I bought this board and put it into an Antec ISK 110 VESA case, a Kingston KVR16N11K2/16 16GB 1600MHz CL11 DDR3 ValueRAM Memory Kit and a SEAGATE ST1000LM014 Laptop (1TB) Solid State Hybrid Drive, all via Amazon. It took me about 30 mins to build the system, half of which was scratching my head over how to get the board into the case and how to route the cables properly.
First of all, you won't find the Realtek LAN described in any documentation, but it's RTL8111/8168B, as reported by Ubuntu.
I bought the parts described to build a dead quiet server that I can keep running constantly with little power use, to add to my power-hungry and noisy virtualisation lab, and everything is working fine.
At the moment it's running VMware ESXi 5.5 (ISO must be patched using "ESXI Customiser" to add the Realtek driver .vim file) with a couple of VMs (Windows 2012 AD server for example). If you're thinking of running Ubuntu that works a charm as well with this board.
| Brand | Gigabyte |
|---|---|
| Product Dimensions | 25 x 25 x 6 cm; 780 Grams |
| Item model number | C1037UN-EU |
| Manufacturer | Gigabyte |
| Series | GA-C1037UN-EU |
| Processor Brand | Processor family |
| Processor Count | 1 |
| Memory Technology | DDR3 |
| Computer Memory Type | DDR3 SDRAM |
| Maximum Memory Supported | 16 GB |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 4 |
| Number of HDMI Ports | 1 |
| Number of Ethernet Ports | 2 |
| Number of VGA Ports | 1 |
| Number of Serial Ports | 1 |
| Voltage | 1.5 Volts |
| Hardware Platform | PC |
| Supported Software | Windows XP Professional x64 |
| Are Batteries Included | No |
| Lithium Battery Weight | 3 Grams |
| Item Weight | 780 g |