What is the best CPU that is compatible with my motherboard?

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I have a HP xw9400 Workstation with two quadcore AMD Opteron 2356 processors. I have the standard HP xw9400 Workstation motherboard and wanted to know what the best choice of CPU upgrade would be that, of course would be compatible with it. Thank you!
 
Available processors taken from: http://www.crash-bg.com/CATALOG/computers/hp_xw9400.pdf
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One or two Dual-Core
1
AMD Opteron™ 2000 series
2
processors 2220 (2.80 GHz) and 2222 (3.00 GHz) with AMD64 Technology
2
, 1 MB of L2
cache, and 1 GHz AMD HyperTransport™ technology
3
; one or two Quad-Core
1
AMD Opteron™ 2000 series
2
processors 2376 (2.3 GHz), 2378
(2.4 GHz), 2380 (2.5 GHz), 2384 (2.7 GHz), 2387 (2.8 GHz), 2389 (2.9 GHz), and 2393SE (3.1 GHz) with 1 GHz AMD HyperTransport™ bus 6
MB L3 cache; one or two Six-Core
1
AMD Opteron™ 2000 series
2
processors 2427 (2.2 GHz), 2431 (2.4 GHz), and 2435 (2.6 GHz) with 2.4 GHz
AMD HyperTransport™ bus 6 MB L3 cache.

if bios reports lower clock values then may be this link can help you:

http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f15/solved-upgrading-xw9400-mobo-567269.html
 

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Thank you, this helped!