Will Dell Precision T7500 Support Lower Power Xeons L-Series?

The data sheet for the Dell Precision Workstation T7500 Indicates
compatibilty with these series for Intel processors:

- X56xx
- E56xx

Does anyone know if this workstation will work with the lower power Xeons
that are the L56xx series?

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W

On 11/10/2011 05:02, * W:
> The data sheet for the Dell Precision Workstation T7500 Indicates
> compatibilty with these series for Intel processors:
>
> - X56xx
> - E56xx
>
> Does anyone know if this workstation will work with the lower power Xeons
> that are the L56xx series?

It won't. The BIOS doesn't support the low power variants.

On Dec 2, 1:14*am, Benjamin Gawert <bgaw...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 05:02, * W:
>
> > The data sheet for the Dell Precision Workstation T7500 Indicates
> > compatibilty with these series for Intel processors:
>
> > - X56xx
> > - E56xx
>
> > Does anyone know if this workstation will work with the lower power Xeons
> > that are the L56xx series?
>
> It won't. The BIOS doesn't support the low power variants.

Might also be the voltage regulator circuitry, too. The programmed
BIOS limitations for CPUs often protect motherboard and/or CPU from
damage when an incompatible combination is tried... Ben Myers