[Arm-dev] Desktop Boards

Thu Jan 28 22:50:04 UTC 2021
Pablo Sebastián Greco <pablo at fliagreco.com.ar>

I have a SolidRun Honeycomb, and I'm pretty happy with it. Still max RAM 
is 64G, but it is a nice board.

Pablo.

On 28/1/21 15:00, Skorpeo Skorpeo wrote:
> Solid Run Machiattobin?
>
> Sent from a mobile device
>
>> On Jan 28, 2021, at 12:56 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Most unfortunately, my MP30-AR1 board seems to have expired today. It 
>> gets stuck in an infinite boot loop:
>>
>> Boot from SPI-NOR
>> American Megatrends
>> Boot firmware (Project MP30-AR1, BIOS Ver F01; built at 15:11:23 on 
>> Sep  5 2016)
>> Slimpro FW Ver: 2.4
>> iPP Ver: 01.15.01.00
>> Checkpoint 2D
>> Checkpoint 2D
>> Checkpoint 2D
>> Checkpoint 2D
>>
>> So I'm looking for a replacement. Unfortunately, everything I can get 
>> in *TX form factor seems to be nowhere nearly as good, despite 6-7 
>> years of advancement, and I can't seem to find a replacement MP30-AR1 
>> board listed anywhere.
>>
>> I am aware of these:
>> https://www.chip1stop.com/USA/en/product/detail?partId=SOCI-0000003&mpn=SC0FQAA-B-000 
>> <https://www.chip1stop.com/USA/en/product/detail?partId=SOCI-0000003&mpn=SC0FQAA-B-000>
>> Pros:
>> - Can just buy one
>> Cons:
>> - Poor performance despite lots of cores, especially single-thread 
>> performance compared to the old MP30-AR1
>> - Only half the RAM capacity at 64GB
>>
>> https://e.huawei.com/en/products/servers/kunpeng/kunpeng-desktop-board 
>> <https://e.huawei.com/en/products/servers/kunpeng/kunpeng-desktop-board>
>> Pros:
>> - Might have half decent single thread performance matching or 
>> exceeding the old MP30-AR1
>> Cons:
>> - Questionable availability, unknown pricing
>> - Only half the RAM capacity at 64GB
>>
>> Is there another offering that I'm missing? I know Gigabyte do a 
>> server system, but I need something reasonably quiet and compact 
>> rather than something rack mounted making data centre grade noise.
>>
>> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>>
>> Gordan
>>
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