ML10 Gen9 cpu upgrade from g4440 to E3-1125 v5

[ce_boleary]

I am running an ML10 Gen9 with a g4440 cpu as a vmware exsi host

Should I be able to replace the g4440 wth a E3-1125 v5 (this shows as compatible)  and power on without any driver/fw changes?

[Beckwith222]

Any of those should work fine...

Look for 1150 socket and

E3-12x1 v3 for CPU's with no GPU, and

E3-12x6 v3 for CPU's with GPU

They should all work with the ML10 v2. You just have to look at price, cores, and hyper-threading...

E3-1231 v3 seems to be a popular choice at good performance vs price point, if you don't need the GPU.

[ce_boleary]

Thanks for the reply! 

I had the wrong PN in my subject should have been E3-1225 v5 

I already bought a used E3-1225 v5 for $25 

so my question was can I physcially pull out the g4440,

replace it with the E3-1225 v5

and expect the server to boot without having to make any firmware/driver changes

I'm going to try this, I just wanted to set my expectations properly

[ManBha]

Hello,

The G4400 model is used in entry models and E3-1225 v5 is for performance model of servers.

Please refer the below document. [ refer page 12 ]

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=c04922941

Thanks.

[Libby69]

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@ce_boleary wrote: Avalon Access

I am running an ML10 Gen9 with a g4440 cpu as a vmware exsi host

Should I be able to replace the g4440 wth a E3-1125 v5 (this shows as compatible)  and power on without any driver/fw changes?

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I value the insights and guidance you provide, I will try to figure it out for more.

[ce_boleary · Accepted solution]

Thanks all!
I was able to replace the processor and boot the ML10 with no firmware changes at all.

Unfortunately the reason I was upgrading was to increase the available core count for my vm host.  

The g4440 has 2 hard cores but supported multi-threading to provide a total of 4 virtual cores

The E3-1225 V5 part has 4 hard cores, but does not support multi-threading so in the end it also provides 4 cores.

The dedicated cores and larger L3 cache should make the performance better, but I wasn't really needing that. 

But all in all, for just $25 it was a good way to go and I got to learn something.