July 9, 201015 yr Hope you guys aren't too sick of these.. So I have coming a Norco 4220 Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 SATA card with 2 breakout cables and in my current HTPC, I have a E5200 chip. If that chip would be powerful enough for streaming videos of all kinds (700MB xvid rips, full DVD ISOs, and even a full bluray or two), as well as airvideoing the xvid ones to my iPad, then I'd like to use that chip in the unraid, and upgrade my HTPC with something faster... Assuming it does, then I'll want a socket 775 motherboard... So I'm looking for a really good, reliable board that: -Has at least two PCIe x4 or x16 slots for SATA cards -Onboard video -Socket 775 -6 SATA ports built in -Not a Gigabyte, don't want to worry about the HPA stuff. -One IDE would be nice, since I have one IDE drive, but no big deal, as it's only a 500GB... Other than that, I'm kind of lost, so any guidance would be appreciated!
July 10, 201015 yr Look for the P5Q Premium or Deluxe board.... Great board... doesn't have onboard video though, but I just bought a $20 pcie video card. Even with that in it still has 2 more PCIe slots you can use at 4x. But meets all your other needs.
July 10, 201015 yr Buy a PCI video card, its all you need for unRAID. Either ebay or the bargain bin at your local computer store should get you one for less than 10$. You get to keep the PCIe slot which you'll want sooner or later.
July 10, 201015 yr If you are responding to my post about getting a pcie video card, while I agree with you, it is regardless on the motherboard I suggested because it has 4 pcie slots, so you could use one for a cheap pcie video card if you had one, and still have 3 pcie slots left....
July 11, 201015 yr Author Thanks for the recommendation robinsj... been looking at those, but they're a bit too expensive at $200... unless there's some advantage I'm missing? Anyways, I think I'm mostly looking now at the only two wiki boards that passed level 3 testing... Both of them: -Are fairly cheap: just over $100 each -Socket 775 -at least 6 SATA ports -onboard video, so I don't have to worry about a vid card, at least 2 pci-e slots for the supermicros, some pci slots so I can fit a wireless N card in if need So I guess the difference is just: -Asus P5B-VM DO is smaller, at matx, making it easier it fit stuff inside the case, uses DDR2 -C2SEE is full atx, a few more pci slots, uses DDR3 Anything important I know that's not listed in the specs to help me choose between the two of those? Or is there a reason/advantage I should consider the P5Q over these two?
July 11, 201015 yr Nope, none at all. Only reason I used the P5Q was I already had it. If I was in your position, I probably wouldn't have purchased it either.
July 12, 201015 yr Thanks for the recommendation robinsj... been looking at those, but they're a bit too expensive at $200... unless there's some advantage I'm missing? Anyways, I think I'm mostly looking now at the only two wiki boards that passed level 3 testing... Both of them: -Are fairly cheap: just over $100 each -Socket 775 -at least 6 SATA ports -onboard video, so I don't have to worry about a vid card, at least 2 pci-e slots for the supermicros, some pci slots so I can fit a wireless N card in if need So I guess the difference is just: -Asus P5B-VM DO is smaller, at matx, making it easier it fit stuff inside the case, uses DDR2 -C2SEE is full atx, a few more pci slots, uses DDR3 Anything important I know that's not listed in the specs to help me choose between the two of those? Or is there a reason/advantage I should consider the P5Q over these two? I had similar criteria as you, minus needing the extra PCI-E expansion. I just went for the P5B VM DO since I saw it was an official LimeTech supported board, and couldn't be happier. Got it used on eBay for $45 plus shipping, and as expected everything worked out of the box. Upgrading the BIOS helped with a couple little issues related to drive booting and CPU detection, and ASUS's bios upgrade utility was super painless. You get a seventh port on a separate JMicron bus if you want it as well.
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