haizman Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 I am using this Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H board. The on board Realtek 8111C Gigabit NIC works great and is very fast (I usually see 20 to 45 MB/sec transfer speeds). It uses the following chipsets - 1. North Bridge: AMD 780G 2. South Bridge: AMD SB700 It runs several drives in AHCI mode with no problems (I don't use the onboard mobo Raid). I had driver compatibility problems with FreeNas and this board, but I'm glad I found the unRaid product instead! Quote Link to comment
Romir Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 Thanks for another confirmation of this board. I plan on switching over to it (or the HP version) and a 35w cpu for some power savings next year. I love seeing those sub 50w idle energy reports with one hard drive on this chipset. I'm curious how many pci-e sata controllers I can get working at once with the 5 slots. I have 2 pci-e 4x Adaptecs, 2 pci-e 1x Syba's, and 1 pci-e 1x Highpoint. Quote Link to comment
Inimical Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 What kind of CPU are you using? Is it still rebooting on writes with a dual proc? Quote Link to comment
haizman Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 I'm using a 45W AMD Sempron LE-1150 Sparta 2.0GHz 256KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 45W Single-Core Processor - Retail. Quote Link to comment
vsonerud Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Is your board still working ok? Any problems so far? I am considering buying this board for an unRAID machine. Quote Link to comment
RobJ Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I added this board to the Hardware Compatibility page, with links to the related forum threads, especially noting the single core CPU recommendation. In tracking back through those posts, I could not help but notice a rather unusual aspect of the original build, the simultaneous use of five (5!) SiI3132 SATA controller cards. This is a record for me, at least in my experience, of multiple identical PCI-type cards installed. Multiple Promise cards have always been known for compatibility issues (although they have improved), so it's hard not to suspect issues with this many identical cards. PCI-type cards, especially the older ones, sometimes have a limited set of IRQ, I/O port, and RAM configurations. I only mention this because it seems very unusual to me, and so far, we have no other compatibility issues reported with dual core CPU's. Quote Link to comment
PsyVision Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I am about to carry out a build using this board as I want one that is known to at least partially work - and with room for 2x Adaptec 1430SA PCI-E cards. However, I am not sure what CPU to go with? Either a dual core (something like an X2 4850e) or a single core LE-1640. Would a dual core make much of a difference and is there a possibility of it working with unRAID 4.4? Quote Link to comment
cj0r Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Price wise, and in my opinion, there's no point with going for a single core AMD CPU right now. You can get a BE-2x00 CPU (45W - dual core... more than enough speed) for $25 if you're patient or $35-40 if you want it right now. That's what I would do and that's my recommendation. Quote Link to comment
haizman Posted March 8, 2009 Author Share Posted March 8, 2009 I spent $20 for the single-core AMD low watt chip from NewEgg, not to shabby. I would expect only a negligible performance gain using dual-core vs single-core if only used to serve up storage (I'm not even sure if any version of Unraid is multi-core aware). Quote Link to comment
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