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Hi all, The company I work for are planning to buy Supermicro rax (configuration not yet decided) to be used for 3d rendering (Max, maya, blender - all CPU based as of now). We have two Supermicro E5-2697 v4 18 core machines with 32 GB RAM currently. Idea is to buy something that can provide thrice the speed of what we have (41x2=82 Gz) under 20,000 Euros. I have been using http://www.thinkmate.com/ to configure different options. Given the fact that we do not wish to assemble something ourselves, can someone tell me what would be the right choice for the amount ? Plus are there any other sites like thinkmate which provide us information on different rack options ? Thanks

Hi, I own a Caselabs S5 custom NAS and I recently added a second Supermicro 5 HDD bay to it. On the first HDD bay, I had removed the original fan and replaced it with a much slower and quieter Noctua NF-A9. I wanted to keep the quiet aspect but improve the cooling to something the original (which is super loud) would provide. Also keeping the big fan box of the second HDD bay would have interfered with my motherboard, so I had to find a way. Finally, I did it the "Linus way", but it works quite nicely. Only requirement, you must have some space under the HDD bay, so that's why I left one 5.25" bay in between. I plan on doing a 3D printing of a piece that will be screwed on the side of the HDD bay and will allow to fix the fan properly. I will update if I can create the 3D model and use the printer we have in the school where I work. It won't be easy as I have to avoid interfering with airflow (and I'm not used to create 3D models). If someone has already done something similar, feel free to share your experience

hi to all, im from the philippines and im starting to have interests in servers from the internet cafe's client-server configuration here in South East Asia.i bought second hand parts for the sake of learning server configurations and diskless management configuration. They are using servers to create a diskless management system form cafe clients. i've read some softwares for these and i reviewed them too.(i decided to use HP RCS VIM because it also supports bandwidth management like pfsense) and for the hardware part i manage to get a cpu+mobo+ram bundle for about 50USD(2,500 php) please rate for what can i extract from these components for what i have for am i going to build and what can i do for the problems i encountered. AMD Opteron 4122 2.2Ghz(quad-core) processor Super micro H8SCM(-F) micro-ATX server motherboard 8GB (2x4GB) 1333Ghz hynix server ram( i haven't check if it's Registered ECC or what) I've added some parts like a surplus korean 500watts true rated PSU. an AVR + desktop switch and 60Gbs SATA HDD for an extra 40USD (2,000 php) for testing the parts, i used a 5400prm 60Gb laptop SATA HDD.(planning to buy a server/enterprise grade HDD when there is available) as of now. i'm not on the performance yet. because I'm having problems with my parts. here's what happened.when i turn on my system after it initializes, I noticed that it detects some form of RAM error that requires me to press F1 to continue..then after some restarts it suddenly disapprears.(is it a sign that my memory is a registered ECC RAM or just un buffered server RAM) when i'm still installing a windows server OS. it fails over and over again(i manage to install the windows server on my laptop using the 60gb drive) but when i attached the drive back to my server, it suddenly shut off like a form of a power cut. i haven't test it yet to run all day because it happen about 4 times for the entire 3 hours of testing the system. i see a led blinking on my motherboard on a fix rate aside for the mother board power led which light perfectly normal. Does it signals me that there is something wrong with my system? or my power supply is too low for my server board and other components? thanks in advance for the ideas and suggestions. i'll upload pictures as soon as i get home. i forgot to take pictures for what i did last night.

So at work I got my hands on a Google Mini (Google appliance/search blox) that was stated as working and was like new except the hard drive had been removed. I installed a hard drive which had Ubuntu pre-installed in it, but it doesnt boot it... it posts successfully, I can enter the bios and play with the parameters just fine, it detects my drive just fine, but when it's time to boot it stays a black screen with a blinking underscore in white, I can't type any command but I can turn num lock and cap lock on and off. So I decided to try booting ubuntu 10.04 off a USB (I know it's old, but it had been reported online to be compatible and working for someone else) When I stick my USB in, same thing, it posts fine, I can get into bios if I want, the drive is properly detected and has priority in the boot order BUT I get that same black screen... the only thing different is that I can't turn on or off caps or num lock? Specs: Motherboard: SuperMicro SuperO P8SCT Pentium 4 531 single core hyper-threaded 3GHz 2x1GB ECC memory an old western digital 250GB drive (I tested it and it works just fine)

