monarchdodra
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I need a mini-ITX board for my home server.
Useage would be just file storage, some plex, some transmission, and a local freebsd jail to play around with.
I'm having trouble chosing motherboards. I guess the 3 choices I have are (with the prices available to me in my country):
C2550D4l - 284€: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2550D4I
C2750D4l - 400€: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I
E3C226D2I - 220€: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C226D2I
Avoton boards have:
+ Passive
+ up to 64G memory
+ 12 sata
- Might overheat in a closed enclosure?
- Only 2 usb ports
- No USB3
The LGA board has:
+ 2 Extra USB3 ports + internal USB3
+ Easier to cool
- 16G memory
- 6 sata
The doubt I'm having is that I really can't place the boards in terms of relative compute power. I was going to go for the C2550D4l, but then I though: If I'm going to spend some money, I might as well buy the board that's nice. But 116€ just for 4 extra cores of atom cpu seems like a bad deal. So I started looking at the LGA board.
The thing is that if I were to go the LGA route, I have NO idea what I can/can't put on that board, and what the relative performance differences are. I mean, for the same price as the C2750, I could get a high i3/low i5. It's still half the cores, but overall, it would absolutely destroy what the avotons do in terms of power I believe.
Or would placing an i5 on that board be totally over the build's spec for heat (I would place it in a Node 304 with 2-6 HDD's (not decided yet))? Or maybe cores trump processing power for a NAS?
Kind of lost, need opinion.
Useage would be just file storage, some plex, some transmission, and a local freebsd jail to play around with.
I'm having trouble chosing motherboards. I guess the 3 choices I have are (with the prices available to me in my country):
C2550D4l - 284€: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2550D4I
C2750D4l - 400€: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I
E3C226D2I - 220€: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E3C226D2I
Avoton boards have:
+ Passive
+ up to 64G memory
+ 12 sata
- Might overheat in a closed enclosure?
- Only 2 usb ports
- No USB3
The LGA board has:
+ 2 Extra USB3 ports + internal USB3
+ Easier to cool
- 16G memory
- 6 sata
The doubt I'm having is that I really can't place the boards in terms of relative compute power. I was going to go for the C2550D4l, but then I though: If I'm going to spend some money, I might as well buy the board that's nice. But 116€ just for 4 extra cores of atom cpu seems like a bad deal. So I started looking at the LGA board.
The thing is that if I were to go the LGA route, I have NO idea what I can/can't put on that board, and what the relative performance differences are. I mean, for the same price as the C2750, I could get a high i3/low i5. It's still half the cores, but overall, it would absolutely destroy what the avotons do in terms of power I believe.
Or would placing an i5 on that board be totally over the build's spec for heat (I would place it in a Node 304 with 2-6 HDD's (not decided yet))? Or maybe cores trump processing power for a NAS?
Kind of lost, need opinion.