Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Ram Support

[Anjali Reyome]

At2.53GHz and $133 USD, the E7200 promises to become the new Dual-Core budget superstar. After taking a hard look at the upcoming offering, we would have to readily agree. Overclocking only sweetens the deal further, with 3.0GHz on stock voltages being more than possible. We have a winner!

With its unique 9.5x multiplier, the E7200 hits a stock clock frequency of 2.53GHz and includes 3 MB of L2 cache, 1.5 MB per core. This is unlike the mid-range Dual-Cores, such as the E8400, which includes 6 MB of L2 cache. Whether or not that decrease will affect performance is something our benchmarks will help explain.

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What's the Problem?

The CPU type and architecture reported by DSM when running on XPEnology is fake, which is due to it 'pretending' to be a DS3615xs.

With the most recent phase of package development, we've optimised the toolchains we use to build the packages on an architecture-by-architecture basis, so as to get the best performance out of the hardware. This causes problems on the XPEnology front, as it can theoretically be running on any Intel or AMD x86-64 processor available. We have no way of knowing that it's an XPEnology system or the underlying processor type.

The hardware that Synology groups under the 'bromolow' architecture, which includes the DS3615xs, contain either an Intel Xeon E3-1230 v2 or Intel Core i3-4130 processors. These are based on the 'ivybridge' and 'haswell' microarchitectures repectively. In terms of general CPU capability, this maps out as follows:-

So, for Synology hardware identifying as 'bromolow', we target the 'ivybridge' microarchitecture as the lowest common denominator.

If the processor you're running XPEnology on supports these CPU features, then you're going to 'get away with it' and it will work. We may however, not be taking advantage of all the capabilities your processor has to offer.

The first time we came across an issue was with the Intel Pentium G3258 processors, as these do not support the AVX feature (see above). This is the point where we decided to split the XPEnology and Synology builds and give XPEnology a dedicated repository, which you'll see in the setup guide on the main website. Our default target now for XPEnology systems is the 'nehalem' microarchitecture, which supports the following features:-

Later on, we came across the Intel Core2 Duo E7200, which doesn't support SSE4.2 or POPCNT, again causing Emby Server to not start. The lowest common denominator of Core2 based processor doesn't support SSE4.1 either, so we could have dropped our baseline from 'nehalem' to 'core2', which would have given:-

However, our objective is to make Emby Server run as well as it possibly can, so this wasn't really a path we were willing to take; although it would have certainly been the easier one. For that reason, we enhanced our package server to allow a package architecture to be specified as part of the package source and added the ability to create additional platforms to our toolchain, in this example for Core2 processors with SSE4.1.

This gives us the flexibility to support processors that are less capable than our default ('nehalem') and further optmise for processors that are better than our default in the future.

Best

- James

Been trying to get Emby to work on my new xpenology box with an Intel Pentium G4560. I can get it to install and am able to get it running long enough to setup everything then the Emby server stops and I can't get it to start again. Tried restarting synology and server still doesn't start. If I reinstall Emby it will do the same thing. Ran diagnostics and sent logs.

Although initially specified for FSB1066 speeds, all the current G31 motherboards we looked at will also support FSB1333 processors. Both boards in this piece support the entire Core 2 processor portfolio, including the Core 2 Quads. Believe it or not, even the three-phase voltage regulator on the Foxconn G31 motherboard is sufficient to operate a Core 2 Quad Q9550 easily, should you decide to ditch a dual-core in favor of a quad-core processor.

Integrated graphics solutions will not deliver performance or features anywhere close to those of decent 3D graphics cards such as the Radeon HD4850/4870 or the GeForce 260/280 by Nvidia. Even mainstream graphics cards based on GeForce 9600GT processors vastly outperform integrated solutions. However, we decided to stay with integrated graphics for the sake of maximizing power efficiency.

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