Ebay Tyan S7025WAGM2NR Server Motherboard

[roberth58]

Seller is asking $299 but accepted an offer of $180. Plenty of cheap 1366 cpu's available and it supports S3, couldn't find a SM board that did. Item # 251836372036

 

[james23]

Maybe im missing something here, but how is this a much better deal / spec'd board than say a X8-DTE-F (supermicro, can be had for 99$, not brand new though on ebay)?

is it bc it has 2x northbridges? (which i cant find another board that does, would this cause pci bus addressing issues maybe though?)

The other main differences are:
+4x 16x PCIe 2.0 slots (i would think this is for gamers though not servers as much since x8 PCIe 2.0 is usually max for raid / nics, GPUs are a different story)
+ supports S3 as the OP said (im assuming this is S3 suspend to ram you are taking about, right?)
+ 2x northbridges
- this tyan has the intel 82574L vs some SM boards with 82576 which is better for VM'ing (6 supports VMDq )

thanks for the info!

 

[roberth58]

Don't forget the LSI SAS controller. Yes I meant S3 suspend to ram, in my situation the decrease in power use will pay for itself quickly.