Hi guys,
Some ASRock and MSI boards added... however I still feel there isn't too many interesting boards to buy. Most of them are limited to 2x SATA and absence of DC-in is another weak spot. Seems to me, that designers of those boards aren't using them

Asus J1800I-C added to the first post. again only 2x SATA

But personally I would only use a PicoPSU again for an embedded system using SSDs or maybe one or two laptop drives at the most. Once you start spinning up great big steel flywheels, you move from theory to brute mechanical reality. Just my two cents based on exactly one experience, so take it for ...

Hi, I would like to ask owners of SuperMicro X10SBA board for consultation about the PSU. I would like use this board with 4-5 drives (4x 3,5 HDD + 1x SSD for system). What would be the best power supply chain PicoPSU or traditional ATX? I guess the system will idle under 20 Watts, yet the problem w...

I plan to connect 4-5 HDDs, so some small case is out of the game, therefore some 120 mm silent fan on the back of the case working with the temperature sensors can hopefully keep the board temperatures in normal.

For those concerned, there is a test of SuperMicro X10SBA, it is in chinese or whatever, but important values are readable. Idle: 12 W Load by 1080p video: 18 W Prime95: 19 W I hope it is capable to play 1080p in smooth way, finally also listed in more shops. Price is a bit high, but this board can ...

speculatrix wrote:there's a new Gigabyte miniITX board out now, looks good, it's a passively cooled celeron J1900:

Thanks... Added to the first post

danialbi wrote:The Intel NUC DN2820FYKH has an internal FAN spinning!

Maybe it is a silent fan No, really I think that those new SoC are very cold and therefore the fan won't be on all the time. You can see that most of the boards with baytrail are fanless.

New boards from DFI added to the first post...

New boards from Biostar and Gigabyte added to first post. Only 2x SATA so nothing for me

EDIT: I also added Intel NUC to the first post

no Windows drivers available yet from SuperMicro or Intel (ugh!), no ETA on release of drivers. How the f*** is it possible, that they release product without drivers? They didn't make tests during development? This is starting to happen all round the industry... getting sick of it. Those things ar...

Added new board from MSI to the first post... only 2xSATA and not DC in. When will the nice boards come?

EDIT: Finally... new supermicro X10SBA is out (check first post), I hope it wont cost fortune

Isn't there any packet flying around your network and waking up your PC?

Vicotnik wrote:I want optical for my audio...

SPDIF will be very nice, but that is not gonna happen

Vicotnik wrote:check out http://www.fanlesstech.com.

Thx, almost forget about them


Btw links for buying AsRock boards added to first post.

Out of curiosity, have you actually compared the quality of analog and digital outputs? It is hard to explain, but I have (and hopefully will have) very good seeing. When I was testing VGA connection I always observed some small artifacts in the image and in bothered me a lot. (Tried on 22" 1920x12...

Vicotnik wrote:There are cheaper fanless Celeron boards, as HFat mentions, but they are built on Sandy or Ivy and will have the 24p bug. Maybe an option for you?

Have to check them, till now I only found Celeron boards with active cooling and 24-Pin ATX power connector.

Here's what SPCR says about the N2800 Atom which comes on boards with HDMI (as do the more powerful, non-mobile versions): "The quality of HD 720p and 1080p video playback was consistently good" There is no such thing as "FullHD (mkv and flash) performance". Containers aren't codecs! I believe that...

Get a cheap media extender that can play stuff but little else. Power consumption is good but flexibility sucks. I've tested media players (Xtreamer, Asus, Evolve, WD ...) more than year and I wouldn't recommend them to anybody. Mostly unbelievably buggy system, lack of support of certain codecs an...

HFat wrote:SPCR about a 4-year old Atom's integrated gfx: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1010-page4.html

I've got this board inside my server. No matter it's power, it doesn't have digital video output, so I see no point in using that as 1080p player.

edit: you mentionned Linux. You must know there's a graphics driver problem with Cedar Trail! I tried Win 7 as well, since the PowerVr graphic chip is known for almost no support Linux. Videos with 1080p resolution were played, but you can see, there were not flawless. I compared with more powerful...

HFat wrote:Intel has already released boards that idle at 10W and which play 1080p years ago.
They said the only consumer boards they're going to sell going forward are NUC boards. So don't hold your breath.

Which Atom board you have in mind? I tried lately DN2800MT and it wasn't able to play 1080p.

ARM boards like CubieTruck (Cubieboard 3) looks very promising, but they mostly have 1x SATA slot and the support for linux is very limited. You have to run some special distros and acceleration of video isn't working properly. Therefore my only hope is that, those lazy bastards in Intel will finall...

I'm still looking for some HTPC board with 10 W idle and 1080p capability and it looks like, that Intel boards with onboard bay-trail CPU's are slowly rolling out. Maybe it would be nice to keep them in one thread. So let me start and feel free to add others:) Portwell WADE-8078 http://www.portwell....

I personalty own the Gigabyte GA-C1007UN which has a dual core Ivy Bridge based Celeron included. It is night and day faster than Atom boards, was about the same price ($90) and plays back anything I've thrown at it. Can you please share your power consumption? I wanted to get one, but my plan is t...

Hi guys, since I'm still waiting for my dreamboard (D2800MT returned after week, because of poor HD capability), I've done some recent research and: 1) There is quite a shortage of Atom boards with D2800, D2700, 2500 2) Intel quietly released Atom E3800 family => Are there new boards coming up, or I...

Review of SuperMicro X9SBAA-F
http://www.servethehome.com/Server-deta ... 1u-server/

Looks like it idles around 12 Watts?

Bad news for now:
"the SECOpITX-GX is under development and is estimated to be availeble for samples in Q4 2013"

They asked me to write them around November

Sasha wrote:They only sell them to OEM and not in the retail market :/

Yes I'm aware of that fact. I hope to get some data from them and maybe the lowest possible amount to order. If it is around 100 pcs I may try to gather few people on some forum

Hi guys, I found these boards powered by AMD and they look very very good. http://www.seco.com/preview_images/prodotti/98_0.jpg The SECOpITX-GX is a Single Board Computer in Pico-ITX form factor (just 100 x 72mm) based on the newest AMD Embedded G-Series System on Chip (SOC), a family of Dual/Quad C...