More on CPU specs of the ReadyNAS Pro

OK... just got my NAS up transferred my drives from a Ultra 2.. now I put the drives in my new Ultra 6 Plus.. changed the CPU to a YES X6800 .. and it is up an running with Stock ReadyNas fan. also tried it out with a little mod for pegs with Intel Stock Fan.. both are working. Prefer the Stock ReadyNas fan for profile reasons and can keep the door on. I changed the mem to 2 Gig Ridata ddr 800ghz. Looking at doing an 8GB upgrade. I esentialy want to run a VM off this box on demand. Also want to move my Linux Plex VM to this and see if it will run. Couple of notes. I have had some strange issues when copying either files "MKV" larger then 4GB the transfer speed throttles back from 118MB to 45-60MBs. Anyone else seen this?

Not sure if its a chip issue or something else. Was I supposed to recompile my Kernel for this Extreme Chip? My first post. Getting better with Linux..day by day.. Long time IT admin over 14years building PC and always have to have something to tinker with. :) So glad to find these forums. how are you guys probing the chip and benchmarking.. do I need to install some kind of ssh client on my readyNas?

Forgot to give you my fan and temp readings and version.
Radiator 4.2.22

Fan SYS 942 RPM OK
Fan CPU 2083 RPM OK
Temp SYS 58 C / 136 F [Normal 0-65 C / 32-149 F] OK
Temp CPU 28.5 C / 83 F [Normal 0-85 C / 32-185 F] OK

Hey Guys.

I have an Pro 6 first generation with the 2160 Dual Core 1.8 Ghz.

Understanding that upgrading the CPU voids warranty I have tried to install a 6700 2.66 Ghz SL9S7 cpu.
It did start, run through all steps, acquired ip address and than stopped (power down).
Upon power on again it immediately stopped again.

How can I find out what went wrong ? /var/log/messages does not really give me a clear error so I do not understand why it did not work.
Unfortunately I do not have possibility to check the E6700 itself as my normal machine has an i7 motherboard.
I would expect that the logs would give a clear reason on why it did not work.

Any help is appreciated.

Did you use thermal paste? It is likely overheating and powering off.

Add me to the list of e7600 upgrades. Took less than 10 minutes to make the swap. System came right up. This is a -200 rev pro6 with Flame 2.0 bios. Picked the cpu up used for $51 delivered. I think it was pulled from a 27" imac. I'll keep the old one in case this was abused but so far it looks good. Temp is 3 degrees cooler than the stock one, but I blew a lot of dust out of the fan and case while I had it open. Running 24x7 I guess its probably a good idea to clean out the dust more frequently!

-steve

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7600 @ 3.06GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 3058.990
cache size : 3072 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips : 6117.98
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7600 @ 3.06GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 3058.990
cache size : 3072 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips : 6117.66
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

Chirpa, you where right. Not enough paste. Added more paste and now it runs without problems. So Readynas Pro6 gen 1 with 2160 replaced by E6700 also working down here :)

Yay :)

This is a pretty exciting thread. I have an Ultra 6 Plus and I'd like to upgrade the CPU on it. Is there a consensus on that fastest CPU I could put in here without needing to modify the cooling significantly?

I also checked the logs and found out that I have an older BIOS: 10/03/2008 FLAME6-MB V1.6

How can I get this newer BIOS everyone is talking about?

Ultra 6 Plus that has a FLAME6-MB board will support the same CPUO as the ReadyNAS Pro mainly in this thread. An E7600 may be trial and error, but lower models should work fine.

Cool, thanks for the info. I'll see if I can't find an E7500 somewhere just to be safe. I saw in another thread that you had that newest BIOS available to writing to a USB drive to flash the ReadyNAS, do you still have it?