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CPU upgrade for HP DL120 G6
Hi,
I have a HP ProLiant DL120 G6 with Pentium G6950. Is it possible to just swap to a Xeon X34x0 CPU ? apart from new RDIMMs, what problems might happen?
this is a development server, which I'm looking to re-purpose as a storage server. although that might not be so exciting as the B110 RAID only support 2TB disks
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X3470 should work
Any 1156 socket CPU with works, X3430-X3470, as well as i7-850/870
i7 won't work, the HP bios will block it I think.
Agree with Mark Turner here.
I wouldn't go for anything not pre-approved by HP.
http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/getpdf.aspx/c04128298.pdf?ver=17
Thanks Dom. The spec sheet says RAM limit is 16GB, but the memory configurator says
@Bruce I don't have any 120 G6 in stock, lowest I have is G7 and G7 definitely supports 32 GB.
There is a discussion about G6 where someone complains that ir doesn't work with 32 GB. http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-ML-DL-SL/DL120-G6-why-can-t-I-use-8Gb-RDIMMS-for-32GB-total-memory/td-p/5581467#.Vb-z525Viko
I wasn't able to find any official HP document stating it supports more than 16GB of memory. If you have spare, trying it won't probably do any harm to the server or the memory, if you need to buy to test it out, I wouldn't risk it as it most probably won't work, or will work in a very specific memory configuration only.
DL120 G6 doesn't support 8GB modules last time I saw one. 6 slots x 4GB = 24GB
What about RDIMMs ? It should support 6x RDIMM.
Supports up to 4 UDIMMs or 6 dual rank RDIMMsQuestion is if it will boot with 6x 4 GB RDIMM, and if it will see all the memory.
And what's more important - will it be stable.
http://h22195.www2.hp.com/MemoryTool/Home/ConfigurationDetails says
not sure I want to risk 2 RDIMMS if it doesn't work.
I think 6 x RDIMM will work. Make sure you update the firmware on the server to last version for that model.
Also note that HP is really picky about CPU versions if you're upgrading a CPU. I had an old DL180 at home which I 'upgraded' to L/E5450 (don't remember which) and the machine went through POST and then came up with a message 'Unsupported CPU'. I changed out the CPU for the same CPU model but HP supplied and it booted.
If you know that 4x4GB will work on that system, then order that cheaply and order the other 2x4GB from somewhere that offers SoR
DL120 g6 works with 4x8GB memory sticks. KTH-313E/8G.
Also, 6x4GB KVR1333D3D8S9S/4G is working fine too.
I had such servers in production 1 year ago.