Dell PowerEdge R620 CPU compability

[Pepiljo]

I wanna build a Plex Server and I could buy myself 2 E5-4650 CPUs for a great price. But I want to Rackmount the system and found the Dell PowerEdge R620. It has the same Socket but every Product page shows that it only supports E5-2600 series or E5-2600 v2. Is the 4650 compatible with the motherboard in this server or not? I can't understand this!

Thanks.

[Minbari]

No you cannot use the E5-46xx or any of the E7 line in an R620. The first digit after the product line so E5-(2/4/8)xxx is how many sockets that cpu can be used in a server with. The E5-46xx and E7-(2/4/8)xxx were only compatible with different chipsets used in different servers. If you want to get into a system that can support the 46xx line or some of the E7's you could look at R810/R910 or the R820/R920 (or the HP / IBM / Supermicro / other variations of these). 

 

Using the chipset in the R620 you have to stick with the E5-26xx or E5-26xx v2 

[Pepiljo]

Oh okay thanks! I was just confused because everywhere were I was looking I saw that both CPUs had the same chipset (LGA2011).

Thanks for clearing that up! So i might just go with a E5-2690.