proliant 3000 processor upgrade

[Mark Kayser]

I have had a proliant 3000 donated to me. It might be a decent machine if I can upgrade the CPU's. It currently has dual PIII 500's. In the manuals it looks like this is max. Has anyone been successful going higher? I have seen PIII 1gigs going for under $50 so this would be a cheap upgrade. This was for standard slot 1's. I assume it might be harder to get matched ones.

I also didn't see anything about using ECC memory. Is this correct?

[Igor Karasik]

Max CPU for Proliant 3000 is Pentium-600
It will not work with Pentium-1000 CPU (because motherboard support only P-600)
Also, if you want to upgrade from P-500 to P-600 you probably need to replace Processor Power Module (PPM) as well.

[Roger Faucher]

Mark:

Here's some documentation to support what Igor has told you:

"Compaq ProLiantâ ¢ 3000 Pentium III Models
Available in multiple configurations.

Processor â One of the following:

Intel Pentium III processor 600 MHz

Intel Pentium III processor 550 MHz

Intel Pentium III processor 500 MHz

Cache Memory
512-KB level 2 writeback cache per processor

Upgradability
Upgradeable to dual processing

Memory â One of the following:

Standard

256 MB (100MHz Registered ECC SDRAM memory)

Maximum

4 GB

 
Standard

128 MB (100MHz Registered ECC SDRAM memory)

Maximum

4 GB"


Make a great day!

Roger

[Dan Robinson_4]

Wow, PL3000 huh?

We are stacking up DL360 G1s with anything from Single P3-800 all the way to Dual P3-1266 just for spare parts. I think currently I have approc 22 DL360 G1s stacked up under a table here.


Can I ask what you plan to use the PL3000 for? Because now-a-days an "old" P4 Desktop has more power, requires less electricity and produces less noise.

[Roger Faucher]

Hey Dan:

Want to make a donation? I could use a W2K8 testbed. ;-)

Make a great day!

Roger