From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 23 17:30:01 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 65E5B106564A for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:30:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from traveling08@cox.net) Received: from fed1rmmtao104.cox.net (fed1rmmtao104.cox.net [68.230.241.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F0FA8FC1C for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:30:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao106.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.03.00 201-2260-125-20100507) with ESMTP id <20101223171925.BDBD4722.fed1rmmtao106.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:19:25 -0500 Received: from bsd64 ([72.220.91.159]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id mhKR1f0013SHlyY03hKRQ2; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:19:25 -0500 X-VR-Score: 9.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=J2GWeI4Qc7l9Lgg4ilgNirYBab5JXgIjgVIUaayc/Ns= c=1 sm=1 a=poZL04BZy3cA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=qynEz7/CHAl9D2/jKbf6gQ==:17 a=ZaDg5-L3AAAA:8 a=6FVboaCCAAAA:8 a=nvVh5fvfLgyUCweOs44A:9 a=hTElGMPyZAtEl0RVCHUA:7 a=VdiA3vRSZW7ghpJUGUgCi5oCoygA:4 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=qynEz7/CHAl9D2/jKbf6gQ==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:19:19 -0800 From: Robert To: Da Rock Message-ID: <20101223091919.687361dc@bsd64> In-Reply-To: <4D130702.5010200@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <4D130702.5010200@herveybayaustralia.com.au> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD Athlon64 Mainboard - NOT SPAM: please check it out :) 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: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:30:01 -0000 On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:23:30 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > I know its a little OT, but I'm hunting for a mainboard to plug this > CPU into and build a file server. So the ideal specs are (and maybe > dreaming too :) ): > > 184 pin RAM DIMM > SataIII 4+ ports > Either onboard or AGP Video > 2x Gigabit LAN > > Obviously I don't need much RAM, just juice the throughput from the > HDD to the LAN, and plenty of bandwidth. That said a lot of my specs > could be pipe dreaming, I know. I'm looking at 3x 2Tb Seagate 64Mb > SATAIII's so I'd rather not waste it, I'm sure you'd agree. > > I'll be setting up RAID5 in some fashion or other, just still > choosing my method between ZFS and VINUM or something. So the need > for as many SATA ports is a must :) > > Any help finding a suitable model would be much appreciated- very > hard to find anything still in stock. And of course advice will be > very welcome :) I just did a quick search on ebay australia for "socket 939 motherboard" and hit this http://shop.ebay.com.au/?_from=R40&_trksid=m570&_nkw=socket+939+motherboard&_sacat=See-All-Categories One of my computers is a Asus A8N-VM 939. It has 2 ports for SATA and I added another SATA card into the PCI-E x1 slot. I found an AMD64x2 CPU on ebay that was reasonable nad have 4G of RAM. This is not the latest or greatest but it is still a very functional computer. I hope this helps. Robert P.S. I will be taking my first trip to AU in February and am quite excited about it.