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Arthur E.

Arthur E.

Joined on 06/02/04

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Decent Server Board

SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SLM-L-O LGA 775 Intel 945GC Micro ATX Intel Core 2 Duo/Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron D Server Motherboard
SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SLM-L-O LGA 775 Intel 945GC Micro ATX Intel Core 2 Duo/Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron D Server Motherboard

Pros: Server has been running Fedora 10 x86_64 for more than 10 months now and has been nothing but rock stable. I had a need for an mATX server board that I could use my ever ageing Pentium 805D processor with. Server has 4 250GB SATA drives in software RAID5 data volume as well as PATA/IDE HDD for the OS drive. In addition to this, there are 3 external HDDs connected via USB. The server has routine uptimes exceeding 100 days and is only brought down for drive replacement or to boot a new kernel. Server is multi-homed and provides DNS, DHCP, firewall, routing and file serving (including NFS, SAMBA and iSCSI). Board works great with crucial DDR2-667 RAM. I plan to re-use this board with a newer Core 2 Duo processor once I have upgraded my core infrastructure.

Cons: On-board NICs were unstable using the stock kernel drivers with Fedora 10 and did not work at all with CentOS 5.x. Under Fedora 10, the interfaces would come up and remain functional until heavy traffic was initiated (large file transfers etc). The kernel driver had to be removed and re-loaded before the interfaces would re-initialize. It would have been nice if the board had been outfitted with Intel NICs as they are universally supported and known to be best in class. -1 egg.

Overall Review: According to dmidecode, the bios seems to think it has four (4) dimm slots and is capable of supporting up to 16GB of RAM. This board would rock if the layout could have been adjusted to support 4 dimm slots. Aside from the NIC issue (which may be resolved by now) this is an excellent Linux server board.

Most Critical Review

So far so good, but could be better.

iKross Car Dashboard Mount Holder for Cell Phone, Smartphone, Blackberry, Iphone, GPS and Other Mobile Devices
iKross Car Dashboard Mount Holder for Cell Phone, Smartphone, Blackberry, Iphone, GPS and Other Mobile Devices

Pros: I like the ability to snap this up and throw it in the back seat without fumbling with a suction cup or just leaving it on the dash when I need to put in my sun shades.

Cons: Base weight is just barely enough to weigh down my Razr Maxx inside an Otterbox. I get some wobble and it is difficult to dial in the 'perfect' viewing angle but it has yet to fall off the dash.

Overall Review: I bought this for my 2012 F-150. I was thinking the base would fit inside the tray indent in the top/center of the dash, but the base weights won't fit all the way in that location which is why I am getting the wobble mentioned above.

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GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 ATX Graphics Card GV-N105TD5-4GD
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 ATX Graphics Card GV-N105TD5-4GD

Pros: Card is in good shape (both of the ones I bought look new) and worked out of the box. Packaging was better than some new-in-box cards I've bought. This is the best price I could find on 1050Ti cards when I bought. These are great for systems that don't have the option for supplemental power. One card went into a Lenovo IdeaCentre to support triple head monitors on a test bench and the other went into a low power build that needed discrete cuda cores for AI/ML image processing.

Cons: Price, but that's a factor of the world we live in. GPU prices seem to be normalizing, but between inflation being out of control and vendors still trying to gouge for every dime they can get for a video card - it still "feels" a bit over priced for what it is.

Overall Review: I would recommend this card (as long as NewEgg has stock) if you need a low cost discrete card to either increase desktop real-estate or even some low-level AI/ML. I'm sure the card is also good for light gaming or playing older titles? I'm not much of a gamer.

Inexpensive basic AM4 motherboard

BIOSTAR Biostar A320MH A320MH AM4 AMD A320 USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
BIOSTAR Biostar A320MH A320MH AM4 AMD A320 USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: - Price - Works out of the box with 200G and 3000G Athlon processors. - Everything worked with Rocky Linux - Price

Cons: - Light on BIOS features, but that could be an A320 issue more than this motherboard - Only 1 case fan header - USB 3 / USB2 / JP1 header are very close together, this made fitting the USB 3 case header more snug than I would have liked.

Overall Review: Great budget motherboard for a light duty network appliance. I pared this one with an Athlon 3000G, 8GB of Ripjaws RAM, 2xWD Blue 250GB SATA SSDs and 2x2TB Seagate HDDs and so far it's been rock steady. Everything was recognized/worked with a fresh install of Rocky Linux and I'm looking forward to putting it into service and forgetting about it.

Inexpensive RAM for network appliances

G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) Desktop Memory Model F4-2133C15D-8GVR
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) Desktop Memory Model F4-2133C15D-8GVR

Pros: - Price - No MemTest86 errors after a 24 hour run

Overall Review: These are affordable and out of 4 sets I've not had a single stick fail a 24 hour MemTest86 burn in test.

Low cost reliable SATA SSD

WD Blue 3D NAND 250GB Internal SSD - SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5"/7mm Solid State Drive - WDS250G2B0A
WD Blue 3D NAND 250GB Internal SSD - SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5"/7mm Solid State Drive - WDS250G2B0A

Pros: - Price - Performance / Durability

Cons: N/A

Overall Review: I use pairs of these in RAID-1 arrays in network appliance builds. They more than fast enough for running the light Linux OS, are easy on the wallet and I've yet to have one fail.

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