Dell PowerEdge C8220 Build and Questions

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IvanO

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I am about to buy one of these boards. There are two questions I could not find answer to in this topic:
1) what is the approx boot time (to OS start) of these boards? (I am asking this as I am using a LGA1366 server board that needs ~ 1-2 minutes for pre-POST and POST - I find this somewhat annoying for a desktop)
2) Can anyone confirm if boards marked CNW04 support E5-26xxV2 CPUs? Or only V1?
many thanks for the info
The latest bios supports V2! Before the launch of 40 seconds, you need to wait, but I have a W6W6G.
 

boborjan

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Thanks for the quick reply! Hm I wonder if v2 processor support depends only on BIOS version then.(?)
I tried to gather info on onboard SATA as well: W6W6G reportedly does not support onboard SATA. CNW04 and 083N0 reportedly does. Any info on TDN55 and 9N44V? I read most posts here but it is not that obvious to connect people with board versions :|
Thanks again, Viktor.
 

xorira

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Thanks for the quick reply! Hm I wonder if v2 processor support depends only on BIOS version then.(?)
I tried to gather info on onboard SATA as well: W6W6G reportedly does not support onboard SATA. CNW04 and 083N0 reportedly does. Any info on TDN55 and 9N44V? I read most posts here but it is not that obvious to connect people with board versions :|
Thanks again, Viktor.
9n44v works well with 2x e5-2680v2
 

JodgAwesome

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Hey guys, been browsing this thread for a while as I wanted to build my own server/workstation for rendering, game servers, off site file hosting, and other stuff. My plan was to go with 2x E5-2680 a C8220 MB(actually a C6220, more on that later), 32GB of ECC DDR3-1333 RAM & some storage. After reading literally everything on this thread I decided to buy the parts & build this thing! Im happy to say after a few days of configuration & mainly waiting on extra parts, i've gotten it up & running & benchmarked! I still need to install the GPU, finish cable management & build a case, but this is a great milestone for me!

All in all this cost me only around $300 as a friend gave me a GTX560 GPU, 1TB HDD, & a 500W PSU. For the cost im really happy with the performance as my current tests have shown it slightly beating my Ryzen 7 1700x desktop which totals at about $1000. The motherboard I bought was advertised as a C8220 W6W6G however when I received it the BIOS said it was a C6220, which after updating the bios to 2.5.6 I can confirm. As mentioned by many others the onboard SATA ports do not work & I even tried the @Wictar front panel connector pin short & that didn't do anything. To be fair I didnt short the pins, I jumped them with a 220Ohm resistor as I didn't want to burn anything, so who knows maybe it would work shorted, but im not trying it lol. Do note however that Wictar does have a different motherboard version so that's probably why it didn't work for me. Because the onboard Sata ports do not work I bought a PCIe to Sata Card off Amazon for $14, but its capping my SSD at about ~350MB/s so I bought the PowerEdge Rear Backplane card so I can use those Sata ports.

To get power to the board I simply bought the same Amazon Patch Cable as @drabadue mentioned on page 1 and connected it straight up. I haven't done the 12VSB mod &or the PS-ON mod, but when I do I will post about it. I installed the relevant I350 ethernet drivers for my board from HERE & got the updated BIOS from HERE. While the BIOS installer doesn't say it works with Windows 10, it opened and installed fine for me. The AST2300 onboard graphics does have a website with drivers, I could not figure out how to install them and I didnt invest much time into it as im going to use an external GPU anyways. Also for controlling the fans I took the $10 fan controller out of my desktop as I dont use it and im going to install it into the case I build for this thing.

I've only ran a few benchmarks so far, but the performance is impressive;

PassMark:
Score on my Ryzen 7 1700x Build with a GTX 1070:
Rating: 4,290
CPU Mark: 16,172
Memory Mark: 1,951

Score on Dual 2680's (No GPU)
Rating: 3,572 (Lower due to no GPU)
CPU Mark: 16,483
Memory Mark: 2,027
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My DIY Fusion 360 Render Benchmarks:

File #1 Somewhat Complex Render:
Ryzen 1700x: 40 seconds
Dual E5-2680: 33 seconds

File #2 Complex (Lots of objects & surfaces) Render:
Ryzen 1700x: 1m 43 seconds
Dual E5-2680: 1m 23 seconds

Finally HERE is a link to an Imgur gallery with all the images I have so far!
 
