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Get a decent air cooler for that price, unless airflow in your case is a concern and you feel you need it to be dumped immediately outside of the case. It really depends on the whole setup.

My brother has an HP xw9400 with dual Opteron 2222 processors in it. I know it's not the fastest, but he is wondering if he can upgrade the CPUs to either Opteron 2393SE or 2435. My concern here is motherboard support. They're all F socket processors, but are there any chipset differences or is it a matter of changing firmware/bios? I got the potential CPU options from the product manual pdf that was on HP's website (http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/getpdf.aspx/c04140689.pdf?ver=31). My question to you guys is: Do you know if these processors are interchangeable? Thank you very much!