Hi Jan,
On 28.08.2015 16:09, Jan Stary wrote:
I have been searching for a while for a fanless motherboard
to use as my OpenBSD workstation with reasonable performance.
The board should be a mini-ITX form factor
so that I can use it in this enclosure that I like.
http://www.mini-box.com/M350S-enclosure-with-picoPSU-80-and-60W-adapter
I think you will have to make the fanless or the msata bit a soft goal.
There is a supermicro board that probably fits your requirements, but it
is so expensive I doubt the price is worth it (check out Supermicro
X11SBA-LN4F). Also I don't know if that board is supported by OpenBSD
yet.
There is a barebone system from Shuttle DS437 that fits your
requirements. I don't know it so I can not tell if it works as
workstation.
I am running a similar system as my workstation, but is not fanless. It
is an Asus H81T board with an Core-i3 and an msata SSD. The BIOS of the
board has a bug which prevents it from disabling the internal display
port. Although it is disabled in the BIOS it still shows up in the OS as
an active DP with a fixed resolution of 1024*768. Easy to work around in
xorg (xrandr) but the console is using this internal port as a
reference, regardless what resolution your LCD really has.
Also note that on some boards the SATA connectors are shared with the
msata port. So you might not be able to use all SATA connectors when a
msata ssd is plugged in. Check the diagrams from the board to find out.
I personally dropped the fan requirement and am running the stock i3 fan
in a mini-itx case Chieftec Compact IX-01B. If noise is more important
to you I would drop the msata requirement and use a standard size ssd.
Good luck
Lars
