Proliant 5500 dual PIII Xeon processor mixing?

[DevOXide]

Hi

I just managed to grab a Proliant 5500 dual PIII Xeon 500MHz with 512Mb EDO ram and 10 9.1Gb SCSI disks from my employer.
Could not believe they where going to throw it away with a lot of other servers,
so I nicked one before it hit the trash...lucky me!
Now, as it happened I also got around to rummange around some of the other servers designated for termination and got hold of a couple of PII Xeon 400MHz
CPU's and an assorted mix of additional 60ns EDO RAM (roughly 2Gb).

So, my question is....Can I mix in the PII Xeon's with my existing PIII Xeon cpu's in this server?
Has it ever been done?

I looked around a bit and found that you can mix frequency's and cpu steppings in this server. Most says mixing of CPU model's can not be done, but I saw one posting somewhere saying it could be done.....lost the location of it though.

If I do attemt to use the PII's can I destroy anything?

As it happens, a collegua of mine nicked a similar server and the last couple of
PII Xeon cpu's. So now we have the same hardware and possibly 2 PII Xeon's
each which neither of us can use. We could make a deal and let one of us keep the 4 PII's and the other get the PIII's so we both get a 4-way system.

Is it better to have a 4-way PII Xeon 400MHz system than a 2-way PIII Xeon 500MHz?

 

[tim28375]

It depend what you are planning to use it for, I would keep the prosessors the same, I would not mix and match..

This is only my own preferance.

What are you going to use it for??!!

Tim
MCSE 2003
HP APS

 

[sandav92]

You can't mix Processors speed or size in Compaq servers. YOu will recieve numerous errors with the OS, if the OS comes up.

 

[lordcompaq]

No, it wont boot.

You can match various cache sizes of the xeons, provided that you do so in pairs ( in the older G1's ).

- LC