I am interested in upgrading my server with a Xeon E-2278G CPU (they are finally beginning to appear in retail channels) which has an iGPU for video transcoding. I am also interested in a server board with IPMI. On many such boards, the BIOS does not support the iGPU when IPMI is active via the AST2X00 BMC with video output to a VGA port or JAVA/HTML5 console.
From this thread about the Supermicro X11SCA-F, we know that this board does support both IPMI and the use of the iGPU for
Here is a Handbrake transcode test of a 1080p movie from .mkv to .mp4 (don't have a HEVC 4K file handy). I selected a preset that does not use QSV so this is all CPU. I even told it to burn in subtitles for more CPU load. This is 20 minutes into a 30 minute transcode operation:
This is more than halfway through the transcode, so the CPU has been under load for a while. The highest I saw the load go was 94%. CPU temps remained in the mid-high 70s; that's a very respe