2850 processor upgrades? (was "1850 CPU sockets?")

[Marcus Bointon]

On 27 Sep 2007, at 02:03, J. Epperson wrote:

> Exactly.  So hard that I can't find them.  Anyone out there  
> familiar with
> processor upgrade path for 2850 Poweredges?  I have dual
> C8511	PROCESSOR, 80546K, 3.6G, 2M, XEON IRWINDALE, 800, N0
> in them.  Am pegging processors on database machines, wondering if  
> they
> can be retrofitted with dual core cpus.

I would expect that to work fine - It would seem reasonable that 1850  
and 2850 share the same system board. My 1850 has dual 3.0 dual- 
cores. I originally thought it was using Xeon 5050s, but I think  
they're actually 7140s as they have 800MHz FSB.

Marcus
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