7 Nic Amd Fx 6300 CPU Motherboard
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Guys I have a 7 NIC network (inc WAN) with 2 x Dual 10gbe Intel x540 t2 and 1 x Dual 1GB Intel Pro & the onboard Realtek etc
ASrock 970 extreme 4, FX 6300 and 8GB Ram
Design is 7 separate networks i.e 192.168.0-5.1 /24 & Wan 144.x.x.x.
Everything has been going well until recently I am experiencing start stop on basic transfers.
I know 4 Physical NICS on a mobi is a stress and after 2 years its days maybe done. (It wasnt a new board to begin with either :S )
Can anybody recommend a good AMD mobi that will take 3 x 4xPcie with onboard video to suit this task.
The stop start thing is really bad, I have now dropped jumbo packets with no change
Everything is either Hp 2610 x 24 ProCurve or Netgear XS708T ProSAFE 8-Port 10-Gigabit Smart Managed Switch with CAT6a on the 10gbe links and Min Cat 6 for 1 gigabit networks
I am prepared to swap to 1150/1155 Intel if need be but would prefer to just swap the new board in and now full rebuild. I do have autobackup.
Any suggestions of a potential config for the stop start pause would be greatly appreciated
YipYip :(
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What is your budget.
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$500-600 if needed
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FYI
After a lot of work I isolated it to Adaware Real Time protection on Windows Server 2016 that I was using on my SAN
Its a piece of f$##$@@$##$@ crap (its free so yeah you get what you pay for :S )
I am still interested for reference purposes only as to what mobi you would recommend
Thanks
YipYip
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For an AM3+ system?
I'm not really aware of too many boards with onboard graphics, but tossing away one of the x16 slots on my ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
that I'm using for a FreeNAS build (I already had it and it supports ECC) doesn't hurt so much, especially since I had an extra Quadro 600 card lying around that doesn't consume the slot immediately adjacent to it like many GPUs do. My board has 4 x16 (physically) slots; 2 of them actually have 16 lanes and the other 2 have 4 lanes. I'm using one of the x4 slots for the GPU; that leaves 2 x16 and 1 x4 for other devices. One slot holds a x4 Intel NIC, one of the x16 slots has an x8 SAS HBA in it, and there's still one free, even with the GPU in there.I used to have that same Asrock board as well, it's a fine board. I ran 3 GPUs on it and it didn't break a sweat. There's no reason NICs in those slots would put any undue strain on it. If you need to dedicate the multi-lane PCIe slots to NICs, I'd look at picking up an old PCI graphics card. There's also at least one PCIe x1 GPU out there IIRC. You don't need a lot of bandwidth for the console on pfSense.
And finally, you could also look at consolidating NICs by picking up a server pull quad NIC or two. That way you could have 8 physical ports in just 2 PCIe x4 slots.
Hope this helps.
EDIT: Just re-read and realized you have 10Gbps cards in there. So disregard the last bit. If you really want a quality AM3+ board the M5A99FX PRO R2.0 is great. 2x16 and 2x4 all in x16 physical configuration. Plus a x1 and a legacy PCI slot for good measure. Enough for your 10Gbps cards and a GPU.