On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
* Dmitry Marakasov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Thanks for you replies so far. Now after some digging I understand a bit
what I actually need.
Probably best combination for cheap low power ZFS server at moment:
Gigabyte GA-G33-DSR4
On board VGA Intel GMA 3100
Integrated ALC889A 8-Channel High Definition audio
All 8 on-board SATA supported by FreeBSD 7
6xSATA on ICH9
2xSATA on Gigabyte SATA Controller which is really the well supported JMB363
But On-board Realtek GbE, which is a piece of crap, so buy an Intel 1000PT
PCI-E gig adapter
Couple that with the cheapest, effective, Core2Duo:
Intel CPU Pentium DualCore E2140
They are similar price to the cheapest AMD and are really just a Core2Duo
with just 1MB cache and offical 800MHz FSB. However, they are the same
silicon as C2D. As such these run easily at ~3GHz with 350-400MHz FSB all
with no voltage increases, if you're into such things.
It's a shame AMD have fallen behind Intel. Corporate crime does pay it
seems :(
Well, I hoped to get a SocketAM2 board for AthlonX2, as it is 30-40%
cheaper than Core2Duo with similar performance, but most of AM2
motherboards use nForce chipset, which is unsupported by CURRENT.
The only solution I've found is M2N32-SLI (thanks Craig), but I'll
need to buy video card and Intel Gbit NIC.
Though Core 2 Duo CPUs are more expensive,
See above. Possibly not as low power as an AMD solution, but a lot more
for your money, me thinks.
choice of motherboards is much wider, and they are generally cheaper
than M2N32-SLI, so price of AMD/Intel platforms is nearly equal. I've
found some MB's with integrated video and Intel ethernet: ASUS P5B-VM
DO, Intel DG33BUC, Intel DG33FBC. I think I'll buy one of those, but
just to be sure, are those statements right: - Marvell/NVidia NICs suck,
and I am right that I definitely need Intel.
(what about RealTec, btw?)
Only Intel NICs. All those others you mention just don't work properly.
Intel will save you headaches.
- ICH8DO should work as well as ICH8 and G33 should work as well as G965
(didn't find menton of ICH8DO in src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c)
- ADI*/Realtec(ALC*)/Sigmatel(STAC*) HDA CODECs provide more or less
equal sound quality. And it can be considered `good' to
non-audiophiles.
Cheers.
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