RN516 CPU upgrade

The 716 uses the Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge E3-1265L v2 Quad Core processor.

CPU upgrades void the warranty, but if you want to do one you could consider the one we use in the 716.

I was looking at that.. but the Xeon Ivy Bridge E3-1225v2 is a 77W TDP part while the 516 is a 55W TDP part.
I don't know if the cooler of the 516 would be efficient enough or if they both use the same model cooler.
I did read here of the i3 running hot already at high loads.

Question remains; what CPU's will the bios recognize?

Added to that: is it safe to assume that the 716's CPU would be recognized correctly by the bios? As in the 516 and 716 have the same bios?

Whoops. The CPU in the 716 is actually the E3-1265L v2.

Both units share the same BIOS, but we hard code support for the hardware we ship in the firmware.

The max TDP is 65W.

Again we don't support CPU upgrades. They void the warranty.

I bought my 516 second hand so I have zero warranty anyway.

but we hard code support for the hardware we ship in the firmware

Does this mean that only a single CPU is supported by bios on both the 516 and 716?

No, but if you use a CPU we didn't ship it with it's possible some things might not work correctly.

If you run into issues you could try to switch back.

a 516 second hand ? that's strange, that's a very powerful and recent model. I don't know why someone would sell it, at least they could have used it as backup. The only problem I see with a 516 is that it doesn't have 10Ge network.
I hope you had a good price because giving away the warranty (I think they come with 5years (not sure), so you had at least 3 years left) is not worth a 100$ discount IMO.

Strange? Not really. Several are offered over here. This guy claimed to have had enough of Netgear, but I don't know why.
He runs his own IT company and gave me an invoice with it as well (so not stolen if anyone wonders) and through him I could claim warranty if I need to.
The warranty not being transferable was a bit of a surprise (and in violation of Dutch law, but that's another matter) but the price was pretty good, 550 euro's.
Having said that, it was in piss poor condition as in totally mucked up with nicotine filled brown sticky dust.
I had to strip it to the last screw and clean it intensively and rebuild again. Fun job.

I know those are desktop models, but brown dust makes me think coffee spill, and nicotine, this was totally avoidable.
IF you can claim the warranty through him then you are good indeed. I'm not sure Netgear will actually check if this is a second hand device while opening a case, and even if they do, it could have been offered to you or bought by someone else for an enterprise, not sure how they could check that. So if you have the original purchase proof I think you are good to go anyway and I wouldn't upgrade the hardware in any way unless you feel that you are limited (which I doubt you'll be by CPU or RAM).

xeltros wrote:
IF you can claim the warranty through him then you are good indeed. I'm not sure Netgear will actually check if this is a second hand device while opening a case, and even if they do, it could have been offered to you or bought by someone else for an enterprise, not sure how they could check that. So if you have the original purchase proof

Netgear warranties are not transferable. If the original owner registered the product, then tijgert will not be able to re-register.

Of course if the original owner chose not to register it, then tijgert would be able to do so, esp. if he has the original sale information.

You mean that if I buy the NAS for an enterprise where I am the admin, I register it with a netgear account, then I go to another company the first enterprise loses the warranty ?