The above partnumber belongs to a Proliant 8500 server and this uses for sure 2.8V XEONS as you can notice by the VRM boards in the manual. I also upgraded mine as it came with only 4 CPUs installed. Beware of the Compaq XEONS with green heatsinks, these are the 5/12V versions with internal VRM. If …

After lurking around this forom for a while now it was finally time to register. I am like some others here a hoarder of old computers, hardware and Games. I started my computer career at school with the famous Commodore 2001 aka PET, followed by an Apple IIe. At home we had a Ti 99/4A later …