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‎11-02-2021 07:11 PM

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Product: HP Compaq Elite 8300 SFF
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Dear Forum, earlier this year, TheNomadOfTime posed this question in this Forum, and I quote: "Can I upgrade my HP Elite 8300 SFF to this cpu= Xeon E3-1280 v2?"

 

A veteran response came quickly, quote:

 

On page 112 of the manual, is a list of CPU's that are approved for that PC.  There are no Xeon CPU's on the list http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03612798.pdf

 

-end quote.

 

Apparently no: "because HP didn't list them."

 

Even though it is true that HP left out the Xeon E3-v2 family of server CPUs, they do in fact work just fine on the HP Elite 8300 platforms.  My HP Elite 8300 USDT is running very well indeed on a Xeon E3-1280 v2.  As a matter of fact, its performance matches an i7-3770K. The most important reason why I didn't install the faster Xeon E3-1290 v2, is that this CPU draws a lot more power (87 watts vs. 69 watts) than the E3-1280 v2.  One -very minor- drawback is that whenever you want to change something in BIOS, you'll have to temporarily install a compatible CPU with integrated graphics because the Xeon CPUs don't have embedded graphic capabilities, nor would you need that since you would want to use a mid- to high performance eGPU anyway.

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