Z4 G4

[NamdarShams]

Dear all , could you please let me know if anyone have done it before? I mean if somebody replaced XEON W2145 With i7-7800X before in Z4 G4 motherboard s? 

My point is that if there is a snag point to solve this problem then maybe once you noticed before , you can advise for that problem , I need to know exactly what is the step by step procedure for this replacement ? 

Could you please help me ? 

Thanks to all 

[SDH]

As you have already posted this question and received an expert's answer I won't repeat that. There is one way I know of and it will take some work from you... buy a Z4 G4 Core X motherboard off eBay and transplant it in for your Z4 G4 Xeon W motherboard. The Core X motherboard is based on the same motherboard PCB as the Xeon W, as you'll see below. They have different components as has been pointed out, both ones you can see here and ones you can't... read more HERE. The missing LAN port on the Core X motherboard would only be visible as a gap on the upper rear backplane of your case... the empty space you would end up with could be covered easily by about 1 square inch of tape. The absence of the second M.2 socket at the bottom front of the motherboard would not be visible from the outside.

Go to eBay and search for "Z4 G4" motherboard and include those quotations. The Xeon W motherboards are more common than the Core X ones. The motherboard's bar code label has "Spares Part Numbers" on the left (and central bottom for the Chinese market) have to do with what the workstation is "branded" for, and those spares part numbers have to do with licensing. No WIN generally means its for Linux, WIN means branded for use of W8/W10/W11 (if meets W11 requirements) Pro64. The WIN7 one is for the Chinese market. You'll not know what you're getting generally just by looking at that barcode label but it is easy to see just by looking at the motherboard which is for Xeon vs Core. The revision alphanumeric has to do with minimal changes over time. Higher is more recent. Unless you know how to brand a virgin motherboard don't buy a new one. The codes on your W case to brand with won't work with an unbranded Core X motherboard... and I generally don't advise buying a "New In Box" unbranded motherboard. However, you can load W10/W11 on those too. A used motherboard you buy off eBay is from parting out of retired workstations and virtually always will be branded by HP at the factory and have associated ID numbers. The UUID also will generally have been autoregistered with the Microsoft W10/W11 activation servers. This allows clean installs with that "digital" license. If it was a WIN motherboard, then you should be able to find its ID number and thereby use the HP Cloud Recovery Tool to download a HP fine-tuned licensed OS.

I'll not be involved with this thread from this point on, and it sure seems like this would not be a project you'd want to take on. However, maybe you will and if so, please post again on your progress. Here are several selected images to help you or someone else prove that a W-to-X motherboard transplant can be successful: Core X MotherboardXeon W MotherboardCore XXeon W

[DGroves]

and since the xeon motherboard is more feature rich in it's available supported device list it's not a worthwhile swap

due to the new MB cost, and the time to do so