Tyan S5533GM2NR LE

[canta]

Seller has another batch -> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tyan-S5533G...-C222-VGA-Sata-Server-Mainboard-/131632365910

Tyan S5533GM2NR LE miniitx with 16X pcie 3

http://www.ebay.com/itm/141718707040 with best offer

official site link: http://www.tyan.com/Motherboards_S5533_S5533GM2NR-LE
Supported CPU Series Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 & 4th Gen. Core i3 series processors
dual 1G NIC I210
one NIC for IPMI 2

I bought one $44 (plus extra for shipping, mine is $20). well seems ok deal since the new motherboard price in 2014 was $125

 

[Dajinn]

Wish I had a use case for this, pretty sweet deal.

 

[abstractalgebra]

$64 total with shipping is nice, perhaps for a pfsense box? Now what cheap CPU are you going to use?
Curious how power efficient is this motherboard since I recall Supermicro was solid but Asrock was rather power hungry on the C2750 platform for example.

 

[T_Minus]

Very nice! Drop a L CPU in there and go.

 

[PnoT]

Very nice! Drop a L CPU in there and go.

I was thinking about moving my XPEnology over to something like this with an "L" as well that could drive a fair amount of Plex users.

The only thing that's killing it for me right now is the 1 PCI slot as I can't get 10GB and an HBA on it. On the CPU side most of the "L" are over $250'ish on eBay which kills it being a super cheap setup. Time to start looking at the intel db and eBay pricing I guess.

 

[T_Minus]

That's why I personally HATE ITX boards.

I have 3+ SuperMIcro uATX E3 for NAS builds/testing and the 1 SM ITX.. hate it.

But, for the record I"m using a E3-1220L as one of my Chips for a low power E3 with options (10G, HBA), it should be a rather powerful beast.
IIRC thats a 17w chip

 

[PnoT]

That's why I personally HATE ITX boards.

I have 3+ SuperMIcro uATX E3 for NAS builds/testing and the 1 SM ITX.. hate it.

But, for the record I"m using a E3-1220L as one of my Chips for a low power E3 with options (10G, HBA), it should be a rather powerful beast.
IIRC thats a 17w chip

The E3-1265Lv3 looks like a real winner for a nice plex box but the on-board video is for the birds. The E3-1240LV3 has no on-board but is 500-1Ghz behind on the clock. If you could team the 1240 up with a small motherboard that could Overclock, has IMPI, mITX that would be sweet.

 

[Guillermo Calvo]

I got two, seller accepted $80 + shipping

Thank you!

 

[canta]

I have celeron G and i3 V3 leftover from scrap at work , and extra 2X4G DDR3L ecc. and 4X8G non ecc (was cheap hmm... 3 years ago when ram price was at the lowest price).

thinking to do a minor surgery on my SE3016 with Intel expander SAS2 and this motherboard and "naked" atx psu. this would replace my oldest (5410l (hmm could be20) backup server that eat power much!!.
or
something

 

[canta]

$64 total with shipping is nice, perhaps for a pfsense box? Now what cheap CPU are you going to use?
Curious how power efficient is this motherboard since I recall Supermicro was solid but Asrock was rather power hungry on the C2750 platform for example.

you need i3 or e3.....
if you pair with i3 or e3 and ddr3l( well help a bit on RAM ), power consumption should be minimal.

 

[Dajinn]

What are some good cases this works well in, whether it's rack mount or a desktop chassis, in the context of being a pfSense box? I mean obviously it seems like overkill to put this in a 1U fell length chassis when you could just get a full E/ATX board in one of those.

 

[Dajinn]

All gone

 

[canta]

All gone

a fresh new list for the same seller -> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tyan-S5533G...-C222-VGA-Sata-Server-Mainboard-/131632365910

 

[cesmith9999]

Those are almost perfect for storage blades...

Chris

 

[xexe]

Those are almost perfect for storage blades...

Chris

Which storage blades?

 

[cesmith9999]

You have 6 SATA slots. 1 expansion slot (for 10 GB+ NIC) add a helmer cabinet and

1 boot disk 2 SSD and 3 spinners... + 4-8 of these... and you have a SOFS cluster...

still a bit much to byte on... the new gigabyte boards should be better. but much more expensive.

Chris

 

[PnoT]

You have 6 SATA slots. 1 expansion slot (for 10 GB+ NIC) add a helmer cabinet and

1 boot disk 2 SSD and 3 spinners... + 4-8 of these... and you have a SOFS cluster...

still a bit much to byte on... the new gigabyte boards should be better. but much more expensive.

Chris

I take it you're talking about using storage direct in 2016 or vSAN in VMWare.

The only problem I'm having with buying one of these are the cpu prices ~$260-300.

 

[cesmith9999]

Yes, I am with Hyper-V

Chris

 

[xexe]

Got 3 of them for 45$ each + 20$ shipping in US. Total 155$.
Quite a nice deal, just need to add e3 v3 or g32** for storage.

 

[PnoT]

Got 3 of them for 45$ each + 20$ shipping in US. Total 155$.
Quite a nice deal, just need to add e3 v3 or g32** for storage.

Where can you get e3's for these pretty cheap?