SIL-VEven though Hynix HMT31GR7BFR4A is a registered ecc ram, it is not working with Supermicro X8SIL-V. Unsupported Memory Installed Indicator led on X8SIL mobo lits up when mobo is powere up, and nothing happens after that. Do I have some other options for registered ecc memory for this board. Availability in India isn't going to be easy. So please suggest something which I can procure here in India. Supermicro XSIL-V Intel Xeon34** Hynix 8GB Registered ECC

Hello, So I have a Supermicro MBD-X10SRH-CLN4F-O motherboard installed in a CSE-743T-665B 4 U case, both are from Supermicro. The issue that is currently bothering me is the fans in the case ramping up to near max speed (about 6k RPM) and then dropping back to idle speeds. It does this about every 5 seconds and the RPM spike lasts for about 3-4 seconds. I used IPMI and played around with its fan control settings and it didn't change the ramping issue. I also have a Noctua NH-D9DX i4 3U 92mm with a much slower, 92mm fan for the CPU. The loud included server fans are the only other fans aside from the CPU cooler. The included fans are the ones ramping up their RPM. Supermicro has a weird way of managing fan speeds, it uses RPM thresholds and I beleive the Noctua fan drops below a specific threshold that the other fans attempt to compensate for (see attached images). I just want the server to be quiet, or even just loud but consistent, the ramping is seriously annoying. Any body have any ideas? Thanks, Kellen

Hi there. I've got the question for you. Which PSU should I use? I've got an old LGA 1567 supermicro. This is 4 cpu motherboard (4 cpu's means 4x 8 pin plugs on the motherboard, one for each processor). Thing is.... all the PSU's I've seen so far supports up to 2 processors. They've got tons of VGA connectors which is also 8 pin connector but they've got only two CPU connectors. So.... can I use VGA's to suply these xeons? Thank you for further response.

I sometimes come across free or cheap electronics, and then I proceed to spend money on implementing them with absurd fervor. So I was looking through some old equipment and checking the benchmarks for their procs and I found a few that had pretty good scores. I was given 6 E5-2660 Xeon processors, and this kickstarted my search for how to use them. Step 1: The Board Without putting too much thought into it, I found a board that would fit the processors with an astonishing amount of RAM slots. The X9DR3-LN4F+ seemed like a good choice at first. (I thought it was an EATX mobo.) I figured I would just slap some RAM in it and throw it in a case with a power supply and be off to the races. Too good to be true. I found 128 GB DDR3 1066 MHz (8x16GB) of Samsung memory, and based on what I have read about how this memory works on this board, I am right around the sweet spot for the speed/quantity ratio. I also got a PCI-E adapter for a 250 GB NVME drive along with a 4 TB full size HDD. I am going to see if I can boot through the PCI-E, but I am not sure if that will work. Step 2: The Case After fiddling with an ATX and EATX case, and realizing I was not going to get full use out of the board without some serious rigging, I bit the bullet and went for the CSE-745TQ-R920B. I am still waiting on the case to be delivered, so I am still working on planning the setup. Step 3: 8xSAS Backplane Realizing that there was going to be some empty slots to fill in the front of the case, I grabbed two of the connectors from SuperMicro's site along with 10 3TB SAS drives. (2 for hot swapping if needed.) It looks like you can work the storage through the BIOS. I don't have much experience with this, but after doing some research I found that an 8x3TB RAID 6 setup would allow for the use of 18TB with up to 2 drive failures at a time. Step 4: Power I am not sure what to say about this case, but it is a 4U tower case. (4u when laid on its side) The case was the most expensive thing, and I think that this is because of the 2 920 watt gold standard 90% efficiency power supplies. It will be interesting to see what the actual power draw is as I want to place it next to my networking equipment. Considerations: I have a handful of NUC's that are capped out with memory/proc/storage and I have been running Xenserver (Now Citrix Hypervisor) on one of these for the last 9 months. I think I want to run Server 2016 on this new setup so I can work with some Hyper-V and VMware. I am in a master's program right now studying cybersecurity and I think that being able to spin up vm's to test/practice the latest exploits will help to hone my admin/ethical hacking skills. But with the amount of resources available on this server, I can't justify not also using it for a NAS as well. I know the Server 2016 isn't going to be on the compatibility list, so I might have to revert to running bare metal Citrix Hypervisor to get the ball rolling. If anyone has some tips for setting up RAID6, implementing Citrix Hypervisor (CentOS?), or what type of networking I should be doing so I can manage the iPMI/BMC features without breaking the bank that would be great. Also if you have any advice on the load I can look forward to with the redundant power supply that would help too.

