If you do require ECC, then you could also look at S1200BTSR. It has a tiny gpu builtin (SM712 chip), only vga output. The board has no remote management though. I'm currently experimenting with a DQ77KB and E3-1220LV2. It works perfectly, and can boot without a video card (just need to add a video ...

Hi cloneman Two ideas :) First Have you looked at the Intel NUC lineup (you were not very specific about requirements)? I'm thinking of buying one to use as my general purpose headless vmware server at home. Apparently they are just about to release an i5 version that have plenty of nice features. h...

Hi ces, I'll try :wink: The one big benefit is ECC memory support (which some people value very much). I would also like this, but haven't found a suitable system to meet my demands yet (not even the current consumer level XEON's). This can be seen by the history of this thread. I don't run an XEON...

one 2.5" 5400 for system and maximum four 3TB 3.5" green HDDs, like this http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/3tb-hdd-hard-drive,2982-11.html, disks will be 80% time in idle mode. I think you would have to test it with 3,4 & 5 disks and measure the consumption. But i think it's feasible. It's not th...

There must be a reason most consumers don't buy Xeons... other than lack of availability in consumer channels. Do you know why that might be. I have often wondered... but never really paid much attention to finding out why I might want a Xeon. I guess its just safer running with my fellow lemmings....

Yes i use the same motherboard, to be honest i forgot to look at the power management tab. I have tested so many motherboards were it had no effect. You should check the setting, I think it is almost a 10W drop in idle consumption. It most definitely makes a difference. ok, so it dosn't need a 8 pi...

I'm running esxi off course :-) And on top off that, astaro, ubuntu's & debian's with tvheadend,plexmediaserver and other stuff. I wanted to do something similar, just didn't work properly for me :( Do you use VMDirectPath/VT-d? I'm pretty impressed with your idle result on the 1230, I got the the ...

Hi. I tested a 1220l with the same kill a watt meter (are you danish btw), i got 24,8 watts with a 2,5" disk. So i guess the rest must be the psu. Yeah I'm danish :-) I actually ended up ditching the E3 setup completely. There were issues with VMWare/VMDirectPath, more specifically with mapping of ...

Hi, I currently have 4 x 2TB WD green drives in my fileserver, and I'm thinking about adding more. The problem is that I have exhausted the onboard sata ports, and need to add a very low power pci-e hba (the FUSION350-A-E has an open ended x4 pci-e). You can see system specs in my signature (BOFH). ...

So you didnt go for 1220/1260? No, too expensive and since I abandoned the DQ67EP build, I don't need onboard graphics. When building in the P183 I only worry about idle power consumption (where it is 99% of the time), so no need for a low TDP processor (saving quite a bit of money there). I plan t...

Now to the fun part, the above was, as you can see not the best result.... So going for a new direction: S1200BTS (the one mentioned in the beginning of the post) E3-1230 (4-core with hyperthreading) 8 GB ECC memory (KVR1333D3E9SK2/8G) Putting it all into the case I have from my previous build (P183...

Well, my attempt at building a small server in the Fractal Design Array R2 didn't go as well as I had hoped. The stuff did fit, but the hard drive cage doesn't do much about vibrations from HDD's, so it was far from quiet!!! So I have abandoned the build, and are now going a different way with my ho...

@anickname I'm in the process of upgrading/moving to a new system. Still a little bit in the design phase.. But have most of the parts. I have moved to a new apartment, and need a smaller server (the Antec P182 case is fantastic, but too large). So I'm challenging myself to build a small server that...

No one having a look at the fusion boards? I'm getting 10W idle running a zotac board. And only a few watts more when browsing. (I know its not 6-7W max, but actually quite good value / low power). Parts Zotac E350-A-E Pico PSU 120 80W power adaptor Intel SSD 320 120GB More info http://www.tomshardw...

