Dub Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 (edited) Somewhat a rehash of my previous post I'd inadvertently put in the wrong forum as I didn't realize there was a dedicated motherboard forum. I've given up on finding the original configuration I'd planned and just resigned myself to getting a working Intel solution in the interim. Quote I've been prepping to upgrade my server to support more drives and just as I was about to snag all the bits, I can't find the ROMED8-2T motherboard I'd planned to use in stock anywhere for a reasonable price and it seems to have doubled in price everywhere in the last two weeks. I was able to snag a CSE-846 and am expanding from 6+2 to 16+2 /w ideally space for up to 22+2 /w 2 mirred NVME cache drives. I'm currently using an AM4 board but am maxed out on PCI slots to add the additional 2x LSI 9201-8i's to support the additional drives. The backplane in the CSE-846 is a direct pass-through and not an expander so I need direct connections for each drive which is one of the big reasons I was swapping over to the ROMED8-2T. Primary purpose is storage + Plex (lots of hardware encoding using quadro). Ideally I'd love for the board to have a BMC and support at least 5 PCI slots + 2 NVME slots. Doesn't have to be AMD. On-board 10GB NIC would also be icing on the cake and save me another slot. If there's a supermicro alternative that would drop right in, that'd be even better. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them! Ideally I'd love suggestions on a Supermicro Intel board + CPU combo with (hopefully) at least one 10G nic and at least 1 x16 & 5 x8 PCIE slots that would at least be as good single-thread wise as my 3950x (cpumark of ~2738) would be fantastic. If it has m.2 slots that's also a big plus - but if it has 10G nic's I could put in a PCIE m.2 adapter if I had to. Any suggestions are appreciated! Edited April 28, 2022 by Dub Quote Link to comment
Dub Posted May 3, 2022 Author Share Posted May 3, 2022 For anyone finding this later, Supermicro makes the H12SSL-CT which is also 7003 compatible EPYC, has dual 10G nic's, 2x m.2 NVME, and has a broadcom controller on board. Quote Link to comment
Rweng009 Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 If you can find it try a slightly older X11SPF-nCTF. 18 SATA @ 6gbps off the board, 1 x Nvmne and 10G ethernet native uses the older LGA 3647 socket. Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 (edited) I am in very similar position. I have a spare 12 bay 2u supermicro chassis with a damaged CPU1 socket on a X8DT3 motherboard. Can run perfectly fine with single cpu but want to upgrade it to something like Ryzen or EPYC but at the same time dont want to spend a fortune. Power consumption is big issue so looking for something more efficient than the Xeon X5690s I am currently running. Edited July 5, 2022 by bally12345 Quote Link to comment
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