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CPU upgrades for elderly P4 servers?
Mar. 24th, 2011 07:39 pmI need a Windows 2008 test network at home, sharpish, i.e. inside the next week. Total budget is £50 or so, and that is pushing it.
I have a Dell PowerEdge 600SC (P4, 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM) and an HP Proliant ML110 G1 (P4 HT, 3GHz, 1GB RAM, already running W2K8 Standard.)
I am going looking for some cheap RAM for the PowerEdge on eBay. I am just wondering if it's worth trying to find a couple of Pentium D CPUs to put in them. I believe that you can't run a 64-bit capable P4 in a machine that doesn't have a 64-bit aware BIOS. Is that right?
So I was wondering if I could find a couple of old cheap end-of-the-32-bit-P4 line chips on eBay & at least make them dual-core boxes. If nothing else they could chew through a few more BOINC units for me that way.
Ideally, I'd love to stick fairly-early-model Core 2 Duo chips in them, but Googling around suggests that this will not work. Anyone tried putting a C2D into a P4 machine?
I have a Dell PowerEdge 600SC (P4, 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM) and an HP Proliant ML110 G1 (P4 HT, 3GHz, 1GB RAM, already running W2K8 Standard.)
I am going looking for some cheap RAM for the PowerEdge on eBay. I am just wondering if it's worth trying to find a couple of Pentium D CPUs to put in them. I believe that you can't run a 64-bit capable P4 in a machine that doesn't have a 64-bit aware BIOS. Is that right?
So I was wondering if I could find a couple of old cheap end-of-the-32-bit-P4 line chips on eBay & at least make them dual-core boxes. If nothing else they could chew through a few more BOINC units for me that way.
Ideally, I'd love to stick fairly-early-model Core 2 Duo chips in them, but Googling around suggests that this will not work. Anyone tried putting a C2D into a P4 machine?
