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He can always get a couple of DP Xeon CPU's for a few dollars on eBay and replace the en of life part instead of the entire Workstation.

When you run the Windows 8 assesment tool, it cannot see this processor feature unless your enable it through BIOS first (F10 at boot) . If you rerun the tool after enablng this BIOS feature, it will see the NX CPU feature which is present for Nocona Xeon.

I have two Nocona 3.2Ghz on a xw6200 and running Windows 8 Pro x64. The NX feature is named otherwise it the BIOS of this Workstation. Make sure you have BIOS version 2.10 - I think it was not in the original firmware. As for the xw6400, I have no idea.

Yes it's compatible : just enable data execution prevention (DEP) in BIOS.