SL230s/SL250s/SL270s Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge Motherboard Upgrade

[bleschber]

I'm curious if anyone out there has ever attempted to swap out the motherboard on SL2x0 Gen8 server from the original Sandy Bridge versions that support the E5-2600 processors to the newer Ivy Bridge (IVB) version that supports the newer E5-2600 v2 processors.  Current HPE part numbers are similar, but I'm not sure if the IVB version (802612-001) is a drop-in replacement for the SB version (802611-001).

Thoughts?

[Suman_1978 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

As far as I know, 802612-001 is an updated system board which supports Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge both processors.

802611-001 System I/O board (motherboard) - Supports select E5 (Sandy Bridge EP) processors
802612-001 System I/O board (motherboard) - Supports select E5 V2 (Ivy Bridge EP) processors

If you see this example 686857-B21, this server has 802612-001 board but supports Sandy Bridge prc.

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[bleschber]

Thank you so much for the insight.  That gives me a much better comfort level that the swap will work well.