Xeon CPU in a C2D Dell or HP?

[Kaos Kid]

Has anyone here had any experience with skt 775 Xeon CPUs installed in HP or Dell boards that call for C2Ds and C2Qs? I got a good deal on a Xeon 3070 and would like to put it in either an Optiplex 755 USSF (preferred) or a DC7800. Thoughts?

[Major_A]

Only one way to find out. Install it and see what happens. It might need ECC RAM though, so keep that in mind.

[Kaos Kid]

Tried it in the HP7800, it was recognized in the bios just fine (I thought it might since it is a business class computer), loaded WindowsXP as well and it seems to work fine with my non-ECC memory. AIDA64 shows the cores at only about 22-25C each but the CPU itself at 48-50C idle which seems high since I have the cpu fan kicked up to 3800-4000RPM, but I'll check it again tomorrow.


9:30AM edit: Prime95 has been running for 8 hours with no errors. Temps show as follows in AIDA64

mobo 36C
CPU 64C
Core1 40C
Core2 40C

Should I be concerned with the CPU listing of 64C? Or is the only thing that matters the core temps themselves at 40C?

Thanks

[skier]

well it depends on the manuf. tech but either 45 or 65 nm are fine well above 70c, i have one older laptop that loads around 100c and a newer one that loads around 75c..