Hi all,Does anyone know what FSB speeds the ReadyNAS Pro motherboard supports.I have three "servers" that I'm trying to consolidate. I figured that the file server (which is actually the slowest machine) would be replaced by the NAS but I'm actually trying to merge some other services onto the box which much luck so far..One feature I'm working on porting is my Tivo transcoder. Essentially I have a small system that pulls programs off my Tivo, transcodes them and uploads (via WiFi/ethernet) to my portable media player. It means when I get home my media player syncs with my now-playing list so I can watch TV on the train too and from work. Since I work miles and miles away, I don't have time to watch TV at home so it's the only way I can watch TV..I have the package working on the NAS, and I'm working on the integration with the front end (like managing black-lists and so on). I'd like to bump the speed of the processor but obivously the newer energy efficient <65W intel chips all seem to be 1333MHz FSB. Is this supported on this NAS? I know the warranty is void with this type of fiddling, but that is a risk I'm happy to take.. I also understand you wouldn't recommend an upgrade like this, but I would really like to know if it were possible..I'll make all the code (mplayer is the driver behind the transcoding) available to anyone if interested.. but it is important to realise this is a Series 1 Tivo and an Archos 705/605 media player, not a common combination..

flip68 - I happened to find this link the other day and had it bookmarked... https://community.netgear.com/t5/Community-Add-ons/How-to-update-BIOS-w-OS6-x-installed/m-p/960570#U960570 I haven't tried this personally - as with all things of the internet - proceed with caution.

It may work. We are not going to endorse any CPU mods, and of course, your warranty is at risk by doing that modification.I am the one running an E6300 in my personal system at home. It has worked for me, but as always, YMMV (your mileage may vary). Don't need a kernel re-compile. I have VirtualBox running on mine.

Ok. I happened to mention the upgrade to someone who was also after an upgrade.. Long and short, I ended up with an E6700 cpu. I've run the same hdparm -t -T /dev/c/c tests and there's a marginal improvement.. Stock Pro with E2160 (1.8GHz) and 1GB of 667MHz RAM:Timing cached reads: 1890 MB in 2.00 seconds = 945.13 MB/secTiming buffered disk reads: 510 MB in 3.00 seconds = 170.11 MB/secPro with E6600 (2.4GHz) and 4GB of 800MHz RAM:Timing cached reads: 9052 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4533.83 MB/secTiming buffered disk reads: 628 MB in 3.00 seconds = 208.99 MB/secPro with E6700 (2.66GHz) and 4GB of 800MHz RAM:Timing cached reads: 10132 MB in 2.00 seconds = 5075.66 MB/secTiming buffered disk reads: 622 MB in 3.00 seconds = 207.27 MB/secLooks like IO is more of a problem and getting anything more than about 208MB/s out of the RAID6 array is going to be hard.. Transcoding is noticably faster though.. not that I have any real stats to go on yet.. Still, if I'm right and this is the fastest CPU you can put in a Pro, I am more than happy.. it is BLISTERINGLY fast! If anyone wants to make me an offer for a E6600 2.4GHz chip, feel free :)

cpitchford wrote:If anyone wants to make me an offer for a E6600 2.4GHz chip, feel free :) $20 :)

For my system:temp1=60temp2=36fan1=1548fan2=1776Under regular load, while using my VirtualBox VM.top - 13:15:00 up 22 days, 12:46, 3 users, load average: 0.26, 0.23, 0.18Tasks: 108 total, 1 running, 107 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombieCpu(s): 1.7%us, 8.2%sy, 1.3%ni, 88.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%stMem: 2072432k total, 1986916k used, 85516k free, 14056k buffersSwap: 1048536k total, 104k used, 1048432k free, 683368k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3037 root 20 0 1109m 1.1g 30m S 34 53.6 11415:10 VBoxHeadless 2403 root 20 0 48992 11m 1720 S 4 0.6 673:17.98 motion 2345 root 20 0 10132 8696 1016 S 0 0.4 26:14.54 wastesrv 2366 store 21 1 73028 30m 5312 S 0 1.5 213:19.99 bt

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mrwizardno2
Guide
Mar 18, 2010
Chirpa, thank you so much! Wish I coulda bought you a green beer or a few tonight! Can't wait to see things back to normal... life just isn't the same with the RNP offline.
chirpa
Luminary
Mar 18, 2010
Thank me after you get the parts swapped. It will be time consuming heh :)
mrwizardno2
Guide
Mar 24, 2010
Chirpa, I got the parts swapped but the box won't boot. I switched back to the old CPU thinking maybe the new one didn't work - but still got the same result. Fans go wild, but nothing happens.

I got this hairbrained idea to try hooking a monitor to the onboard VGA header. Luckily it worked! :-) Hehe...

I can see the board posts just fine. I poked around in the bios and everything looks ok, but I get the boot error. Could the onboard flash be corrupt? Where does that hook to the USB bus? I'm pretty sure swapping the cpu should not have caused this. I haven't tried booting up with the new CPU with the monitor attached yet. I just want to get the box booting first.

Any hints, oh master of ReadyNAS's?

