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In order for NVMe drives to boot on older systems without BIOS mods or chain-booting they need to have an onboard legacy option ROM.

It's okay to disable the ASPEED graphics chip once the NVidia card is installed, just don't install the ASPEED VGA driver.

I don't install the drivers for the onboard VGA because it makes the system unstable. I'm not sure if it is because the drivers are poorly optimized or there is some kind of conflict when using an NVidia card and drivers.

The AMD EPYC SP3 drivers should be provided by the manufacter of your computers motherboard. They usually aren't vendor specific as the SP3 SoC is the same on every platform. Windows 10 and 11 drivers should be easy to find unlike archived versions for the older versions of Windows. The client...

As sockets become larger it only becomes more difficult to find multisocket motherboards in standardized form factors. With such high core density and memory channels, multisocket platforms are becoming less common. My main machine I am using now is probably the last dual socket machine (Dual...

The H12 motherboards are much better, especially Supermicro

Second generation EPYC 7002 offers the best bang for your buck with full PCIe 4.0 and DDR4 3200 compatibility. It is a platform that is modern enough for the heavy workloads of today and available at an afforable price on the secondary market. The motherboards and servers designed for second...

If using dual 64-Core processors on this board it needs to be installed in a server rack chassis with high pressure airflow. I have this board in a Corsair 900D with dual-32 core processors. The VRMs run very hot under full load, I wouldn't try any higher TDP CPU without better airflow which...

110 degrees? And I thought 70 was high!

The boot times on these boards aren't too bad as long as there aren't too many NVMe drives. From power on to the Windows Desktop takes 90 seconds on my H12SSL-CT.

This isn't the "Official" version of Windows to Go. This is a modified version prepared by Rufus, It might work.

The easiest way to do this is to create a bootable Windows to Go drive using Rufus. This works well for clients, it should also work on Windows Server versions. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/create-a-windows-to-go-version-of-windows-11

After adding a side fan, I was able to get the temperatures down to 60C on an H12DSi-NT6

The 9300 cards are SAS 3 cards that are fully UEFI compatible. Nominal power consumption is under idle. For these cards each port can accomodate four drives when using the proper cables. If you don't ever see the need for for than 8 drives, go for the 9300-8i, otherwise go for a controller with...

Yes, for example SAS 1.0 is 3 Gb/s, SAS 2.0 is 6 Gb/s, and SAS 3.0 is 12 Gb/s. If you purchase a newer card such as the fairly common and compatible LSI 3008, it will have full UEFI support. However, one concern with these SAS 12 Gb/s cards is that they run much hotter than the previous...

Given the age of that particular card, it may not even have UEFI functionality. The latest revision of that card was back in 2014. As far as I am aware the 2nd Generation SAS 6 Gb/s cards typically lack a UEFI driver. It wasn't until the newer 3rd Generation SAS 12 Gb/s cards where UEFI became...

That's a good sign that they work with this board? How about in legacy mode?

Do the Radeon cards work in legacy boot mode or UEFI only?

This is a great guide with excellent visuals! The heat of this new DDR5 memory is so excessive that it needs to be actively cooled!