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Post by bzhang777 on Feb 18, 2009 2:13:59 GMT 7
Has anyone tried to upgrade their 5200/Pro's CPU?
I have the 5200pro/ Celeron M 1.5ghz. I have an old laptop Pentium M 2 GHZ laying around that I am thinking about swapping the CPU and upgrading the cooling with a all cooper coolermaster heatsink.
I've upgraded the back fan to a queiter 120mm fan by drilling the backplate already.
Anyone attempt to do the cpu upgrade? I imagine it should work but want to check before attempting.
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Post by jaysung on Feb 18, 2009 4:01:53 GMT 7
Heard of no one.
Why would you want to do it?
Where do you want to get what cpu from?
And: Is the cpu really the factor for transfer speed?
Imho the bottle neck is the pci-X based sata controler.
I can e-mail you a statically linked version of mprime. Then you can test your new cpu.
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Post by netrunnerat on Mar 10, 2009 3:45:07 GMT 7
Why you wana update your CPU?
Do you use iSCSI?
I wana buy a N5200 and i wana know, how high is the CPU Load, if you use iSCSI heavy. Can you make HDTach Benchmarks befor you change the CPU? RAID5?
In the moment i collect more infos about this Product, do build my new ESXi Home Crow Labor.
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Post by ftwm on Mar 15, 2009 10:16:59 GMT 7
Hi, I already upgrade my N5200Pro CPU to Pentium M 1.5G over 6 months. Everything ok, no problem found. The performance arround up to 20~30%. I want to upgrade the memory to 1G. Unfortunately, I try several memory, unsuccessful to boot up  Anyway, if you want to increase your preformance, I suggest upgrade high CPU better than memory. Now I looking for Pentium M 2.0G in the market. I guess 2.0G will up 20% more. The original CPU is a celeron which only save your 30% energy (said from manufactory, but save the manufactory cost ). I believe the server, the frist is a performance and the last is energy saving. If you upgrade to high CPU, you only increase few watts in your machine. The manufactory pervert the energy saving to customer. |
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Post by drewy on Mar 18, 2009 4:22:17 GMT 7
do you know the exact model number of the replacement cpu?
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Post by ftwm on Mar 24, 2009 8:43:03 GMT 7
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Post by edgar on Mar 24, 2009 13:09:08 GMT 7
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Post by ftwm on Mar 25, 2009 13:20:56 GMT 7
The CPU is 478-pin Micro-FCPGA
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Post by dje007 on May 4, 2009 22:51:58 GMT 7
Has anyone tried to upgrade their 5200/Pro's CPU? I have the 5200pro/ Celeron M 1.5ghz. I have an old laptop Pentium M 2 GHZ laying around that I am thinking about swapping the CPU and upgrading the cooling with a all cooper coolermaster heatsink. I've upgraded the back fan to a queiter 120mm fan by drilling the backplate already. Anyone attempt to do the cpu upgrade? I imagine it should work but want to check before attempting. You have the same cpu as I do, what you can do is over clock the unit by changing the bus from 100Mhz to 133Mhz, there is a jummper up close to the CMOS chip change it from 2-3 to 1-2 then you will have a 2Ghz unit. |
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Post by drewy on May 8, 2009 6:13:18 GMT 7
you overclocked the standard cpu by changing the jumper?
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Post by dje007 on May 12, 2009 2:31:54 GMT 7
you overclocked the standard cpu by changing the jumper? Yes |
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Post by sworks on May 14, 2009 14:49:01 GMT 7
Has anybody done successful tests of something like this:
Intel Mobile Celeron
Spec Number: SL75J
CPU Speed: 2,4 Ghz
PCG: n/a
Bus Speed: 400 Mhz
Bus/Core Ratio: 24
L2 Cache Size: 256 KB
L2 Cache Speed: 2,4 Ghz
Socket: 478
Manufacturing Technology: 130nm
Core: Northwood
Core Stepping: D1
CPUID String: 0F29h
Thermal Design Power (TDP): 35W
Thermal Specifikation: 100°C
VID Voltage Range: 1,3V
Does it make sense to replace a CPU from 1.5 GHz to the one mentioned above?
Regards
Klaus
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Post by nibbles on May 15, 2009 4:00:57 GMT 7
Can someone confirm in theory what would likely be the highest potential CPU that would likely work. I'm suspecting from reading the information thus far that likely 2.0ghz. I remember once someone having provided some good details on the actual specs of the hardware board but got a little lazy in storing the information in my archives.
However as for Hardware mods like CPU upgrade:
The reasons for doing this is simple. When you have multiple uses other than just sharing data, it becomes beneficial in performance. Personally, I'm using the N5200 model with the following functions installed:
- Media Server (streaming movies, music etc...)
- File Server
- Web Server
- FTP Server functionality
- ISO Images for deployment and installations or burning copies of images to CD
- egroupware for calendar, knowledgebase, contact management including all kinds of other goodies for benefit of my friends and family
- Torrent server used for downloading anything I need
So as you can see, this little fella can get busy doing many little things. No doubt the overhead is minimal in comparison to other well know OS's however there is more that I've not mentioned it being used for however, I will say that I've been getting lots of use out of it and it is for this reason with a very active and useful device in which getting a little extra processing power is not doubt a good thing.
Even a 20-30% performance improvement can be a really good thing especially if there's a lot of ongoing activity within the intranet portion of my network.
Currently, I'm working on documentation on all the little things in which I've been able to setup successfully and would love to gather valuable information such as how far we can push this lovely little device with more processing power.
In addition, having pics of anything demonstrating the changes would also be nice for others to see to ensure a high level of success especially for those not being so tech savy ;D.
All feedback of success and failures is appreciated as it sheds a light on things for others.
I will likely be trying to push my NAS towards 2ghz soon (over next few weeks) however would likely want to also ensure air circulation is good so anyone providing information related to proper cooling would also be nice to hear about.
I've already compiled a list of working memory that has been successfully tested however Once there's a reasonable amount of information out there that would allow for a howto kit on all areas possible, I would be happy to make a presentable howto document covering the scopes of hardware mods in the following areas:
- upgrading memory
- cooling
- upgrading CPU
I think one other area that would be interesting to provide a good howto for users is the following in which has been done by
others before (for those wanting to brave new OS plaforms such as FreeNas or Windows base ones):
- providing support for builtin sound(multi-media functionality)
- adding keyboard/mouse functionality
- adding video interface
Please feel free to share your experiences. I don't mind posting my finding on CPU upgrades once I've done my own in a few weeks.
Cheers,
Nibbles
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Post by greybard on May 18, 2009 16:19:56 GMT 7
So, is it possible to upgrade a N5200 to a Pro or higher?
Are the CPUs on daughterboards? I've looked in my n5200(not pro) but Didn't see any socket CPUs, did you solder them?
I have been able to upgrade my memory to 1gig but nothing beyond that.
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Post by ftwm on May 18, 2009 20:17:13 GMT 7
Last week, I brought a 2 cpu in the second hand market, one is a 1.4G "SL6F8" 1400/1M, another one is 2.2G "SL6VB" 2200/512. Unfortunately, only 1.4G can bootup and running. I guess only 1M cache cpu model can upgade to N5200. Because both of them (SL6F9 and SL6F8) are no problem. But 512KB cache cpu which doesn't work in N5200. If anybody want to upgrade the cpu, pls only try 1M cach model cpu. I check the spec. of them. 1M cache model they call "centrino" and 512KB call "Pentium M" |
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