On 2/22/2013 9:25 AM, Charles Polisher wrote:

Stan Hoeppner wrote:

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Not only does SuperMicro offer far more Intel server boards than Intel,
they also offer more AMD server boards than anyone.  Here's an
inexpensive server board for Opteron 3000 (AM3+) that has an integrated
8 pot LSI 2308 (9207--same as yours):
http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron3000/SR56x0/H8SML-7.cfm

Following this thread avidly, it has made me late for work twice this week.

Heheh, it's not *that* interesting. ;)

With IPMI added it seems to retail for same price (Amazon USD$399):
http://www.supermicro.com/aplus/motherboard/opteron3000/sr56x0/h8sml-7f.cfm

The H8SML above is their bottom rung AMD server board.  The top rung is
this one:
http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6000/SR56x0/H8QG7-LN4F.cfm

Quad socket G34, up to 64 cores and 1TB RAM, 16 DDR3 channels up to
192GB/s, on-board LSI MegaRAID 9265-8i w/1GB cache, quad Intel GbE, two
PCIe 2.0 x16 slots and two x8, etc.

Of course any system using this board won't rely on the on-board LSI for
main storage.  It's primarily for boot/OS RAID.

-- 
Stan