30 sounds great to me. I have 6x8TB and 6x2TB drives at the moment I think, only using 3x8TB though. Would prefer if I could be using all the drives I own, but I’ll make do with just the 8TB ones for now. Will use the 2TB ones in my old server. Maybe just to backup pics or something.
minorest of corrections.
it’s spelled “gammaxx” not “gammax”
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Were the LGA 1150 and 1156 pages of the motherboard spreadsheet deleted or are they new and not filled in yet? 1155 could be added too.
Those pages are not relevant to this guide.
Is it possible to fit this Server+pfSense build in the Rosewill server case?
I’m looking for some feedback on this build. They told me in Discord to drop it in the forums, so here you go.
| Component | Selection |
|---|---|
| Case | Phanteks Enthoo Pro |
| Motherboard | Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD |
| CPU | Xeon E5-2650 v2 (x2) |
| Cooler | Supermicro SNK-P0050AP4 (x2) |
| RAM | 32 GB (4x8) PC3-14900 Reg ECC 1866MHz |
| Power Supply | EVGA 650 GQ or better if cheaper at EVGA B-Stock |
I’m debating starting with just one CPU to start but it’s not really that much more. Does this look like everything will work together ok? Any feedback on this specific motherboard? Thanks in advance for any help.
Just be careful, the x9drd I bought doesn’t support v2 cpus so I have a v1 on the way to allow me to flash the bios. Cheapest v1 is like $5 so not a big deal.
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So I was looking at THIS one. It says the motherboard ships with BIOS 2.0. Does this support the E5-2650 v2? I don’t want to assume that just since they’re both v2 that they will work together. Are you going to run both processors or just one for now?
The listing’s pictures show the board to be rev 1.02 which does not support V2 processors unless it has been RMAd.
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Yeah, I’ll have to check. It does say that the board in the photo isn’t what would ship. At the same time I see that the BIOS 2.0 comment wasn’t from the seller. It was in the review. Thanks for the heads up.
Both the BIOS and the hardware revision of the board must support V2.
Not one or the other, but both.
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@bob Where can I go to find out what board revision supports v2 chips? I looked at the motherboard manual and didn’t see anything on it. Sorry for being so dense.
It has been a while since I did the research myself, and I don’t recall a solid source of absolute truth.
I do recall that rev 1.11a and after had the hardware support for v2 processors, and that those with older revisions could RMA them and Supermicro would update them, so it is possible for older boards to support v2 chips, but only if the seller can verify it has had this modification.
BIOS can be updated on any hardware supported board, but you may need a v1 processor to do the update.
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Hello,
I see that the dual CPU x79 boards are listed as supporting v1/v2 CPUs.
I am looking to upgrade to v3 Xeon (like Dual Xeon E5-2620 v3). What motherboard would be recommended? Thanks
There are no such thing as dual CPU X79 motherboards.
Why do you want to upgrade to V3? That’s a low end chip, there’s really no reason to upgrade to it.
Sorry, I guess I miss read that. I am looking at something like Dual Xeon E5-2620 v3 (6 cores 85w) or Dual E5-2630l v3 (only 50 watts and 8 cores)
The reason I am looking at v3 because I understand it has AVX2 and SSE 4.2 which v2 CPUs don’t have.
Thank you
TDP is not power usage.
Do you specifically need those instruction sets?
I think so. I have a Mac OS VM on my Unraid and from what I understand it’s something that’s either required or at least have large impact on performance.
Also, I currently have v3 Haswell CPU, so I really didn’t want to go back in Architecture with a new build, even if it has more cores/CPU power.
Thanks
So macOS won’t run well on V2’s? I’m sure i’ve read that people run macOS on this build.
I don’t believe that’s the case. Hell, Mac OS runs great on my 2011 Mac Pro (Xeon 5500/5600), and I know it runs even better on the 2013 Mac Pro (2011 V1/V2).
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