I bought a used Dell 3010 Chromebox. It came with 2gb of RAM. The CPU is the Intel Celeron 2955U (2M Cache, 1.40 GHz) and it had a 16gb SSD.
I had been using an old Dell 1545 laptop with CloudReady loaded. The old laptop had 4gb of ram, an Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 CPU and 120gb SSD drive. After now using a real Chrome OS system on the Chromebox, I can say that the CloudReady experience is very very similar to the genuine Chrome OS system.
In using the Dell Chromebox, there seemed to be some lags between clicking on a link and display of the webpage.
The Chromebox, with 2gb of RAM, seem to hesitate when starting new operations.
I added another 2gb of RAM to the empty second RAM slot. The Chromebox now has 4gb of RAM. The upgraded Chromebox seems much faster and more responsive. I would recommend upping any Chrome OS system that is upgradeable to at least 4gb of RAM.
I have also upgraded the 16gb M.2 SSD to 32gb just to have more local storage for a documents and music.
Yesterday I learned about a Chrome utility called "SYSTEM". I loaded it from the Chrome store.
The SYSTEM utility shows RAM usage.
When I open several tabs (2 to 4), the Chrome OS system is using 3gb to 3.5gb with available RAM at 1gb or 0.5gb.
So it appears that a Chromebook/Chromebox needs more than 2gb of RAM or will use more than 2gb of RAM for simple tasks.
I have ordered a 4gb SODIMM and will see if the RAM usage goes up with 6gb of available RAM (with a 2gb SODIMM and a 4gb SODIMM lnstalled).
Finally I ran Octane 2.0 on the Dell 3010 Chromebox (Intel Celeron 2955U CPU. 4gb RAM and 32gb M.2 SSD). It's connected through an HDMI connection to a Dell E2414H monitor. Resolution 1600x900. I'm running this resolution to get larger fonts on menus. 1920x1080 is just too small for me.
The Octane score is 12436.
After installing a 4gb SODIMM alongside the 2gb SODIMM, for a total of 6gb of ram, the SYSTEM app reports that the Dell Chromebox is pretty consistently using 2.5gb to 3.5 gb of memory.
Two good Chrome apps that let you monitor memory usage are the apps "System" and "Cog".
The Chromebox uses...
**RAM: 2gb, 4gb or 8gb in any combination up to a total of 16gb.
DDR3L PC3-12800 DDR3-1600MHz non-ECC Unbuffered CL11 204-Pin SoDimm 1.35V Low Voltage.
**SSD Card: 16gb, 32gb, 64gb or 128gb
42mm SATA III (6G) M.2 2242 NGFF SSD
**Wifi:
My Dell Chromebox 3010 uses AC wifi. The wifi card is a dual band Intel AC-7260 with Bluetooth 4.0. This AC wifi card would also probably be supported in the Asus Chromebox, which ships with N wifi.
Thanks for the info, I'm in the market for my first Chromebook and was wondering about this. Most of the filters are for either 4, 8, or 16GB; so would you recommend 8 at this point?
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Hi,
I'm looking at building a new PC that will be dedicated to android development (ICS).
I only have a couple of questions:
1) is there much difference between compiling android on a i5 2500 or Phenom X4 or X6
2) How much hard drive space is recommend? i.e. is a 120GB SSD enough
3) Is 16GB of ram enough
Thanks,
Minooch
minooch said:
Hi,
I'm looking at building a new PC that will be dedicated to android development (ICS).
I only have a couple of questions:
1) is there much difference between compiling android on a i5 2500 or Phenom X4 or X6
2) How much hard drive space is recommend? i.e. is a 120GB SSD enough
3) Is 16GB of ram enough
Thanks,
Minooch
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More cores are better. Here are the requirements to build it from source:
- 6GB of download.
- 25GB disk space to do a single build.
- 80GB disk space to build all AOSP configs at the same time.
- 16GB RAM recommended, more preferred, anything less will measurably benefit from using an SSD.
