April 8, 20179 yr What are your thoughts on this one? https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SAE-M.cfm Im not really doing any kind of VM addons just yet.... What processor should I go with and Memory. Primary purpose is to serve my KODI htpc with movies and High Res music. Edited April 8, 20179 yr by fschris
April 14, 20179 yr Author Seems like Intel LGA 1151 chips are kinda pricey!!! now that I am looking...
April 14, 20179 yr If you are serving Kodi, e.g. a client that doesn't need transcoding, then a Xeon would be overkill. You could get away with an i3 or Pentium for basic NAS duties.
April 27, 20179 yr Author Does anyone see an issue with the processor and Mother board not working? https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SAE-M.cfm and https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117732 I bought the memory that was listed and I still cant get the Mobo to POST, BIOS, Beeps etc ,,,, absolutely nothing. The MB was an OPEN BOX from new egg. I just had them issue me RMA and replacement.
April 27, 20179 yr Kabylake on X11 requires bios 2.0, it's probably still on an older bios, you need to use a Skylake CPU to update the bios. I just recently bough an X11SSM-F and had to do the same.
April 27, 20179 yr If it's not on bios 2.0 it will only boot with a Skylake CPU, if it had IPMI you could use it to update, although you'd need to pay Supermicro for a key.
April 27, 20179 yr Author probably this one... i can order on amazon and then return it Intel Intel Celeron G3900 Skylake
April 28, 20179 yr Author okay, i just ordered a i3 skylake ... so that hopefully will get my up and running. i will use my kaby lake i3 for a HTPC upgrade
April 30, 20179 yr Author Awesome... everything booted right up with the sky lake CPU awesome. Unraid came right up on the new system. No issues. Amazing. Love unraid and the community.
May 3, 20179 yr Hmm. So if you buy a Kaby Lake proc with an X11 SuperMicro board you first have to use another proc to have it working? Is that with all the X11 board?
May 3, 20179 yr 3 minutes ago, Sphinkx said: Hmm. So if you buy a Kaby Lake proc with an X11 SuperMicro board you first have to use another proc to have it working? Is that with all the X11 board? Only needed if the board doesn't come with bios r2.0.
May 3, 20179 yr True. But if you buy an X11 board you don't really know if you are on r2.0 or not? You can ask but the company selling it will not always know.
May 3, 20179 yr 12 minutes ago, Sphinkx said: True. But if you buy an X11 board you don't really know if you are on r2.0 or not? You can ask but the company selling it will not always know. That's true, if you get one from old stock you'll need to update the bios, it's the same for all Skylake boards, not just Supermicro X11, in time most should come with latest bios.
May 3, 20179 yr But I was unaware of that. Thanks. Was planning on buying an X11 board in the near future. But I am still considering other set-ups. But I will check with my supplier to know if they are delivering with the latest bios. If not I need to have it updated..
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