Upgrade Intel Xeon Prestonia to a 64-bit processor

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Published on 2010-05-06T19:27:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 19:29 UTC
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In theory, could I upgrade a mPGA604-socket motherboard with a Prestonia processor to some Intel Xeon processor with 64-bit?

I've got a Dell PowerEdge 1750 with dual 2.8GHz Xeon processors running my Windows Home Server machine. I want to upgrade to the upcoming Vail release, but it is 64-bit only.

The processors are Prestonia-core, which is pre-64bit, but I was wondering if it was possible to swap in some pin-compatible later generation processor.

According to wikipedia, the mPGA604-socket continues to be used for several later generations that do have same pinout.

So, IN THEORY, could I swap in a 64-bit, like a Nocona-core?

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