demonmaestro

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  1. I was going to do that and launch up a VM with 22 out of 24 cores and do a cpu load test. Basically hammer the system. Then see how much power it takes. Although something I just though of is I'm going to have to redo the drive layout again. Assign drives to it correct spot.. Or should it know?
  2. Not at full load. idle it was around 190w-220w it would jump around alot.. I will test that later on. Although per the CoolerMaster psu calculator I should only need a 534w psu.
  3. Welp... I done did it. After talking with the local shop they were saying that those kind of motherboards due to age don't have a temperature fan curve. Its either on or off for the most part. So they are getting me this setup! 1 - SUPERMICRO MBD-X10DRI-T4+-O 2 - Intel Xeon E5-2630 V4 Broadwell-EP 2.2 GHz 8 - Samsung 32g ddr4 2400 2 - Noctua NH-U12DXi4 There prices are cheaper than NewEgg or Amazon however after Taxes it's a little bit more expensive. However now if there is an issue I can go to someone local and easier to deal with RMA and stuff like that. Also I get to support my local economy! Although I wonder if my Corsair AX860 PSU will be enough???
  4. Well the difference in ram is due to newegg have a limit on there 2400 ram of 5 sticks per customer.
  5. If the idea is wanting to keep your current rig and possible use it for pfsense and keep a windows vm for day to day stuff then you could do that. Couple of things. The i5 6500 is probably cheaper than the i5 7400 and the i5 7400 aint much of a performance gain. Major issue though is that windows 10 is tied to your motherboard/cpu somehow. Now rather if this is true or not, I don't know It is just something that I have heard a lot of people saying. If want to tinker with the idea of VMs. Here is another idea. Check out a program called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and could run an Ubuntu box with samba. There is a lot of people on youtube that shows how to do it. Honestly if wanting to go the cheap route. I would use the VirtualBox idea for your second "windows" machine and then you could do a network share via windows if you want to be able to access your files across the network.
  6. So they are saying that due to me having it in a 3rd part case they aint going to help support me.. Such BS. I had talked with a Authorized re-seller/support place here near my hometown and they said that the motherboard will work in any 3rd party case. I told them that what my issues are and they said they would get back with me tomorrow due to it was "after working hours". So they could ask their support team to find out what might be the issue. Something that got me wondering is if the "hardware" thermal monitor/controller went bad... So I am going to wait to see if maybe they can "repair" the board without breaking the bank. HOWEVER I am trying to decide on what system I wanna do IF I have to get a new motherboard. What would would yaw say? System 10g: 1 - SUPERMICRO MBD-X10DRI-T4+-O 2 - Intel Xeon E5-2630 V4 Broadwell-EP 2.2 GHz 4 - Kingston ValueRAM 32GB DDR4 2400 ECC KVR24R17D4/32MA 2 - Noctua NH-U9S 92mm System 1g: 1 - SUPERMICRO MBD-X10DRC-LN4+-O 2 - Intel Xeon E5-2630 V4 Broadwell-EP 2.2 GHz 8 - Kingston ValueRAM 32G DDR4 2133 ECC KVR21R15D4/32 2 - Noctua NH-U9S 92mm IF I do have to get a new system. Would you wanna buy the "old" system. Same cost $400 + shipping.
  7. Either way I do have dual 10G sfp+ card that is in my current server that I could move over. So an update. By the sounds of it SuperMicro doesn't know whats going on either but they are looking into it. (Although personally I don't know how much help they are going to give me due to it being an "old" board.
  8. I wanna keep the 2 CPUs but also that dual CPU board has quad 10G NICs. I will contact SuperMicro and see what they say. I guess then the question would be IF I decided to get the new board is what to do with the "old" setup?
  9. Yes, I am running the latest. That was the first thing that I had checked when I got it. I was initially having issues with the board with both CPUs in the motherboard. Come to find out I had taken the motherboard out of the case and it had booted just fine.(although did have a bent pin on the socket). So it was somehow grounding it self out on the motherboard mounts. I had then gotten some insulating washers and mounted the motherboard. Now this fan issue. It has been one thing after another with this build. I cant complain too much... I got the motherboard, CPUs, and ram all for $400. The funny thing is the place where I got it, I had told them initially about the motherboard issue when unable to use both CPUs. So they sent me another motherboard. I had gotten the same issue with the "new" motherboard. I have been considering on going with this motherboard/CPUs and getting a whole different system all together. However I am concerned that I will have the same issue... https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4S844G6424 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117630
  10. No, it shouldn't wipe your existing data. Just make sure that your data on the "parity" drive is formatted.
  11. @garycase Looking through the manual and on page 4-4. I don't see anything reguarding to Hardware Monitoring or Thermal Management. When I go into Hardware Health Configuration (4-17) is where I can set the "Full Speed/FS, Performance/PF, Balanced/BL, and Energy Saving/ES" But I don't see where it talks about thermal management..
