Jay_S

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  1. First post here! I've been using unRAID (still on 4.4.2) on my A760G since August 2009 with great success. I learned about this motherboard through this post over at SPCR. I was attracted to it because it has 6 on-board sata headers, supports ECC, can accept a non-video card in the PCIe slot (as confirmed by Rajahal here), the onboard embedded GPU can be under-clocked, and it's cheap. I though I'd mention the ECC support here since searching these forums revealed little (I see that user Vibe's signature notes that s/he is using ECC with their A760g). So, just as FYI, on top of all the other awesomeness about this little motherboard, it *does* support ECC memory. There is some controversy regarding this, as Biostar "customer support" denies ECC support. But it's in the manual & BIOS, and is confirmed by memtest & the linux edac-util. I do not frequent the lime-technology forum, and was pleasantly surprised to see how popular this motherboard was! It's been completely rock solid for me since day 1. I was also pleasantly surprised to see how closely my own buildmatches the unRAID forum's "budget build". Motherboard: Biostar A760G-M2+ CPU: AMD 4050e RAM: Kingston 2x1GB DDR2-533 ECC PSU: Corsair CMPSU-400CX HDD's: Western Digital WD10EADS x3 Case: Coolermaster Centurion 590 Power consumption measured w/ Kill-a-watt: Startup Peak: 88 W Idle, all drives spun up: 48 W Idle, all drives spun down: 39 W Parity Check: 69 W In my DIY rack (the CM590 case is 17.5" tall, so it fits perfectly in a standard 19" rack enclosure on its side):