From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 29 09:36:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C8B81065670 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:36:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan.naumov@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f194.google.com (mail-yw0-f194.google.com [209.85.211.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 196C08FC1D for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:36:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh32 with SMTP id 32so925947ywh.14 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:36:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Aavft67egou0SlcsIvvYg1KdqEvqLzcJi8gqBJArEyo=; b=D1Pt0J/KvrZAkTQHrMollVVXjrnjNW+qMOBZWaxUS+fVzymfFg3gR0FwWr246/Twk/ vsP26A5Ad2I/7P68MxOL4GlNTTkuIu3xdw1YldaqMEVll1J44/ZAcVhM8t4+eNEERS7k T0kiSpwVsiBk/2quIE0lkAGq9V1E/Z0g7p9VA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=dyeAHwtDj9bEBFNSIlLkeAx8bShg0fx+3m0nkbheamVnJythNwxzm68krPGC8hRZYi HfQb01yvGoJLLEm3c2W5dfKbOi8YgJMRS62wEQpjjW1p0BATho4EfdFE7/Arxh3WhJMC i+BaJdH+BpC2q+TCg6UwO+DNLzY3QSn8f7Iss= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.244.21 with SMTP id r21mr589001anh.92.1264757775228; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:36:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:36:15 +0200 Message-ID: From: Dan Naumov To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: RE: Intel D510MO Mini-ITX Motherboard - Is anyone using FreeBSD on this? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:36:16 -0000 > > >I did go ahead and buy one of these boards and can now report that >FreeBSD-8.0/i386 boots and runs on it with no apparent problems. A user >in the forums reports similar success running 8.0/amd64. > >Extremely quiet and inexpensive board. At around $80, it is one-third >the cost of the Supermicro boards. > >Not much use as a space heater, however; I've had it running for more >than 24 hours, busily recompiling ports, and the heatsink is just barely >warm to the touch. Next time I reboot it I'm going to plug it into my >Kill-a-Watt meter to measure its power draw... Reports of successes with both adm64 andi386 versions of 8.0-RELEASE and Intel D510MO board have been showing up on a few different discussion forums now. I have to correct myself in regard to the Supermicro X7SPA-H board. The board seems to be roughly 2 times as expensive as the Intel D510MO (~75$ for the D150MO vs $150-170$ for the X7SPA-H). However, these prices seem to only be like that in the US. When looking at European prices, it seems that the D510MO board goes for about 75-80 euro and the X7SPA-H goes for about 190-230 euro, depending on country and reseller. So while the Supermicro board is roughly twice as expensive as the Intel board in the US, it's roughly 3 times as expensive if you are buying in Europe. I still ended up going with the X7SPA-H though (finally pulled the plug on ordering all the parts for a new system yesterday), mainly because it saves me the trouble of immideately having to hunt for an additional disk controller card: the D510MO has only 2 SATA ports and a PCI slot for expansion (and I have REALLY burned myself badly on the performance of PCI disk controller cards in the past), while the X7SPA-H comes with 6 native SATA ports on an ICH9R controller and has a 4xPCIE (in 16x physical form) for expansion. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov