From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 29 10:20:38 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 582BD106568D for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:20:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D65B8FC08 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta22.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.89]) by qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id bNGp1d0061vN32cABNKAAx; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:19:10 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta22.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id bNMk1d0011f6R9u8iNMkpn; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:21:45 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:20:34 -0800 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:20:34 -0800 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100129102034.GD64692@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.20 X-Composer: VIM 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 10:20:38 -0000 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!