Upgrade Intel Xeon Prestonia to a 64-bit processor
- by IDisposable
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?