March 19, 201115 yr This is my first post here, and I hope it's ok to report Level 1 certification... I chose the Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 rev. 2.1 motherboard for its feature list and value (£78 inc. tax delivered in the UK). My mobos are reallocated to different projects during their life, so futureproofing is important to me. It's an AM3 board, so I can run the great value 45W TDP Athlon II with Unraid, and upgrade to Phenom Black with onboard OC later. Features include: 2oz. Copper power and ground layers, 8-pin ATX 12v block & 24-pin ATX power block AMD 870 / SB850 chipset Up to 16GB DDR3 dual channel DIMM 6x SATA 6Gb/s 2x SATA 3Gb/s 2x eSATA 3Gb/s 1x Gigabit LAN: Realtek 8111D 1x PCI-E x16 at x16 1x PCI-E x4 and 2x PCI-E x1(runs as either 3x PCI-E x1 or 1x PCI-E x4) 3x PCI 2xUSB 3.0 and 12x USB 2.0 S/PDIF optical out, Firewire, hardware RAID (not used) etc. Configured with: CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 240e RAM: Kingston ValueRam 4gb (2x2gb) DDR3 1333MHz HyperX XMP Memory Kit CL7(7-7-7-21) (runs CL9 ram as well, chose this to O/C in the future) HDD: 2x WD20EARS - these are firmware 00MVWB00, built 26 Dec 2010, and have had no load cycle issues to date Graphics: an elderly PCI Matrox Millenium card PSU: BeQuiet 530W (80plus design with plenty of over/under circuit protection) Power consumption at the wall is: 39W idle, 2 drives spun down 44W idle, 2 drives spun up 73W peak seen while loading the array and writing parity The board wakes reliably to a WOL packet - this is with the standard BIOS shipped. I've run the drives through all the SATA 6 and SATA 3 sockets with no issues. The board drives 4 fans and the BIOS gives CPU overheat and fan fail warnings. Been running ok in Unraid trial and then 4.7 for 2 weeks now. Runs 8x SATA HDDs, with space for 1-2x Adaptec 1430SA for 4-8 more HDDs if needed. Issues unresolved so far: Blank console screen when waking up (but unraid runs fine) - not bothered as I drive it from the browser Can't reduce speed of case fans anywhere I believe I've successfully carried out the L1 testing for this motherboard and have attached a syslog. I plan to continue testing it with UNRAID but so far it's looking good. Cheers Judy syslog_after_second_sync_4.txt
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