We recently put our UC on a UCS system.<div><br></div><div>We bought specific blades for the UC system (B200 M2's), specifically TRC #2. Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5640 @ 2.67GHz</div><div><br></div><div>The datacenter operators upgraded a different server, and now they have extra Intel X5550 that they are offering me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So two questions.</div><div>Would I still be supported (maybe under some other umbrella) if the processors were switched out.</div><div>Is it even worthwhile?</div><div><br></div><div>Stats (The table is not going to break well in this email:)</div>
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<td height="20" width="64" style="height:15.0pt;width:48pt">Model</td>
<td width="64" style="width:48pt">Speed (GHz)</td>
<td width="64" style="width:48pt">L3 Cache (MB)</td>
<td width="64" style="width:48pt">QPI speed (GT/s)</td>
<td width="64" style="width:48pt">DDR3 Clock (MHz)</td>
<td width="64" style="width:48pt">TDP (W)</td>
<td width="64" style="width:48pt">Cores</td>
<td width="64" style="width:48pt">Threads</td>
<td width="64" style="width:48pt">Turbo-Boost</td>
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<td height="20" style="height:15.0pt">E5640</td>
<td align="right">2.66</td>
<td align="right">12</td>
<td align="right">5.86</td>
<td align="right">1066</td>
<td align="right">80</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right">8</td>
<td>Y</td>
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<td height="20" style="height:15.0pt">X5550</td>
<td align="right">2.66</td>
<td align="right">8</td>
<td align="right">6.4</td>
<td align="right">1333</td>
<td align="right">95</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right">8</td>
<td>Yes</td>
</tr></tbody></table><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div>