Supermicro Denverton Motherboards

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PigLover

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Evan

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let's see if we still like or when we see the prices, not a bad line up though.
8-core is where I think the sweet spot will be performance & price with with 10G networks.
 

Patrick

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Just a heads-up on this

Our second Supermicro Denverton board review will be up tomorrow.

Cliff's post on SM motherboards and systems will be up this afternoon.
 
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Evan

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Power figures please :)

Just for interest, I can't see a need in my life for any of these systems right now or future but nice to know how it compares to Xeon-D etc.
 

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Great coverage guys. I was really looking forward to seeing these boards for a new pfsense/OpenVPN build.
 

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Wonder how the price/performance/power consumption numbers are gonna compare vs the existing Xeon-D and older E5 v1/v2 builds.
 

Evan

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Wonder how the price/performance/power consumption numbers are gonna compare vs the existing Xeon-D and older E5 v1/v2 builds.
I fear power based in the early 2-core won't be much different than Xeon-D as the OBM and other platform items use more than the CPU.
E5 still a lot more expansion potential, and more power unless talking v4 where it's much closer.

Key we'll be how the 8-core performs (same 16mb cache as 16-core), and of course price.
Lots of sata3 makes it a good storage platform for sure, ant network for basic security appliance type roles.
 

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I fear power based in the early 2-core won't be much different than Xeon-D as the OBM and other platform items use more than the CPU.
E5 still a lot more expansion potential, and more power unless talking v4 where it's much closer.

Key we'll be how the 8-core performs (same 16mb cache as 16-core), and of course price.
Lots of sata3 makes it a good storage platform for sure, ant network for basic security appliance type roles.
Personally I don't see much use for a homelab in the 2-core part outside of a firewall but even then there likely are better/cheaper options. E5 v1/v2 also have the used market where parts are fairly reasonable if your per kWh costs are cheap and A/C isn't an issue.
 

Evan

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I was just saying look how much the 2-core uses, the bigger core counts can't be better. And at the price I would choose a full core option (ie Xeon-d, e3, i3/5/7, less so e5 due to power) or something cheap like the n4200 based systems for FW.
 

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You may notice that in the C3955 review we put a note on power consumption.
 

Evan

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You may notice that in the C3955 review we put a note on power consumption.
Oops so you did, max 53w that's pretty good at the top end, any idea of idle ? (I was guessing still ~30w idle though ?)
 

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Hoping to see how this might perform power wise in a ZFS NAS...16 cores seem to be priced around 800$...a tad high, considering you can get a xeon-d (less cores, but more power) for less than that.
 

Evan

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Hoping to see how this might perform power wise in a ZFS NAS...16 cores seem to be priced around 800$...a tad high, considering you can get a xeon-d (less cores, but more power) for less than that.
But 8-core should be plenty for your ZFS right ?
The really useful thing is is your only using SATA then the C3000 has lots of that, sure SM have a Xeon-D board with 16xSAS2 but that's only if you want it need SAS
 

BradleyD

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I saw in the SKU post here at STH that the 3758,3858, and 3958 should be QAT enabled. I went to Supermicro and looked at the different new denverton boards and they state that some have QAT, but have one 3758, 2 3858s, and one 3958 model where there is nothing about QAT on the spec pages.

Does this mean that the board maker (in this case SM) is not providing QAT on these models or are they typos?