EU Microsoft Project Olympus Dual Epyc 7003 Boards - 87,12€ each

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Prof Theorie

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surprised noone has posted about this yet:

Piospartslap is currently selling Dual Epyc Milan Project Olympus boards on german Ebay for 99€ to which you can apply a 12% discount code for a total of 87,12€ incl. shipping. Since they didnt come up in a search of mine yesterday Im assuming theyve been posted within the last ~24h and already sold 118 pieces.

Some documentation for these boards can be found Opencompute Website. In theory these boards should be working fine with only 1 CPU, some ram sticks and a custom 12vo power connection that can simply be rewired with 12v pins from a normal power supply, no further proprietary hardware or software needed.

As I literally never heard of these until about 2 hours ago please take everything I say here with a big grain of salt, I dont assume responsibility if these end up as big, green coasters. I bought one of these but it will take some time till I can try to get it running.
 
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They also seem to be double sided. You need to build a custom case from scratch go use them?
 
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i had the 2x 3647 ms olympus mobo. note the 2x 8pin and 2x 4pins are power OUT for SDD/HDD.
this and other MS Olympus board use ASPEED without VGA.
in this case AST2520.
 
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RolloZ170 said:
i had the 2x 3647 ms olympus mobo. note the 2x 8pin and 2x 4pins are power OUT for SDD/HDD.
this and other MS Olympus board use ASPEED without VGA.
in this case AST2520.
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Thanks for your feedback. Apart from the stuff mentioned (custom power connector, no VGA, no standard case/ mounts) did you run into any issues getting these boards to run? I saw some people got these boards without bios chips but I would wager Pio would mention if it was the case.
 
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Prof Theorie said:
did you run into any issues getting these boards to run?
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no, but the 2x LGA3647 supported only 1st gen, you never ever get any BIOS updates (only with NDA from OEM wiwynn)
i could connect with IPMIview.
i used a converted supermicro PDB to power it.
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If it works full 12v... I guess will be a good candidate for fujitsu PSUs
 
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So it seems for me without power card/power supply I cannot power up this mobo , no justify buying this hardware.
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i used spare supermicro 750W PSU and PDB laying around, they deliver 12V only.
take your ATX PSU:
put 2x EPS to the 24pin of the motherboards and short the PS_EN to ground to start.
you need to rewire, that's all.
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documents of the dual intel one says the board accepts 11.8 - 13.4 V DC on the 24PIN
 
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There have been many many such "unique" motherboards, over the years, at usually a great price. The problem comes in when...

- case
- PSU (that actually fits in the case)
- Risers
- etc etc.

For someone who just wants to tinker - great. For anything else, where this might actually get used, it's a pass.
 
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Manual claims that it supports only up to 180W TDP cpus.

5.1 CPUs
The server supports two AMD EPYC™ CPUs for all server class SKUs. The maximum TDP to be supported
is 180W.
 
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Have you seen its VRM? I am asking because i am not sure whether 180W TDP limitation stems from 1U cooling heatsink heat dissipation limits or VRM is lacking.
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VRM is 5+2. but sure, without knowing the power stages type it is unknown if it can do more than 180W.
 
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What are the chances the 180w is simply another way of saying "we support all current Epyc CPUs"? The document version is from Nov 2017, when the highest Epyc TDP was... 180w. The first chips with 200w TDP were Naples revisions such as the 7571 which was released in Nov 2018. Meanwhile basically the entire Epyc Rome stack beyond 16c also has >200w tdp, I somehow doubt a dual socket board (or rather this revision) specifically manufactured for hyperscalers/ cloud computing can only support a handful of low corecount CPUs.

In any case, my offers of 75€@ Ebay and 70€@ their website were both accepted, since I live in Germany and they have been rly fast in shipping my orders previously I would expect the boards to arrive on saturday, I can check out if I can discern more details regarding the power delivery components then.
 
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Prof Theorie said:
What are the chances the 180w is simply another way of saying "we support all current Epyc CPUs"?
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the Intel dual Olympus officialy supports up to 205W but runs 240W easy, but has 6+1 VRM stages, one more than most others.
we should wait for the mobo's arrives to the buyers, and maybe one can check what DrMOS stages are used,
this board uses 5+2, other 7+2 config. if the Power stages are same it will realy do not support more than 180W.
means not they do not run in any case, but limited at.
 
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