I recently bought a used R710 and R610 that I am planning on using for my home recording studio. Each one came as a single processor maching with 4gb of ram. I would like to get the 710 going first as I need the extra PCIE slots for internal audio card and expansion board, and a video card. I opened it up and found that it was only a dual core Xeon (can't find it at the moment to give you a model number) and the 610 has the better quad core E5630. So here are my questions...
1. How can I tell if my R710 can use the E5630 processor?
2. Do I have to use ECC RAM?
3. Should it be buffered or unbuffered?
4. Can I use SATA instead of SAS drives in the unit?
As I said this is going to be used for my recording studio and will be running Windows 7 Pro for the OS.
Thank you very much for your time,
Burke