Deep in the Lair max Sound Solutions I
Have been installing
Zeon 5680s
Hey guys, it's lance at MCVie audio. Which is now officially
Sound solutions incorporated that's right. I've incorporated a new name
max sound solutions
And my last name is McVicker. So that's where the Mac comes from it has nothing to do with apple
anyway
It's that time of year again where I've decided to put new processors in my Mac, Pro
It's been a little over a year since I did my initial first upgrade, so the firmware is there
already installed
you know because I already it's already a
2010 Mac pro, basically I have 56 50s in there. I'm gonna be putting in
56
80s so I didn't go for the 56 90s
Because they're almost twice the price of the 56 8 is 56
80s seem to be the sweet spot right now three point three three gigahertz
As opposed to three point four six which is 256 90s
You know the difference between the 80s and the 90s are not huge, but the money difference is almost twice as much money
So anyway, I'm leaving my heat spreaders on
Not going to remove those because I didn't on the first upgrade let's get to the install
I
have the
Arctic Silver 5 now what I've learned is on my first install if you look at my other video. I did the p shaped
blob on top of the cPU then I read up later that it's better to do a line and
If you look at these chips without the heat spreader on them. They're they're rectangular. They're not square
So a p shaped is gonna do an even spread they say to put a line on it
but the direction you do the line is also important, so
Basically the CPU is is this way it's not this way
So you want to do a line from left to right on both of the cPUs?
you
So fingers crossed again because as we know
anything can happen
And I'm not using washers a lot of people use two millimeter washers
Below the heat sink on the post so that you can't squash the cPU
But when I read about doing this the very first time he said it doesn't matter you can still squash the cPU
even if you use washers, so
I'm gonna do what I did in my last video
Which is going to be more helpful this time around is count how many turns it takes to unscrew all the screws
Because now that the processors are identical in height
That will come in handy
Whether it really did the first time I did it? I don't know
you
right
You'll hear it click when you've gotten the screw out of its housing
4.5
Now when I did this install originally
It didn't boot it first and I had to tighten down the heat sinks a little more and I just didn't want to over tighten
and then
Everything came up except for one stick of ram was not showing up on
CpU one and by the way these are two different sizes
So you want to make sure you label this one a this one b?
or one and two because they have to go back in the same spot that they came out of
They are not identical
so that was about four and a quarter I
Gotta tell you these screws are very loose very
loose
There's they were not on there tight at all
three four
I'm gonna say four point. Five is the way to go because it's pretty close to that every time
Maybe five tops. There's certainly on there loose one
two three
four
That one was five also hmm. Well anywhere between four point five and five
Now here comes the tricky part is the heatsinks because I cut the wires
so I have to get down low and
That's Gonna be tricky
because the connector
Last thing you want to do is break the Heatsink I?
Thought I remember the Connector going oh
I remember which way that came out that was not easy folks not easy
So you see my cPU is stuck my pins. Look good every one of those little golden nuggets
touches a pin
so if you push this in too hard, you're gonna crush your pins there and
And that's it your belly up, so now
This baby's Gonna twist off
So there's your cPU it's got a lot of the old stuff on it. We're gonna have to clean that off
But these are going to be sellable
Next thing is to clean off
this guy
Wow, can't believe how much compound is on there from just a pea sized ball
To a giant mess, so it just goes to show that you should be pretty sparing because the stuff spreads out
But at the same time if you don't have enough on there the cPU will overheat
Look at all this stuff
Not good
so you got the two little notes very important that that's
Where the processor goes?
Hardest thing about this is reinstalling the heatsink
Could have done a better job all right. This is the hard part heat sink
you
Okay
Now I'm gonna put it back in the computer my fingers are crossed again. I hate this moment
It's actually quite scary doing this
Install this way because after clipping those connectors and having to get them back in
I don't even know if they're in all the way because I had such a little amount of wiggle room
Okay, it's the moment of truth fingers crossed
I really didn't tighten it down that much because it got snug very easily
So maybe it's not tight enough. Maybe my Connectors aren't connected
I'm Gonna go hit the boot button
No, boot sound I've done it again
Nothing. It's now booting. It's a nightmare. I shouldn't have messed with my mac pro. I probably
Mayday Mayday, I have to pull it out and tighten them down a little bit give her another go
Yes
We're booting
It wasn't tight enough
It drives me nuts. It's so terrifying let's see if all the rams working in both processors
16 gigs of Ram that's not right
But both processors are showing up. That's a big plus
But memory who's not sure?
We Gotta tighten this down even more
Isn't that amazing one ram slot shows up the balance of the heatsink matters to how much ram is showing up?
We're not out of the woods yet. So we're gonna go another half turn
That was absolute torture
That second cPU man
somehow little bits of something kept falling in between
The chip and the Motherboard at least the first time and then the second time I also found something
But maybe that's just when I took it off the heat sink
but what happened is
There were there were times when I got it to work, but like three chips
I ran weren't working only one
so I tightened it some more, and then it stopped working and I got cPU light on the motherboard and
then
So I cleaned it. I remounted it again
It didn't work so as they say third time's a charm. I really thought I'd killed my computer because
It just wasn't booting at all but then I pulled the second cpU out and booted off the first one and it booted
So I was like. Oh, thank God and all the ram was showing up, so that one was always good
It was the second one was just more fuzzy
and
Keeping my fingers crossed that it's all working tomorrow, but as you can see
I mean, I started doing this
something like 7 o'clock
not even
How is it taking me this long?
Because I refuse to give up and I kept tweaking it
but that I think what happened was as I kept I was over tightening it and
Actually, there's two lights on the motherboard, and this is good for everybody who's doing this who has the issue?
if
The red light is on behind CpU b. When you look inside you have the door off
You will see a red light on
Meaning that that there is a cPU issue, but that light was always on when the computer would not boot
Then when I did get it to boot with both
cpus in there and the ram wasn't working like one ram Chip was showing up on cPU be
the light
Between the two sort of near the memory was there was a light coming on there
And it was showing you that CPU was okay?
see if you light was not
But the freaking memory light was on so there was and it was there was two chips or three chips or one chip missing
so on the the final one that worked I
Put it back in I didn't tighten it too much. I went very light. I booted it. It did not boot I
Tightened this is just cpu b. We're talking about so cPU b
I tightened it just a little more and it booted
But then one chip was still not showing up
so I did another tightening all the way around one more quarter screw and
Bingo I
Really did not want to spend all night. You know some people do this and it's like oh
Stop put it in boom you're done. Well that's not happen for me, but the good news is I
Didn't kill my logic board because I thought for a while there that I really just I'm in the middle of so many projects
I'm out of my mind to be doing this right now. So my bag