On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:26:49PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: > With the 200W power supply in the small form factor chassis, > supermicro says the max processor TDP supported by the motherboard is > 45w. I guess if you put one in that potentially uses greater power but > never push it to do so it would still work, but I assume bad things > would happen if it ever accidentally cranked and tried to suck more > power than was available 8-/.
>From looking at Supermicro's CSE-510-203B page, it says 65W TDP and every CPU I've mentioned below except for the Xeon E3 1220 (80W) and Xeon E3 1230v2 (69W) fall below this. > > G860, Core i3 2120, Core i3 3240, Xeon E3 1220, Xeon E3 1260L, and > > Xeon E3 1230v2 > > The specifications for the motherboard on the supermicro site say > processors with integrated graphics are "not recommended", and since > so far I've been unable to push them into clarifying why I was a > little leery. The footnote indicates it's coming from Intel regarding > the C202 chipset. I've seen a handful of reports of people using > processors with integrated graphics with this chipset, and then with > your confirmation I feel better about ordering it. Obviously the > chipset doesn't support integrated graphics, so the silicon in the CPU > is going to waste, but I'm guessing the supermicro documentation team > read "doesn't support integrated graphics" in the chipset > documentation and translated that into "you shouldn't use one" as > opposed to "if you do use one, you can't use the integrated graphics". I don't think it matters for lower power chips at all and I've been using chips with integrated graphics for a long time with no issues. There's only an option on the Xeon E3 chips for no integrated graphics anyway. That being said, the Xeon E3 1260L and 1265Lv2 chips are ones that Supermicro reps have recommended to me and both have integrated graphics although they are low power chips. It's just a waste to use a Xeon E3 1245v2, for example, which adds heat that shouldn't be there. > > If you don't need IPMI, you could save a few dollars and go with the > > non F versions of the boards. I have found that the IPMI "Text > > Console" never works right for anything I've tried including > > OpenBSD. > > I've used the serial redirection on illumos and linux boxes without > any trouble. I rarely use the video redirection other than for > potentially initial bootstrapping and rare diagnostic issues. It's > nice not ever having to visit the box in person once it's racked :). It certaily is convenient to avoid connecting a monitor to the system and to be able to deal with things remotely. I do it all the time. Bryan
