RE: Intel D510MO Mini-ITX Motherboard - Is anyone using FreeBSD on this?
closing out this thread I did go ahead and buy one of these boards and can now report that FreeBSD-8.0/i386 boots and runs on it with no apparent problems. A user in the forums reports similar success running 8.0/amd64. Extremely quiet and inexpensive board. At around $80, it is one-third the cost of the Supermicro boards. Not much use as a space heater, however; I've had it running for more than 24 hours, busily recompiling ports, and the heatsink is just barely warm to the touch. Next time I reboot it I'm going to plug it into my Kill-a-Watt meter to measure its power draw... Reports of successes with both adm64 andi386 versions of 8.0-RELEASE and Intel D510MO board have been showing up on a few different discussion forums now. I have to correct myself in regard to the Supermicro X7SPA-H board. The board seems to be roughly 2 times as expensive as the Intel D510MO (~75$ 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. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ 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
Re: Intel D510MO Mini-ITX Motherboard - Is anyone using FreeBSD on this?
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
Re: Intel D510MO Mini-ITX Motherboard - Is anyone using FreeBSD on this?
On Mon 25 Jan 2010 at 02:00:47 PST Charlie Kester wrote: http://www.mini-box.com/D510MO-mini-ITX-Intel I'm thinking of ordering one of these motherboards, which have the newest dual-core Atom processor and NM10 chipset. I'm intrigued by its low-power, fanless operation. I already have FreeBSD running on one of the older Atom mobo's, so I know not to expect high-end performance from these inexpensive processors. But that older board has an annoyingly noisy fan, and I'd like to replace it. Has anyone already tried putting FreeBSD on one of these? Any problems? closing out this thread I did go ahead and buy one of these boards and can now report that FreeBSD-8.0/i386 boots and runs on it with no apparent problems. A user in the forums reports similar success running 8.0/amd64. Extremely quiet and inexpensive board. At around $80, it is one-third the cost of the Supermicro boards. Not much use as a space heater, however; I've had it running for more than 24 hours, busily recompiling ports, and the heatsink is just barely warm to the touch. Next time I reboot it I'm going to plug it into my Kill-a-Watt meter to measure its power draw... ___ 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
Intel D510MO Mini-ITX Motherboard - Is anyone using FreeBSD on this?
http://www.mini-box.com/D510MO-mini-ITX-Intel I'm thinking of ordering one of these motherboards, which have the newest dual-core Atom processor and NM10 chipset. I'm intrigued by its low-power, fanless operation. I already have FreeBSD running on one of the older Atom mobo's, so I know not to expect high-end performance from these inexpensive processors. But that older board has an annoyingly noisy fan, and I'd like to replace it. Has anyone already tried putting FreeBSD on one of these? Any problems? ___ 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
RE: Intel D510MO Mini-ITX Motherboard - Is anyone using FreeBSD on this?
Not to steal your discussion thread, but I thought I'd ask (and you'd perhaps too be interested) what's the status of FreeBSD on these 2: Supermicro X7SPA-H: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H Supermicro X7SPA-HF: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=HIPMI=Y Supermicro recently came out with quite a bunch of Atom-based solutions and these 2 boards stuck out as havign 6 x SATA ports, which make them tempting for a NAS solution. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ 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
Re: Intel D510MO Mini-ITX Motherboard - Is anyone using FreeBSD on this?
On Mon 25 Jan 2010 at 03:14:42 PST Dan Naumov wrote: Not to steal your discussion thread, but I thought I'd ask (and you'd perhaps too be interested) what's the status of FreeBSD on these 2: Supermicro X7SPA-H: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H Supermicro X7SPA-HF: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=HIPMI=Y Supermicro recently came out with quite a bunch of Atom-based solutions and these 2 boards stuck out as havign 6 x SATA ports, which make them tempting for a NAS solution. Interesting. But I don't have any need for the extra SATA ports. Are there any other significant differences between the ICH9 chipset and the NM10 used on the D510MO? ___ 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
Re: Intel D510MO Mini-ITX Motherboard - Is anyone using FreeBSD on this?
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: On Mon 25 Jan 2010 at 03:14:42 PST Dan Naumov wrote: Not to steal your discussion thread, but I thought I'd ask (and you'd perhaps too be interested) what's the status of FreeBSD on these 2: Supermicro X7SPA-H: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H Supermicro X7SPA-HF: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=HIPMI=Y Supermicro recently came out with quite a bunch of Atom-based solutions and these 2 boards stuck out as havign 6 x SATA ports, which make them tempting for a NAS solution. Interesting. But I don't have any need for the extra SATA ports. Are there any other significant differences between the ICH9 chipset and the NM10 used on the D510MO? Well, ICH9 definitely works with FreeBSD in my laptop. :-) Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpsqzUnXKbbl.pgp Description: PGP signature
