Wendel made a video of a nice micro board with ECC RAM and lots of sata slots, I will trawl through the video's to find it but it is a little old. I am Australian and was wondering if i could get recommends on a cheep/moderately priced system with ecc.
Also I am a Linux novice so hardware with nice linux compatibility would be nice.
Thanks,
and gawd i hate Australian pricing, the same mobo here is 389$
The ASUS AM1M-A which uses the AM1 socket supports ECC memory. The specifications for the board on the ASUS website states that it supports 2 x DIMM, Max. 32GB, DDR3 1600/1333 MHz Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory, however the manual for the board which can be found here states that it does in fact support Un-buffered ECC Memory. This motherboard costs around £25 in the UK and the most powerful CPU using the AM1 socket which is the AMD Athlon 5350 will cost around £35. I am not sure how much it will cost in Australia but AM1 CPUs/Motherboards are possibility the cheapest new computer parts you can buy.
Thanks I will look into this cheeeeep is good.
If appropriate for your intended use, a used server mainboard would allow you to save on a variety of parts. They're rarely overclocked so more likely to still be reliable than gaming hardware.
What are your goals with the system?
Xeon E3-1231-V3 with a C222,C224 or C226 chipset motherboard could be a good option.
BUt there are also cheaper options, Asus AM3+ boards support ECC memory aswell.
So it depends on what your main goal with this system would be?
My goal is to set up a small design studio for arduino production combined with design with remote access. Also a little video and audio encoding. As this will be a business venture I want to try be failsafe, the system linked by Zippy_Parmesian is a dream but out of my budget.
yeah well i think a Xeon E3-1231-V3 with a server grade C222 chipset board,
is most likely going to get you arround $1000,- + aswell.
lets see what amd can do.
I don't think ECC is something that would be leaps and bounds better for this purpose.
treat me as a Luddite in this regard, I've only ever built or designed gaming pc's since 1999. So my knowledge is non existent in this regards.
By leaps and bounds you mean price to benefit ratio? Or just in terms of being fail safe for small business?
I am searching my self but if you can come up with suggestions I would be grateful.
well on the intel side, the problem is basicly the motherboard.
Even a Pentium G3258, or most Core i3´s do support ECC.
But the problem is that only C-series chipset boards on the socket 1150 platform support ECC ram's.
And thats basicly a bummer, cause those C222, C224 or C226 boards are damm expensive.
thank you for looking. I did look into the amd solution and i will do some more research. At least I now have some pointers in which direction to look for the design.
i think it will be hard to put something together with ECC support on a budget.
If you want cheap pc that supports ECC go with AMD and deal with issues on the way or pony up the money to go with Intel and Super Micro and be trouble free. I have been prowling through forums and it seems to be that way.
This is the cheapest that you get. I don't know your workload but yeah. This is based off some build in another forum asking about the similar topic. http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1821403
I personaly have my doubts about AM1 supporting ECC.
Welp if this mate want cheap pc with ECC he will going to take the potential risks
The board you are referring to is theASRock Rack C2750D4I which is an Avaton 8 core CPU with 4 slots of RAM. Its quite pricey but not as much as a Xeon E5 or E3 build.
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