On 08/02/10 21:54, Jonathan B. Horen wrote: > Does anyone have first-hand experience with such a CPU upgrade? > Alternatively, can anyone point me in the direction of information > regarding such a CPU upgrade?
Yes, we did this upgrade last year. Specifically from Opteron 2216 -> Opteron 2376, and moved the 2216 to make another SC1435 dual-CPU. Our SC1435s were rather old so didn't have the split-plane power config required to get the best performance from the new memory controller, but I can't say this has bothered us - it was definitely a cheaper upgrade than a new unnecessary motherboard that Dell wanted to sell us. Worth checking your BIOS versions and updating them (easy to do whilst the OS is running) - there's a few fixes related to quad core opterons, and you'll need to apply these with the old processors still in. cheers, Barnaby _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