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Hi I have bought a Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F a couple a weeks ago and now I tried to boot ist up but the on indicator led blinks for maybe 0.2 sec and the fans spin up but turn off also after a 1 sec or so until now I tried other ram thats known to work with supermicro boards. Any idea what could be the problem? Thanks in advance EDIT: Mainboard: Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ Rev.1.20A (Dual Socket) CPU: 1x Intel Xeon E5-2670v2 (10 Core, 2.5GHz-3.30GHz) RAM: 64GB (8x8GB) MICRON PC3L-10600R ECC MT36KSF1G72PZ

Hi all,I’m want to put two GTX1080Ti into SuperMicro 7049GP-TRT (SuperMicro X11DPG-QT motherboard with 6 PCI-E 3.0 x16). There are 4 PCI-E slots dedicated for GPUs; two assigned to CPU2 (slot 6 and 8 ) and two assigned to CPU1 (slot 2 and 4). Looking forward to your advice on how I should arrange my cards and which slots to use?I was planning to use slot 8 (which is the first slot out of the four, closest to CPUs) and slot 4 (third) to keep good ventilation.Sorry if the question is naive or trivial but it’s the first time for me to install twin GPUs.

I recently purchased an X9DRE-LN4F off of ebay, it worked perfectly, but I planned to put two 2667 v2 processors into it, and so I needed to update my BIOS. I updated the IPMI (required to be v2.0 or higher), and updated to the latest version of AMI BIOS for this board (X9DR78.713), I jumped pins 2-3 on JPME1 and JPME2, as directed. When I rebooted, all of the monitors I had on hand stated that the video signal from my iGPU (via VGA) was out of range, which is strange, since I have a 60Hz 1080p monitor (BenQ RL2455HM), which VGA cannot possibly saturate. The monitor flashes on and off, between showing a black screen with the "Out of Range!" warning and all pixels/backlight being off. I attempted to recover the BIOS as directed by the BIOS readme, but to no avail. The board did the regular beep codes (as it did prior to the BIOS flash), and changing my E5 2603 v1 out for the 2667 v2 didn't seem to change anything, so I'm not sure what else to do. Readme for AMI BIOS 3.0ME.txt

It freezes at post! Ok so was working fine.... Ran on motherboard standard vga port ............. Installed a gtx 970 ti... it shows bios but then freezes! This happens now when using the standard motherboard vga port aswell! Plus a constant motherboard beep. Setup is a supermicro x7dbe Dual xeons 64gb ram My pc is useless at the moment please help

He guys 1st post and 1st build since younger. I have a supermicro x7dbe to play around with. Built now almost... does anyone know an average cpu running temp for these? Is 70 degrees too high I'm thinking but heard server boards run high? Also on a side note... i cant get the USB HDD included on the boot list for some reason? It just shows an exclamation mark on it and won't go on to the included boot sequence

