2.3ghz Xserve CPU to a 2.7ghz G5 tower a success.
  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Doffo
    Posts: 507 from 2010/10/14
    From: Nevada
    Finally decided to do the CPU swap into a tower to see if it would pick up on the Xserve CPU modules. Course it picked up the CPU modules and MorphOS did see them at their rated speed.

    Video of the G5 booted in MorphOS

    Only thing is that the damn fans were basically on full speed and using those Xserve heatsinks might not be the best idea since I had to remove the leg stands that hold the LCS. I never got the Xserve CPU legs which it could of possibly be able to use them. Just be careful! :)

    Best bet would be to use some 2.0ghz heatsinks and call it the day. :) I have not tried using the diagnostics tool to even try to do a calibration for fear it will just brick the thing or throw an error and not be able to calibrate anyways.

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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    bash64
    Posts: 934 from 2010/10/29
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    i have full 2ghz heatsinks and cpus for sell.
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    Quote:

    Doffo wrote:
    Finally decided to do the CPU swap into a tower to see if it would pick up on the Xserve CPU modules. Course it picked up the CPU modules and MorphOS did see them at their rated speed.


    Have you had a chance to do any testing to find out what temperatures your new 2.3GHz MorphOS3.2 system is running at, both at idle, and during playback of any high resolution videos, would be helpful to other considering swapping heatsinks, and/or CPU modules. :-D
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Doffo
    Posts: 507 from 2010/10/14
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    There isnt much difference between idle/under load. But with that setup I had going it kept it around 67c the whole time. It might run cooler if you swap out for bigger heatsinks.
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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    Derringer
    Posts: 103 from 2008/8/4
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    @Doffo: Do you need to use ECC memory modules, or you using "simple" modules" and just swapped the cpu-s?
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Doffo
    Posts: 507 from 2010/10/14
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    Honestly I don't know. Other G5 macs I have has various kinds of ram, so I would say possibly either or would work.
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