dell r610 processor upgrade

Hi,

I want to upgrade my R610 to the x5675. I have to two 510w psu and I think mine is a gen II unit. Can I use the current heat sinks in my unit? Currently it's running two E5604,s... My bios and idrac are latest release.

One last thing,

If I can't do a simple drop in upgrade then what's the max I can do without having to change anything but the processor?

What type of heatsinks are required for an upgrade to 130W? Is there a list of which heatsink is recommended in the R610 using the different power outputs?

I have the E5607 - 80W and want to upgrade to the X5675 - 95W or X5690 - 130W. Just wasn't sure what my options would be since it's a different wattage. I have dual 717W power supplies if that makes any difference.

Thank you so much in advance!

Best Regards,

Anthony

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I was looking for. So there's no way of telling if there will be issues before upgrading to 130 W from 80 W - using the heatsink that you referred to?

Thanks,

Anthony

Hi,

What's the best processor can I use with chipset generation I ?

Thks

I'm trying to upgrade a R610 to the 5687 130W CPU's and it isn't working despite meeting  (I thought) all of the prerequisites. I'm using the TTXFN system board that is supposed to be Generation 2 board. I upgraded to the copper 130 Watt heatsinks, and I upgraded the idrac to 2.91.02, BIOS to latest 6.6.0.

Still when I try to boot the system I get "This CPU power rating is not supported" and the system halts.

So what is wrong with this configuration??

Are you using the 717 watt power supplies? I noticed when I tried to add a second PCIe card to the system with the 500 watt supplies the system went into "degraded performance mode", even though the system was only drawing 160-200 watts at most and the add-on card wasn't using any power from the PCIe slot anyways. It seems it was a limitation imposed by firmware. If you haven't tried the upgraded power supplies, give that a try. Otherwise, what is your power draw currently? How many hard drives do you have installed? what other add-ons are you using?

I'm about to try upgrading my system to a 130w CPU so I'm interested to know if this works and if not what the cause of your problem might be.

I know that some time passed, but did you been able to upgrade a CPU. I'm currently facing the problem with 130W CPUs on my TTXFN motherboard. I'm using 717W PS and 130W heatsinks. Bios, idrac, LC are updated but still the system cannot run. Is there something else than motherboard version that determine generation I and II ?

@moonTik9 , i think you forgot to mark @smc80921 , if you want to get an answer from him after that time.

Can anyone tell me if my R610 is a V1 or V2 board? I would like to upgrade the procs to the x5680 and I can't seem to be able to find the board number listed P/N 0k399h. Also is there a way to visually tell the difference between the two different heat sinks if they don't have a part number on them? The local PC Recycle place has a bin of pull your own parts

Thank You in advance

Hi,

The board will have a white sticker with a serial number beside the QR code. For the heatsink, there is a bronze plating between the heatsink and processor. That will be the heatsink supporting 130W processor. https://dell.to/37G3uiK.

Thank you Joey. That's what I needed. Got the new Procs, psus and heatsinks in and got the happy booting sound first shot