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! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