One of my colleges have the S1200BTL board, and is quite happy. Not the lowest power system, because of the CPU he chose, and the Intel RMM that the motherboard also contains. Because of the RMM it also boasts a more beefy onboard graphics chip. I still considering the S1200BTS. It have just arrived...

<10W Brazos (see my previous post!!). I have the exact Brazos board (Zotac) that is mentioned in the review posted by ntavlas (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/e-350-motherboard-brazos,2958-16.html). It comes highly recommended. I have had Atom boards in the past, but the Brazos feels quite a bit...

Zotac Fusion E-350 (FUSION350-A-E) Consumption Normal usage (light browsing, RDP usage): 11-13W Idle: 9,5W (with disk in spindown) Measured at the wall with a Danish "SparOmeter". I think it is somewhat equivalent to the killawatt. It has a very good reputation in Denmark, so I trust it (also not ex...

Those are listed as supporting the 45nm Penryn CPU lineup. I was under the impression that meant that my 65nm Merom would not work. I hope I'm wrong. I think your cpu would be supported, but I can't be sure (I'm not really an expert on this. I have just spent some time a few months back, looking at...

Thank you for those links, although I'm still having the same problem. I looked through all of the ones listed, and they each have one of two main flaws: -They use 240-pin desktop RAM rather than 200-pin laptop RAM -They don't show as supporting the 667MHz FSB that the T5850 uses The only one I've ...

You could have a look at this link: http://www.mini-tft.de/xtc-neu/index.php/cat/c3272_Mini-ITX-mit-Sockel-P--478pin-.html Site is in german, but I think they have one of the most complete lists of mini-itx motherboards for mobile CPU's. They are usually quite expensive, and you will not necessarily...

I don't think a single pull fan will give enough ventilation in the P183, especially when it is to run quiet. First off the bottom chamber needs at least a little bit of airflow to cool the HDD's a bit and the power supply (running 4 hdd's in my bottom chamber). And by using very silent fans it does...

Hi A bit hungover (so beware of spelling mistakes) ;-) But here we go. I think you should just go for making the P183 as quiet as possible. I wouldn't go into active monitoring of the system. The P183 has great potential to be extremely quiet. Below you can see what I have done/plan to do with my P1...

Well. I'm not sure all boards/cpu's are hit by the whine. I think more people would complain if it was all of them that had the issue. All I can say for sure is that the motherboard/cpu I tried had the whine, and it was very easy to hear, even from about 4-5 meters distance. And that a few other peo...

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I might sound a bit too "pro" E3? But it just fits perfect into what I need (see above) ;-) Only a tad more expensive than sandy bridge desktop cpu's ECC support (usually what xeon brings) I hope someone will test the combo I mentioned, once they are available. If not, then I will have to get hold o...

There must be a reason most consumers don't buy Xeons... other than lack of availability in consumer channels. Do you know why that might be. I have often wondered... but never really paid much attention to finding out why I might want a Xeon. I guess its just safer running with my fellow lemmings....

Feel free to call me crazy, but I'm thinking about replacing my current motherboard/cpu with the Intel S1200BTS motherboard and the E3-1220L XEON cpu (when both are available). What do people think about this combi? Low idle power and max power? http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=53558 http://ark....

That's asking a lot. I don't think you can get there from here. Well, laptops do run below 10W idle (arrandale and sandy bridge). So it should be possible if some manufacturer would make a motherboard with focus on low power for the mobile CPU/chipset. I have tested the Jetway NF98-QM57-LF, but the...

aztec: Very interesting. Those values are however DC values, the ones I have listed above is AC (measured at the wall plug). I need a motherboard that will idle below 10W AC with minimal system (only memory and SSD). As you can see above the one I currently have idles at about 17W AC. I would maybe ...

LazyBoy: I have been looking at the Sandy Bridge boards as well. I actually tested a DQ67SW with an i5-2500. But I didn't like that very much. It didn't have lower power consumption than my current setup, and I was hit by the sandy bridge whine that other people have been complaining about --> http:...