Another happy customer! I ordered an E302, X11/W2145 combo, a bunch of RAM, some X10 boards and a Tyan S8026 from Zac and everything came in perfect shape!
I had planned on using a Supermicro H12SSW-NTL for the build but after talking with Zac we wanted to see if one can build in a 2U SM case with these boards and you absolutely can!! Below are some pictures.
I went with an OLD SC-216, swapped the backplane to a 24x NVME and went to town. my chassis came with a 7HH FL pcie back window, but the riser back window will work with this board as long as you are willing to dremel out the IO a bit (see pics below). Because there’s no need for any pcie cards in the build atm (I’m not fully utilizing the 16 NVMe slots I have wired up, and I have a mezzanine 2.0 OCP for a NIC) I decided to leave on the 7HH FL back window. As you can see, the 24 pin and 4+4 pin power connectors are long enough, but the second 8 pin cpu cable isn’t, so a quick Amazon extension later and we were in business. I also ordered a Supermicro 16Pin Front Control Split Cable from Amazon to make the power button work
Was great experience purchasing from him, will absolutely buy more stuff from him as I build our/upgrade my setup!
Motherboard with the 7 HH FL window
motherboard with the riser window. You’d have to dremel out the IO shield but it would work. The riser support fits correctly for risers to be used with this board, chassis, window
View from the top
Will do a full post of my build soon, and then do benchmarks with it in July when it gets deployed!
I had planned on using a Supermicro H12SSW-NTL for the build but after talking with Zac we wanted to see if one can build in a 2U SM case with these boards and you absolutely can!! Below are some pictures.
I went with an OLD SC-216, swapped the backplane to a 24x NVME and went to town. my chassis came with a 7HH FL pcie back window, but the riser back window will work with this board as long as you are willing to dremel out the IO a bit (see pics below). Because there’s no need for any pcie cards in the build atm (I’m not fully utilizing the 16 NVMe slots I have wired up, and I have a mezzanine 2.0 OCP for a NIC) I decided to leave on the 7HH FL back window. As you can see, the 24 pin and 4+4 pin power connectors are long enough, but the second 8 pin cpu cable isn’t, so a quick Amazon extension later and we were in business. I also ordered a Supermicro 16Pin Front Control Split Cable from Amazon to make the power button work
Was great experience purchasing from him, will absolutely buy more stuff from him as I build our/upgrade my setup!
Motherboard with the 7 HH FL window
motherboard with the riser window. You’d have to dremel out the IO shield but it would work. The riser support fits correctly for risers to be used with this board, chassis, window
View from the top
Will do a full post of my build soon, and then do benchmarks with it in July when it gets deployed!
