clarkg888

I am trying to buy from Insight: https://ca.insight.com/en_CA/shop/product/SFT-OOB-LIC/SUPERMICRO COMPUTER/SFT-OOB-LIC/Supermicro-OOB-BIOS-Management-activation-key/ However, they need details from my motherboard to generate the key file. I emailed them and a salesman called me back, then I sent the info he asked for 12-Dec but I haven't heard back yet.

I looked at that. That doesn't work for the newer Supermicro boards such as the X13SAE-F. To enable the BMC BIOS update on my board, it requires a file be uploaded instead of entering a license key. I guess they finally closed that loophole! I am in the process of purchasing from a Canadian vendor.

I just bought the Supermicro X13SAE-F for my new Unraid build. I haven't bought the CPU yet, but looking at i7-12700, i7-12700K or i5-13600K. I connected the motherboard to the power supply CPU 24 pin and 8 pin connectors, no CPU or RAM and the BMC works and gets an IP address from my home router. Pointed my browser to that IP address and logged into the IPMI. There I could see the board had BIOS version 1.0b so won't work with 13'th gen. It is possible to update the BIOS without a CPU via the IPMI, but you need to purchase a Supermicro Out of Band (OOB) Software License Key (SFT-OOB-LIC): https://store.supermicro.com/out-of-band-sft-oob-lic.html The motherboard selection on that order page does not show X13SAE-F in the drop down list. I used the online chat to ask and the agent got back to me and said to select X12SAE-5 for ordering the license and it would work. I have found Supermicro support very good answering questions. I live in Canada and could not find the Gigabyte board anywhere. Add: I found I must have a US billing address to purchase from Supermicro directly.

I am thinking of doing the same for my first build. The only piece I have so far is a Fractal Design R5 case (from a previous desktop build). I though that maybe you could drop in a faster used CPU to get you by for another year (when the MB and DDR5 RAM availability should be better), but the fastest you can drop in, a Xeon E3-1280 v5, is hardly any uplift from the 1230. Clark.

I emailed [email protected] asking about ECC error correction for both the X12SCA-F and X12SCA-5F and they replied back the next day:

I am looking at doing an Unraid build with the X12SCA-F. Does Supermicro implement ECC error correction logging and notification in the IPMI on this board? I am concerned that they might not bother with a 'workstation class' motherboard. thanks, Clark.

Atic Computers in Vancouver appears to have it: http://www.atic.ca/index.php?page=details&psku=283735