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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:23 am 
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FYI

I upgraded my EX485 over a month ago to the E5200 and it's been running great with no problems, i also have the 3.0 beta installed.

http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11977/HP-EX-485-CPU-upgrade-sucessful/


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techaholic wrote:
FYI

I upgraded my EX485 over a month ago to the E5200 and it's been running great with no problems, i also have the 3.0 beta installed.

http://www.mediasmarthome.com/forum/thread/11977/HP-EX-485-CPU-upgrade-sucessful/

That's good news! One more reason the EX490 upgrade shouldn't be an issue. My EX490 should be delivered today, so if I have some time, I'll take it apart tonight and take some pictures of the heatsink.


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Be cautious, as my first attempt to upgrade the 485 ended up with a bricked server, luckily it also failed when I put the old CPU back and I was able to get HP to replace it, and this time the second unit upgraded with no problems or issues.


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As I promised earlier, I took apart my new EX490 and I'm 99% sure the heatsink is exactly the same as the one in Alex's review. I tried taking some pictures to post, but the damn camera wouldn't auto-focus correctly, and I didn't want to mess with manual settings because my mind was preoccupied by something else (if you know what I mean :D ). So, instead, I took the picture below. I'm too excited to post more right now, so more details to follow later. :mrgreen:


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The real question is,

Why is it showing your CPU as an E6300 and not an E5200? :shock:

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CBick wrote:
The real question is,

Why is it showing your CPU as an E6300 and not an E5200? :shock:

Because I put E6300 in it. :TR4M:


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What are your temps running? Probably should download speedfan and monitor the temps for a few days.

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What are your temps running? Probably should download speedfan and monitor the temps for a few days.

Right now it's at 32-34C degrees, with the fans going at ~1230 rpm. The hottest I've seen it so far was 52C right after it finished doing the server recovery onto the new drive (I replaced the stock Seagate with a new Samsung F2EG 1.5Tb drive). I will definitely keep an eye on it for a few days. I used Arctic Silver thermal compound, and it usually needs a couple of days to "set in", so I'll be running the CPU through a few hot and cold cycles to break it in.


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You should be fine, it can go as high as 65-70 during video convertion, but at your idle temps I don't think it will get that high.


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akgem wrote:
CBick wrote:
The real question is,

Why is it showing your CPU as an E6300 and not an E5200? :shock:

Because I put E6300 in it. :TR4M:


Duuude!!!

My EX475 is feeling old....


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Hey thats not bad. I just bought the 490 from onsale.com came out to 519 otd. I get it tomorrow so I'll try to snap a pic of the heatsink.

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E6300 has same TDP rating as the E5200 so thermals should not be a problem assuming the heat sinks between the EX490 and EX495 are the same.

It definitely makes more sense for my applications to go with an EX490 with the upgraded CPU as I plan to keep the next WHS I build for as long as possible and know that right off of the bat I will be using it for recording of a couple of home security surveillance cameras. The extra 500GB of storage is no big deal to me, I would want to replace the stock drive with a WD Green drive in any event to get power consumption down to the minimum.

This is big news. I will just have to find a buyer for my EX485. If anyone is interested send me a PM.


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jmpage2 wrote:
E6300 has same TDP rating as the E5200 so thermals should not be a problem assuming the heat sinks between the EX490 and EX495 are the same.

It definitely makes more sense for my applications to go with an EX490 with the upgraded CPU as I plan to keep the next WHS I build for as long as possible and know that right off of the bat I will be using it for recording of a couple of home security surveillance cameras. The extra 500GB of storage is no big deal to me, I would want to replace the stock drive with a WD Green drive in any event to get power consumption down to the minimum.

This is big news. I will just have to find a buyer for my EX485. If anyone is interested send me a PM.

I was also thinking about stepping up the the E6500 instead of E6300, but E6300 seemed like a better deal overall (it was only $10 more than E5200 with .3Ghz increase in clock speed and 1066Mhz FSB vs. 800Mhz on E5200). With E6500, you only get a marginal increase in clock speed (2.93Ghz) over E6300 (2.8Ghz), and you pay an additional $17 for that .13Ghz - didn't seem to be worth it.

PM me with details of your 485 and your asking price. I have a friend looking for a cheap file/backup server without much need for all the other functionality, so I'm trying to convince him to go with an older version of EX4xx (470 or 480) since there are many good deals out there.


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jmpage2 wrote:
E6300 has same TDP rating as the E5200 so thermals should not be a problem assuming the heat sinks between the EX490 and EX495 are the same.

It definitely makes more sense for my applications to go with an EX490 with the upgraded CPU as I plan to keep the next WHS I build for as long as possible and know that right off of the bat I will be using it for recording of a couple of home security surveillance cameras. The extra 500GB of storage is no big deal to me, I would want to replace the stock drive with a WD Green drive in any event to get power consumption down to the minimum.

This is big news. I will just have to find a buyer for my EX485. If anyone is interested send me a PM.



I am going to try the same thing with 1 axis IP cam. Are yours IP cams as well?

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jmpage2 wrote:
E6300 has same TDP rating as the E5200 so thermals should not be a problem assuming the heat sinks between the EX490 and EX495 are the same.

It definitely makes more sense for my applications to go with an EX490 with the upgraded CPU as I plan to keep the next WHS I build for as long as possible and know that right off of the bat I will be using it for recording of a couple of home security surveillance cameras. The extra 500GB of storage is no big deal to me, I would want to replace the stock drive with a WD Green drive in any event to get power consumption down to the minimum.

This is big news. I will just have to find a buyer for my EX485. If anyone is interested send me a PM.



I am going to try the same thing with 1 axis IP cam. Are yours IP cams as well?


I don't have the cameras yet but am strongly leaning towards Panasonic IP cameras. The only issue I have with them is that audio does not work through Safari and I have all Macs now other than a few work computers. Apparently the audio does work properly if you run XP or Windows 7 under VMWare or Parallels.

Outdoor rated POE Panasonic camera with .3 LUX, onboard memory card storage capability, etc, is about $500. Everything else comparable I have seen is far more expensive. I would have to spend about another $200 for the Panasonic recording software but it is supposed to work very very well on a mid-level PC.... one of the nice things it does is let you specify separate hard disk usage on a rotating buffer per camera.


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