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*** SOLD, no longer available *** I bought three of the Gigabyte MC12-LE0 AM4 server motherboards discussed in this thread. Shipping to USA from Germany was nearly the cost of the board itself (for a single board), so I bought three to amortize shipping cost as well as insurance against DOA...

What power supply? How was the loading done? Any other peripherals attached (fans, drives, SSD, GPU, etc)?

Quick follow-up to my previous post regarding power consumption. Using the config mentioned in post #361 (the 32GB RAM profile), I did four tests: idle vs prime95, picoPSU vs Seasonic. I let the system run for about 12 hours in each profile, and took the total watt-hours divided by total hours...

FYI, the seller will ship to the USA if you email them. Shipping costs are kinda high though. I bought three units with the intent of keeping one and selling the other two. I'm doing firmware and BIOS upgrades on all three, and also doing some basic burn-in testing on them. I'm halfway...

I bought a cheap R730 off ebay. It looked pretty sad when I received it, as it clearly had a huge sticker on it originally. Five minutes of work with some goo-gone and it looks like new! Anyway, I followed @ms264556's awesome guide to make it think it's an R850, then installed Unleashed. It...

I currently have Ubiquiti wireless in my house, two WAPs: U6-Pro and AC-Pro. The controller is running on a Proxmox LXC container. Everything works fine as far as I can tell. However, I stumbled across this thread, Ruckus Wireless as an Unifi alternative? and got a bad case of upgrade-itis...

A big thanks to @fohdeesha for creating this immensely valuable resource! I have an ICX6450-48p for my home. I got it for three main reasons: (1) built-in PoE to do away with the injector I was previously using, (2) management capabilities, specifically, to use VLANs to partition my network...

Random thought: in what kind of case is the failing motherboard? Many many years ago, I had an ASRock Rack mini-itx motherboard that mysteriously died. I thought it was just a dud board, until I realized the case had some poorly-placed metal bits protruding from the area under the motherboard...

Just wanted to give @zac1 another kudos. I ordered a 5019A-FTN4 (A2SDi-8C-HLN4F) system from him. Less than 18 hours from California to the Chicago suburbs! I was a bit hesitant to pull the trigger, as his price was quite literally too good to be true. Normally I'm leery of stuff that falls...

I haven't looked into this in detail in several years now, but last I looked at this, those lower-TDP CPU variants essentially just have a lower heat/power ceiling, but the floor is the same (assuming you have all the power-saving features enabled). The target for the lower-TDP variants is when...

Thanks for posting the long-term follow up! I admire your ability to more or less leave a system be, rather than constantly upgrading and being seduced by new toys. We had very similar systems, at least at one time. I've too-often been seduced by "shiny new things" and/or "change for change's...

Thanks for the feedback - that's basically in line with what I had assumed. Sounds like for my particular use-case, TrueNAS could indeed be a viable all-in-one solution.

In general, if a filer OS (such as TrueNAS/FreeNAS) natively supports virtualization, why would one run that as a virtualized guest under a hypervisor OS (such as Proxmox), rather than natively? For example, The Proxmox VE KVM-based All-in-One with FreeNAS: why couldn't that be simplified to...

To be clear, you're saying the chassis will need to be physically modified, right? As far as removing the PDB, do you happen to know offhand, can that be done with screws? Or is the PDB attached with rivets that would need to be drilled out? By "making holes", I assume you mean drilling holes...