With your help I had changed my plan and went with two x5660.
I have been running only one while I waited for my heatsink to arrive. today I installed the second CPU but sadly It wasn't smooth sailing like the first CPU.
my first issue was that I was running kingston 3x8gb with HP OEM 3x2gb but they don't have the same voltage so there was no power up. I reduced to two 8gb in each DIMM1 slots and made progress.
Once resolved the computer turned on, all fans ran, and the HP invent logo appears on my screen but that's where it gets stuck, there is no beeping yet no BIOS or boot occured.
Lastly I apologise for the delay in response, I didn't receive an email notification as I except or maybe it was lost in my junk mail. I will be making new thread since I didn't not find anything matching my issue.
I have been running only one while I waited for my heatsink to arrive. today I installed the second CPU but sadly It wasn't smooth sailing like the first CPU.
my first issue was that I was running kingston 3x8gb with HP OEM 3x2gb but they don't have the same voltage so there was no power up. I reduced to two 8gb in each DIMM1 slots and made progress.
Once resolved the computer turned on, all fans ran, and the HP invent logo appears on my screen but that's where it gets stuck, there is no beeping yet no BIOS or boot occured.
Lastly I apologise for the delay in response, I didn't receive an email notification as I except or maybe it was lost in my junk mail. I will be making new thread since I didn't not find anything matching my issue.