I have a 3 year old Z620 and the minimum system requirements for some recently installed software is beyond the capabilities of my existing setup.
The current CPU is an Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz (The software recommendation is an i7 @ 3.0GHz). The existing RAM, VRAM and HDD space is ok.
Short of buying a whole new box, is it possible to swap out the CPU to something like a faster v2 or even a v3 Xeon chip and would I have to upgrade other components at the same time (power, thermal control etc)?
I was thinking either a Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz or Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 @ 3.50GHz. Keep in mind I'm a complete noob when it comes to this sort of thing.
cheers
Julz