Not unless he’s doing some rendering or ripping video. For my regular day to day stuff my machine is rarely ever above 2%-4% utilization. I hear my hard drives more than I hear the fans.
You want heat you should see one of the forensic workstations we have at work. We call it the “space heater”. We’ve considered bringing in some marshmallows to roast over the back of it. -D > On Apr 4, 2020, at 3:58 PM, Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I bet I could heat my house with that setup. > > G. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Jim Cathey > via Mercedes > Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2020 12:34 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: Jim Cathey > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Computers > > Recently I had purchased a dual-CPU MacPro 4,1 (flashed to 5,1) to upgrade > from > my 2,1 running El Capitan. I had to have High Sierra in order to run my > work's > VMware tasks, and the 5,1 is capable of this. (Not, however, without the > 6-core > CPU's.) I'd bought a low-speed 4,1 single-CPU tray, cheaply, one that had > been > upgraded to a 6-core X5650 device. This was 'slow', at 2.66GHz, but honestly > it did a fine job as it was. (This was for interim use while I collected > upgrade > parts, and for testing and as a backup.) > > I, however, was determined to upgrade the dual-CPU card to the max, just as I > had done its 2,1 predecessor. I bought two X5690's, these are 6-core 3.46GHz > devices. Nothing better is available for a dual-CPU configuration. That was > about $150 right there. > > For thermal reasons, though, the heat sinks are different on the dual-CPU 4,1 > machines. There isn't enough room to fit two of the single-CPU sinks, so > Apple > spec'd de-lidded CPUs for the duals, and those are a bit hard to come by. > They're > also more expensive. But, you can de-lid them yourself. (The aftermarket > attempts > to try to fit lidded CPU's in these is pure butchery, and I want no part of > it. Especially > since they've done nothing to cure any thermal problems that were the reasons > for > using lidless CPU's to begin with.) > > I did this. Paranoid, though, I'd bought another X5650 to practice on, $6. > Good > thing I did, I managed to destroy it, two different ways, while de-lidding > it. Having > learned what NOT to do, though, meant that the de-lidding of the expensive > X5690's > went smoothly. I'm typing this on the newly-upgraded machine. > > 12 total 3.46 GHz Xeon cores; 24 hyperthreads. 48GB of 1,333 MHz DDR3 ECC > DRAM. > SSD for booting, terabyte spinny disks for data storage. Blu-ray and DVD/CD > optical > drives, both can burn. It should be good for several years of use. The 2,1 > predecessor > served me for 4 years, and only its inability to run my work VMware prompted > the > upgrade; everything else worked great. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
