We need to upgrade the hardware on some of our CentOS 5.11 servers. From Redhat's Intel CPUs and Supported RHEL Versions page, I see that the E5-26XX V2 CPUs are supported. However, the E5-26XX V3 (Haswell-EP) CPUs are listed as Not Supported.
I would prefer to use the V3 CPUs. Can anyone tell me if Not Supported means that CentOS 5.11 flat-out won't work? Or, perhaps might they work, but just not be able to take advantage of newer chipset instructions (like AVX2). We plan to upgrade to CentOS 6 or CentOS 7 soon, but not before the server upgrades.
Has anyone successfully run RHEL5/CentOS5 on E5-26XX V3 CPUs?