- 5+ hours of CPU time for a single build, 25+ minutes of wall time, as measured on a workstation (dual-E5620 i.e. 2x quad-core 2.4GHz HT, with 24GB of RAM, no SSD).
Thanks for the answer - Just thought I would update on my experiences.
I use a Ubuntu 10.04 in VirtualBox (Windows 7 x64)
Core i5 750 @ 3.6Ghz
5GB Ram (for the Virtual - 8GB in total) DDR3 @ 1800mhz approx
4x 1TB Seagate HDDs in RAID 10
Takes about 1Hr 30min to build 4.0.3 using make -j4
It also uses less than 25GB for a single build
Hi guys, I wanted a 9.7" tablet but not sure what to go for so would appreciate your help. This would be my first ever tablet!
I want something to read books on and play game/surf web/watch youtube etc, budget is $220 USD. I've done some research and have narrowed it down too (prices I got online added next to each tablet):
Ampe A90 $210
(has 1.2Ghz A10 CPU; 1GB DDR3 Ram and 16GB internal storage, plus 7000mAh battery)
ONDA VI40 $220
(has 1.5Ghz A10 CPU; 1GB DDR3 Ram and 16GB internal storage, plus 5000mAh battery)
ICOO D90w $218
(has 1.2Ghz A10 CPU; 1GB DDR3 Ram and 16GB internal storage, plus 5000mAh battery)
Cube u9gt2 $209
(has 1.2Ghz Rockchip CPU; 1GB DDR3 Ram and 8GB internal storage, plus 8000mAh battery)
Ployer Momo11 $200
(has 1.5Ghz A10 CPU; 1GB DDR3 Ram and 16GB internal storage, plus 7800mAh battery)
Given that there prices are so close which would you go for
If you are looking for something with dev support, meaning custom ROMs, you can get an HP Touchpad for this price if you look around online. It has a 1.2ghz Dual Core Snapdragon S3, 1GB of RAM and around a 6000mAh battery.
surely the Chinese tablets would have dev support and are better specs wise?
The Ampe A90 seems better though as it has extra 8GB internal storage but this has a Rock CPU compared to an A10. Not sure if there is a difference as the speeds seem the same.
Anyone else?
Im thinking its either the Onda Vi40 Elite, Cube U9GT2 or the Ampe.
Leaning towards the Onda.
Ended up getting the vi40 for £153 from the UK. Looking forward to it.
Not on your list, but I highly recommend cchecking out the Advent Vega.
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda premium
From ancient laptops to high-end gaming rigs, Remix OS supports them all! What hardware do you run Remix on?
Here's mine
Desktop PC:
Intel Core i7-5930K (6-cores, 15MB Cache, Overclocked up to 3.9 GHz)
32GB DDR4 (8GB x 4)
128GB SSD + 2*2TB SATA
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X with 12GB
1500 Watt Power Supply
LG 34" 34UC97 curved monitor
Dell Inspiron 1121 [email protected]
Dual boot with Windows 7 64bit
4GB Ram, running great!
Acer AspireOne ZG5, 1GB Ram
Dual boot with Win7 32bit
Testing...
Acer p3, and it works great! No freezes or stucks.
Surface Pro 2
Inte Corel i5 2.30 GHz x4
Micro Center 16 GB MicroSD on Lexar USB3.0 "Blue" MicroSD Reader
I do a nice swap trick when I get the searching for Android x86 I remove the MicroSD card from USB and insert it into the built-in reader so I can enjoy the use of the official docking station. Only drawback is that the Ethernet port doesn't operate with RemixOS and WiFi from the tablet keeps dropping.
me,
CPU : amd 8350
GPU : radeon 7970
MoBo : Asrock extreme3
atuntu bench : 87k max average:angel:
Just on a dell inspiron core 2 duo with 4gig ram and a 500 gig hd. installed to the HD running as only OS.
rooted and with google play I must say I like it.
