Well, it's official - the recent power surge fried my mobo and possibly CPU. I have:

 

MOBO: SUPERMICRO C2SEA - Motherboard - ATX - LGA775 Socket - G45 - Gigabit Ethernet - onboard graphics - HD Audio (8-channel)

CPU: Intel BX80571E6600 Pentium Dual-Core E6600 Processor - 3.06GHz, Socket 775, 2MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB, Wolfdale, Dual Core, Retail CPU w/ Fan

MEM: Patriot G2 Series PGD38G1600ELK Division 2 Edition Desktop Memory Kit - 8GB (2 x 4GB) PC3-12800, DDR3 1600MHz, 9-9-9-24 CAS Latency, XMP Ready

 

Pertinent facts:

1) Looking for a combination known to work reliably with unraid 5.0

2) Currently have 8x3TB HDD, want to upgrade to 12 disks

3) Looking for cost effective solution

4) Server is used only as unraid server, and occasionally to preclear drives

5) Possibly want to upgrade to faster cpu

6) Would possibly like to reuse memory if it isn't fried

 

I want to replace mobo/cpu and was looking for recommendations

 

In addition - any recommenadtion for 5to3 HDD cages?

 

Thanks in advance for help

 

why do you need all this power if you only running unraid and occasionally pre-clear disks?

 

if you are not running any plugins or anything heavy

 

the cheapest thing I can think of is to get a server from TAMs.

 

intel xenon or AMD opteron quad core

with 8GB ram

will go for like 350+ about 90 shipping total let say 450

 

if you wan to get a little fancy, get the dual core for 300+ship total 390

and upgrade to 2 six core for about 50 bucks on ebay.

 

ram is expencive though but you can get a 16GB 4x4 set for around 70$ on ebay

 

this servers are refurbished of lease SuperMicro 24 hot swap cases

with a server grade MB

IPMI

3x8SATA supermicro SAS cards

you can get the whole info just check my sig for new build.

 

the only issue with this servers they are not very good for Virtualisation as they do not have a good support for VT-d or AMD-v IOMMU.

 

not impossible though using Xen

but if you a VMWare guy you are out of luck.

also you might want to do a PSU mod, as the PSU they come with are server grade and very loud

 

total for simple mods like

add six core CPUs + 16GB RAM + change Fans + change PSU

is  390+60+70+20+100 = 640$

 

you get

24 bay hot swap SuperMicro case

with Server grade MB

IPMI

24GB RAM

dual 1Gb NIC

 

 

 

Well, I already have a bunch of parts lying around (azza case, good corsair psu, memory, all the cabling) and want to make use of them

 

Hence the request for mobo/cpu

 

But I will check out the references you provided - thanks

 

I just figure a good MB and CPU can run about 300$

that was my thinking when I got my server.

a good Norco case is 300$-400$

so just get the server fro 400$ shipped and part it out yuo should endup with at least a good case for almost nothing.

than use the money to get the insides :-)