Hi everyone
I am considering possibly replacing the Tyan S7012 motherboard in my 2U home fileserver/NAS to get more PCI-E slots. My current mobo has 4 x PCI-E 2.0 x8 + 1 x PCI-E 1.1 x4, but the x4 slot has turned out to be of even more questionable usage than 1.1 x4 would already suggest, as it comes from the highly-congested ICH10 chip.
I am therefore looking around for a dual-CPU LGA1366 motherboard with 18 x DIMM slots and at least 5 x PCI-E Gen2.0 x8 slots, ideally more, that I can get affordably used in the UK.
There's very few motherboards on eBay that fit this bill, but one has come up that theoretically looks perfect - a Dell 1CTX6, the motherboard for a Dell PowerEdge T710.
But I'm worried that it appears to be quite non-standard with regards to power. From photos appears to have two non-standard power inputs, 22 pin + 18 pin, instead of the usual 1 x 24-port ATX style power + 2 x 4-pin for CPUs.
Photo of an example mobo here, with power inputs in the bottom right:
I asked the seller about the power and he said the PowerEdge has a power distribution board, related to their dual hot-swap PSUs.
Has anyone had any experience of using one of these - or a similar Dell mobo - in a standard case with a standard PSU? I'm wondering if maybe some of those 22 + 18 pin power ports would actually map easily to a normal 24 pin + 4 pin + 4 pin power of a normal PSU? That's only 28 pins, but maybe the Dell has more because of the redundant PSU, and not all are needed - or some could be commoned together?
The more I write the more it's actually sounding like a massive pain. But if anyone knows more about this, or even has got such a thing to work, I'd be most grateful for the info.
I can't find any other suitable LGA1366 mobos in the UK at the moment (at least not at sane prices), so if I did want to go down the route of replacing the mobo this looks like be my only options right now. Therefore I'm willing to consider a moderate amount of messing about to get it to work.
Thanks in advance.
I am considering possibly replacing the Tyan S7012 motherboard in my 2U home fileserver/NAS to get more PCI-E slots. My current mobo has 4 x PCI-E 2.0 x8 + 1 x PCI-E 1.1 x4, but the x4 slot has turned out to be of even more questionable usage than 1.1 x4 would already suggest, as it comes from the highly-congested ICH10 chip.
I am therefore looking around for a dual-CPU LGA1366 motherboard with 18 x DIMM slots and at least 5 x PCI-E Gen2.0 x8 slots, ideally more, that I can get affordably used in the UK.
There's very few motherboards on eBay that fit this bill, but one has come up that theoretically looks perfect - a Dell 1CTX6, the motherboard for a Dell PowerEdge T710.
But I'm worried that it appears to be quite non-standard with regards to power. From photos appears to have two non-standard power inputs, 22 pin + 18 pin, instead of the usual 1 x 24-port ATX style power + 2 x 4-pin for CPUs.
Photo of an example mobo here, with power inputs in the bottom right:
I asked the seller about the power and he said the PowerEdge has a power distribution board, related to their dual hot-swap PSUs.
Has anyone had any experience of using one of these - or a similar Dell mobo - in a standard case with a standard PSU? I'm wondering if maybe some of those 22 + 18 pin power ports would actually map easily to a normal 24 pin + 4 pin + 4 pin power of a normal PSU? That's only 28 pins, but maybe the Dell has more because of the redundant PSU, and not all are needed - or some could be commoned together?
The more I write the more it's actually sounding like a massive pain. But if anyone knows more about this, or even has got such a thing to work, I'd be most grateful for the info.
I can't find any other suitable LGA1366 mobos in the UK at the moment (at least not at sane prices), so if I did want to go down the route of replacing the mobo this looks like be my only options right now. Therefore I'm willing to consider a moderate amount of messing about to get it to work.
Thanks in advance.
