I seem to be having massive issues with my miniITX board with uses a T7200 CPU No idea if its a faulty board or just my config. Not really got time to test. Soooo as its for work I need to buy a new system ASAP! It needs to be low power (as possible!!!) 120w psu MAX I dont want to be buying a new one! I have been looking at the i3 2100T CPU which is 35w £98 on ebuyer. 8GB DDR3 about £40ish I need a microATX board which has onboard video, minimum 5 SATA (RAID10 support would be nice, but may do it software in ubuntu) As Im running 4x 320GB 2.5" drives. I would also like a board which has onboard lan teaming, if not I will have to buy a lan card too. Any recomendations on a board? I have never built a i system before so not too sure what I should look out for!
i3-2100T is a stupid buy. In idle there are marginal differences between any of Sandy Bridge CPUs. We are talking about single digit differences between dualcore Celerons and quadcore i7-2600K. So save yourself lot of money and get a Pentium G620 - or if you can buy in other shops, then get a Celeron G530. mATX Sandy Bridge board with dual LAN - now that is something i don't think you will find. 5 SATA also means you need to look for H67/Z68 boards.
They are half the price, but TDP is 65w, I have a 120w psu at the moment, could maybe get a 150w but nothing more! Could the TDP on that cpu be a issue?
Currently have itx but will go for microatx now as its cheaper http://www.ebuyer.com/266605-asus-p...-8-channel-hd-audio-matx-p8h61-m-le-usb3-r3-0 Looking at this board, only 4x sata but guess I could install from USB as no need for a dvd drive on this. Dual lan, found one board which is no longer made!
This may have just sold me the G620 http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/pentium-g850-g840-g620_8.html Going to read into that a bit more!! thanks for that
