Precision 530 - Maximum processor?

Hey dsgreen30-

 

you may be stuck at a 1.7GHz-2.0GHz Foster core chips. Check out the thread I started about this subject.

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pw_upgrade&message.id=2988

You may be very unpleasantly surprised.

Pete

I was just wondering this same thing myself.

I too have a Precision workstation 530. I purchsed it the end of may 2002. While investigating the internals of the machine I found out I have the 3N384 motherboard. However, I have been reading conflicting reports about which motherboards support which processors.

So... Does anyone have a clue what processors I can upgrade to? RIght now I have the 1.7's installed. They came with the machine. 

Some other stuff:

I ran the delldiag test and it said that my voltage was 1.7 and that I could only go to 2.4 speed processors. I believe this is do the the vrm correct?

So I called sales and they told me that I could upgrade to a set of 2.8's (at a very steep price) or 2.6's or 2.4's. So I asked the woman in sales if she could transfer me to tech support so that I could figure out if I was  purchsing the right upgrade. She then transfered me to India I believe (this was after hours, I believe I read thats where you are sent if you call then) where I could barely understand the tech support guy (due to line noise, not accent). I explained that I had a simple question about a processor upgrade, so as not to take up the valuable time of the tech support guys. I was hoping that since I had such a simple question it would go quicker if I explained upfront. He put me on hold several times, and About a half hour later the guy came back with the answer. Dell does not suggest upgrading the processors in your system, your system was desinged with specific hardware in mind. Also, upgrading the processors in this machine will void the warranty. So I said ok thinking that it was a disclaimer of sorts and asked him for the numbers. After about a min of ping-ponging back and forth with "I'm sorry what was that", and "what did you say" and " can't understand what you're saing" It ended up that he didn't even get numbers for me. He said he could get them if I could wait. I replyed with a nevermind this is ridiculous and proceeded to hang up.

Could someone please help me out here. All I want is the speed of the processors my machine can upgrade to. Also I need to know what other items if any I may need. I need to change the voltage to the processors right? Are the heatsinks different? I should be looking for the 400 bus speed processors not the 533 ones right? And what pin configuration 603 or 604? Thermall jelly?

Thanks in advance.

 

Also does anyone know what brand ram is installed in the 530?

You, guys, have the first revision motherboard, which accept Xeon Foster class CPUs 1.4 - 2.0 GHz (256K L2 cache, 1.7V). The second revision motherboard of the Dell Precision 530 is using Prestonia class CPUs 1.8 - 3.0 GHz (512K L2 cache, 1.5V).

If you want Prestonia CPUs, you need to upgrade your motherboard to 3N384:

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pw_upgrade&message.id=3959

This is what I did ..
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DELL Precision 530 - "The best Precision 530 on the earth .."
2.8GHz Dual Intel® Xeon Processors with Hiperthreading
1024MB PC800 ECC RDRAM @ 2x400MHz (40 ns)
DualView 18.1" IBM T85D and 17" Dell UltraSharp 1704FPV (1280 x 1024) LCD Screens
nVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600 128MB
Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 Controller
SATA150 4xRAID0 (74GB, 10,000RPM, 8MB cache) WD Raptor Hard Drives
Liteon LTD163 16x DVD-ROM Drive
Sony DRU-710A DVD±RW/±R/CD Double Layer Burner
PCMark2002 results:
CPU Score: 6740
Memory Score: 5492
HDD Score: 2055

how i know what revision my board is ? The only think i saw its say Bios Revision A09.

Run

SiSoftware Sandra (http://www.sisoftware.net/) and select "CPU and BIOS Information"

or

CPU-Z utility (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php)
____________________________________________________
DELL Precision 530 - "The best Precision 530 on the earth .."
2.8GHz Dual Intel® Xeon Processors with Hiperthreading
1024MB PC800 ECC RDRAM @ 2x400MHz (40 ns)
DualView 18.1" IBM T85D and 17" Dell UltraSharp 1704FPV (1280 x 1024) LCD Screens
nVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600 128MB
Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 Controller
SATA150 4xRAID0 (74GB, 10,000RPM, 8MB cache) WD Raptor Hard Drives
Liteon LTD163 16x DVD-ROM Drive
Sony DRU-710A DVD±RW/±R/CD Double Layer Burner
PCMark2002 results:
CPU Score: 6740
Memory Score: 5492
HDD Score: 2055

hello, i have a WS 530 with a 512k 400fsb 1,8 Ghtz processeur, what is 400 fsb in mhtz, i want to upgrade my workstation with a second processeur must i take a 533 MHtz or 800 or 400 Mhtz processor, thanks
david

It should be exactly the same as your first one (512KB cache, 400MHz FSB, 1.5V, 1.8GHz Prestonia class CPU).
______________________________________________________
DELL Precision 530 - "The best Precision 530 on the earth .."
2.8GHz Dual Intel® Xeon Processors with Hyperthreading
1024MB PC800 ECC RDRAM @ 2x400MHz (40 ns)
DualView 18.1" IBM T85D and 17" Dell UltraSharp 1704FPV (1280 x 1024) LCDs
nVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 256MB
Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 Controller
SATA150 4xRAID0 (74GB, 10,000RPM, 8MB cache) WD Raptor Hard Drives
Liteon LTD163 16x DVD-ROM Drive
Sony DRU-710A DVD±RW/±R/CD Double Layer Burner
PCMark2002 results:
CPU Score: 6801
Memory Score: 6606
HDD Score: 2056

thank you but what is a dual intel xeon processor and which bus speed have you take ? 533, 800 MHtz ?

400MHz FSB
______________________________________________________
DELL Precision 530 - "The best Precision 530 on the earth .."
2.8GHz Dual Intel® Xeon Processors with Hyperthreading
1024MB PC800 ECC RDRAM @ 2x400MHz (40 ns)
DualView 18.1" IBM T85D and 17" Dell UltraSharp 1704FPV (1280 x 1024) LCDs
nVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 256MB
Promise FastTrak S150 TX4 Controller
SATA150 4xRAID0 (74GB, 10,000RPM, 8MB cache) WD Raptor Hard Drives
Liteon LTD163 16x DVD-ROM Drive
Sony DRU-710A DVD±RW/±R/CD Double Layer Burner
PCMark2002 results:
CPU Score: 6801
Memory Score: 6606
HDD Score: 2056