BUILD Socket 1155 ECC board available in UK

[theozaurus]

Hi,

I'm looking at building my own FreeNAS box. This is to serve a home network where
it'll be used to share movies, backups and stream MP3's via uPnP. I'd like to
start off with about 6TB of storage.

Reading around it seems my best bet is to aim for:

• G2000 series Intel Pentium processor to get cheap ECC support
• Socket 1155 motherboard with ECC and IPMI in Micro ATX form
• 16Gb of RAM
• Disks, Case, PSU, etc.

However, I can't find a motherboard that actually does all of this that is
easily available in the UK. The Supermicro X9SCM-iiF looks perfect, but I can't
find it anywhere - or it's priced at £200. The Intel S1200BTSR is also hard to
find. The only board I have found is the Asus P8B-M which looks great, but it
doesn't appear to support G2000 processors, so I'd have to go for a Xeon to get
ECC and this would destroy and cost advantage over getting another board.

Strangely the Asus P8B-WS does support the G2000 processors, but this isn't
Micro ATX

Even more strangely the Asus P8B-M does support a G2020T, but not a G2020 - and of course a type T processor is not easily available.

What boards are UK builders using? Shall I through caution to the wind and buy
a P8B-M and see if it runs with a G2020, or G2030?

Thanks

Theo

 

[russnas]

it should support go2020 with the bios update.

i brought a asus p8bx motherboard and used a g2020 even though it didnt state on the website,i hopped the socket and ecc support would of been enough

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/...m,3MB,2C,rev.P0)&pcb=ALL&sincebios=2106&memo=

http://www.game-debate.com/motherboard/index.php?mot_id=968&cpuList=Asus P8B WS

 

[theozaurus]

The P8B-X board is ATX. Ideally I'd like to use a Micro ATX board. Unlike the P8B-X, the P8B-M does not list support for a G2020 with the latest bios. Do you think it will work even if it's not listed?

 

[Neme]

Got my X9SCM-iiF from http://www.servercase.co.uk

Showing as out of stock on all of the X9SCM range at the moment, was the same when i ordered mine. Gave them a call, due to low volumes/demand they tend to order/ship direct from Supermicro in the US. Placed an order and it arrived in a couple of days (though this depends where you hit on their ordering cycle). Best price I could find at the time and very helpfull on the phone.

Current price ~£165 + shipping, might be worth a phone call.

 

[Jeci]

http://www.extak.com/catalog/148462/SuMi-MBD-X9SCM-F-O

 

[Jeci]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb...eld-keywords=SuperMicro&rh=i:aps,k:SuperMicro