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Running a Xeon Nocona and Xeon Irwindale on a Dual CPU MB

idata
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I was wondering if anyone know if I can run a Xeon Nocona and a Xeon Irwindale on the same MB?

or if anyone has tried this?

The difference between the 2 as far as I can tell is that the

a) Irwindale has 2MB L2 Cache vs Nocona 1MB

b) Irwindale has a TDP of 110 vs 103 for Nocona.

I currently have a Single Nocona CPU installed. I would to install a 2nd Irwindale CPU into the system.

Thank you in advance for any advice / input / suggestions.

-PC

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Nocona -- http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SL/SL7PF.html

Irwindale -- http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SL/SL8P5.html

HP XW8200

Model: 08B4h

Chipset: E7525 Rev 0C

Southbridge: 82801EB(ICH5)

LPCIO: SMSC

BIOS

VER: 786B8 v2.10

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idata
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I tried to do this once on an IBM xSeries 336 serverboard and it would not power up.

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Edward_Z_Intel
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I don't think so. Normally you can't mix CPUs from two different families.

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