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Couple quick comments based on my current use of the Supermicro X13sae-f. I purchased on the last week of December and it shipped with the 2.0 bios. I am able to use the Intel i9 13900K without issues. This was a nice surprise to include the 2.0 BIOS I noted above First issue I ran into is that it cannot see my LSI 9300-8i adapter. It sees it but no drives. It is flashed into IT mode (shipped) but I also updated it. I can see it on my Windows 10 desktop and can also boot into the controller after boot using ctrl-c. According to Supermicro response to my ticket (their support is nice, quick, and so far pretty spot on for me) they said the PCIe x16 slot on this platform doesn't support any storage controlled card according to Intel. So, our LAB didn't test any storage controller card on this platform. I'm trying to upgrade from an older X11SSH-CTF that is rock solid outside of lack of compute by current CPU standards (home use) Also of note that I am not able to see any drives even using the SATA ports. I installed 6 WD 16 TB drives but only see one. I've removed them all but again only see 1. Support is still trying to see what could be the issue although they said the HD I am using is not on their supported list. So on one had it shipped with the required BIOS to support the 13900k CPU. What little I have used of it - it is stupid fast. Downside for me is the possibility of unsupported drives, no storage control, so not much use for a ZFS pool (I run 2 pools each of 6 disks). It could be I didn't set something up correctly but so far everything support is saying it isn't supported be it drive or storage card. Not sure what the board is for then outside maybe desktop workstation compute/cad that doesn't require lots of disks.