Five-step upgrade from Xeon 5500 to Xeon 5600 platform

Yesterday, Intel officially released its 6-core server-based Xeon server processor Xeon 5600 series, which is aimed at mainstream two-way servers and workstations. The market is to replace the previous generation of the product Xeon 5500.

For existing Xeon 5500 server users, the biggest benefit is that the Xeon 5600 use the same platform, chipset, so no need to replace the motherboard, just flash the BIOS, you can upgrade to obtain Up to 60% performance improvement.

A few days ago, Intel announced a set of pictures, engineers completed the upgrade from Xeon 5500 to Xeon 5600 in just 5 simple steps:

First step :
open the chassis, remove the radiator



mounted on Xeon 5500 Step:
taken Xeon server 5500 installed on the processor



third step:
5600 Xeon processors installed on the server (server board BIOS determines to be updated to the appropriate version)
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step Four:
applied thermal grease



mounted on the Xeon processor 5600 fifth step :
Replacing the heatsink on the installed Xeon 5600 processor