[Arm-dev] Desktop Boards

Thu Jan 28 23:20:13 UTC 2021
Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org>

Thanks, that's more along the lines of what I am looking for. :-)

On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, 23:07 Tony Lees - Avantek, <tony.lees at avantek.co.uk>
wrote:

> Blatant advertising:
>
>
> https://store.avantek.co.uk/avantek-32-core-cavium-thunderx-arm-desktop.html
>
> Regards, Tony
>
> On 28 Jan 2021, at 23:03, Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org> wrote:
>
> 
> Thanks, that looks a little better than the other two I found. Do you know
> if it supports ECC memory? The spec doesn't seem to mention it.
>
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, 22:50 Pablo Sebastián Greco, <pablo at fliagreco.com.ar>
> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>> <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
>> 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
>> 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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