Swapping Haswell CPUs and adding Graphics Card

[nofferman]

I'm currently running an i3-4360 CPU in a SuperMicro X10SLM+-F-O motherboard for my FreeNAS system. I've got a Xeon E3-1231 v3 on hand that I want to swap in, along with a GeForce 210 graphics card (as the Xeon CPU doesn't have integrated graphics).

Will FreeNAS likely start OK after the swap, or should I plan enough time to do a reinstall and restore of the configuration file? Any other gotchas I might want to know about beforehand?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Chris Moore]

along with a GeForce 210 graphics card

For what? The

SuperMicro X10SLM+-F-

Has an integrated GPU on the system board. It never needed a CPU with graphics capability.

 

[Chris Moore]

Will FreeNAS likely start OK after the swap, or should I plan enough time to do a reinstall and restore of the configuration file?

FreeNAS detects hardware on boot. You should not need the graphics card and you should not have any trouble booting back into the system as it was before the CPU swap.

 

[Chris Moore]

Any other gotchas I might want to know about beforehand?

No.

 

[nofferman]

I missed that the board's BMC already has a graphics controller onboard; I thought my i3 was handling this. I'll do the swap today. Thanks for the quick reply!

 

[Chris Moore]

I missed that the board's BMC already has a graphics controller onboard; I thought my i3 was handling this. I'll do the swap today. Thanks for the quick reply!

No problem. Sometimes the chips with integrated graphics are less expensive than the ones without. Either will work, just the graphics capability of the CPU is not used.