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Intels new chip
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Anyone know if Intels new low power quad chip will fit in a mac pro?
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Yes, they should work fine.
(Last edited by mduell; Mar 10, 2007 at 10:39 PM.
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Originally Posted by Aron Peterson 
Thing is, for the cost of upgrading those CPUs you can flog your Mac Pro and get a shiny new one for less $$$
Huh? A "shiny new one" is still a quad machine, not an octo.
The net cost of upgrading a quad 2.66 to an octo 2.33 is about $900 ($893/ea for the new chips, eBay value of about $450/ea for the old chips).
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Originally Posted by mduell
Huh? A "shiny new one" is still a quad machine, not an octo.
The net cost of upgrading a quad 2.66 to an octo 2.33 is about $900 ($893/ea for the new chips, eBay value of about $450/ea for the old chips).
I read these quad-cores cost a grand. If that's correct a pair of them would therefore cost 2Gs. One could sell their current high end Mac Pro for that much and add a grand or so to purchase a basic configured eight-core Mac Pro. So what is the better option, spend 2Gs to upgrade the CPUs or spend a grand on top of selling their current machine for a brand new eight core Mac Pro which could include extras such as a high definition optical drive?
If the quadcore CPUs are much cheaper than that please feel free to correct me.
Edit* Just noticed you thought I meant a current brand new Mac Pro.
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Originally Posted by Aron Peterson
I read these quad-cores cost a grand. If that's correct a pair of them would therefore cost 2Gs. One could sell their current high end Mac Pro for that much and add a grand or so to purchase a basic configured eight-core Mac Pro. So what is the better option, spend 2Gs to upgrade the CPUs or spend a grand on top of selling their current machine for a brand new eight core Mac Pro which could include extras such as a high definition optical drive?
If the quadcore CPUs are much cheaper than that please feel free to correct me.
Edit* Just noticed you thought I meant a current brand new Mac Pro.
The prices of the quad core chips vary from $360 (1.6Ghz) to $1200 (2.66Ghz).
If you're going to consider the value of selling your current Mac Pro to buy a new Mac Pro, you should be comparing that to the value of selling your current CPUs to buy new CPUs.
As I said in my last post, the net cost of upgrading a quad 2.66 to an octo 2.33 is about $900. That's less than your estimate for the cost of buying a new Mac Pro and selling your old Mac Pro.
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