Apple's Mac Pro - Upgrading CPUs, Memory & Running XP
by Anand Lal Shimpi on September 12, 2006 1:51 AM EST- Posted in
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Application Performance using Winstone 2004
Winstone 2004 consists of two different benchmark suites; the Business Winstone test focuses on office applications, while the Multimedia Content Creation benchmark contains many audio/visual applications that are more CPU limited.
There's no real benefit to having four cores vs. two in Business Winstone 2004, so the Mac Pro 3.0GHz performs much like the Core 2 Extreme X6800.
The MMCC Winstone 2004 test does have a highly multithreaded component, but the performance benefit from having four cores is less than 4%. Still, the Mac Pro at 3.0GHz ends up being slightly faster than the fastest desktop PC processor.
Application Performance using SYSMark 2004 SE
3D Rendering Performance using 3dsmax 7 & CineBench 9.5
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Corlissmedia - Thursday, December 9, 2010 - link
I've been reading through a lot of these sites that discuss upgrading a 2006 Mac Pro with dual dual-core 2.66's to dual quad-core x5355's. I'm thinking of doing this upgrade also, but in researching the cpus, I've found that none of them support ECC memory, and all Mac Pros, as far as I know, have ECC memory. So how does that work?????Spawn4ever - Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - link
I realize this is a very old post but i'm hopping someone, somewhere will still be willing to help me out. I own a great MacPro 2.1 2007 with the following specsModel Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 8
Memory: 32 GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5780
I need to change the motherboard in order to install OS X 10.10 or change the system all together. The processors in this system are still quite fast to just get rid of them. Two questions:
1) Can i find motherboards today that will take these CPUs and work as a Hackintosh
2) Would you say that an Intel i7 series be faster than these almost 8 year old Xeons?
I primarily use this system for video editing and i'm starting to edit 4K footage which cannot be played back in real-time on this configuration.
Hope this post doesn't get lost in digital land and i hear back from someone at Anandtech or the internet world.
Thank you