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dell precision 690 upgrade

does any one know what i can upgrade my dell precision 690 to?
I have a pair of 5320's and would like to swap them out, is this possible.
old procs are slagc 5130's

»ark.intel.com/products/29767/Int···-MHz-FSB

From what I can find online, it looks like it's possible (Xeon 5100 and 5300-series are listed as supported). Worst-case scenario is that it won't POST but won't cause permanent damage.
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KI6RIT

thats the problem it wont post. I have 16 gigs of memory in it and 2 raid 1 volumes
drive C 300 gig velocipators
Drive D 2 tb wd black enterprise drives.

i want to upgrade and give it to my brother as he needs something for solid works and some other cad program.

A lot depends on mobo revision. Some will work with more quad core CPUs than others.

Have you updated it to the latest BIOS version?
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KI6RIT

After spending a couple hours testing things the cpu's didn't like the memory configuration.

So I went from a pair of 5130's yo 5320's and from 12 to 16 gigs of memory. Next step is going to add a 5770 radeon hd card.

Build a new custom computer from scratch. This is what $1,200 back in August 2012 got me.
1) iBUYPOWER Xion Echo Desktop Green Chassis
2) Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 Motherboard
3) AMD FX-8120, 64-bit, 8-core, 3.1GHz, Socket AM3+
4) iBUYPOWER 16GB Kit (2 x 8GB) DDR3 PC3-10700 SDRAM
5) ATI Radeon HD 6870 1GB Video Card with 800W Power Supply
6) Seagate Internal Hard Disk Drive 2TB 7200RPM SATA III 6Gb/s
7) Pioneer Internal Optical BDR-2207 Blu-ray Drive
8) 12-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
9) 1) Microsoft Wireless Desktop 800 Keyboard
10) 2) Logitech M705 Wireless Mouse
11) LG EW224 22-inch 1920x1080p/60Hz)

I owned the pc I have less then $200 in upgrades and a pretty solid machine plus I can go upto 32 gig. I have a pair planar 2710 mw monitors.
Os kingston 256 ssd
Data raid1 2tb
Dual optical drives
Tons of ports

Yeah, the 12GB is likely why it didn't post. Assuming you came to 12GB via 6x 2GB sticks anyway. You could have technically done 2x 4GB and 2x 2GB and been perfectly fine.

I haven't played around with my 690 but I have three Poweredge 2950's (same generation as the 690) and they complain with unsupported memory configurations (but will still post). You can populate just two slots, four slots or all eight slots. If you try and populate six slots it doesn't like that.

Regarding the quad core CPUs, unlike the 2950 where there is a I, II and III revision, there is no specific revision of the 690. There are three (I think) different motherboards with MY171 being the newest and desired board for maximum CPU support. My 690 has this board and has no issues running a pair of 5345's (it currently has a pair of 5150's as the 5345's got moved into one of the 2950s).

It was a pair 4 gig and pair 2 gig, the quad cores complained untill I went to 8 sticks.

I do have to say this box screams now

Weird, I know some dual CPU systems have specific slots to specific sockets but I didn't think the 690 was like that. I'll have to try going down to 4 sticks in mine and see what happens.