Supermicro X11SC*-F iGPU support

[niekbergboer]

I am in the market for upgrading one of my servers, and given the apparent performance increase from the Xeon E3 v6 to Xeon E, I am looking into one of the Supermicro X11SC*-F motherboards with a Xeon E-21??G on it.

The question is; do any of the -F boards (other than the X11SCA-F, which is a workstation board) support using/passing through the iGPU while also using the ASpeed VGA port for the main system?

 

[jingram]

By passthrough, do you mean purely for transcoding or are you looking to output to a display in addition to the Aspeed?

 

[niekbergboer]

By passthrough, do you mean purely for transcoding or are you looking to output to a display in addition to the Aspeed?

I am purely looking for transcoding; I don't need a physical output.

 

[jingram]

Works fine on my recent build with Emby.

 

[niekbergboer]

Works fine on my recent build with Emby.

That sounds good: what motherboard do you use?

 

[Melwin]

According to Supermicro support - Only X11SCH-F has support for VHD (virtual hosted desktop). With the rest, you loose either of them.

 

[jingram]

That sounds good: what motherboard do you use?

X11SCH-LN4F

 

[ramblinreck47]

X11SCH-LN4F

I’m looking at possibly getting a X11SCH-F and E-2288G. What OS are you using and is there anything you did in the OS or BIOS to get QuickSync working properly with Plex?

 

[daumas]

I'm using a X11SCH-LN4F and E-2288G with Fedora 31 and Jellyfin (FOSS version of Plex) and hardware transcoding works fine.

There is a UEFI option for integrated graphics that you set to Enabled.