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Molasar

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July 15th, 2014 20:00

PE2950III Processor Support

Hello!

I read someplace that the PE2950III with latest BIOS can support 5600 series Xeons.

Can anyone confirm?

Thanks!

Mike

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Molasar
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Posted July 15th, 2014 20:00
Uhmm... I think it has a different socket... won't work, I guess
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Posted July 15th, 2014 20:00
Will not work. The 2950 III with the latest BIOS will take most 5400's. There are plenty of threads on here about which revisions will take which processors if you are looking for the best 5400 you can use.
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Posted July 15th, 2014 20:00
... and they use different sockets (771 vs 1366).
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Molasar
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Posted July 15th, 2014 20:00
Like if, what happens if I drop a pair of X5675s in there? Will it simply not boot, or only see 4 cores per processor?
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Posted July 15th, 2014 21:00
My PE2950III has 2x X5460 (32Gb) but I swapped them out for a pair of E5450 and dropped the X5460 pair into an HP Proliant ML370 G5 (64Gb).

The PE2950III runs nice and cool. Didn't really notice the .16 GHz x 8 drop at all...

Thanks for the replies. I was just getting all excited about having 12 cores and 24 threads!