Will give this laptop to one of the kids it's perfect for that
ZOTAC IONITX-A-U Atom 330 1.6GHz Dual-Core NVIDIA ION Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo
An installed version (32 GB SSD) of Remix OS beta runs successfully on a Lenovo T400 (CPU: Intel Core(TM)2 Duo P8400, Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller). Videos are shown with BSPlayer, Whatsapp runs, Skype starts and stops one second later - Problem with the graphics?
Older 32Bit IBM/Lenovo notebooks do not run with Remix OS beta 32Bit (2016-03-01): T40, T42, T43, R51. They run until the prompt of the root terminal, but do not switch into graphics mode needed for the rest of the booting process.
A Lenovo T61 runs with Remix OS beta 32bit, but not absolutely stable.
ASUS A46CB-WX024D laptop
Intel Core i5-3317U (1.7 GHz)
Intel HD 4000 and NVIDIA GeForce 740M (Optimus)
4GB RAM, 500GB HDD
Works great, with AnTuTu score of 125k. Even multitouch on the touchpad works, including gestures, but works terribly with the file manager.
Toshiba Satellite L55
i5 5th gen 2.40hz
8gb ram
1tb HDD split into three partitions 450gb for Windows, 500gb for Linux Mint, and 32gb for RemixOS on an ext4 format.
I also have a 16gb USB drive for other computers.
Dell Inspiron 7548 with UHD Display
i7 5500U 3.0GHz
16GB RAM
32GB Sandisk USB 3 Flashdrive with UEFI boot
Works amazingly well. No WiFi After sleep, however.
Acer R14 Convertible, Triple Boot (Windows 10, Ubuntu, Remix OS), Core I7, 1 TeraByte drive, 8 GB Ram.
About 18 months ago I tried to install Androidx86 directly onto my sole laptopn, an Acer Aspire 1410 (2011 I think), single core netbook, but a decent one at that.
I'm pretty dran good at making/breaking things, but this time I screwed up and lost my Windows OS, with Android never working. Then life's dramas took over, and fixing it became low-priority.
But I needed a laptop again and, right on time, Remix OS drops, and right now I have my old faithful laptop back, running my favourite OS (I really just do not need Windows anymore).
Sadly, I'm limited to running it off USB2, and I've not found a clever way of installing it to the HDD without an initial copy of Windows to work off.
Use Universal USB Formatter with a non-Linux installation method install to local drive then use rmxtools to expand the data image to whatever size you want. Then you Acer boot to RMX OS.
Lenovo IdeaPad Z710 Laptop
CPU i7-4700MQ
Memory 16GB Crucial Ballistix Sport
Graphics Card Intel® HD Graphics 4600
Dual booted with Windows 10.
Intel 730 SERIES, 240 GB, SSD, windows 10 /
Remix is on a second SSD, / Samsung 850 EVO, 500GB
my laptop
System Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
System Model G751JT
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU ASUS-NotebookSKU
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz, 2494 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. G751JT.207, 4/24/2015
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
Adapter RAM (1,073,741,824) bytes
Driver Version 10.18.13.6175
Resolution 1920 x 1080 x 60 hertz
Having trouble booting. its booted beta 2 sucsessfully twice and now nothing just hangs...
cant; boot from usb stick. cant; find it and the folder it mounts normally
just keeps trying to detect androidx86...........
I try to use it on my Acer Aspire Switch 10e, aka "sw3-013 11hm"
atom z3735f quad core 1.33
2gb ram
intel hd graphics
sd card reader
1 usb 3 port on the Keyboard dock
it should be some of the best machine to use this windowed android experience, except right now it is a pain in the ass to make it work with bigger space than standard 4gb data img, because it is one of those 32bit uefi/32bit windows on 64bit capable system...
