New Pentium in old server?

[FireTech]

I've got a Dell SC430 Server running 24/7 with a Pentium D935 CPU which I presume will be chewing up the power.
Can anyone advise if the more efficient Pentium E series or similar CPUs will work on this board (Intel E7230 chipset)?

 

[myocardia]

While anything is possible, it's extremely unlikely. That chipset was released 18 months before the C2D chips were released, and Intel released a new server chipset, along with the C2D's. I tried looking for a CPU support list on intel.com, but it doesn't seem to exist for that chipset. Here's the page with all of the information on that chipset.

 

[FireTech]

Thanks myocardia. It was just a thought.
While it was good through winter to have this 'heater' in my daughters bedroom, I'd like to reduce heat output and power consumption as summer approaches but without spending a fortune.
More research required...

 

[Lonyo]

I went to the Supermicro site, since they have 5 boards based on the chipset, and they all explicitly state "Will not support E2000 processors" (The Core 2 based Pentium line).
So yeah, doesn't look like it will play nice with Core 2's.

 

[FireTech]

Thanks Lonyo, I keep coming across the same so it looks like I'll try to sell it on and build something specific.

 

[bryanW1995]

you can build a great system for next to nothing these days...

~ $60 for a decent p35 mobo
~ $100 for a very strong dual core intel cpu
~ $30 AR for 2 gb ddr2

heck, we just bought 4 computers at my office, they're all e7200 dells with vista business and 2gb ddr2. cost? $500 shipped, or $620 with 19" ws monitors. ridiculous...