Bought a 2.0Ghz Mac Pro a month back. Looking to upgrade the processor soon

I don't trust myself enough to hack open my computer and replace the CPU. Anyone have any advise on where to go to get this done at a reasonable cost? I'm looking to up it to 3.0ghz. Thanks in advance for all your help!

I have to ask. Why?
The reason is I have a dual 2.66 and have never maxed the CPUs. Ever. And I run data crunching software, iTunes, Parallels, and a zillion other apps that are either working on processing real-time data or being driven by the user (me).
So, is upgrading the CPU going to really give you what you are looking for? In almost all use-cases with these new machines more memory (4GB), faster disks (raptor) and possibly a gfx update will give you much more performance for the task.
Going from 2x4=8GHz to 12GHz would only make sense if you are really doing something that is CPU bound and limited. Even the 2GHz processors absolutely smoke!

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