- Hello, I recently received an older HP Z620 Workstation. I got it for free. Everything works on it. The block date is 12/28/2011 in the bios meaning this is a version 1 board. It came with a Intel Xeon e5-2609 cpu. This is a quad core with no Hyper Threading. I was wanting to upgrade the cpu to at least a 6 core with Hyper Threading. I'm going to turn this into a virtual machine test bench. I found a few forum posts about this workstation model and you have to be careful with the block date number as the version 2 model will not work with version 1.
- Does anyone know for certain the max that I can go up to with my current setup? Does HP make heatsinks specific for lower and higher end cpu's? Do I need to buy a heatsink for a higher end 6 or 8 core cpu since it has a higher tdp?
- I found this article showing the cpu list support. So theoretically I should be able to go into any of the 2609 to the 2690 right?
http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/getpdf.aspx/c04111527.pdf?ver=5
- I'm just concerned about the version and heatsink.