objecttothis
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- Feb 24, 2015
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I am on my second FreeNAS build, but this time to replace my BuffaloNAS at home. Here is the situation. I would like to use a less expensive socket 1150 server board, but I need an HDMI (DP or DVI would also work). The reason for this simply is that my KVM is an HDMI KVM, not VGA. The problem is that the server boards mostly just have VGA output. I only need HDMI for a terminal, not for rendering or anything else.
- Yes, I will be using IPMI when I am offsite and VPN into my network, but I want a hard-connected display as well.
- I don't really want to use a VGA-to-HDMI adapter. While they are cheap, they seem to have a high failure rate.
Could I pick up a cheap AMD or nVidia card with an HDMI output and expect it to work just simply for display output of the FreeNAS terminal?
I would prefer to get an ASRock Rack E3C224D2I If I could pick up a cheap PCIe graphics card for displaying to the terminal with an HDMI connection. If not I was looking at a newer and more expensive Supermicro X11SSZ-F which has IPMI and DP, DVI, etc.
- Yes, I will be using IPMI when I am offsite and VPN into my network, but I want a hard-connected display as well.
- I don't really want to use a VGA-to-HDMI adapter. While they are cheap, they seem to have a high failure rate.
Could I pick up a cheap AMD or nVidia card with an HDMI output and expect it to work just simply for display output of the FreeNAS terminal?
I would prefer to get an ASRock Rack E3C224D2I If I could pick up a cheap PCIe graphics card for displaying to the terminal with an HDMI connection. If not I was looking at a newer and more expensive Supermicro X11SSZ-F which has IPMI and DP, DVI, etc.