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JodgAwesome

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Update #1:

Modified the ATX Patch Cable & added a 5VSB to 12V boost converter. Also cut the wire that shorted the green ATX pin to ground and soldered it to the PS_ON pin on the motherboard. Both mods worked great and windows can now shut down properly. Still haven't had time to get GPU working, but will post about it when I do.

Imgur Images!
 

Vit K

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The latest bios supports V2! Before the launch of 40 seconds, you need to wait, but I have a W6W6G.
Could you confirm that your W6W6G run V2 CPU? Can you make photos of MB and BIOS? My MB does not boot with V2.
 

Markess

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Hi all, I've been following this thread for a while and was thinking of jumping in. I have an opportunity to get a board locally, its a 0083N0 model.

My goal is to do some experimenting with enclosure design and get some experience with virtualization. No need for a GPU or other expansion cards, but would want the onboard SAS and SATA to work. I think, based on what I read from @drabadue back on page 10 of the thread, that this model will do that? ( https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...build-and-questions.11292/page-10#post-131298 )

Any other pitfalls for this model (0083N0) to know about?

Thanks!
 

Annihilator

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Hello forum users,
Has anyone measured the consumption of the 6220 ii board, on the duty line +12 volts?
My power supply (Corsair RM1000) provides a standby current of +5 v 3 ampere, This is approximately 15 watts, + dc-dc converter, Is this enough for a system without a problem start?
 

JodgAwesome

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Hello forum users,
Has anyone measured the consumption of the 6220 ii board, on the duty line +12 volts?
My power supply (Corsair RM1000) provides a standby current of +5 v 3 ampere, This is approximately 15 watts, + dc-dc converter, Is this enough for a system without a problem start?
My power supply is also rated for 5V at 3A on the 5vSB line, but I've been using a boost converter upto 12V and it's been working fine so you should be alright. The main 12V rail draws approximately ~25A under full load so make sure your power supply can handle that.
 

Annihilator

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My power supply is also rated for 5V at 3A on the 5vSB line, but I've been using a boost converter upto 12V and it's been working fine so you should be alright. The main 12V rail draws approximately ~25A under full load so make sure your power supply can handle that.
I already took care of the main line 12 volts. The motherboard will work from two 8-pin connectors (CPU). 2* E5 2695V2 processor and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti video card GAMING X TRIO
 

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monoliths

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I'm looking for further confirmation that the CNW04 board supports v2 CPU. I'm ready to pull the trigger on that one :p
 

Annihilator

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I'm looking for further confirmation that the CNW04 board supports v2 CPU. I'm ready to pull the trigger on that one :p
Write in a personal message to the user @igoresz
probably need to update the BIOS to run the processor V2
а этот человек обьяснит как это сделать,
 

Vit K

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Hello forum users,
Has anyone measured the consumption of the 6220 ii board, on the duty line +12 volts?
My power supply (Corsair RM1000) provides a standby current of +5 v 3 ampere, This is approximately 15 watts, + dc-dc converter, Is this enough for a system without a problem start?
My C8220 with dual 2650L v1, 10*16Gb DDR3L memory, 8x SAS 2.5 HDD (LSI), 4x WD GREEN(int RAID), 1x LSI WarpDrive and Connectix 3 PCI-E card consumes 160W idle, up to 380W under (almost) full load. It working with 500W bronze single line PSU rated 12V 36A without any issues.
 

falanger

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My server 2.0 2xE5-2650L V1 + 24 Gb RAM + RAID 1 2xSSD Samsung 860 EVO 500 Gb + RAID 5 4xHDD Seagate 1 Tb + GPU 2x Nvidia Tesla K20X + power 1000+850 w + Ubuntu Server 16.04 + CUDA 10...
???? deep learning ???
Profit!
 

falanger

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Good day, 3 Tesla K20Xm did not work on my server 0083N0 DCS 6220. Error lack of resources when loading BIOS.
3 PCI-E devices GPU 16x + GPU 16x + GPU 16x do not work, but GPU 16x + GPU 16x + NVE SSD 4x - no problem. Someone could make 3 GPUs work at the same time at least as PCI-E 8x + 8x + 8x?
 

falanger

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Probably the server board has few PCI-E lines divorced from processors, because according to the documentation it is designed to connect the2 x GPU, 5.6 GB network controller, RAID controller and network card in the mezzanine slot, and the C602 chipset itself also requires the PCI-E line. Of all these devices, only two of the GPU are PCI-E 16x, the rest use 8 or less lines. Therefore, it is true that 3 GPUs requiring 16x + 16x + 16x may simply not be enough PCI-E lines laid on the board.