Asrock Rack W680 Motherboards discussion

[autoturk]

Got my hands on a Asrock Rack W680 board (specifically W680D4U-2L2T/G5 that was reviewed on STH) and thought to start a thread where folks could share their learnings/experiences on these boards. Here's my build so far:

- i7 12700k
- 2 x 16 GB non-ecc DDR5 UDIMMs
- one 10 GB NIC in use + IPMI.

Here's what my idle power usage looks like:
- IPMI only: 6.4 W
- BIOS: 45 W
- Unraid booted (With no drives): 25 W

EDIT: updated the above after changing C-state configs from Auto to Enabled. Idle went from 30 W to 25 W.

Feel free to share any experiences here.

 

[autoturk]

So I wanted to turn off LAN failover for the BMC, and apparently it's a bit more complicated than just turning off a failover setting... Following this reddit post on the x570d4u, I did the following:

1) Settings > Network Settings > Network Bond Configuration > disabled bonding.
2) Settings > Services > I have configured web and kvm to listen on eth0 *only*, instead of "both".

But I'm still getting an IP for the IPMI when there is no ethernet cable connected for the IPMI. I am hesitant to run the ipmitool command in the post above because it's not the same board, so I reached out to Asrock Rack support. Will update with what they say.

EDIT: they suggest running the following (same command as above):

 ipmitool raw 0x32 0x71 0x0 0x01 0x00

 

[autoturk]

Maybe this was obvious to others, but I'm unable to get a video signal through IPMI web interface if I have anything connected to the HDMI port. I guess this kicks in the iGPU, which takes priority over the Aspeed chip.

Thankfully the iGPU is seen by Ubuntu even if nothing is connected to it, and it seems like Quicksync is being used by Jellyfin.