Its also a real shocker to me just how totally crap this mobo is.
A little rant follows, forgive me.
I know a server is no gaming machine so I don't mean rgb and fancy bells and wistles.
But it also works like a 10 dollar OEM mobo purchased on a Chinese market, combined with the feel we will never ever present proper support and updates.
I get the need for the server specific things around it, but a simple VGA with the BMC is not worth hundreds of dollars.
And even that, common I know again its a purely functional thing but it doesn't cost anymore time or effort just to make the interface look like its not from 1989.
If I had any choice in mobo's….... unfortunately not because this is the only dual socket available for separate purchase.
Would have returned this piece of crap in a heartbeat.
I find it funny because supermicro is trying to get some headway in the high end desktop and consumer space but if this board is representative for there overall quality I can tell them now its a lost cause because even the average TRX40 workstation board is so insanely more stable, robust and loaded with a ton of usefull stuff.
And you have things like the EPYC chips, that are the best binned dies around, gpus like the V100 that are also very complex and binned and it all has to connect on this piece of garbage.
Its like the memory timings of ECC memory, I fully understand it has to be error proof. But a lot of the dies from Samsung are already 3200mhz proof, its just yea.... no...… lets just run it at 2133, nobody needs speed.
Yea you know what, lets loosen up the timings to way beyond what anyone would normally accept and after that we will charge a premium for it. Server powerrrrrrrr.
Oke that was probably not very nuanced.
So let me know of the pitfalls I did not consider with this looking true my high end workstation glasses.
On a side note, I can confirm they wont boot with normal ddr4, I just had to try.
Also where in the world can I find cables for those to me insanely stupid, propriotary and unknown nvme and sata combo ports
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They completely block any possibility of a long GPU I had originally intended for the system
Again supermicro probably never looked at just putting connectors at the edge rotated 90degrees so the would not stick out and block stuff.
Just general disappointment about everything about this mobo, to be clear I love the dual epyc