Intel BOXD510MO Atom Dual-Core D510/ Intel NM10

[nivlam]

Has anyone use Intel BOXD510MO Atom Dual-Core D510/ Intel NM10 motherboard? I'd like to setup Unraid with this mobo with a PCI card PROMISE SATA300 TX4 PCI SATA II 4-Port Controller card. I would like to make sure the unraid will work with this setup. Thanks

[purko]

No reason why it shouldn's work.  Not much room for expansion though.  Only 2 SATA, and one PCI slot (slow).  The mini-PCI-e is not very usseful.  So that's six disks max, four of them sharing a slow PCI bus.  You may want to rethink this.

 

[WeeboTech]

That board is not very useful. In comparison the Supermicro ITX ATOM boards have 6 sata ports and a PCIe providing the possibility of 14 drives.

[nivlam]

Thanks guys, this is exactly the response i need. Now i just got to look for a very cheap atom board around $100.

[blackmotion]

I have used the BOXD510MO and it works with unraid, but with just 2 sata ports and 1 pci is a bad buy for unraid.

 

Check the  GIGABYTE GA-D510UD, i have one in order but im not in the states so there will be some more days until i can test this motherboard.. this mb has 4 sata ports, 1 ide and 1 pci.... 

 

 

[nivlam]

I have used the BOXD510MO and it works with unraid, but with just 2 sata ports and 1 pci is a bad buy for unraid.

 

Check the  GIGABYTE GA-D510UD, i have one in order but im not in the states so there will be some more days until i can test this motherboard.. this mb has 4 sata ports, 1 ide and 1 pci.... 

 

 

 

thanks blackmotion, this is a nice mobo and sufficient for what i need "now", i will definitely consider this.

[purko]

For unRAID server stay away from anything GIGABYTE.

Wonder why?  Search the forum for HPA.

 

[nivlam]

i think i found my cheap setup, frys has INTEL CELERON E3300+BIOSTAR G41-M7 for $29. 4 sata ports will be enough for me right now, I only have 2 x 1.5 tb drives. I wish this mobo had 1gb NIC. oh well cant complain for the price ill be paying for. thanks guys

[ilovejedd]

i think i found my cheap setup, frys has INTEL CELERON E3300+BIOSTAR G41-M7 for $29. 4 sata ports will be enough for me right now, I only have 2 x 1.5 tb drives. I wish this mobo had 1gb NIC. oh well cant complain for the price ill be paying for. thanks guys

 

Thanks for the tip. Haven't been looking at Fry's ads recently. Grabbing one for myself (albeit not for unRAID).

[Ford Prefect]

Thanks guys, this is exactly the response i need. Now i just got to look for a very cheap atom board around $100.

 

although beeing late for the posters requirements...

...there's one from ASROCK based on ION chipset, with 4xSATA & 2xe-SAT & PCIe.

see: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=A330ION

...not available for $100 but around $130 I'd think (EUR100 on this part of the world)

That's the cheapest, low power/green & small thingy I could find when I did my research.

 

regards,

          fred

[curious]

 

...there's one from ASROCK based on ION chipset, with 4xSATA & 2xe-SAT & PCIe.

see: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=A330ION

 

Previous generation Atom platform is not as energy efficient as the new one. Any case I'd look for MOBO built arround Pineview e.g. listed on http://www.linuxtech.net/features/intel_atom_pineview_motherboards_overview.html

 

In particular there is BCM IXBDN Series MOBO annonced (D410 or D510 cpu, ICH9R southbridge, 5 SATA II, 1 eSATA).

http://www.rosch-computer.de/datasheets/product/Industrie%20Mainboards/IXBDN%28D410%29.pdf

 

Looks quite attractive on paper.

 

But I'd go for Supermicro X7SPA HF if I could.

 

[Ford Prefect]

 

Previous generation Atom platform is not as energy efficient as the new one. Any case I'd look for MOBO built arround Pineview e.g. listed on http://www.linuxtech.net/features/intel_atom_pineview_motherboards_overview.html

 

 

Nice find curious,

 

Hmm, but...A330 is 8W TDP while D510 is 13W TDP 

It's the combination with the chipset what makes the difference for the whole board.

The ASRock MoBo with A330 and ION chipset should match a D510 with NM10 chipset, I'd think.

 

regards,

          fred

[curious]

It's the combination with the chipset what makes the difference for the whole board.

The ASRock MoBo with A330 and ION chipset should match a D510 with NM10 chipset, I'd think.

 

I have no reason to disagree  Total power consumption might be similar ...

 

I have not seen ASRock A330 and ION power measurements on the forum though. Only for Atom 330+ICH7 and D510+ICH9R (see below)

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5133.msg50945#msg50945

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5076.msg49964#msg49964

[aiden]

Real world measurements for the X7SPA series are here.

 

Hmm, but...A330 is 8W TDP while D510 is 13W TDP  

 

That TDP figure does not scale properly.  The D510 has a gpu on the die with the CPU, and the A330 does not.  Add the total power consumption of the ION to the A330 and then compare the TDP values.  Tom's Hardware Guide did a breakdown and reported the TDP for ION + A230 was 16W, which should be lower than what the A330 combo would score.  But it's all theortical until you do some real world testing.

[curious]

Thanks for clarification Aiden.

 

Looked up tomshardware page and a surprise .... surprise. Yesterday they have published an articele puting in perspective D510, 230 (single core atom previous generation atom with 4W TDP) and Core i3-530.  http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/d510mo-intel-atom,review-31890-11.html

 

 

Accoriding to the graph on the top of the page system built arround D510 draws least ammount of power in idle mode. i3-530 takes second place and Atom 230 comes third.

 

The most interesting graph to my mind is on the bottom of the next page of the reiview http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/d510mo-intel-atom,review-31890-12.html . The total power draw to complete single-threaded computational test task on Core i3-530 is two times less than on D510. Total power draw for Atom 230 is even greater than for D510.

 

So in terms of power efficiency Core i3-530 is at least equally atractive choice for unRAID as D510, asuming processor is not in idle mode all the time.

 

However one might attempt passive cooling with atom based platform but not with Core i3-530.

 

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And yes on one of the pages authors say: "TDP has increased from 4W (Atom 230) to 13W (D510) because the graphics core moved from the chipset into the processor along with the DDR2 memory controller."

[curious]

If only I could pasively cool Core i3-530 ..  

 

Heatpipes + Massive Heatsinks?    

 

Has anyone tried to do it?

[ilovejedd]

If only I could pasively cool Core i3-530 ..  

 

Heatpipes + Massive Heatsinks?    

 

Has anyone tried to do it?

 

Not really but mine survived several minutes with just the stock heatsink after the stock fan died. I was in the BIOS when it did that (was going to overclock) and temps stabilized at ~85C. I forgot the ambient temps but it was fairly cool when it happened (for Southern California).

 

The Core i3-530 should be easy to passively cool with a decent tower heatsink and good case airflow. I currently have a Scythe Big Shuriken on it and temps are ~35C idle and maxed at 63C load (IBT+Furmark) at a room temp of 26C. That's inside a Silverstone Sugo SG06B Mini-ITX case.

[curious]

 

The Core i3-530 should be easy to passively cool with a decent tower heatsink and good case airflow.

 

 

The main challenge in this scenario would be to get quiet (close to inaudible) fans with sufficient airflow.

 

Ultimately however I’m looking to assemble a HTPC based on Core i3 with no fans at all. Like seen here http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/std/sku=hfx_classic_fanless_pc, but less costly.