After procrastinating on this for a year, I met up with e-bayer
Box185 for coffee and CPU drop off the last week of March 2017.
Paul's a terrific guy and we hung out for a while.
It was fun! He's an engineer by day and he built a rig for delidding these CPU's very accurately.
He said in the early days he did tons of these for recording studios. Demand's gone down quite a bit, but he still enjoys doing them, especially for folks who actually need the extra power for CPU intensive apps.
He had them ready for me the next day and emailed me an excellent guide for doing the install.
I highly recommend him if any of you haven't taken the plunge yet.
I went from 2 quad-core 2.66 GHz X5500's to 2 six core 2.93 X5670's
Before the upgrade my geekbench 3 multi-core scores were 16586.
After the upgrade my geekbench 3 multi-core are 27399.
Definitely able to pile up the plug-ins now!
HCMarkus: Thanks so much for your original thread on doing this upgrade. It is like a damn miracle. And thanks also for pointing me towards
Box185.
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