Interesting note. Today I looked at LSI 9207-8i cards and $300 seems to be market price and a dual port gigabit NIC is at least $55 (usually more.) Got me thinking about looking at motherboards with them built-in and then subtracting $300 for the SAS 2308 and $55 if there is a quad NIC (since most server boards have at least two NICs.) There are not many/ any LGA 1155 boards with a LSI SAS 2308 so I wanted to look at LGA 2011 boards with these components built-in.
Supermicro X9DA7 = $525 so you are basically spending $225 for the board. A LGA 1155 server board costs more
Supermicro X9DR7-LN4F = $550 which taking $300 for the LSI SAS2308 controller and a quad i350 NIC extra dual NIC is at least $55 so that would make the motherboard effectively $195 as opposed to purchasing them separately.
Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F = $520 you do not get as many onboard SATA ports (more to the level of a LGA 1155 board) but the onboard components leave the motherboard at $175
As a comparison the X9SCM-iiF is about $200.
The bad side is that you cannot take the components out and redeploy them. The plus side is that it actually makes LGA 2011 look a little bit better price wise even for single-CPU configurations especially since you have room to expand.
Supermicro X9DA7 = $525 so you are basically spending $225 for the board. A LGA 1155 server board costs more
Supermicro X9DR7-LN4F = $550 which taking $300 for the LSI SAS2308 controller and a quad i350 NIC extra dual NIC is at least $55 so that would make the motherboard effectively $195 as opposed to purchasing them separately.
Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F = $520 you do not get as many onboard SATA ports (more to the level of a LGA 1155 board) but the onboard components leave the motherboard at $175
As a comparison the X9SCM-iiF is about $200.
The bad side is that you cannot take the components out and redeploy them. The plus side is that it actually makes LGA 2011 look a little bit better price wise even for single-CPU configurations especially since you have room to expand.
