[geeks] RAM and CPU for sale

[Lionel Peterson]

FYI - I spake for it (My surplused Opteron 1210 was looking for a friend ;^)

Anyone have any opinions of Gigabyte MBs, the GA-MA-74GM-S2 in particular?

I have precious little experience with AMD boards and chips, but this
board looks good for my purposes: I need to make two virtual servers
for a failover cluster under Windows 2008 (Hyper-V). The things I'm
looking for in an MB are:

AM2 socket with confirmed interoperability with Opteron 1210 CPU - check
Gigabit Ethernet - check
Dual Ethernet ports - miss
Capable of 8 Gigs of RAM on board - check
Four memory sockets - miss
SATA, IDE support - check
PCI Express expansion - check
PCI slot - check
Low price (under $75/each, I need two) - check ($58 at Microcenter.com)

I found a good review of this board on silentpcreview, the board is on
the OpenSolaris HCL, and the Opteron 1210 is specifically listed as
supported on this board.

Anyone have a different suggestion? I can go up to full ATX size MB (I
have some chassis w/PS already), but it looks like I'd have to spend a
fair bit more money to get dual NICs and more memory sockets, but this
looks like a good compromise (a quick scan of newegg shows I'd have to
spend over double)...

Lionel

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Shannon Hendrix<shannon at widomaker.com>
wrote:
> On Jul 18, 2009, at 16:14 , Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
>> I have 4GB of DDR2 800MHz RAM, and a dual-core AMD 1210 CPU for sale.
>>
>> It was in use in a server for 1 year.
>>
>> Best offer in the next couple of days.  I imagine it would ship with $5
>> Priority, or not much over (it has copper heatsinks, so it is a little
>> heavy).
>>
>> I also have an OEM fan for it, brand new, but I'll leave it off if you
>> don't need it since it might push shipping over 1 pound.
>
>
> This is now spoken for.
>
>
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> shannon at widomaker.com
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