It is you and harryb2448 that have been negative without providing any substantial/comprehensive assistance to the OPs inquiry. My posts have done nothing more than provide facts and clarification to further the OPs understanding of what is possible relative to his initial question. You really just need a screw driver and a long 3mm hex driver to get the heatsinks off and patience. There are videos out there for how to do the upgrade and if you are at all comfortable mucking around on the inside of a computer or have changed a CPU in the past on a PC, it really isn't that difficult, certainly not wroth $150 bucks for some tech you don't know who could much it up just as bad you doing it yourself if you don't take the necessary precautions and educate yourself ahead of time. The X5160 (dual 3.0 Woodcrest), which is actually one of the original Mac Pro 1.1 CPU offerings is a decent upgrade for anyone with a 2.0 or 2.66 as they are cheap on eBay. The E5345 (quad 2.33 Clovertown) can be had on eBay for around $450 a pair. The quads you mention (Clovertown's) are ridiculously expensive for old CPUs. E5345's will also work as will X5160s, which depending on which flavour (2.0, 2.66, 3.0) you have are all upgrades for a Mac Pro 1.1. Performance Upgrades FireWire USB SATA Storage Memory, more at OWC Personally, would pop in a Mercury Extreme Solid State Drive from OWC, not cheap but lightning fast, upgrade memory to at least 8GB for what you want and improve the graphics card to al least the nVidia GeForce 8800GTS.Ī standard Mac Pro 1.1 will eat Logic 9 as Nick has stated. A computer technician will charge about $150 to install the CPU's as it is a job that takes 1-2 hours. Not the sort of job for first up Mac newbies. Have upgraded my Mac Pro and it is quite an involved job changing CPU's but PM me for more information. About as much again as you will pay for a 1.1 Mac Pro. Hold your breath whilst you check pricing even second hand through auction sites such as eBay. A Mac Pro 1.1 can be upgraded from a Dual Core to a Quad Core by obtaining a pair of Intel X5365 processors for 3GHz, or X5355 for 2.6GHz and these are the only upgraded CPU's that will work in the 1.1 Mac Pro.
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