I just scored one of these AIMB-272's coupled with an i7-2710qe and 16GB of ram. I know I'm a bit late to the party but I was hoping some of you could verify that you indeed have the v1.11 bios that is listed on Advantech's site. Further to that end, anyone who does happen to have 1.11, would you be so kind as to post a few screenshots of the bios options? My board appears to have never been used and it came with an oddball AMI firmware (v 4.6.4) which is dated a couple months before the official one listed on their page. I wonder if the official bios has anything mine is lacking or vice-versa. I noticed one of you guys said that you had some fan speed settings in the bios which appear to be absent on mine. For what it's worth, it seems my board is unbranded, possibly meant to be sold to oems as ESXi shows "to be filled in by O.E.M" under the manufacturer and model fields. My board came in an Advantech box with accessories and some paperwork.
This seems to be a pretty competent little board and I am considering moving my virtualized router setup over to it and adding some form of virtualized fileserver to it... Leaning strongly towards Unraid for this duty as I really don't want to be tied to a particular drive model/capacity and speed is not my top priority. I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions, though I realize that this probably isn't the correct section for that discussion.
Like many of you, I want to replace the HSF with something better and quieter. I see several of you are using the Evercool tower-style northbridge cooler and I'm considering giving that a shot if I'm unable to find a better solution.
Do any of you with the AIMB-272 happen to own a Silverstone DS380B and can verify if the standoffs are long enough (and the backplate cavity is raised enough) to accomodate the interfaces on the bottom of the board? I know that Silverstone's Sugo cases are marketed as having "elevated standoffs" at ~10mm
According to one Amazon user the standoffs on the DS380B are ~8mm tall which I'm not sure would be enough (haven't measured)
In order to stick to the topic of Great Deals, I stumbled on a generic (industrial looking) PGA-988 cooler that I found for only $5 including shipping. I ordered one of these as I can't imagine it being any worse than the horrid cooler that is currently sitting on my chip.
PGA988 cooler
Also, here is a 32GB SLC cFast card that may be of value to owners of this board. I know it's a small capacity and my search showed it isn't too fast (iirc around 150MB/Sec read and write) At $30 asking price it seemed to be a fairly decent deal but I shot out a lowball offer and was countered @ $20.
32GB SLC cFast flash card
Thank you all for sharing deals here, I've been a long time lurker and, thanks to you guys, I've scored some pretty awesome deals. I hope that someone here benefits from my find.