EXPIRED Project Olympus Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Motherboard

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A friend sent this to me and I thought I'd post it here.

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Project Olympus Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Motherboard

Project Olympus Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Motherboard New/Open Box item - Packaging/paperwork/manual(s) may be missing/distressed or damaged. 14 day warranty (UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE IN COMMENTS).
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Currently at $12.50 Canadian, although I'll be honest I've never even seen one of these before so I don't even know what it is.
 
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It is from Microsoft (there is a MS logo on the board), looks like it is related to Azure:
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Microsoft’s Project Olympus delivers cloud hardware innovation at scale

Just over a year ago at Zettastructure, the European digital infrastructure conference hosted by Datacenter Dynamics, we introduced Microsoft’s Project Olympus – our next generation hyperscale cloud hardware design and a new model for open source hardware development with the Open Compute Proj...
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anything1233 said:
Curious, listed as max 205W TDP — would they support 240W?
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Usually the TDP max on a system relates to its ability to cool the CPUs, so it would be dicey to use 240s on a 205 rated system if you ever have high / max cpu usage. Then its also possible the board simply can't deliver that much power so it would be even dicier.

I wouldn't recommend using a 240w cpu in a system rated for 205w max. It might work ok most of the time but could go very wrong under load.
 
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1. @funkywizard But if I’m too eager to try? I’m more worried about the BIOS/UEFI support of the CPU... The docs say the mobo supports all server class SKUs — does it mean it might support an OEM 240W CPUs as well, such as 8124M? (My thoughts: considering it was custom built by Microsoft for themselves, they might also be using ‘custom’ CPUs — the same way Amazon does it. Unsure about the wattage, though.)

2. Might it support the Cascade Lake as well? I’ve heard that usually a mobo needs a BIOS update for it to work, but I couldn’t find the BIOS/UEFI firmware for this particular board (apart from the BIOS specification). Considering it’s an ‘Open Compute’ project — shouldn’t there be the firmware open-sourced somewhere?


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The listing has expired and the site doesn't seem to show what the winning bid was, but the last I saw it was at $32.50 Canadian. The friend who sent it to me said it's the second time they've seen one on that site. If anyway is interested I can keep my eye out and post again if another one comes up.

Unfortunately my wife would probably kill me if I bought that since I just upgraded my server recently, particularly with the cost of that generation of processors.
 
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