What motherboard should I buy ?

[Faisal A]

Does any body know of a cheap motherboard (£20 or less, used) that supports ECC memory and fits in an ATX case ? I want any of the following CPU sockets :

LGA775

AM1

AM2

FM1

FM2

LGA1366

[LukeSavenije]

10 minutes ago, Faisal A said:

LGA775

you have some weird chipsets that only support 1gb per channel on old pentiums, but you can find them for a couple dollars

 

not sure what you actually need tho

[Faisal A]

@LukeSavenije Do you know where I can buy them from ? Please can you give an ebay link ? Looking to put a xeon in and use as a test bench

[LukeSavenije]

1 minute ago, Faisal A said:

@LukeSavenije Do you know where I can buy them from ? Please can you give an ebay link ? Looking to put a xeon in and use as a test bench

don't bother, those really cheap ones don't support xeons

 

you can look around for old server boards, but those generally aren't atx

 

tho you do have servers like the ml350 g6 that are towers

[Faisal A]

I have got a spare case and power supply and just need motherboard cpu and ram. Dont want to buy a £100 server

[LukeSavenije]

1 minute ago, Faisal A said:

I have got a spare case and power supply and just need motherboard cpu and ram. Dont want to buy a £100 server

you can find them for like 50 bucks sometimes

 

heck, i think you can find a ml350 g5 (quad core dual xeon) for around 25-30

[Faisal A]

@LukeSavenije

[LukeSavenije]

i mean... looking at my market it's much better

https://www.marktplaats.nl/a/computers-en-software/servers/m1425956843-hp-proliant-ml350-g5.html?c=a2384ef0ece270f44503df9f8598c624&previousPage=lr

 

and that's even with just scrolling though one page

[Faisal A]

@LukeSavenije Probably going to cost a bomb to ship to UK

[LukeSavenije]

Just now, Faisal A said:

@LukeSavenije Probably going to cost a bomb to ship to UK

it was an example

 

look around at ebay and your local market at these kind of servers from hp, lenovo, dell and IBM

 

because they're EOL, they're super cheap to pick up

[Faisal A]

@LukeSavenije Looked on ebay. Found a dell poweredge for £60 with 2 xeons and 16gb of RAM. I am actually on a budget because I am saving up for a 3D printer and a wate rcooling upgrade for my PC, so the cheaper the better.

[LukeSavenije]

1 minute ago, Faisal A said:

@LukeSavenije Looked on ebay. Found a dell poweredge for £60 with 2 xeons and 16gb of RAM. I am actually on a budget because I am saving up for a 3D printer and a wate rcooling upgrade for my PC, so the cheaper the better.

i mean... you can do some really nice stuff if it's a good one

 

which one is it?

[Faisal A]

@LukeSavenijeThis is the one

Edited November 25, 2019 by LogicalDrm

[LukeSavenije]

On 6/20/2019 at 10:01 PM, Faisal A said:

@LukeSavenije

i meant the server

Edited November 25, 2019 by LogicalDrm

[DilbertOfTheHood]

47 minutes ago, Faisal A said:

Does any body know of a cheap motherboard (£20 or less, used) that supports ECC memory and fits in an ATX case ? I want any of the following CPU sockets :

LGA775

AM1

AM2

FM1

FM2

LGA1366

I'm using a LGA1366, X58 Motherboard. Been 10 years and counting on it. You can also pick up a Xeon W3690 for cheap and have a 6 core 3.7ghz (4+GHz OC) CPU.

[Faisal A]

@LukeSavenije Just came across the HP G6 server : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-ProLiant-ML110-G6-Server-Intel-Pentium-G6950-2-80GHz-1GB-RAM-160GB-HDD/123421562980

Here is the one I want(ed) : (listing has ended )

Edited November 25, 2019 by LogicalDrm

[LukeSavenije]

2 minutes ago, Faisal A said:

Here is the one I want

that one only goes up to the x3450 (officially) tho

 

but these kind of servers aren't rare at all, and if you look once a while, you can find some amazing deals

 

I'm soon picking up a ml350 g6 (or 2 and a g5 if i wanted to) for a old 775 board i found in a 7,50 euro pc

 

it's mainly just luck and good searching here