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Hi,
I am just about to buy my first components for my first FreeNAS Home server and as an overly excited individual got around to getting the shiniest thing I could find i.e. Supermicro X12 series M/B. You can see my choices here if you want
Now as the cost rose, I got a hint of cold feet and I thought that maybe I should rethink my approach a bit.
Maybe I shouldn't spend all this money and I started trying to research whether dropping a generation (LGA1151 vs LGA1200) is going to make an impact (30-40% reduction for the system)
Surprisingly (and anecdotally) I didn't find it to present any significant savings mainly because a lot of the X11 motherboards are still priced north of 200GBP when X12 series can be found for 270GBP.
Does this match your experience as well? Am I doing something wrong in my searching? I tried newegg, amazon, ebay and google's shopping feature.
I am just about to buy my first components for my first FreeNAS Home server and as an overly excited individual got around to getting the shiniest thing I could find i.e. Supermicro X12 series M/B. You can see my choices here if you want
Now as the cost rose, I got a hint of cold feet and I thought that maybe I should rethink my approach a bit.
Maybe I shouldn't spend all this money and I started trying to research whether dropping a generation (LGA1151 vs LGA1200) is going to make an impact (30-40% reduction for the system)
Surprisingly (and anecdotally) I didn't find it to present any significant savings mainly because a lot of the X11 motherboards are still priced north of 200GBP when X12 series can be found for 270GBP.
Does this match your experience as well? Am I doing something wrong in my searching? I tried newegg, amazon, ebay and google's shopping feature.