Most capable Xeon for X11SCM-F and 75-80W TDP?

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kpfleming

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I've got a NAS (which does a lot of other things too) using an X11SCM-F motherboard and a Noctua 2U cooler. I'd like it to stay fairly quiet, but am interested finding out if I can upgrade to a more powerful Xeon than the E-2134 that is in there now. How does one go about finding *all* of the CPUs that are compatible with a motherboard? The Supermicro site only lists the ones they've tested as far as I can tell.
 

kpfleming

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OK, after further research the best I can do on this board is the E-2236, unless I want to spend the extra $$$ for a higher-end 'G' model even though the iGPU can't be used on this board. Doing that would get me more cores and more cache, so that's an option, but I may also need to consider just upgrading the board.
 

RolloZ170

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there are some rare SM boards with no CPU-Video connectors but iGPU is alive.
but the X11SCM-F does NOT power the iGPU.
 
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