what doesn't work (the most important first, less important at the end):
sound (realtek)
full power management (sees battery and consumption but not seeing charge, and no sleep)
bluetooth (realtek)
gyro (no rotation)
Lenovo G40-30
Pentium N3530
DDR3 8GB
SSD Samsung EVO 840 500GB
VGA Intel HD
Wifi Realtek RTL8723BE
LAN Realtek PCIe GBE
Audio Relatek HD
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My laptop wifi often disconnected, must connect manually. Some hard crashes.
surface pro 3 i3 4gb 64gb
I'm just curious how everyone's computers hold up to one another. Here's what I'm rocking:
Manjaros Linux KDE Edition
i7 5820k (4.4ghz overclock, up from 3.3ghz)
ASRock X99 Taichi motherboard
8gb of Crucial Ballistic (DDR4) at 2400mhz (2133mhz) with stock timings
Gigabyte AMD R9 280X Windforce Edition (stock settings, opensource driver)
500gb 7200 RPM HDD Seagate
1tb 7200 RPM WD Black
Corsair CX650M PSU
Fractal Design R5 Case (I love this thing)
So that's that. I've got a disk drive in there too. So what's everyone else rocking? I know for the Haswell E platform my specs are pretty underwhelm vut I've been pretty happy with it over the last 2 years and it will be my desktop for years to come with a few upgrades like an SSD and more RAM.
All I can say is you have 8GB RAM and no SSD yet such a expensive CPU/Motherboard??
CPU: Intel - Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus - X99-A/USB 3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 970 4GB G1 Gaming Video Card
Case: Cooler Master - HAF XB EVO ATX Desktop Case
i5
R9 270x
8GB RAM
4TB
Linux; Ubuntu, Kali
Windows; 7, 10
Case: Rosewill BLACKHAWK
Power Supply: EVGA Supernova G2 1000W
Motherboard: Asrock Taixhi X370
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700+ 3.4 GHz 8-core Socket AM4 (YD170XBCAEWOF)
Cooling: Noctua NH-D15 SE-AM4 dual 140mm fans
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LED 64GB (4 X 16GB) DDR4 2666 (PC4-21300) CMU64GX4M4A2666C16B
Video: XFX GTS Black Edition RX 580 8GB OC+
Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 8GB GDDR5
OS Drive: Samsung 960 PRO Series 1TB PCIe NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Drive
Storage Drives: 1x WD 4 TB SATA III 64MB Cache
4x WD 3TB SATA III 64MB Cache
1x Toshiba 2TB SATA III 64MB Cache
Optical Drive: LG WH16NS40 Super Multi Blue Internal SATA 16x Blu-ray Disc Rewriter
Wireless Card: ASUS PCE-AC88 PCIe AC3100
At one point there used to be a thread that posted specs and build times. It was one of the few places that, before we started covering this, you could start to figure out what was good for builds.
My "daily driver" is actually busted at the moment and I'm trying to track down a new AM4 mITX motherboard to get it going again. So the Coffee Lake test bench is what I work off for the day job and have recently been playing Destiny 2 on. I pull that m.2 drive though nowadays when I start testing - I have no desire to reinstall Windows. Again. (Linux I'm okay with doing.)
Kind of low specs here, but worth mentioning
HP Pavilion G6 2010AX
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Xenial Dual Boot with Win 10
6Gigs of RAM 4 Gigs of Graphics
AMD A8 with Radeon HD @ 1.87 1.86 GHz Dual core ( I know that's old. )
1TB of HDD
A decent gaming performance with NFS MW 2012 and GTA V
Usual build time (RR-N) 6-8 Hrs - 10Gigs of Swap file.
My "daily driver" for non-development usage is a pretty old laptop
Dell Inspiron N5010 with
Intel Core i3 @ 2.27 2.28 Ghz
4Gigs of RAM 2Gigs of Graphics @ Intel HD Graphics ( :/ )
300 GB HDD running Windows 10
That's all I got...
RIGS!