I'm playing about with a server build project. I haven't got any concrete plans on what I'm actually going to use it for yet, so I decided to try and keep the cost fairly low. I've got a pair of Xeon X5650s, 24GB ECC Ram and a SuperMicro X8DTL-iF motherboard as my base platform, but I'm having issues that point to the motherboard potentially being faulty. With everything installed, both CPUs, all 6 x 4GB of Ram and a 780Ti I've got lying around for video, I get nothing, no beeps, no output to my monitor, just the fans spin up and stay spinning. When I got the board, it didn't do this. It was flaky, sometimes it would POST and get to bios, sometimes it would freeze before getting there. I managed to install Windows on it and run a couple of stress tests and CPU benchmarks to see if stability was the problem, but it passed all that with flying colours. After powering the system down for the night, it wouldn't boot the next day. I've gone through lots of different solutions to try and find the issue. I've removed one CPU with just a single CPU running in CPU1 on the motherboard, it boots first time, every time. This is with either CPU, so neither of them are faulty. I've tried Ram that's known to work from a different build to no avail. I've tried a different PSU just in case it was a power delivery issue, but no change. I've tried using onboard graphics, just in case that was affecting things for some reason, but again, nothing changed. I even put a new CMOS battery in, on the off chance that the included one was dead. After the success of finally getting into Windows and running stress tests successfully, I finally thought everything was functioning properly, but now the board seems completely dead with both CPUs installed, but with one it's absolutely fine. I've checked the second CPU socket for bent pins, in case that was the issue, but can't see anything wrong there either. If anyone has any experience with this board, or other SuperMicro boards with similar issues, point me in the right direction? Or have I just got a dead board? Thanks

Hey guys, I am part of a large IT firm and we are looking to get away from HPE / Lenovo servers. The cost of the "genuine" hardware is killer and hard to pass it back on to the customer. Awhile back I used SuperMicro components and I have always been a fan and I parted out a built comparing it directly to a HPE / Lenovo counterpart and the price is a lot better. My question is does anyone know a good supplier in the Toronto area for SuperMicro components? The only one I know of is ASI. I know Linus uses SM all the time I don't know where he gets it though. TIA

Hi guys, I got a SuperMicro X9DRI-LN4F+ for free but I don't have the Original PSU and I am not sure if thy use a Standard Pinout. Do they? Because by looking on the PCB for me it doesn't seem so. This CPU 8 Pin looks Normal (Near CPU1, called JPW2) But this CPU 8 Pin looks weird (Nearer to CPU2, called JPW3) I tried to figrue out the pins with a multimeter but there must be some reverse voltage protection diodes in place because all the pins have connection be just swapping the leads ? Has anyone of you experiance to Server mainboards form supermicro? Thanks for help in advance

Hey everyone, I've got a kinda tricky question that can hopefully be answered! After trying two known good CPU's (a i5 3470 and pentium G620), two sets of non-ECC ddr3 memory, and two GPU's (a GTX 260 and HD6790) I can not for the life of me get this motherboard to POST. I'm using a known good Seasonic SS-620GB, so power shouldn't be an issue. The furthest I've gotten is with the pentium G620, the motherboard makes this short chirping sound and then one or two seconds later makes 5 quick, short beeps with nothing showing up on the display, even after just letting it sit for a few minutes. I've looked up the user's manual, however the BIOS error beep codes page only lists 4 codes, and none of them describe the code I'm experiencing. I even tried removing the CMOS battery, waited a few minutes and put the battery back in which unfortunately made no difference. I can usually get even the most stubborn machines to POST after fiddling with them for a while, but this one has got me stumped. Any tips or advice you could provide would be most appreciated!!! Re-posted in the correct troubleshooting category

After trying two known good CPU's (a i5 3470 and pentium G620), two sets of non-ECC ddr3 memory, and two GPU's (a GTX 260 and HD6790) I can not for the life of me get this motherboard to POST. I'm using a known good Seasonic SS-620GB, so power shouldn't be an issue. The furthest I've gotten is with the pentium G620, the motherboard makes this short chirping sound and then one or two seconds later makes 5 quick, short beeps with nothing showing up on the display (which definitely works), even after just letting it sit for a few minutes. I've looked up the user's manual, however the BIOS error beep codes page only lists 4 codes, and none of them describe the code I'm experiencing. I even tried removing the CMOS battery, waited a few minutes and put the battery back in which unfortunately made no difference. I can usually get even the most stubborn machines to POST after fiddling with them for a while, but this one has got me stumped. Any tips or advice you could provide would be most appreciated!!!