Edit: I found the flash chip. It's on the IOExpander board. I tried booting from USB and that seems to work. I got it to boot a thumbdrive that I use to install windows. I obviously didn't install anything, but it did indeed work.
chirpa
Luminary
Mar 24, 2010
Hook up a USB keyboard, press DEL on bootup to get into the BIOS. Check under Boot for the boot order.

Yes, the internal Flash is behind the LED screen.
mrwizardno2
Guide
Mar 25, 2010
chirpa wrote:
Hook up a USB keyboard, press DEL on bootup to get into the BIOS. Check under Boot for the boot order.

Yes, the internal Flash is behind the LED screen.

Behind the LED screen? I removed the IOExpander and the flash was no longer listed during POST so I assumed it was on that board - I'll have to hunt for it when I get home from work. Anyway, I had already checked the BIOS and the flash disk is listed as the primary boot device, but fails to boot.

On a side note: I managed to boot the machine using a USB disk that I made (with windows 98 system files lol!) and ran some basic diagnostics. CPU and Memory both check out fine. Memtest ran three passes before I stopped it, all were clean. The fact that the machine can boot from USB just makes me wonder about that onboard flash. Is there a way to recover it if it has indeed gone on the blink? What else should I be looking at?

(also since this isn't really CPU Spec related, should I start a new thread? I feel like I'm taking this one off-topic now)

Edit: I created a new thread here: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=40162
dmross
Aspirant
Mar 31, 2010
Has anyone tried plugging in a CPU that is not on the Intel compatibility list for the Q965 chipset? I'm very tempted to try this spare Celeron E3200...
chirpa
Luminary
Mar 31, 2010
I tried an E7400 a few weeks back, wouldn't boot.
dmross
Aspirant
Apr 01, 2010
I tried the E3200 Celeron yesterday and it wouldn't POST.

chirpa wrote:
Hook up a USB keyboard, press DEL on bootup to get into the BIOS. Check under Boot for the boot order. Yes, the internal Flash is behind the LED screen.

MrCyberdude

Tutor

Jun 18, 2010

MikeMcr wrote:
Hmm, I notice Intel has confused matters by replacing the E6600 with another E6600 that runs at 3.06 GHz! It uses a smaller die size of 45 nm.
http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=42807,27250,
Since it shares the same name, would you expect it to be as compatible as the "old" 2.40 GHz E6600?

MikeMcr wrote:
Hmm, I notice Intel has confused matters by replacing the E6600 with another E6600 that runs at 3.06 GHz! It uses a smaller die size of 45 nm. http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=42807,27250, Since it shares the same name, would you expect it to be as compatible as the "old" 2.40 GHz E6600?

Has anyone confirmed and used this E6600 3.06Ghz CPU as the 2.40Ghz CPU is hard to find locally?

When looking here http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=42807,27250, its interesting to note there are some significant differences.

Code Name..... Wolfdale ...vs... Conroe
Clock Speed..... 3.06 GHz ...vs... 2.4 GHz
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)..... No ...vs... ?? It does have Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Integrated Graphics No ...vs... ?? Is this needed if I want to use the 2x8pin header
Cache..... 2 MB Intel® Smart Cache ...vs... 4 MB L2 Cache How much difference will this make I wonder
Bus/Core Ratio 11.5 ...vs... 9
FSB Parity No ...vs... ??
VID Voltage Range 0.8500V – 1.3625V ...vs... 0.8500V-1.5V
TCASE 74.1°C ...vs... 60.1°C but the Max TDP of 65 is the same for both
Lithography 45 nm ...vs... 65 nm
Processing Die Size 82 mm2 ...vs... 143 mm2
# of Processing Die Transistors 228 million ...vs... 291 million
Sockets Supported LGA775 ...vs... PLGA775

EDIT: I have noticed that the 963/965 chipset are not listed as compatible here. http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42807
Painfully Interesting that intel have re-used the E6600 name when they look to be quite different.
E6600 designations of SL9TZ, SL9S8 and SLGUG.
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9S8 2.4 GHz
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9ZL 2.4 GHz
http://processorfinder.intel.com/Details.aspx?sSpec=SLGUG 3.06 GHz

MrCyberdude
Tutor
Jun 20, 2010
@cpitchford. Hi, I was wondering which version of CPU you had for EACH of the E6600 and E6700 as I cannot find mention of it in your post. ?
SL9S7, SL9ZF, SL9ZL, SL9S8. Any Alternatives for both CPU and Fan?

E6700 http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9S7
These parts have Extended Halt (C1E) power of 22W.
These parts have THERMTRIP# enabled

E6700 http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9ZF
These parts have Extended Halt (C1E) power of 12W.
These parts have THERMTRIP# enabled
These parts support Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2) feature

They have quite different C1E values that may possibly make the difference. Also there is TM2?
I'm not so concerned about the N^ speed but would like some CPU choices as they are almost extinct.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/ ... odes/611/1

Also your E6600 comes in 2 variants
E6600 http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9ZL
These parts have Extended Halt (C1E) power of 12W.
Missing: These parts have THERMTRIP# enabled --**-- This is on Intels Site.. Typo maybe ??

E6600 http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL9S8
These parts have Extended Halt (C1E) power of 22W.
These parts have THERMTRIP# enabled

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