1U AMD boards?

[Kooldino]

Are there any single CPU 1U AMD boards? Or can a standard ATX board somehow fit in a 1U chassis?

[WyWyWyWy]

Height wise, I believe all motherboards fit 1U, except the new Gigabyte boards with dual power.

But I've seen some 1U chasises only accept MATX boards.

[Kooldino]

Is that a fact? Know of any good 1U (or maybe 2U) servers that can fit an A7n8x deluxe, a vid card (ouch...height) and the HSF?

How tall is a 2U? 3" or so?
Hmm...

[az]

I think you need 45° ram sockets.

AZ

[WyWyWyWy]

1U is 1.75in, 2U is double that.
You don't necessarily need 45o ram sockets... but in that case you need low profile rams.
There are many 1U HSF so its not a problem. But make sure all HSF are sucking instead of blowing in an 1U environment.
Gfx card.... I haven't heard of a 1U server that is not using onboard gfx yet.
You could possibly use a PCI gfx card with a riser card...
AMD platform is a bit too hot for 1U in my opinion... n-force + athlon
I think you'd better go for 2U, as 1U is quite limited in space and more expensive too....

[az]

1 HU coolers compared: http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp.htm

AZ

[Taz]

Even with a 2U case your not going to be able to use an AGP video card as the riser will only have PCI slots on it

[Kooldino]

Hmmm, so waht's the best COA here? A cost effective board that will utilize DDR, that's stable, will run well in freeBSD, and will run an XP2000+.

[K6-III]

How about that new Chaintech M-ATX NForce2-IGP board???

[az]

What for? Do you have to pay per height unit?

AZ

[Kooldino]

A friend of mine only has 2U of space left or something like that.

That Chaintech might work...

I assume you mean the "Chaintech Summit 7NIF2 Mainboard"?

Anyone have any experience with it?

So that board in a 2U will work? Just different HSF than a normal one? and RAM will have enough clearance, right? What about the PSU?

[Taz]

In a 2U case you can use pretty much any HSF. RAM clearance shouldn't be an issue either, it's only 1U cases where that's a problem.

[WyWyWyWy]

You buy the PSU as well when you buy the chassis. Thats why 1U chassis is always very expensive...
Are you sure the current N-force support under FreeBSD is good enough?
Oh by the way, many 1U or 2U chassises only support slimline optical drives, and have only SCSI modules but not 3.5" space...
Hmmm you did say cost effective... ever considered Epia rack?

[Taz]

Here's a diagram of a 2U case to give you an idea of dimensions :-

http://www.gtweb.net/dim-j2100.html

[Taz]

I was wrong, you can get them with an AGP slot on the riser

http://www.acme-technology.co.uk/acm283.htm