Hi signore and signorina's,

 

I am looking for a new system-board now i got the MSI MEG Z690 UNIFY (MS-7D28).

But i want to replace this one because no iGPU- Intel Quick Sync support.

I want to lower the power consumption of the build in the future.

My build is now:

• Board: MSI MEG Z690 UNIFY (MS-7D28)
• CPU: 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K
• Memory: 32 GiB DDR5
• GPU: Nvidia Quadro P4000
• For Cache: 2x NVMe 1TB
• PCIe: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 
• HDD DISK's: 7*

 

Must:

- One 1 port -> 2,5GB Network

- PCIe for GPU

- PCIe for LSI SAS3008

- 2x NVMe

- Intel Quick Sync support

 

Nice FAN Support would also be cool

 

I found the Supermicro MBD-X13SAE-F-O is this one good or are there better one's for the buck?

 

Thank you all for the advice and have a great 2025

 

 

 

Edited December 28, 20241 yr by DuckWaze

Your setup is already really decent, considering it's on a modern consumer board.
I see you've had some rough time with your hardware recently, so I have to ask:
Are you sure your iGPU doesn't work? (it could be a configuration issue in unraid)

The i7-13700K comes with an iGPU and you can assign it to a VM or docker. There are many written guides on that. 
The other point you asked is about power. If your server is in idle, the intel 12 gen and newer CPUs are very efficient during that low power mode. In fact, the 12-14 gen Intel CPUs all "mostly" all idle within a few watts of each other. (looking for link to data now)

 

Edited December 30, 20241 yr by nasforthemass

On 12/30/2024 at 3:14 PM, nasforthemass said:

Your setup is already really decent, considering it's on a modern consumer board.
I see you've had some rough time with your hardware recently, so I have to ask:
Are you sure your iGPU doesn't work? (it could be a configuration issue in unraid)

The i7-13700K comes with an iGPU and you can assign it to a VM or docker. There are many written guides on that. 
The other point you asked is about power. If your server is in idle, the intel 12 gen and newer CPUs are very efficient during that low power mode. In fact, the 12-14 gen Intel CPUs all "mostly" all idle within a few watts of each other. (looking for link to data now)

 

Hi Thank you for your time to comment.

I posted to the Intel Plugin forum, to see if the can help me.

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/92865-support-ich777-amd-vendor-reset-coraltpu-hpsahba/page/85/#findComment-1504406

On 12/28/2024 at 9:32 AM, DuckWaze said:

Hi signore and signorina's,

 

I am looking for a new system-board now i got the MSI MEG Z690 UNIFY (MS-7D28).

But i want to replace this one because no iGPU- Intel Quick Sync support.

I want to lower the power consumption of the build in the future.

My build is now:

• Board: MSI MEG Z690 UNIFY (MS-7D28)
• CPU: 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K
• Memory: 32 GiB DDR5
• GPU: Nvidia Quadro P4000
• For Cache: 2x NVMe 1TB
• PCIe: Broadcom / LSI SAS3008 
• HDD DISK's: 7*

 

Must:

- One 1 port -> 2,5GB Network

- PCIe for GPU

- PCIe for LSI SAS3008

- 2x NVMe

- Intel Quick Sync support

 

Nice FAN Support would also be cool

 

I found the Supermicro MBD-X13SAE-F-O is this one good or are there better one's for the buck?

 

Thank you all for the advice and have a great 2025

 

 

 

 

Your current motherboard does not have any video ports on the I/O so it expects a discrete GPU in order to be used. The VGA does have a 'bypass' option to allow it to boot up without verifyiing the presense of a GPU, but that's about it. You won't be able to adjust the BIOS to use both, since the BIOS isn't programmed and the motherboard likely doesn't have the traces for utilizing the iGPU.

 

The Supermicro board is nice, however there are a couple of things to note:

1) Online searches quote the CPU you have at 125W TPD however Intel lists a base / high power instead of the TDP for this processor. The high power exceeds 150W TPD quoted on the supermicro site for that board, this may or may not be a problem. If it is a problem, you just have to disable turbo to stay under the power requirements would be my guess

2) Intel 2.5GbE 225/226 chipsets often have connectivity problems when set to use a 2.5GbE network. These work fine when limited down to 1GbE speeds. This issue would likely occur on any board with a 225/226 intel 2.5GbE chipset

 

Going with a Supermicro board, you'd gain IPMI support which might be useful if you don't want to be in front of it in order to control / see what's going on.