HPE Epyc 7002 Upgrade Kits vendor locked or not?

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j.battermann

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Good evening,

I am currently shopping for an Epyc 7002 series CPU and saw that some of the HPE upgrade kits end up being a bit more affordable than plain Epyc CPUs but I (very vaguely) remember some vendors vendor locking the Epyc CPUs one way or another.

Does anyone know whether that's the case with the HPE ones or should I be able to use one of these in a non-HPE system?

Thanks!
-Joerg
 

RolloZ170

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seems that some HPE server started vendor locking EPYC processors.
depends on the system security level setting thought.