need mainboard recommendations

[ron minnich]

Looking for something like this:
- Intel i7 single LGA 1366 socket 8MB L3 cache
- 12 GB RAM DDR3-1066
- 1 Gigabit Ethernet Port
- VGA Output

no coreboot, sadly, this time.

Any recommendations?

Also, what's a good DRAM vendor? Power supply?

ron

[Cristi Magherusan]

În Mie, August 4, 2010 2:50, ron minnich a scris:
> Looking for something like this:
> Intel i7 single LGA 1366 socket 8MB L3 cache
> 12 GB RAM DDR3-1066
> 1 Gigabit Ethernet Port
> VGA Output
>
> no coreboot, sadly, this time.
>
> Any recommendations?

Such desktop boards are hard to find because they assume you have a
dedicated GPU. You could try a server board like this one, but its video
chipset is quite basic, so don't expect 3D stuff to work on it. It also
has some additional features you may not want, like IPMI and limited
number of extension slots :)

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/X58/X8STi-F.cfm
> Also, what's a good DRAM vendor?

Corsair is one of them, but they are relatively pricy.
> Power supply?

I had good experience with Antec and Chieftec. Any supply greater than
500W made by these vendors would do, but you should calculate your power
consumption to be on the safe side..
> ron

Regards,
Cristi

[ron minnich]

Great link, great company, looks like a good board.

The board I need is for a simple node, no disk, no cdrom, ethernet
bootable, vga will almost never be connected but it's nice to have.

My life would be greatly eased by having coreboot but vendors are
little concerned with making my life easier (hmmph!) :-)

So I'm stuck with accepting the vendor bios for this system.

Any other ideas on boards are welcome. The i7 for this one application
is unbeatable, so we're probably going to stick with it. Intel CPUs
are great, I just wish I had coreboot on them :-)

thanks

ron

[Myles Watson]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:25 AM, ron minnich  wrote:
> The board I need is for a simple node, no disk, no cdrom, ethernet
> bootable, vga will almost never be connected but it's nice to have.

Have you looked in the "embedded" space:

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/images/stories/kontron_am5030_block.jpg

http://us.kontron.com/products/boards+and+mezzanines/advancedmc/processor/am...

Myles