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PostPosted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 3:23 am 
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Has anyone tried / investigated doing a MoBo /CPU upgrade on an EX47X?

I have an i3 CPU (1156 fit) and a copy of WHS 2011 just sitting around doing nothing. I actually like the small form factor of the EX475 and don't want to buy an alternative case etc etc unless really necessary.

I suppose what I'm asking is, whether the MoBo is custom for this unit or whether anything else will fit...... :-k


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I think you'd have a very hard time keeping the back plane still functional along with all the lights and ports.

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I thought about this alot and there are many problems. A mini-itx won't fit but some kind of pico or micro ITX will fit, with a port-multiplier backplane which I don't think is a bad option because most motherboards that will fit only have 1 or 2 sata ports. There might be some way to rig the lights to work off the port multiplier backplane. It is a lot of work but would be something unique, however there are cases not much bigger than the MSS which take a mini-itx.

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