Supermicro X9SCM-F: working with I7 3770k? if not: what cpu should I choose?

[Kristian]

I pulled the trigger yesterday on my SM X9SCM-F
Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X9SCM-F

I have a I7 3770k sitting on my desk and from what I understood it should / or could work with that board.

Can anyone comment on that?

As the SM site says explicitly:
Single socket H2 (LGA 1155) supports Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 & E3-1200 v2 series, 2nd and 3rd Gen Core i3
processors***, Pentium, Celeron
* Per Intel's spec, for platforms using C202/C204 PCH:
1) Intel i5/i7 CPUs are not supported
2) Intel E3-12x5 series processors which have integrated graphics support are not recommended.
*** BIOS rev. 2.0 or above is needed to support new E3-1200 v2 CPUs, which supports PCI-E 3.0 & DDR31600.
So I am expecting the board to arrive and my tests will show the I7 is not working.

What CPU should I choose?
I need 16 PCI-e lanes, so I think I would have to go with a XEON E3 V2

?
Or is that just because of the PCIe 3.0 lanes?

The CPU should be able to
run 3-5 VMs (one windows machine, one linux, one XPenology, two "I don't know yets")

and I would like it to be not too power hungry

 

[AERuffy]

The site is pretty clear, This is a hard limit from the C2xxx chipset. (intels doing), You can't use any i5 or i7's on that board.

Xeon E3 V2 is your choice when you take into account your hard limits.
the C202 chipset has 16 CPU lanes, the C204/206 has 20.

Yes you need a V2 chip to get PCI-e 3.0 lanes

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/xeon-e3-c206-workstation,2933-3.html
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/ww...datasheets/xeon-e3-1200v2-vol-1-datasheet.pdf

Personally I run the same board with a E3-1245 v2, no problem running 15 vms, (Linux/Windows server)

 

[Marsh]

The CPU should be able to
run 3-5 VMs (one windows machine, one linux, one XPenology, two "I don't know yets")
and I would like it to be not too power hungry

At home, my 24x7 server is a Acer J1900 machine with 8gb mem, Windows 2012R2 Hyper-V hosting
1 Xpenology , 1 Windows8,1 VM , 2 Linux Ubuntu VM, it is idling at 5 to 9% and 4.3 gb memory.
The same for AM1 platform AMD 5350 cpu.