AMD AM1 boards

[pyro_]

I am considering picking up one of the AMD AM1 boards and CPUs for a small server at home. Was wondering if anyone has used them with Hyper-V yet? Also has anyone tried using anything other than video cards in the PCI-E 16x slot?

Thanks

 

[Alfa147x]

My Sophos UTM router consists of the following:

• AMD Sempron 3850 Kabini 1.3GHz Socket AM1 25W Quad $44.99
• MSI AM1I AM1 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX AMD
• INTEL i350-AM2
  

The Intel NIC works great in the 16x slot.

 

[pyro_]

Thanks at least I know I should not have issues with the 16x slot

 

[HellDiverUK]

A LSI HBA works fine too (see my .sig). I'm still not happy with the stability of my 3850/AM1 rig. It's OK, but it's just not quite there. Hopefully another few BIOS updates on the AM1I-A will sort things out.

 

[Diavuno]

I actually JUST built a new AM1 box,I wanted a quiet box to test stuff with with powering up my bohemeth of a desktop (and swapping cards in and out)

my MSI AM1I is equipped with 2x4GB Gskill and a AMD 5350.

I'm yet to try hyper V as I primarily use VMWare...
I have loaded it with an intel quad ET card, and currently holds a LSI 8888ELP

only thing? its mechanically a 16x slot, only 4X to the cpu.
but also has a mpcie slot

 

[pyro_]

At this point have decided that i am going to skip AM1 for this build and am going to go with either a Avoton 2550 or else a 35w Opteron 4100

 

[HellDiverUK]

Just fired up my AM1 system again. Running off an old Dell Optiplex 80Plus Silver PSU, and with an IBM M1015 in it, its idling at 28W. It's using 50% less power than the Intel H87/Pentium G3230 rig. All figures less hard-drives.