Atom SoC microserver

[ScandalousLobster]

Hi. I'm looking to build a small home x86_64 server - it needs to be low on TDP.

The new Atom S1200 series SoCs look great. Has anyone got any idea where I would purchase one? They are not easy to find..

Thanks.

 

[MU_Engineer]

The Atom SoCs are soldered to the motherboard, so you should try to look for a specific motherboard with such a CPU on it. A quick search on Supermicro's website turned up the X9SBAA-F, which is a mini-ITX Atom S1260 based unit. Several vendors offer them for sale, such as Ewiz/SuperBiiz. I have bought from that vendor before and they simply get Supermicro to drop ship stuff right to your door in non-bulk quantities. That's about as good of a setup as you can hope for in trying to buy uncommon server stuff in individual quantities and not pay out the nose for it. I ordered an unusual quad socket Opteron Supermicro whitebox board from them and it arrived in a handful of days for about a hundred bucks less than the handful of other websites that stock such unusual parts in lots of less than 10.