I ordered these. I assumed they are a standard height.
Lot of 50 Motherboard standoff plastic snap in M3 Regular standoff for AT PC
Lot of 50 Motherboard standoff plastic snap in M3 Regular standoff for AT PC
Intel Xeon E5-2670 Deal and Price Tracking
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I measured mine and they're 6mm. I ordered some female/female brass standoffs from Amazon. Gonna see if I can mount them to the MB then put some ink on the bottoms and mark the plate so I can drill holes and screw them in from the bottom. A lot more work than using the plastic standoffs.
M2x6mm Cylinder Shaped Female Threaded Brass Standoff Spacer 50Pcs: Hex Spacers: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific
M2x6mm Cylinder Shaped Female Threaded Brass Standoff Spacer 50Pcs: Hex Spacers: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific
With single cpu boards I would probably be looking at asus retail boards but they aren't cheap either.
The asus Z9PE-D8 WS is about the best designed for dual processor base clock overclocking but you aren't going to get much.
Despite the RMA's and problems with used/abused boards the SM boards carry a premium. They certainly aren't the most feature rich boards but in their space they support all the important peripherals and their service is significantly better than their retail equivalents.
Whether the premium is worthwhile for a single processor stand alone is debateable. MSI/Asrock might provide more for less in many cases.
Intel Dual Processor boards seem to regularily go for less than the SM boards. I'm guessing this has much to do with hardware support and warranty as anything else.
At $250 a board you probably aren't getting the SM Workstation boards... X9-DAI's Usually at that price point you are looking at server boards with a minimum of PCIe connectivity. 2P Worstation boards are generally closer to $350US. ($500Canuckistan) There's one on fleabay for 288 plus ship... with 10 people watching.
If you are looking for an SM vanilla 2p server board $250 is doable.
The asus Z9PE-D8 WS is about the best designed for dual processor base clock overclocking but you aren't going to get much.
Despite the RMA's and problems with used/abused boards the SM boards carry a premium. They certainly aren't the most feature rich boards but in their space they support all the important peripherals and their service is significantly better than their retail equivalents.
Whether the premium is worthwhile for a single processor stand alone is debateable. MSI/Asrock might provide more for less in many cases.
Intel Dual Processor boards seem to regularily go for less than the SM boards. I'm guessing this has much to do with hardware support and warranty as anything else.
At $250 a board you probably aren't getting the SM Workstation boards... X9-DAI's Usually at that price point you are looking at server boards with a minimum of PCIe connectivity. 2P Worstation boards are generally closer to $350US. ($500Canuckistan) There's one on fleabay for 288 plus ship... with 10 people watching.
If you are looking for an SM vanilla 2p server board $250 is doable.
Yeah, but I wanted an ATX motherboard with 8 ram slots and remote management. That narrowed the field greatly -.-
NIIIICCCEEE! Glad you got it working and did not give up, so you think for sure it was an issue w/ the proc not being able to see/recognize all mem slots on board?Hey, third times the charm! Swapped out the third CPU I ordered and it worked - all memory slots seen! Now I can finally get around to building my AIO!
Definitely the proc ... neither of the first two were packed very well - the pins were exposed in shipping - could have been bent or otherwise damaged. The last one I received was packaged much better, and it worked, so there's the difference!
You want to drill and tap. But frankly I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. As long as you have a reasonable amount of holes + prevent the board from bending when applying force for cards etc who cares.
I'm looking to purchase 5 x CPU s
(4 for 2 x dual CPU M/B and one spare).
Various EBay sellers have CPUs manufactured in different parts of the world with different serial numbers, should this be a concern? e.g.
$74.50 Costa Rica S/N 3137A998
SR0H8 E5-2670 INTEL XEON 8 CORE PROCESSOR 2.60GHZ 20MB 81Y9419 Similar SR0KX
$67.90 Malay L218B680
SR0KX E5-2670 INTEL XEON 8 CORE PROCESSOR 2.60GHZ 20MB 81Y9419 Similar SR0H8
$69.98 Costa Rica 3332B326
SR0KX INTEL XEON E5-2670 8 CORE 2.60GHz 20M 8GT/s 115W PROC
$137.98 Matching pair (looks like stock photo, CPU details can't be seen on picture)
Deep Discount Servers
Is it best going for matching pair for a dual CPU board or does it really matter?
