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aapoe.haikarainen

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I bought a new cpu i7-3930k and it would replace my xeon-1603. My pc doesn't even show the dell splash screen. My specs are CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1603 | GPU: Nvidia Gtx 1060 3gb | 12gb ram | 500 gb ssd, 500gb hdd | Motherboard: 08HPGT | It's a upgraded Dell Precision T3600. I have upgraded the bios to a17 version which was apparently the newest. The old cpu still works. They are both socket LGA2011. Help?

 
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electro_neanderthal
While the socket may be backward and forward compatible with the processors from Intel's design standpoint, it's up to the motherboard manufacturer to provide BIOS support. As far as I can tell, from this page - https://www.dell.com/support/article/ca/en/cabsdt1/sln290703/the-hardware-specifications-for-the-precision-t3600-desktop-workstation?lang=en - there is no BIOS support for the 3930 on your motherboard. But I would check with Dell more in depth before writing anything off.

Would your RAM happen to be ECC? That might also cause an incompatibility.
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While the socket may be backward and forward compatible with the processors from Intel's design standpoint, it's up to the motherboard manufacturer to provide BIOS support. As far as I can tell, from this page - https://www.dell.com/support/article/ca/en/cabsdt1/sln290703/the-hardware-specifications-for-the-precision-t3600-desktop-workstation?lang=en - there is no BIOS support for the 3930 on your motherboard. But I would check with Dell more in depth before writing anything off.

Would your RAM happen to be ECC? That might also cause an incompatibility.
 
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