Tech Help - Can you mix CPU models in a dual CPU system?

I am afraid not – There’s number of requirements that must be met for a dual CPU system to work – These are;

1. CPUs must have the same QPI and RAM speed to work together.
2. CPUs must have the same thermal profile (TDP) to work together.
3. The CPUs must have the same number of physical cores to work together.
4. The CPUs must have the same number of logical cores to work together.
5. Stepping does not matter.
6. Clock speed does not matter.

So as a result of these requirements it wouldn’t be possible to mix for example, an E5-2603 V4 with an E5-2609 V4, as whilst the QPI and RAM speed may be the same, the number of logical and physical cores are different.

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