Ah, I'm not familiar with those. I ended up buying a fairly old board, but
one I knew would work (for everything) with the plan 9 kernels. I got a
Supermicro X7SPA-H-D525, and while it isn't amazingly zippy (11 sec to
build /sys/src/9/pc) it seems to be fast enough to be a file server.

Jim

On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 14:00 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <vdharani@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Assuming cost is not an issue, wouldn't intel Avoton based board be good
> for this?
>
> Regards
> dharani
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> mine is the older model which is not passively cooled, a fan is needed
> (not to hand so i have no part numbers).
>
> it has a 40mm cpu fan but that is all. the fan died (got very noisy) and i
> replaced it but that was the only unreliable part of the server.
>
> -steve
>
>
> > On 22 Oct 2016, at 22:06, Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Stock heatsink with chassis cooling. I've had no issues since I've
> > started using them back in 2012:
> > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/stallion/venti/fs.jpg
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 1:21 PM, James A. Robinson
> > <jim.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> For you folks with an Intel Atom D525 based motherboard
> >> in your fileserver, do you run with a fanless? Use heatsink?
> >> Use a fan? Use liquid cooling? Use a quantum heat sink?
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
>
>
>