I seemed to have unintentionally opened a can of worms here in trying to stop people from trying to upgrade to higher clock speed pentiums. The offcially netapp policy is:
1) we don't recommend it as it doesn't provide any performance gain 2) we don't support such modifications - you may be voiding their warranty 3) we discourage this sort of tinkering - the previous note was just mentioning what I saw in the lab, and wasn't encouraging this sort of activity. 4) No such beast has ever gone through QA and you DON'T want to run a configuation with a non-standard nor QA'ed mother board.
The offical Sean O'Malley policy is buy a 520...I spent a good three or four months trying to make the pentium boxes go faster and if I had suceeded there would have been an F340. Messing around with the pentium boxes is a waste of time. If you have a real performance problem with any of the pentium based machine the 520 is the answer. Or get another box and split the load.
Sean O'Malley
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Sean W. O'Malley wrote:
|> |> Is it possible to upgrade the Pentium 90 chip on an F330? (Haven't |> opened mine in a while... Is it in a ZIF socket?) |> |> Has anyone tried or looked into this? | |Yes you can, and we (network appliance) have done it up to 155 unfortunatly |the bottlneck is the memory subsystem which can't be upgraded so |you will get the same performance while running a non-standard |config (we ran 155 to see if it helped with performance we have |not run it through a qa cycle). So there really is NO reason for |this. Remember all the cpu is doing is moving bytes with the |ocasional XOR or checksum (still memory bound).
How would one go about upgrading the cpu in a F220 then?
Jonah
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