drpete Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Hi Guys, starting to build my serve. I ordered my case and drive cages. I am looking for a motherboard that has the following: 1) preferably IPMI 2) at least 10 sata drive connections without any cards needed 3) Dual processor capability (assuming I can run with one processor and and a second in the future. Not sure if this can be done or two must be placed immediately) 4) Processor should be xeon 5 v3 5) Graphics requirements not needed will be run headless 6) ecc ram capable 7) case will accept atx and eatx plus other formats so form factor not really an issue preferably an m2 slot (so I can do cache drive on it) will be running alot of plex streams simultaneously Price not really an issue but would rather not spend 600 if there is one for 200-300 that will do all I need. If you post some suggestions I would be greatly appreciative and if you can post any pros and cons to the boards that would be great. As always....Thanks Quote Link to comment
dikkiedirk Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x10drl-c.cfm http://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/#2011 Quote Link to comment
drpete Posted January 29, 2015 Author Share Posted January 29, 2015 There aren't many reviews on newer about this motherboard. Any comments on it? Any other options? Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 I wouldn't worry about the lack of reviews -- SuperMicro boards are exceptionally reliable. This is a nice board, but does not have IPMI: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182938 ... 10 SATA ports, dual CPU support (in case you decide you want even more "horsepower" -- probably not likely), and support for prodigious amounts of RAM. This is an even nicer board with IPMI and 14 SATA ports (actually 6 SATA and 8 SAS ... but the SAS ports support SATA drives): http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x10drl-c.cfm Quote Link to comment
dikkiedirk Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 I wouldn't worry about the lack of reviews -- SuperMicro boards are exceptionally reliable. This is what I'd buy: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182938 ... 10 SATA ports, IPMI, dual CPU support (in case you decide you want even more "horsepower" -- probably not likely), and support for prodigious amounts of RAM. An alternative if you want even more SATA ports is this board, which has 14 SATA ports (actually 6 SATA and 8 SAS ... but the SAS ports support SATA drives): http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x10drl-c.cfm Don't know if the first one has IPMI. The second one does though. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Don't know if the first one has IPMI. The second one does though. Good catch -- not sure how I missed that. The first one does NOT have IPMI (I've updated my post to correct this). I'm surprised SuperMicro makes a Socket 2011 board without IPMI !! Quote Link to comment
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