I love posting mine for no real reason lol!
i7 6700k @ 4.7GHz 1.37v
Corsair H115i AIO
16GB G.skill Ripjaws V DDR4 3000MHz 15-15-15-36 1T 1.5v
GTX 1080 FE w/evga Hybrid Kit (+250/+400)
Asus Z170 Sabertooth Mark I
240 Samsung 960 Evo m.2 (OS only)
240 SanDisk X110 m.2 over PCI-e (secondary m.2 for priority games)
1TB WD 7200rpm
3TB Toshiba 7200rpm
Phanteks Enthoo Pro Acrylic full ATX tower
Asus VG278HE 27" 1080P 144Hz over DVI
Razer Blackwidow X Chroma (need the clickity clack)
Logitech G900 wireless gaming mouse
Soundblaster ZX
Hi-Fiman HE-350
Klipsch Pro Media 2.1
Blue Snowball (non-Ice, thankfully)
I need to generate a pcpartpicker build. =/
My specs
i7 4720 2.6GHz
8 GB RAM Kingston ddr3
4 GB GTX 950 NVIDIA
1 TB HDD Seagate
My Pc specs
Intel i5 3.30ghz
Nvidia gt710 2gb graphics
8gb ddr3 ram
Intel Dw6... Motherboard
1tb harddisk
PC 1
Model: ???
OS: Windows 10 (Creators Update) Home 32-bit/Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit (Dual boot)
Case: ???
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L
PSU: Colorsic 500U (I think that it's the worst part in this entire system :crying: )
CPU: Intel C2Q Q6600 @ Stock (2.4 GHz)
CPU cooler: Stock Intel one
Graphics card: (OEM) ATI HD 4350 512 MB (with a hard-to-remove fan when compared to newer GPUs )
RAM: 2x2 GB of DDR2
HDD: WD Blue 500 GB (WD5000AAKS)
Optical drive: Some DVD RW drive (But it doesn't work properly (Automatically closes when it tries to eject )
I built AOSP 6.0.1 (without ccache) and with 8 GB of swap space on this PC in under 4 hours
PC 2
Model: Acer Aspire T310-3870
OS: Windows XP Home Edition 32-bit (appears to be an original installation)
Case: ???
Motherboard: ???
PSU: Some 200W unit by FSP Group (with only 10A on the 12V rail )
CPU: Intel Celeron (D(isaster) 335 @ Stock (2.8 GHz)
CPU cooler: ???
GPU: Some random integrated one (built into the SiS 661FX chipset)
RAM: 768 MB of DDR RAM (but some are taken by the integrated GPU )
HDD: Some WD 160 GB IDE one
Optical drive: Some DVD RW drive (But it's now partially broken (I think), because it no longer reads CDs (And when I try to open it in Windows Explorer, Windows doesn't try to eject it (Not sure why )
And this PC is really slow (I think because of that Celeron D(isaster) CPU)
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My specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1500X (No OC)
MOBO: MSI B350 PC Mate
RAM: 8GB Ballistix Sport LT 2400MHz
GPU: EVGA SSC GTX 1060 6GB (No OC)
CASE: NZXT S340 (White)
PSU: Corsair CX550M
HDD: 1TB WD Blue
SSD: 120GB SanDisk SSD Plus
Haf 932 case
MSI krait x370 gaming motherboard
Ryzen 1700 overclock to 3.7 GHz
16 GB Corsair vengeance ddr4
Evga 780 video card
256 GB Samsung Evo 850
12 TB storage
Razer gaming keyboard and mouse
Samsung 4k 50 inch TV
6 more TB desktop HDD for backups
850 watt Corsair psu
Planning to change case to phantek 400 looks cleaner than my current rig.
