Shroom
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Hey guys, so I've recently been looking a lot at the new 8-core Avoton/Rangeley Atom boards by SuperMicro, they seem like very solid platforms for FreeNAS (moreso than the ASRock boards - better NIC and SATA controllers, more DIMMs, better layout).
I'm just confused about one thing - there are two versions of the 8-core Atom with only minute differences:
SuperMicro A1SAi-2750F: supports only Intel TurboBoost
SuperMicro A1SRi-2758F: supports only Intel QuickAssist
The 2750 board is roughly $35 more expensive on Newegg than the 2758 board, and Geekbench scores rate it marginally higher:
C2750 scores higher than the C2758 for some reason. Could this have to do with TurboBoost vs QuickAssist, or are this just unreliable/skewed data?
What is the difference between TurboBoost and QuickAssist anyway? I'd never even heard of QuickAssist until I was looking at these boards.
Will any of this make much of a performance difference on FreeNAS to warrant the extra $35? If TurboBoost is significantly better I'd definitely opt for the 2750 board as I want to squeeze out as much processing power as possible in this tiny form factor.
Note: Newegg shows the 2750 board as only supporting up to 32GB of memory, but the SuperMicro site shows them both supporting 64GB.
I'm just confused about one thing - there are two versions of the 8-core Atom with only minute differences:
SuperMicro A1SAi-2750F: supports only Intel TurboBoost
SuperMicro A1SRi-2758F: supports only Intel QuickAssist
The 2750 board is roughly $35 more expensive on Newegg than the 2758 board, and Geekbench scores rate it marginally higher:
C2750 scores higher than the C2758 for some reason. Could this have to do with TurboBoost vs QuickAssist, or are this just unreliable/skewed data?
What is the difference between TurboBoost and QuickAssist anyway? I'd never even heard of QuickAssist until I was looking at these boards.
Will any of this make much of a performance difference on FreeNAS to warrant the extra $35? If TurboBoost is significantly better I'd definitely opt for the 2750 board as I want to squeeze out as much processing power as possible in this tiny form factor.
Note: Newegg shows the 2750 board as only supporting up to 32GB of memory, but the SuperMicro site shows them both supporting 64GB.