In my case, it was wedged in a box at about a 30 degree angle, with two pretty hefty heatsinks strapped to it. A few drops during shipping would have probably put quite a bit of stress on the PCB. Right in the middle of those two heatsinks is the DIMM slot that's bad. Might just be a coincidence though...
Intel Xeon E5-2670 Deal and Price Tracking
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I'd love to rebuild my homelab server with one of these processors but I just don't want to spend $270+ on an X9SRL-F. Is there any other motherboard I might be missing in my search for something that can hold 8 RDIMM's? Thanks guy, this site is great!
Mine is a brand new X9SRL-F, and I was having B7 errors as well, so it's not just old boards.
Also, I have Windows 10 on this setup right now and I can't get it to power off or restart without pressing the power button in (I've tried disabling fast startup and that didn't help).
If you guys are wanting new boards I'd check out the Tyan S7050GM4NR from seller, convertechsmike, they seem to go for around 225-250 OBO, I think I got all mine for 185/ea for 5. I actually bought these boards first before I even noticed deals on SM boards. I have tested one and after updating the BIOS and BMC/IPMI the fan speed is actually pretty decent, using it in an SC836 chassis. Has 10 Sata ports on board as well.
Supermicro X9SRL-F, bios v3.2, CPU power settings at "Energy Efficient"
Server 2012R2, "Balanced" power settings
E5-2670 SR0KX
HWiNFO reports all cores running at 3.0GHz during the R15 run
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I see roughly the same values in Windows 10 with a SR0KX as britinpdx. Its's interesting to watch my Kill-a-watt jump from 57 watts before the test to ~195 watts during the test.
Ain't that a trip...I'm paying more for older gen boards than newer ones are goin' for. GRRRR
SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SRL-F Server Motherboard LGA 2011 R3 - Newegg.com
SUPERMICRO X9SRL-F ATX Server Motherboard - Newegg.com
I see sataDOM ports on the X10 board that pisses me off that is missing from mine w/out that funky lil pwr adapter.
SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SRL-F Server Motherboard LGA 2011 R3 - Newegg.com
SUPERMICRO X9SRL-F ATX Server Motherboard - Newegg.com
I see sataDOM ports on the X10 board that pisses me off that is missing from mine w/out that funky lil pwr adapter.
Finally got mine built. Thanks to everyone here who helped me find a new hole to throw money into
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I got some pics of my build as well (E3 teardown/E5 buildout) that I need to get together and post in DIY SVR/WS thread.
DAMN happy w/ how these turned out, lil growing pains/lessons learned and I have one more node to light up (one last mobo purchase) and then I'll be good for a few years (always say that, wife must be tired of hearing it hah)
Got my spare proc sitting here from deepserverdiscounts on Saturday, dunno what the hell I'm gonna do w/ it :-D
EDIT: Teasers, Damn I need to re-take better photo's before I post a build thread, least of the final product, my phone cam snaps are jank.
As you can tell I am mostly for GO and not for show lol, not the cleanest and I should tidy up (that 4U w/ sas expander and a million 8087-8087 cables is a nightmare to cable manage heh). All my chassis are gonna be stuffed to the gills with hotswap disk slots as I am big into storage although that white case build from @FunkyRider83 looks sick!
Good show sir!
DAMN happy w/ how these turned out, lil growing pains/lessons learned and I have one more node to light up (one last mobo purchase) and then I'll be good for a few years (always say that, wife must be tired of hearing it hah)
Got my spare proc sitting here from deepserverdiscounts on Saturday, dunno what the hell I'm gonna do w/ it :-D
EDIT: Teasers, Damn I need to re-take better photo's before I post a build thread, least of the final product, my phone cam snaps are jank.
As you can tell I am mostly for GO and not for show lol, not the cleanest and I should tidy up (that 4U w/ sas expander and a million 8087-8087 cables is a nightmare to cable manage heh). All my chassis are gonna be stuffed to the gills with hotswap disk slots as I am big into storage although that white case build from @FunkyRider83 looks sick!
Good show sir!
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Cool - I might do that further on - for now, something else stole my money in the Great Deals forum(yesterday)
I'm starting to feel jealous of all you guys with working 2670's systems... My motherboard is going back to sm on a rma today or tomorrow under warranty, I broke my phone on Saturday and I'm down to a kindle and a laptop from 1991. It's a darn good thing I have my math books and a pencil to keep me busy. I'm going through withdrawal... I need to sell some more crap so that I can start building a second incomplete system.
Happily there are online versions of octave/r/python/latex... No movies or youtube this week though. Pain in the bum, as I follow the khan/coursera/mit lectures, courses) for my math and machine learning courses... But they will still be there next week and I will probably get more work done with a pencil and my textbooks than I would have surfing between lectures and playing with software.
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Brah, I just had to return 5 boards all with bent pins, lol.
edit: make that 6, I forgot about some other random board I bought
Ha! Makes sense. I have an Intel NUC setup in one of the datacenters and two at home as "just in case" boxes.