First off I must say, cudos to Tyan for using such high quality photos of their boards. MAN do I wish SuperMicro would take a cue from them and do that, it's so badly needed.
The OCP slot is designed to handle the Open Compute Project mezzanine cards such as the Intel X520DA2OCP.
Very interesting. I had never heard of them before. I've never used any Tyan boards before, I wonder how their support is.
They used to be on top in regards to SMP, I think that's really where their main market is anymore for the big E7 stuff and some OEM stuff can't say much on support but it certainly isn't easy to buy.
Where did you get the board at? Makes sense on the NIC. All of the 10Gbase-T implementations right now seem to require airflow over their heatsinks.Well I've got Asrocks D1540D4U-2T8R pretty solid board except the x540 heating up to the point of you can boil eggs on it and failing to boot with ddr4-2400, altought the exact same memory is in their qvl list
This one here ASRock Rack > D1540D4U-2T8R
Oh yup, I commented on that board a page back. Looks ideal. I'm not big on ASRock though I wish SM would put a similar board out. I might be tempted to get that ASRock board once it's available for sale though. I'd be a little concerned about CPU Temps though with that passive heatsink.
This is listed as coming soon, no idea on price off hand Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10SDV-7TP4F
Thanks for your answer.
Plex doesn't but emby does with ffmpeg compiled with quicksync functions. But I like plex way to much to make the switch.too much time and energy spent with my current arrangement. Plex just works and works well.
Agreed. All my users (family members and very close friends) are familiar with Plex and it took some time to get them up to speed. No way I can change course now even though there are indeed some features in Emby that are attractive.
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