I must have messed up my trial because it now says no license is installed, I was in the BIOS looking at all the settings and I know I adjusted the clock so maybe that invalidated the trial license. I used the 60 day trial version of ILO4 Advanced and got VMWare installed, you can get it here: Update: I just remembered the heatsink is mounted with screws, not pushpins, so maybe this instead: Maybe something like this: …it’s actually rated for 73W so it would support the Xeon E3. One problem you might have with the Noctua is it blows straight up and there’s not a lot of room above the CPU, I think it will fit but you might be better off with a fan designed for a 1U server that blows air towards the back of the case. *Processors ending in a 5 have integrated HD graphics, I’m not sure if this will cause problems.įilip, that’s right, the V3 Xeons are not compatible. I think the best value is the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The main reasons to upgrade to a Xeon is the AES instruction set, VT-d, or more cores and a faster clock speed. The stock processor does not differ from the i3 except for clock speed and hyper-threading, so I don’t think it’s worth the money to upgrade to an i3. I’ve excluded the Core i5 series because they don’t support ECC. Here’s a list of processors I think would be good candidates. Temperature inside my house is currently 84F so if it can survive a full load in this heat I’m not concerned about it running into problems. You can see the temperatures bumped up but still within specifications. Now I’ve got hyper-threading and VT-d (Direct Path I/O) on a Gen8 Microserver!Īnd the temperature is doing just fine… CPU Load Testġ0 minutes full load using “stress” on a VM. VMware ESXi booted just fine (I used the version provided by HP). The CPU will only go into Turbo when a single core is being utilized so TDP would be low anyway). (Update: I later learned that disabling Turbo isn’t necessary.

I thought it wise to at least go into the BIOS and disable 3.7GHz Turbo, so the max we’ll hit is 3.3GHz. I’ve never applied thermal paste, so I’m not sure if that’s the right amount, but that’s how much I did. I figure worse case I could disable two of the four cores to bring it down to 35W. I already have a Xeon E3-1230 V2 (69W), and for most people this is a better option because it’s readily available and affordable.

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