Recent content by sifuhall

No, it's the original 2950. But the bios and firmware have already been updated (that's the first thing I did).

I used thermal gel to secure the heatsink.

I've had the server for a few weeks and it has always ran fine with a single quad core cpu. Just when adding the second does it power down. Maybe I need a voltage regulator to go with the new cpu? Could that be the issue?

I found a decent buy on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 for my home use. It came with a single, quad-core processor and has an empty socket and I want to add another cpu. The CPU it came with is a Xeon quad core X5365 running at 3ghz. To add to my 2950 I recently just purchased a Xeon quad core...