New energy efficient notherboard
Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 4:00 pm
After stalking the forums for a while, it's time for my first post here! I'm been an enthusiast reader of the SCPR site and forums, I really like some of the creative solutions people have come up with here!
This time I have a question of my own. I run a small server/HTPC in my room, currently an dualcore Atom. It's a great little pc for what i'm using it for, however i would really like some more juice in the CPU department. I decided to bought myself a Celeron G530 and I got an Asus P8H61-M rev 3 (m-atx) motherboard for cheap. This motherboard is not really the motherboard i want for my server, but i could get it incredibly cheap and i thought it would be a nice starting point while i search for a new board. I prefer an m-itx board, which is as energy efficient as possible, so i probably an Intel or MSI board. So right now I'm searching for a new motherboard but i lost track of what to choose. There are a lot of chipsets eligible like 55,61,67,77 and i lost track. One of the challenges is combining a decent amount of sata ports, and SPIF out, ánd HDMI at a competative price. Here are my demands for the new board:
The motherboard should have:
* Socket 1155
* M-ITX form factor
* Lowest power consumption possible
* HDMI out
* SPDIF (either optical or digital coax, both are fine) (since my receiver has no HDMI input)
* Have at least 4 SATA ports
* The possibility to increase the number of SATA ports by some extension card
I know I'm asking a lot for a small and affordable board, but does anyone have a good suggestion for this? Many thanks in advance!
This time I have a question of my own. I run a small server/HTPC in my room, currently an dualcore Atom. It's a great little pc for what i'm using it for, however i would really like some more juice in the CPU department. I decided to bought myself a Celeron G530 and I got an Asus P8H61-M rev 3 (m-atx) motherboard for cheap. This motherboard is not really the motherboard i want for my server, but i could get it incredibly cheap and i thought it would be a nice starting point while i search for a new board. I prefer an m-itx board, which is as energy efficient as possible, so i probably an Intel or MSI board. So right now I'm searching for a new motherboard but i lost track of what to choose. There are a lot of chipsets eligible like 55,61,67,77 and i lost track. One of the challenges is combining a decent amount of sata ports, and SPIF out, ánd HDMI at a competative price. Here are my demands for the new board:
The motherboard should have:
* Socket 1155
* M-ITX form factor
* Lowest power consumption possible
* HDMI out
* SPDIF (either optical or digital coax, both are fine) (since my receiver has no HDMI input)
* Have at least 4 SATA ports
* The possibility to increase the number of SATA ports by some extension card
I know I'm asking a lot for a small and affordable board, but does anyone have a good suggestion for this? Many thanks in advance!