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  1. cant thank you enough, this is the info i was looking for for weeks! tytyty
  2. where can i get previous versions? i ran the update and my tracker doesn't have 4.4 on the white list yet?
  3. That's actually something I didn't consider, that's good advice. I'll have to compare my previous thoughts with this one that you recommend. Like you I already have CPU with iGPU. Unless I find myself needing an extra GPU for transcodes or something I don't foresee that currently, I think for my current usage this 2146g should handle anything I'm going to throw at it. The Plex server I'm running now is a Core2Quad 2.4g with 6gig ram on a win7 os and it ran xp before that. I anticipate this Xeon to satisfy my needs for 10+years which is why I'm fretting about board choice so much. I don't tend to upgrade often.
  4. I did see that post, and it was food for thought. I already have a CPU and memory so I just need a board but you post did leave me to consider, "should I be considering mATX? Are the lack of extra PCI(e) slots even something I should consider?". But thank you for your input, I'll check his sellers page and see if he's got something I might like. I was avoiding eBay after getting burned on the 1220v6, twice. First in cost, and then again on my suspicion but no way to prove that it's DOA.
  5. Yea I ran into that thread, there's ALOT going on there, and while I'm pretty savvy the oddities gave me pause. Some of that was in the territory of needing further understanding, because I kept thinking to myself, "what now? Huh?" Any thoughts on the other board's?
  6. i'll start off with a little background on this build, its been a rocky start. i bought a xeon-1220v6 from ebay, 9mo later i bought a Supermicro MBD-X11SAE-O. wouldn't post, wtf? borrowed a i5-6600 from a buddy who upgraded but i know it worked, dropped it in, posted fine. 1220 doa? so fast forward a couple of weeks, buy a e-2146g, still no post. come to find out i'm a dummy and didn't realize that this c236 chipset doesn't support the xeon E series. so now i'm stuck trying to decide what c246 mobo to get. options? AsRock Rack C246 WS ATX ... a favorite, seems to have everything i want and i like the board lay out but expensive at 279 SUPERMICRO MBD-X11SCA-F-O ... i like but its expensive at 291 SUPERMICRO MBD-X11SCA-O .... cheaper, not really sure atm why at 265 ASUS WS C246 PRO ATX .... at 250 Gigabyte C246-WU4 ... cheapest at 219 and a frontrunner for that reason as you can tell i prefer a full size atx just simply because that's what i've almost always used and the mini/micro versions of these boards are lacking expansion slots i may desire at some point. this is my first unraid build and its off to a rocky start, but any input here would be much appreciated. is there any boards to clearly stay away from? any community favorites? ive been staring at spec pages, prices and reviews and i cant seem to find anything that helps me narrow it down.