HP Z620 Workstation CPU update

[Yass-Z]

Hello community.

I have an old HP Z620 Workstation. Everything works well on it, but i want some more processor speed. I recently understood that the block date which is 12/28/2011 in the bios means this is a version 1 board.

It came with two Intel Xeon e5-2620 cpu that i want to upgrade.

I have searched (and made the error of buying two e5-2697V2 processors which are not compatible) and i think the choices that i have to a better upgrade are :

- Two Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2690 processors, or

- Two Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2687W processors

Does anyone have an idea which of those could be a better option ? or if there is any other idea about a better improvement.

Thank you.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

I have attached the HP Quickspecs for the z620 model series below.

It appears that from the two processors you posted, only the E5-2690 processor is supported.

It has to be the v2

But isn't the E5-2697 v2 even better?

[Yass-Z]

Hi Paul !

Unfortunately the workstation i have is old. it does not support V2 CPU's. the BIOS block date is 12/28/2011, means this is a V1 Motherboard, and it cannot support V2 CPU's.

Thanks for the quickspecs.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.