I bought E5 2697 v2 12 core Xeon processor to replace it with my old 4 core processor. My tech says that he cannot replace it because it has different socket. How is that possible ? If you look on the owc site indeed the 12 core model looks different than the 6, 8, 10 core processors. But the site says the socket is the same. I made a photo of both processors the 12 core is the one on the bottom.
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I bought E5 2697 v2 12 core Xeon processor to replace it with my old 4 core processor. My tech says that he cannot replace it because it has different socket. How is that possible ? If you look on the owc site indeed the 12 core model looks different than the 6, 8, 10 core processors. But the site says the socket is the same. I made a photo of both processors the 12 core is the one on the bottom.
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I bought E5 2697 v2 12 core Xeon processor to replace it with my old 4 core processor. My tech says that he cannot replace it because it has different socket. How is that possible ? If you look on the owc site indeed the 12 core model looks different than the 6, 8, 10 core processors. But the site says the socket is the same. I made a photo of both processors the 12 core is the one on the bottom.
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