Watchguard Firebox M400/M500
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@chpalmer Yep. It is a doozy of a thread, but there is tonnes (metric of course) of information in here. I never did get the VGA working, but I had a tonne of fun playing with the BIOS writer - never needed to use one before this project.
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I wonder if the i5-4670K or i5-4670 will work? There are plenty of these available. I can see that the K is only slightly slower and uses more power, but the home box has never seen more than about 40% CPU usage that I have observed.
I have just bought a i5-4670K and a i5-4670 off eBay. I will report back with the reboot test results.
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The K CPUs were usually the unlocked version preferred by overclockers. So capable of the maximum possible performance. And cost! Of course that also means many have had a hard life.
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@stephenw10
Avoid the i7-6700
Worked great until it died
At which point I realized the heatsink could not dea -
That definitely wouldn't work in the M400/M500. I assume you tried that in an Mx70?
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@stephenw10
Sorry, yes.
Mx70
The i7-6700 runs too hot for the Mx70 heatsink and eventually just cooks itself. -
Urgh, best avoid that then!
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@xxup said in Watchguard Firebox M400/M500:
i5-4670K
I have installed the i5-4670K into the M500 and I can confirm that it reboots from both the console and the GUI. The i5-4670 should be here next week, but I am confident that it will boot okay as it is older than the K version.
***** Edit ***** The K runs about 3-4C hotter than the old i3-4130. I will keep this one in the test lab box and the i5-4670 in the home (production) box.
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The i5-4670 has just been installed into the home network's M400 and the reboot test was successful. Certainly runs cooler than the i5-4670K.
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thanks all for the great reading and !BIOS! file,now running on Peplink balance 710 (i3-4330+2g ram +4gb cf),now 8gb ram+sata ssd
it was usable with default bios,but i have 2,so i said myself why not...(i have bios backup and some spi tools too,so i was not scared)...also fans are a bit less noisier(still loud for router...)..and the options in bios..wow i like it..
