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Dec 14, 2017
Upgrade from 2 GHZ to 3 .16
Upgraded two Dell 1950 III servers from 2.0 GHZ Xeons to to 3.16 for $65.00 (32.50 a piece). Came with some thermal paste, but I already had some from another upgrade. These processors use LGA, Land Grid Array, so you don't have to worry about bent pins. They came in a padded envelope and each one was wrapped in an anti-static bag.
All Processors were the same SLANP which I guess makes them matched. Which was nice.
They don't have hyper-threading, but I don't think hyper-threading actually helps that much for my applications. I run these alongside a pair of 5670s, 12 cores running nearly the same speed give me one third more performance, which is what you would expect from 12 vs 8 cores.