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pentium166 posted:That seemed pretty nice until that I saw that it has no SATA and a non-replaceable cooler I hadn't even noticed that it was m.2 only. I guess I just assumed that even a mitx board would squeeze a minimum of like... 2 ports.
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Mental Hospitality posted:I hadn't even noticed that it was m.2 only. I guess I just assumed that even a mitx board would squeeze a minimum of like... 2 ports. These kinds of boards are basically just meant to be mini PCs you can put in your own case with a PCIe slot and regular RAM slots instead of laptop ones. It's a cool idea for people who want the aesthetic of ITX but without all the other headaches of ITX.
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what about a M.2 to 6x SATA adapter?
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ryanrs posted:what about a M.2 to 6x SATA adapter? that’s probably not what I want for a NAS, I assume, because it’d put everything through the same PCI lanes? or maybe not, I guess each drive just needs one or two lanes (I have the weird double-platter drives for my new build)…
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That $30 adapter has 2 lanes of PCIe 3.0, which isn't that terrible for 6 disks. I'm sure it'll saturate the 2.5G nic. e: yeah don't try to make a monster NAS with this mobo, it has many limitations ryanrs fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Oct 4, 2024 |
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Oh there’d be a Connect-X going in the PCI slot.
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wrong mobo for that build then
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Depending on the support, you might be able to put one of those (pretty cheap) gen3 x8 + dual m.2 bifurcation risers.
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Aren’t Intel chips better for NASes if you want transcoding?
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They are yes. That thing could be a pretty decent SFF virtualisation host, I wouldn't use it for transcoding though.
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I've got an old SFF PC that would do for a server, except that it idles at 35W. It's a HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF and the CPU is an Intel G630 (Sandy Bridge). My question is, if I swap this out for a T-variant Sandy Bridge CPU with the same socket 1155, e.g. the G645T, 1) is this going to reduce the idle power consumption significantly? 2) I've installed CPUs before.. is this just a straight swap or am I likely to hit incompatibilities? Ideally I'd like to get down to around 15-20W use since it'd be running 24/7, and UK energy prices are ridiculous. My worry is that unless I buy a complete T-variant low power system then other stuff like the motherboard and PSU will not be efficient enough to get the power use down. I'm not against buying something new (ex-business on ebay) but I've spent quite a while researching, and all of the T-variant low power systems on ebay seem to be tiny/micro form factors so no 3.5" drive space. JammyB fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Oct 24, 2024 |
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JammyB posted:I've got an old SFF PC that would do for a server, except that it idles at 35W. It's a HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF and the CPU is an Intel G630 (Sandy Bridge). The biggest impediment is that idle power for pre-Haswell chips does not implement C6 low power states. If that CPU wasn’t busy when you measured, 35W is probably your baseline regardless of whether you’re running a T-series chip, as that governs max thermal dissipation, and doesn’t impact as much when the system is essentially staring off into space waiting for something crunchy to do. An Atom N100 ITX board running a laptop DDR5 SO-DIMM would idle at maybe a quarter of that, would be faster, and has the advantage of being installable into any case you like. Of course, that’s a bigger purchase than a secondhand T chip…
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Thanks for that, ok that sounds like a no-go with the old HP system. I was hoping to find an ex-business off-the-shelf thing but that's a good thought about putting together an N100 based system. Cheers.
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Hasturtium posted:The biggest impediment is that idle power for pre-Haswell chips does not implement C6 low power states. If that CPU wasn’t busy when you measured, 35W is probably your baseline regardless of whether you’re running a T-series chip, as that governs max thermal dissipation, and doesn’t impact as much when the system is essentially staring off into space waiting for something crunchy to do. An Atom N100 ITX board running a laptop DDR5 SO-DIMM would idle at maybe a quarter of that, would be faster, and has the advantage of being installable into any case you like. Of course, that’s a bigger purchase than a secondhand T chip… Fantastic to know! Thanks for sharing.
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