Looking for best CPU for Socket 604?

[hoot.]

Hey guys!

 

I own an old workstation. My uncle gave it to me awhile ago. It got it's uses, but I never had much use out of it due to me having an actual gaming pc.

Here it is: http://www.cnet.com/products/hp-workstation-xw8200-xeon-3-2ghz-1gb-ram-160gb-hdd-xp-pro/specs/

 

Anyways, I'd like to turn it into a folding rig or something. I'm not sure if the CPUs in it are already the best you can get or not. It's a dual cpu board, so I'd be able to get two of them.

 

According to the spec sheet, it uses the 604 socket and the E7525 chipset?

 

What would be the best CPU I could get for it? I understand it's definitely not worth upgrading it, it's more of a "for the hell of it" sort of thing.

[Jumper118]

Hey guys!

 

I own an old workstation. My uncle gave it to me awhile ago. It got it's uses, but I never had much use out of it due to me having an actual gaming pc.

Here it is: http://www.cnet.com/products/hp-workstation-xw8200-xeon-3-2ghz-1gb-ram-160gb-hdd-xp-pro/specs/

 

Anyways, I'd like to turn it into a folding rig or something. I'm not sure if the CPUs in it are already the best you can get or not. It's a dual cpu board, so I'd be able to get two of them.

 

According to the spec sheet, it uses the 604 socket and the E7525 chipset?

 

What would be the best CPU I could get for it? I understand it's definitely not worth upgrading it, it's more of a "for the hell of it" sort of thing.

http://ark.intel.com/products/27088/64-bit-Intel-Xeon-Processor-3_60-GHz-1M-Cache-800-MHz-FSB according to wiki and the hp website. 

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c00216949

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon#Nocona_and_Irwindale

[XeonLover]

I know I'm late, but what about Xeon X7460? You can buy two of them pre-owned or refubrished for dirt price, and you got the 12-core machine.

[rhradec]

On 8/31/2018 at 9:31 AM, XeonLover said:

I know I'm late, but what about Xeon X7460? You can buy two of them pre-owned or refubrished for dirt price, and you got the 12-core machine.

 

I'm also interested on this... I also got a wx8200 with 16GB of ram, and I was wondering if I could stick 2 X7460 on it instead of the crappy 1 core Xeons it comes with. 

I use it with Proxmox as a simple virtualization server (running Lizardfs chunks, plex server, etc), upgrading to the X7460 would add support for VT-x and I would finally be able to get proper KVM running on it instead of crappy qemu64 I have today with the standard Xeons!! (the 1 core Xeons that come with it doesn't have VT-x)

 

Even if the clock stays at 800mhz (not sure if the 08B4h motherboard will support a higher frequency), just having the VT-x support and 12 real cores instead of 4 threads would be amazing!!

 

Does someone have a X7460 lying around for testing maybe? (in Vancouver? lol)

[Pasi123]

56 minutes ago, rhradec said:

 

I'm also interested on this... I also got a wx8200 with 16GB of ram, and I was wondering if I could stick 2 X7460 on it instead of the crappy 1 core Xeons it comes with. 

I use it with Proxmox as a simple virtualization server (running Lizardfs chunks, plex server, etc), upgrading to the X7460 would add support for VT-x and I would finally be able to get proper KVM running on it instead of crappy qemu64 I have today with the standard Xeons!! (the 1 core Xeons that come with it doesn't have VT-x)

 

Even if the clock stays at 800mhz (not sure if the 08B4h motherboard will support a higher frequency), just having the VT-x support and 12 real cores instead of 4 threads would be amazing!!

 

Does someone have a X7460 lying around for testing maybe? (in Vancouver? lol)

I'm pretty sure HP XW8200 doesn't support anything else than Pentium 4 based single core Xeons. X7460 was made for completely different systems.