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OWC Confirms the New Mac Pro Processor is Upgradeable

OWC Confirms the New Mac Pro Processor is Upgradeable

Posted January 4, 2014 at 5:08am by iClarified · 8541 views
OWC has confirmed that the new Mac Pro processor is indeed upgradeable. The company discovered that the desktop had a removable CPU in its tear down last week.

We got our hands on an Intel E5-2667 V2 8-core 3.30GHz with 25MB Cache processor, installed it in the new Mac Pro and have done some benchmarking to get an early look at the performance vs. the stock Apple / Intel E5-1650 V2 6-core 3.50GHz with 12MB Cache model. The testing was done with 64GB of OWC memory installed.

Their benchmarking showed a 30% multi-processor performance bump with the upgraded chip. That bests the 12-core performance of the previous generation Mac Pro.

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OWC Confirms the New Mac Pro Processor is UpgradeableOWC Confirms the New Mac Pro Processor is Upgradeable

OWC Confirms the New Mac Pro Processor is UpgradeableOWC Confirms the New Mac Pro Processor is Upgradeable