PCIe SSD cards and Mac Pro upgrades

[luxychris2009]

Well, thanks for your help. (A little disappointed by the lack of response.) I decided to exchange the NVMe drives for AHCI drives (Kingston Predator 960GBs) for the Mac Pro. They're not as fast as the NVMes . . . or even the Samsung AHCIs . . . but I'm getting some whopping speeds. I'm maxing out Blackmagic's Speed Test at over 2,000MB/s. RAID 0.

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by luxychris2009

Well, thanks for your help. (A little disappointed by the lack of response.) I decided to exchange the NVMe drives for AHCI drives (Kingston Predator 960GBs) for the Mac Pro. They're not as fast as the NVMes . . . or even the Samsung AHCIs . . . but I'm getting some whopping speeds. I'm maxing out Blackmagic's Speed Test at over 2,000MB/s. RAID 0.

Blackmagic speed tests measure cached read performance, so be careful with what exactly is being measured.

[LoZion]

Better use the aja app as it can be uncached..

[stargazer]

OP here, one year later!
I’ve now made a firmware upgrade from 4,1 to 5,1.
Am about to order a pair of X5680 processors and upgrade to a 12-core 3,33 GHz, and 64 or 128 GB of RAM.
Price aside, are there any disadvantages with 128 GB RAM vs 64 GB?
Heat? Speed?

[arche3]

Originally Posted by stargazer

OP here, one year later!
I’ve now made a firmware upgrade from 4,1 to 5,1.
Am about to order a pair of X5680 processors and upgrade to a 12-core 3,33 GHz, and 64 or 128 GB of RAM.
Price aside, are there any disadvantages with 128 GB RAM vs 64 GB?
Heat? Speed?

More is better. I wouldn't worry about heat or speed.

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[Barry Johns]

Originally Posted by stargazer

OP here, one year later!
I’ve now made a firmware upgrade from 4,1 to 5,1.
Am about to order a pair of X5680 processors and upgrade to a 12-core 3,33 GHz, and 64 or 128 GB of RAM.
Price aside, are there any disadvantages with 128 GB RAM vs 64 GB?
Heat? Speed?

Just remember unless you ordered delided CPUs, which I doubt, as they're not very common for that CPU, you will need to dellid those CPUs. If you're not sure how to do that, send me a PM, and I'll help you out.

[arche3]

Originally Posted by Barry Johns

Just remember unless you ordered delided CPUs, which I doubt, as they're not very common for that CPU, you will need to dellid those CPUs. If you're not sure how to do that, send me a PM, and I'll help you out.

I had someone do the same upgrade for me to dual 6 core 3.33. He used spacers in the heatsink he told me instead of removing the lids.

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[stargazer]

Originally Posted by arche3

More is better. I wouldn't worry about heat or speed.

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Thanks, I think I’ll go for the 128GB.

[stargazer]

Originally Posted by Barry Johns

Just remember unless you ordered delided CPUs, which I doubt, as they're not very common for that CPU, you will need to dellid those CPUs. If you're not sure how to do that, send me a PM, and I'll help you out.

I’m gonna try to delid them myself.
I’ll get back to you if I need some help.

Thanks!

[Barry Johns]

Originally Posted by stargazer

I’m gonna try to delid them myself.
I’ll get back to you if I need some help.

Thanks!

Have you watch the video using the vice method?

That's the way I did it, and I really was quite easy.