  12. I think this is probably is the issue... I will find out later on when I get near the box and will let you know what I find. I will also look into my other SuperMicro board and see if it has something similar as well. Even though it has a passive heatsink on it. I had put a 60mm Noctua on top of it as well.
  13. Yes with both those settings. I will dig around in the BIOS and get back with you on that one. (Unless you find something in the manual.)
  14. That is the problem though. The motherboard doesn't ramp up/down the cpu fans with the cpu load/temps.
  15. I would say if have the ability max out the ram. (64gb) As far as your storage situation goes. you could set it up on how you want it. The parity is basically used as your "safe guard". (With no parity your storage pool is unprotected) However if you say use 2 hard drives and one as a parity. Your available storage available will only be 4TB (If use 2- 4TB HDDs) Do keep in mind that the parity drive needs to be the biggest drive in the storage pool. For instance if you have a 1TB, 3TB, and a 4TB HDDs in your pool. Your parity needs to be 4TB. Now unRaid does work without a parity. Just your data wont be safe on a HDD failure.
  16. I don't think it will throw a fit due to the motherboard utilizes a passive heatsink in the initial setup. The controller says that it comes with 4 thermal probes. I am thinking about putting them in these locations. Front of case to catch inlet temperature Middle of case to catch temp after HDDs (But before the middle row of 120mm fans.) Back of case before the 80mm fans to see outgoing temperatures somehow on the CPU heatsink.
  17. I would highly recommend putting more ram in if wanting to do VMs. I don't see a need for a RAID controller due to you having 6* sata ports. I think you will probably will want more storage. (Currently as of writing this NewEgg has a deal with 2 - 4TB WD Reds for $259.99 https://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.3519110) *One of the sata ports will be considered used if you use a m.2 drive.
  18. @garycase Do you know anything about this? Also would you think I should put the cpu fans on the controller as well?
  19. I fully understand your concern for that. However each noctua burns at max 0.05A. so 0.15A with all 3 per the 2 headers and the 2 - 80mm is at 0.16A together. Now the cpu fans burn 0.40A each. http://noctua.at/en/products/fan/nf-f12-pwm/specification http://noctua.at/en/products/fan/nf-a8-pwm/specification **Woot I am at 300 posts***
  20. But if that would make the system utilize a fan curve then wouldn't the Fan 1 and Fan 2 ramp up to 100% when the CPUs load up? Now the motherboard does not have labeled CPU header fans. It just has Fan headers #1 - #6. I had read about a program "speedfan" but I did try to launch Core Temp to look at actual CPU temps in the windows VM and it had showed 0... So I don't think speedfan would work unless there is another way? Fan 1 = CPU 1 Fan 2 = CPU 2 Fan 3 = Front of case 3 - 120mm noctua fans Fan 4 = Middle of case 3 - 120mm noctua fans Fan 5 = Back 2 - 80mm noctua fans. Fan 6 = 120mm noctua fan on top of raid cards.
  21. Well I had tested on all settings and "Balanced" is just a hair too much noise for my liking when idle. Now full speed while it might not sound like a jet taking off (like a poweredge 2950) it is WAY too much noise. lol The issue is it should ramp down the fans when at idle and speed up the fans accordingly with temp/load.
  22. Little Update. I had looked into the bios and was presented with 4 options Full Speed Performance Balanced Energy Saving Come to find out it was on Energy Saving. HOWEVER I had tested it via the "fur mark" CPU test and with both CPUs at 100% load the fans were not spinning up. So I think the options is just preset voltage levels and not fan curves. I had set the fans to Full Speed and ran the CPU test for 20 minutes and a parity check to load up the drives. The pictures below is the results of the temps. Not too bad I think. Also the CPUs had went back to low little less than a minute after stopping the test. So it must of been in the lower temps. So not sure as to what to do. Maybe the CORSAIR Commander PRO will help out somehow. @garycase What do you think I should do moving forward?
  23. Originally the board had the passive cooling on it. I had put the fan heatsink coolers on it. But that is the model recommend from SM for the board. Now the CPUs we're at medium when the system temp was at 57°c. So basically it was moving around hot air already onto the processor. But maybe @garycase has a different theory.
  24. We'll see once the controller gets in. I really don't want to buy a whole new mobo/cpu/ram.. But if I do I will upgrade to the 2011-3 socket. been eyeing a 10core xeon with dual cpu mobo. Just don't want to spend the $5k for a new bad to the bone setup. I mean heck what I got is pretty nice. Just was wishing I could make this all work without going that route. the bios doesn't have a custom fan curve area.
  25. So the picture a few post back was from doing a parity check. For whatever reason when I had started the Parity check it spun up all the fans to max even though the cpu loads where at 2-3%. I haven't gotten in the Corsair Commander yet. It should be in by Wednesday or Thursday next week. I don't understand on why the mobo didn't raise the fan speeds on its own considering the fans are pwm