As an owner of the X12STH-F, its important to note that the board you mentioned does not support the igpu.
Are you thinking STH or STL?
The STL has two VGA outputs on the back of the board, presumably one for the on board BMC and one for the iGPU.
(not that it matters, this is going into a 2u chassis in my rack for a dedicate very high peromance pfSense router, so I will not be using the display output anyway, other than for initial troubleshooting, and for that I will be using the BMC video output.)
All of that said, I do like to buy parts that are flexible so I can use them for other things down the road when they are decommed from server/rack duty.
I recently upgraded my old KVM/LXC/NAS all-in-one server , and repurposed the old Supermicro board, a dual socket Ivy Bridge board as a workstation/test bench.
It has a cornucopia of my old hardware in it.
- Supermicro X9DRI-F
- 2x Xeon E5-2697 v2 (12C/24T each)
- 256GB DDR3-1600 Registered ECC RAM
- Quadro 2000 GPU
- LSI 9300-16i SAS HBA
- Intel SSD750 PCIe NMVe drive
- Intel x520 Dual 10gig NIC
...and soon I'll be installing a 2013 6GB Nvidia Titan in it (i just have to upgrade the kiddos gaming machine with a 4070 Super, move his 2060 Super down to my better halfs machine where the Titan is doing late life retirement duty)
It will represent the very best a ~2013 era workstation had to offer, and would have been at least a $10k machine back then.
Of course, that was a long long time ago now.
...so this is mostly for fun (while still keeping old hardware at least somewhat useful)
Still pretty impressive that Ivy Bridge it can almost keep up with a first gen 16C/32T Threadripper. Makes you wonder how it would have scored before Spectre/Meltdown mitigations.
(Still won't officially support Windows 11 though)
And it is all wasted. All I do on that box is test and flash firmware to new PCIe boards, image hard drives to the NAS, and look up things online if my main workstation is down.
Anyway, that was a huge digression, and a really long way of saying that some day when I decommission this board, I may use it for something else more client like, and then it will be rather nice to have the iGPU output.
Below are all the Rocket Lake Xeons:
I
think but I am not sure, that the iGPU will work on Xeon E-2300G model CPU's that have an iGPU, but not on Xeon W-1300 series workstation CPU's which require a different chipset (W480 or W580)
I'm setting this system up with the Xeon E-2314 which does not have an iGPU, but by the time I decomission it, I can probably pick up the highest performing E-2300 model (the Xeon E-2388G) on ebay for like $10, and it will be a nice workable little client.
Edit:
Actually never mind the bit about the iGPU. Looks like I was mistaken about video output. The second port I was talking about is a serial port. They look very similar from the wrong side
I think I mistook compatibility with the Xeon E-23xxG chips to mean
full compatibility with the chips, but I guess that is not the case. I at least hope the iGP is fully power gated when not in use, so it doesn't waste power / cooling capacity.
Guess I'll have to pop a low end discrete GPU in it if I ever repurpose it, which is a shame as that will consume valuable PCIe lanes, but it is what it is. At least it has no bearing on my initial server use.
It's funny. I almost never want to use iGPU's and find them annoying because they get in the way, but the one time I could foresee myself actually using it, it won't work
