First, are you running a RAID or SSD's? You will see a small increase in performance with the processors you listed, but much more if you went with an SSD raid 10 with 4 drives instead of spending money on 4 core processors. You can get a good used LSI card and four new 250gb SSD's for under $1000.00 and you would see a huge increase in overall system performance vs mechanical hard drives. If that isn't an option, you will see a SMALL increase in performance with the processor upgrades.

Martin, sorry for the long long delay replying.  I have 2 256gb SSDs and no raid. What is raid 10 with 4 drives and a LSI card?   Two more  256gb SSD's is not a problem if I get a huge increase in overall system performance but I don't mechanical hard drives. What should I do?

Thanks

It would probably take several messages to answer your question properly. Give me a call 731.879.0845 and I Think I can sort it out for you in a few minutes.

Martin Forsythe

Hi There, kind of have the same problem, my machine only comes with one processor, i would like to know if i can upgrade it with a second processor and from 64 to 120 gigs of Ram, also the the LSI card to run 4 500 gigs SSD, can you please assist and let me know if i can get the parts in South Africa?

Regards.

Hugo Machado

You'll likely need to replace the existing processors (finding a match for the existing one may not be easy and many applications require identical CPUs, and given the cost of the rest of the parts -- contact a Dell authorized reseller in your location.