Possible water cooling
And updating video card to 1060
I got a laptop
I5 6210U - 2.3Ghz to 2.8Ghz (Turbo boost)
8GB Ram
4GB Nvidia 940M GT
Windows 10
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.8 GHz, 1.325 v
Cooler: Wraith Spire
Mobo: MSI B350 PC Mate
RAM: 8gb HyperX Predator 3000 Mhz
SSD: 2 x Intel 540s 120 Gb
HDD: 1 x Seagate Constellation ES.2 3Tb
PSU: Ms-Tech ms-n850-val 850w
GPU: EVGA GTX 660 SC (will be upgraded to RX 470)
Monitor: LG 23EA63 IPS Display 23"
Mouse: Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum
Keybord: Redragon Yama mechanical keyboard
Case: Zalman Z3 Plus
OS: Windows 10 Pro x64
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All I can say is you have 8GB RAM and no SSD yet such a expensive CPU/Motherboard??
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Bought the parts when I was 14 with money I saved up for several years. At the time I wanted something future proof so I made it happen. I know it isn't level lol
Current built:
CPU : AMD FX8320E(4.7GHZ)
MOTHERBOARD : MSI 970 GAMING
GPU : NVIDIA GTX 560.
RAM : 8GB 1866MHZ DDR3 HYPERX FURY.
PRIMARY STORAGE : 128GB TRANSCEND SSD.
SEVONDARY STORAGE : 2 TB SIGATE BARRACUDA 7200 RPM.
BACKUP STORAGE : 1 TB WESTERN DIGITAL BLIE.
CASE : ANTEK GX900.
COOLING : -
CPU HAS: HYPER 212 X WITH DUAL 120MM FANS.
CASE : FRONT - 1X 140 MM INTAKE. BACK- 1X 120MM EXHAUST. TOP- 2X 120MM EXHAUST. BOTTOM 1X 120MM INTAKE.
PSU : ANTEK VS 550WATTS
CPU: i7-4790 (will upgrade soon)
Motherboard: ASRock H87 Pro 4 (will upgrade soon)
CPU Cooler: CoolerMaster Seidon 120V V2
GPU: GTX 1070 G1 Gaming
RAM: TeamGroup Elite 2x4, and 2x8GB DDR3 1600MHz (will upgrade soon)
PSU: EVGA G1 650W Gold
HDD: 1x 1TB Toshiba, 1x 512GB Western Digital (thinking of SSD)
Case: Enthoo Luxe (TG version)
Mouse: Logitech G502 Spectrum
Mousepad: SteelSeries QCK Mini
Keyboard: Ozone BattleStrike Spectra (Brown Switch)
Monitor: Some Samsung FHD IPS 60Hz (upgrading to 1440p in February)
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit
My system is nothing big. Built on a budget..
CPU- i7-4790 non K
Motherboard - Asrock z97 Killer
RAM - 16GB DDR3 HyperX Savage
SSD - 2 X Samsung 250GB SSD in Raid 0
GPU - Asus ROG RX 480 8GB
PSU - EVGA Supernova 850Watt
Case - NZXT S340
BIGWORM said:
Blue Snowball (non-Ice, thankfully)
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Does yours seem quiet? I need to get a longer USB cable and a boom for it but that's one of my biggest reasons for not using it when I stream at the moment.
hi,
i have a lower end thinkpad with eMMC storage on "systemboard, no slots"( specs)..
Storage
Storage Support[1][2]
• One drive, up to 256GB M.2 2280 SSD
• 32GB eMMC 5.1 on systemboard
• 64GB eMMC 5.1 on systemboard
Storage Slot
• eMMC on systemboard, no slots
• One M.2 2280 PCIe® 3.0 x4
Notes:
The storage capacity supported is based on the test results with current Lenovo storage offerings.
The system may support larger storage as the technology develops.
1. 2. System has one eMMC on systemboard or one M.2 2280 SSD exclusively
as per the specs mine only supporst emmc, but i saw that there is an empty space for an m.2 connector when i checked the mobo.. can i upgrade my chromebook from the emmc to a solid state drive by soldering a m.2 connector to the motherboard?
There is a guy who appears to have done it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/zqean8
He gives the part required so it doesn't seem too bad. I am interested in doing this as well but i'm not sure if its worth it considering i have the 4GB of RAM and the Athlon chip. Also it appears to be recognized as external storage.