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Workstation T5400 Upgrade
I want to upgrade my computer on the cheaper side, so I want to upgrade my brother and I's first computer, a Workstation T5400. It has ONE Xeon E5410, started at 4gb but found and added ram so now ti has 8gb, and a quadro fx 570. BIOS is at A02 right now, thinking about updating to A09. I would like to know if the following parts can be put into this thing: Zotac 1070TI mini (i have a dual 6 pin to 8 pin in plan), Dual Xeon X5460, 32GB DDR2 ECC ram, windows 10, and a wd black 1tb 7200rpm hard drive. If someone could let me know if these will go together in this computer that would be great.
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April 30th, 2019 09:00
T5400 is the ancient model from 2006.
Newer XEONs are not compatible. The X5460 that was compatible and shipped with the Precision T5400 has the S-Spec code SLANP, similarly the E5450 that was compatible and shipped with the Precision T5400 has the S-Spec code SLANQ . You will also need Dell JD210 Precision 490/T5400 Heatsink w/screws.
Crossfire is supported HOWEVER SLI is not supported.
https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_desktop/esuprtl_precision_workstation/precision-t5400_user%27s%20guide_en-us.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Intel-3-16GHz-LGA771-X5460-SLANP/dp/B00450D00I/
Ram must be matched and be low density.
No issues with any Nvidia card up to and including 1080TI
RTX cards however will not work.
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June 12th, 2019 17:00
So is the processor you listed compatible (and by compatible I mean install it and have no major issues) or not? Also, over time my uncle has found spare ecc ddr2 at his work and all of it hasn't had a problem working. I went back on wayback machine to this things configurator in 2008 (when it was shipped) and saw that there was a dual Nvidia card option. Not sure if it was sli though. Also, what form factor motherboard is the motherboard in it? I'm thinking eatx or ssi eeb/ceb. Anyway...
Is the processor you listed comatible?
And what form factor is the motherboard?
And let me just say thank you for responding to this. I can't believe someone actually responded to this because I thought that because of the age of the system and the questions nobody would touch the question. Thank you.