New Supermicro Servers X9DRH-7,X9DA7 ,C602,C606CHIPSET AND sata3.0 and sas2.0 systems

[A_Love]

Supermicro is coming out with various new servers for those that desire to DIY Systems,
here's the link:http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/xeon_x9_e5.cfm?pg=mb:001_tt1:

[Aaron Kondziela]

I *just* ordered a new system, dual Xeon on a Supermicro X9DAi board. Finding RAM that will run at 1600 is very hard right now, it's so new. I have high hopes for the box, and I'll be reporting on the forums here how it works out once it's crunching glorious 4k R3Ds :ihih:

[Michael Thornton]

I wonder if these boards are hackintosh compatible.

[Harrison Diamond]

I wonder if these boards are hackintosh compatible.
Me too... I'm most interested in the X9DRG model, due to the double width x16 slots, but some of the other ones are certain workable depending on which GPUs I use. I see there's some 580GTX versions out there with water cooling that are only single width... heh heh heh...

[Sven Seynaeve]

yeah , would be awesome if we could run smoke on it.

[Aaron Kondziela]

Just in case anyone is thinking of the Supermicro X9DAi board, be aware that the mounting hole pattern is a bit wonky. It claims to be EATX (as did the case), but it's not. I had to drill and tap a couple holes for standoffs in the case, and it wasn't hard, but I didn't expect it. Otherwise, it's a beautiful board!

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Yeah, that happens from time to time with certain board and case combos... :-/ Blame usually falls equally on each side of the fence in my experience. Usually minor, tap a new hole and move on. A lot of times, cases will only make use of the minimum required mounting points for a given spec and motherboard makers will at times add an extra mount point if they feel their design warrants the extra support at a given spot or even if they have to move a mount point to make it all work, it sometimes happens. You tend to see it a lot more with these larger workstation/server boards where we're trying to cram 6 or more PCIe slots, [rather large] dual CPU sockets, 16 DIMM sockets, SAS connectors, SATA connectors, blah, blah...

What case are you using?

[Bob Gruen]

EVGA has a new enthusiast motherboard, the Classified SR-X. Might be a bit easier and cheaper to put together than paying for server grade components. The only thing that is an open question is the PCIe slot configuration...