Matching Pair: Intel Xeon CPU E5-2670 SR0KX 2.60GHz 8-Core LGA2011 20MB QTY:2
Any advice which CPU to go for?
The first two sellers CPU look very clean.
Many thanks in advance
(4 for 2 x dual CPU M/B and one spare).
Various EBay sellers have CPUs manufactured in different parts of the world with different serial numbers, should this be a concern? e.g.
$74.50 Costa Rica S/N 3137A998
SR0H8 E5-2670 INTEL XEON 8 CORE PROCESSOR 2.60GHZ 20MB 81Y9419 Similar SR0KX
$67.90 Malay L218B680
SR0KX E5-2670 INTEL XEON 8 CORE PROCESSOR 2.60GHZ 20MB 81Y9419 Similar SR0H8
$69.98 Costa Rica 3332B326
SR0KX INTEL XEON E5-2670 8 CORE 2.60GHz 20M 8GT/s 115W PROC
$137.98 Matching pair (looks like stock photo, CPU details can't be seen on picture)
Deep Discount Servers
Is it best going for matching pair for a dual CPU board or does it really matter?
Matching Pair: Intel Xeon CPU E5-2670 SR0KX 2.60GHz 8-Core LGA2011 20MB QTY:2
Any advice which CPU to go for?
The first two sellers CPU look very clean.
Many thanks in advance
At the dual processor motherbord folks: what happens to the PCIe slots if someone only populates one cpu socket? According to the the supermicro manuals it looks like the half number of the PCIe slots seem to be associated to the first cpu socket and the rest of the PCIe slots to the second cpu socket...does that mean: only 1 CPU = only half number of the PCIe slots usable?
Generally, they maximized the use of lines from the CPU1. And use lines from CPU2 for the rest.
That allow the maximum use of slots even if you have only one cpu.
But it's depends of each motherboards and vendors.
Which EBay seller did you buy the CPUs from?Definitely the proc ... neither of the first two were packed very well - the pins were exposed in shipping - could have been bent or otherwise damaged. The last one I received was packaged much better, and it worked, so there's the difference!
So I could avoid them in the future.
Many thanks
Have you determined how many holes do line up? If it's at least 4 I might screw the standoffs to the board and let them just act as free floating spacers not attached to the case.
yeah i second that, those who had a good / bad purchase. Rather pay a bit more for quality shipping
I believe top left and all the middle. If it feels really loose I can drill a hole and use a 6-32 nut on the rear.
Anyone with a SuperMicro X9 board been able to get access to the BMC\IPMI in Linux to manipulate the PWM values for the fans directly via /sys/class/hwmon? It looks like it should be accessible via the w83627ehf kernel driver, but the box can't see it when trying to load the driver. It also shows up in a sensors-detect and when loading the ipmi drivers into the kernel.
Gaining access to manipulate the fan speed directly would be awesome in helping to balance fan speed\temps over SuperMicro's wonky default fan\temp curves.
Gaining access to manipulate the fan speed directly would be awesome in helping to balance fan speed\temps over SuperMicro's wonky default fan\temp curves.
Yes, it works just fine. I just used impitool like this. I think I got these values from @whitey
Code:
ipmitool -I lanplus -U Admin -H 192.168.172.6 sensor | grep FAN
ipmitool -I lanplus -U Admin -H 192.168.172.6 sensor thresh FAN\ 1 lower 100 150 200
ipmitool -I lanplus -U Admin -H 192.168.172.6 sensor thresh FAN\ 2 lower 100 150 200
ipmitool -I lanplus -U Admin -H 192.168.172.6 sensor thresh FAN\ 3 lower 100 150 200
ipmitool -I lanplus -U Admin -H 192.168.172.6 sensor thresh FAN\ 4 lower 100 150 200
ipmitool -I lanplus -U Admin -H 192.168.172.6 sensor thresh FAN\ A lower 100 150 200
ipmitool -I lanplus -U Admin -H 192.168.172.6 sensor | grep FAN