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The Lenovo M700 is an ultra small form factor (SFF) PC, primarily designed for enterprise use, however it has gained somewhat of a following in the home server \/ home lab enthusiast market and makes an ideal (available) high performance alternative to the ever popular raspberry pi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These all in one computers can be picked up for between $50-$200 dollars on eBay depending on specification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What people may not know is that they actually contain a standalone and therefore upgradeable CPU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Table of Contents<\/p>\n

  • Officially supported Lenovo M700 Tiny CPU Upgrade options<\/a><\/li>
  • Unofficially supported Lenovo M700 Tiny CPU Upgrade options!<\/a><\/li>
  • How to upgrade the Lenovo M700 Tiny CPU<\/a><\/li>
  • What CPU do you have in your M700?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n

    <\/span>Officially supported Lenovo M700 Tiny CPU Upgrade options<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    According to the official ThinkCentre M700 Tiny Platform Specifications<\/a> these are the following supported CPU options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Processor Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium, or 6th Generation Intel Core\u2122 i3 \/ i5 \/ i7 Processor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Processor<\/th>Cores \/
    Threads<\/th>    		Frequency
    Base\/Max(GHz)<\/th>    		Cache<\/th>Memory Types<\/th>Integrated
    Graphics<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
    Pentium G4400T<\/td>2 \/ 2<\/td>2.9 G<\/td>3 MB<\/td>DDR4-2133 HD 510<\/td>HD 510<\/td><\/tr>
    Pentium G4500T<\/td>2 \/ 2<\/td>3.0 G<\/td>3 MB<\/td>DDR4-2133 HD 530<\/td>HD 530<\/td><\/tr>
    Core i3-6100T<\/td>2 \/ 4<\/td>3.2 G<\/td>3 MB<\/td>DDR4-2133 HD 530<\/td>HD 530<\/td><\/tr>
    Core i3-6300T<\/td>2 \/ 4<\/td>3.3 G<\/td>4 MB<\/td>DDR4-2133 HD 530<\/td>HD 530<\/td><\/tr>
    Core i5-6400T<\/td>4 \/ 4<\/td>2.2 G \/ 2.8 G<\/td>6 MB<\/td>DDR4-2133 HD 530<\/td>HD 530<\/td><\/tr>
    Core i5-6500T<\/td>4 \/ 4<\/td>2.5 G \/ 3.1 G<\/td>6 MB<\/td>DDR4-2133 HD 530<\/td>HD 530<\/td><\/tr>
    Core i5-6600T<\/td>4 \/ 4<\/td>2.7 G \/ 3.5 G<\/td>6 MB<\/td>DDR4-2133 HD 530<\/td>HD 530<\/td><\/tr>
    Core i7-6700T<\/td>4 \/ 8<\/td>2.8 G \/ 3.6 G<\/td>8 MB<\/td>DDR4-2133 HD 530<\/td>HD 530<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    <\/span>Unofficially supported Lenovo M700 Tiny CPU Upgrade options!<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Now for those of you who are a little more adventurous, there may be other upgrade options out there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Scouring Reddit, there are threads with people running standard desktop CPU’s as well as xenon’s in their M700’s – however, we don’t actually recommend you try this. For most home lab setups the above officially supported CPU’s will be more than adequate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The sweet spot is any of the i5 CPU’s which offer 4 cores and 4 threads, whilst not being prohibitively expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    <\/span>How to upgrade the Lenovo M700 Tiny CPU<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    If you’ve ever upgraded a processor (or built a PC from scratch ) in the past, then upgrading the CPU on a Lenovo M700 will be a walk in the park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    They surprisingly (for the size) have a fairly standard installation process as can be seen in the video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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