ASRock Mini ITX Octacore?

[kirkdickinson]

I was reading a review of this board and thought this looked like it might make for a cool board in a FreeNAS/Plex server that I am thinking about building.

I priced it out on Newegg and it runs $400. For $400, I can get a nice Supremicro MBD-X10SLL-F-O ($170) and a quad core it-4590 ($185). $355 compared to $400.

I can't imagine that the atom processors even eight of them will do as well as an i5 quad.

Am I looking at this right?

 

[Ericloewe]

An i5 doesn't support ECC. A C2750 does.

 

[kirkdickinson]

An i5 doesn't support ECC. A C2750 does.

Oops, I forgot about that, I picked the wrong processor for my comparison. What about this:


ASRock C2750D4I Mini ITX Server Motherboard FCBGA1283 $400

Supremicro MBD-X10SLL-F-O ($170) and a quad core it-4590 ($185).
Intel Xeon E3-1220V3 Haswell 3.1GHz LGA 1150 80W Server Processor BX80646E31220V3 ($205)
$390

That is a really close price point comparison, they both support ECC. Which would be better for a FreeNAS/Plex server?

 

[mattbbpl]

I think the E3 setup offers more bang for the buck, particularly given the additional motherboard flexibility it provides.

 

[danb35]

The Avoton boards offer good performance (much better than previous Atom generations) and low power consumption, but they're expensive, especially for the computing power present. The C2750 shows a passmark of 3874, the E3-1220v3 gives 6600. If low power consumption is essential for you, the Avoton may be a good choice; otherwise, IMO, they're too expensive for the performance.

 

[kirkdickinson]

Yeah, I don't care that much about power consumption. I heat my house with electricity and the difference between these two mobos is probably nothing compared to that.

That answered my question.

I was curious about the passmark scores and looked up my current Windows 7 workstation processor, and it still smokes even after nearly 4 years.
Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz 12076