Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:20:34 -0800 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel D510MO Mini-ITX Motherboard - Is anyone using FreeBSD on this? Message-ID: <20100129102034.GD64692@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <cf9b1ee01001290136n6b21656k33f632258d62a995@mail.gmail.com> References: <cf9b1ee01001250314n50b40a67v4bdc319729fb9f32@mail.gmail.com> <cf9b1ee01001290136n6b21656k33f632258d62a995@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri 29 Jan 2010 at 01:36:15 PST Dan Naumov wrote: > >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. Don't the Supermicro boards also have a better network chip than the Realtek one used on Intel's boards? FWIW, my Kill-a-Watt meter says the D510MO is drawing about 25W on average. That's for everything inside the case. If I'd gone with a single-core chip and a solid-state drive, I could probably get that down to about 20W. This is definitely a green machine!
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