On 10/2/2012 10:18 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Dave wrote: >> The D525 is being phased out by Intel unfortunately. For a time NewEgg >> was out of stock on that board. >> >> Dave >> >> On 10/2/2012 1:52 PM, andy pugh wrote: >> >>> Newegg have the D525 in stock, with a rather curious "Limit 5 per customer". >>> Perhaps we are not the only fans? >>> >>> > What Intel usually does, I think, is to make these boards so their > chipsets can get out > in the field and find acceptance (and work out any quirks). Then, Intel > drops > the boards, and lets some of their usual customers (SuperO, Tyan, etc.) > make almost > identical boards with their chipsets, while others like Dell make more > customized > boards. I suspect that the generic makers will make boards that are almost > identical, wire for wire, to the Intel board, and thus they should have the > same latency performance. > > Jon > > I seem to recall making a similar point a while back about other vendors copying, more or less, the Intel "reference" designs.
Case in point, my ASUS AT5NM10-I motherboard with Intel D525 CPU. See the excellent latency numbers in the latency test table on the wiki. I think it is now out of stock, but I see NewEgg and others also carry the Gigabyte GA-D525TUD Intel Atom D525 motherboard. (80USD at NewEgg just now). Haven't tested it but prolly ok. Note that it has a CPU fan. I'm not sure that's a negative given that these things run hot in tight enclosures. As for the D525MW, the Intel Product Change Notification 111729-00, dated Sep. 03, 2012, announced its discontinuance with a last order date (from Intel, presumably) of October 1, 2012. My personal pricebreak seems to be just under 100USD. Below that price I don't feel like a spendthrift if I stockpile a couple MBs for weekend projects, discontinued or not. If this class of integrated MB/CPU were to go away altogether, I'd fall back on cheap ASUS/Gigabyte motherboards and cheap AMD cpus, from which I've gotten excellent latency numbers. Trouble is, I have trouble getting anywhere near the sub-20watt TDP figure of the Intel board. Regards, Kent PS - speaking of latency test results, I don't see postings for some of the recent Intel Atom MBs that have been discussed on this list. Come on, folks. Share your results. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
