back to standard practices in the 2010 Mac Pro. The good news here is that Paul is back offering the service on Ebay for $200 for a pair of chips. He goes by the handle Box185 on ebay. Here's a link to his Ebay page: www.ebay.com/usr/box185?_trksid=p2056016.l2559 Best AD |
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Post by tonycamphd on Nov 11, 2014 11:58:25 GMT -6
ad, what do you mean by this?First off, let me apologize for both my lack of context and poor use of the English language (it's only my native tongue). The "guy" (singular) I was talking about is named Paul. He's an engineer in the mid-west who has figured out a way to successfully "de-lid" the intel Xeon CPUs. This allows somebody to install a pair of new CPUs in the 2009 dual socketed (the eight core version) Nehalem Mac Pros without having to put in washers and that heat spreading fabric that adjusts the spacing between the heatsinks and the processor. You have to do that in the 2009s because for some reason Apple ordered de-lidded CPUs from intel and have the heatsink literally touching the CPU with just a bit of thermal paste between. This was due (presumably) because the Nehalem Xeons ran hot and this process was an old modders trick to help cool things down. Because the Westmeres Don't run as hot, it's not an issue like it was (if it ever really was) and Apple went back to standard practices in the 2010 Mac Pro. The good news here is that Paul is back offering the service on Ebay for $200 for a pair of chips. He goes by the handle Box185 on ebay. Here's a link to his Ebay page: www.ebay.com/usr/box185?_trksid=p2056016.l2559 Best AD nice dogg!! |
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Post by adogg4629 on Nov 14, 2014 16:02:54 GMT -6
I just got my CPUs and are sending them out this weekend. Crossing my fingers and hoping I don't have a heart attack. |
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Post by tonycamphd on Nov 14, 2014 19:15:47 GMT -6
I just got my CPUs and are sending them out this weekend. Crossing my fingers and hoping I don't have a heart attack. I did a little research into the delidding process, it's not too difficult, let me know if you want a run down on what to do, i will say the price the guy is asking is quite high for what he's doing, let me know bud. BTW, what sized CPU's did you get? |
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Post by adogg4629 on Nov 17, 2014 12:24:57 GMT -6
I just got my CPUs and are sending them out this weekend. Crossing my fingers and hoping I don't have a heart attack. I did a little research into the delidding process, it's not too difficult, let me know if you want a run down on what to do, i will say the price the guy is asking is quite high for what he's doing, let me know bud. BTW, what sized CPU's did you get? I looked into the delidding and decided that I do not trust my hands enough with a razor to not take some dye out with the lid. I ended up getting a pair of x5690s. Power-wise they take exactly the same as the 5520s, but not sure how much extra heat they will put out. I guess I will see. LOL Best AD |
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Post by adogg4629 on Dec 15, 2014 16:45:42 GMT -6
It took a while, but I had to get a few projects finished and out. After the upgrade, I am happy to say that my 2009 Mac Pro benchmarked just a tad slower than the new 12 core MP. Super Psyched. I highly recommend Paul Opsahl's delidding. The price was not bad and he was a great help through the process (just remember to use a credit card when applying a TINY amount of thermal gel to the CPU to just barely cover it and since the IHS is off of these chips, I would ignore all the chatter on-line about the number of turns of the screw and just tighten the heatsinks like you tighten a drum head. If you tighten too much you could strip the threads, but that's it.
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 15, 2014 20:39:09 GMT -6
It took a while, but I had to get a few projects finished and out. After the upgrade, I am happy to say that my 2009 Mac Pro benchmarked just a tad slower than the new 12 core MP. Super Psyched. I highly recommend Paul Opsahl's delidding. The price was not bad and he was a great help through the process (just remember to use a credit card when applying a TINY amount of thermal gel to the CPU to just barely cover it and since the IHS is off of these chips, I would ignore all the chatter on-line about the number of turns of the screw and just tighten the heatsinks like you tighten a drum head. If you tighten too much you could strip the threads, but that's it. AD nice! |
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