Hi, This will be my ongoing thread where I'll post my hardware and software considerations prior to purchase to get feedback from the forum. Anyway, this post is just here to get thought process started. The esxi server will host my development and proof of concept, training/learning for Oracle EBS Application installations and their corresponding database VMs along with subversion repository, plexmediaserver, etc. Feel free to comment or give ideas or suggestions at any time. Thanks!

Hi All, thanks in advance for any help. I am trying to setup a 10gbe PFSense server on some Supermicro hardware that I bought on eBay. I am trying to figure out if I have enough PCIe lanes for both the 10gbe NIC and a Samsung 970 evo in one of these enclosures. Any thoughts? Separately, does anyone have a good way that I would retain functionality of the front bays? I assume that when I install the 10gbe NIC, there is no way to keep the front slots active? This server doesn't seem to have any documentation from super micro which makes researching this difficult.

Budget (including currency): Country: Europe Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: CCTV Viewing Client Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Hi All, Long time lurker, first post. I am looking for advice on new workstation builds for work, the main use for these workstation is viewing and playback of CCTV. The system will be a viewing client for CCTV on 24/7, needs to be reliable and have remote management like vPro or IPMI. What my normal build looks like: i7 7700 16GB Ram 500GB OS drive NVME or Sata NVME I will take supermicro recommendations but really want to move away from them, nothing but problems the last year or so with boards failing and bad bios updates. Also any advice on NVME vs Sata SSDs for reliability? Thanks, Aaron

I'm working on an old supermicro motherboard (X7DCL-3) that I bough't two years ago from Aliexpress. It was working fine until two days ago when I tried to watercool it. I disassembled all the computer to clean it and put the stuff for watercooling on it. I mounted all back to the case and attempted to turn it on, but, at the last moment I decided to dismount all the watercooling stuff and test it outside the case. When I tested it, I discovered that the tubing I was using was to big and the sistem was leaking on the waterblocks, so, after a quick search I found a smaller tubing and remade all the loop. I tested the loop to make sure it wasn't leaking and finally mounted all back to the motherboard. So, at this point I'm not sure about everything I tried, becouse it has been three days of testing every possible combination of the setup, but, it's possible that I moved some jumpers on the motherboard. The thing is that I tried to turn the PC back on, but, it didn't post, it just turns on the fans, the pump, the graphics card, but nothing else. The list of components I'm using is: Motherboard: Supermicro X7DCL-3 http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5100/X7DCL-3.cfm Cpu: Xeon E5450 X2 RAM: Samsung low profile M392T5160QJA-CE6 4Gb X2 Samsung M392T5160QZA-CE6 4Gb X4 PSU: Thermaltake TR2-430 Graphics Card: ECS N9500GT-1GKS-F Waterblocks: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Aluminum-PC-Water-Cooling-Block-for-CPU-Graphics-Radiator-Heatsink-40x40x12mm/132546928799 X2 Pump: https://www.ebay.com/itm/SC600-DC-12V-1-2A-14W-Motor-Water-Cooling-Pump-No-Brushless-3-pin-Plug-G1-4/181908611928 Radiator: 120mm aluminium radiator

i found a good deal on a Supermicro CSE-826 chassis only problem is that it doesn't come with a MB and the parts that go with it cpu/ram . from what i got from the seller via messages and images it has all 12 3.5 hdd caddies , all 3 fans and 1200w psu just 1 included . can have 2 . not sure if it came with it or a lower wattage was swapped out . seller says it is a factory code of abc-03 i couldn't find any servers for the 826 with that code ? . its one of these correct SC826E16-R1200LPB* , SC826E26-R1200LPB*, SC826A-R1200LPB im correct the backplane on this should be SAS2 ive asked the seller but havent got a response yet . other question is i know with server chassis it says ATX form factor but is it true ATX or only a standard that there MB uses . i plan on putting in a consumer MB . does anyone know if it will boot with a non Supermicro MB like the psu wont turn on since i expect it to normally talk to the ipmi that would be on the board . i looked over the manual for this model and didnt see much on the re installation of the MB directions like if it uses standard 24 pin connector and eps pinouts . rather not buy a 40 pound paper weight if it would only work with a compatible MB https://i.imgur.com/2WO1rvp.jpg https://i.imgur.com/bzhGeTb.jpg thanks