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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
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For World Studios info in my Crest box there was a little baggie with 8 or 10 tiny wide top screws the two dual diameter spacer nuts and a tiny little phillips screwdriver. Also There is more fan noise probably because of the two new fans. One in the new video card and now the one in the Crest
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
Here are a few more pics.
The first is the back of the Crest. If you look at the far left you will see the two srews that attach to the brass risers from the bottom to keep them on the board. Then another screw holds the ssd card down to the same brass riser on the opposite side of the board. To remove the heat sink cover you will need to remove the four perimeter screws. The screwdriver they provide is a joke if they come tightened as tight as mine were. The second Crest was not near as tight. The second photo shows their screwdriver next to a jeweler's screwdriver, it's tiny. The third pic is of both ssd drives attached.
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
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I would worry about it. Especially since it is almost no effort. What a Mac Trashcan has inside it, with a very carefully designed airflow to cool its SSD has *nothing* to do with the situation here in a shrouded airflow system where the manufacture has included bonding to a heatsink. These 970 Evo will consume 6W or so under load, that might be in the ballpark of many DIMMs, but so what that's irrelevant too. Computers are designed with very specific cooling to handle that constant DIMM heat load. A small fan in a shroud in a PCIE slot with 2 x 6W, that may add up. And you are defeating that shroud as a heatshink design, not a good idea at all. These things are pretty easy to thermal model today, lots of consultants out there that will do that for even small manufacturers, so follow the manufacturers advice. |
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
We can agree to disagree.
But the fact is; if after stressing your system you open the case and touch the components by hand, everything is okay if you dont burn your fingers.
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Everybody else can just follow the install instructions. |
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And I believe the Mac cheesegrater's cooling is actually designed for way more cooling than you think. How about putting cards in every slot in the card cage? Surely that raises the heat load? |
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
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I now have all 4 PCIe slots filled and I would guess the answer is yes, there is more heat generated, because as I mentioned there now seems to be more (slightly louder) and constant fan noise coming from my machine. Such that because I am in a one room situation. I will now have to address that noise while trying to record more so than before (It's always somthin' )
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
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The extra noise you're hearing - is it at the pitch the fans are running at or is it more of a rumble aka case resonance? A long time ago in another universe I worked for a company that made cooling equipment (fans, air conditioners, etc.) for electronics and racks. Sometimes a customer would say there's a problem with an assembly (noisy) and we'd get it in and power it up and everything was okay. Turns out in a lot of cases it was resonance within the rack and the way the cooling assembly was mounted. Try this if you can: if your cheesegrater is sitting on a hard surface place it on some kind of isolation material like you would put under a monitor speaker and see if the sound diminishes. |
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Re: NVMe upgrade for Mac Pro 4.1/5.1 Mojave
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So yeah - your machine is pretty well isolated from whatever hard surface is underneath it. Do you have some kind of system monitor s/w like iStat Pro to tell what the temps are and what the fans are doing? |
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