Building a budget render farm - Got a *few* Qs

[dlockers]

The X9SCM-F board has the Nuvoton WPCM450RA0BX BMC and Matrox G200 onboard graphics hence the recommendation from Supermicro to use a CPU with no onboard graphics. It also has IPMI and KVM over IP (as denoted by the -F on the model name) which means via Supermicros IPMI viewer (free download from their site) you can remotely control the machine from turning it on to going through the BIOS and changing options to watching the OS booting to using the machine as if you were on a keyboard, mouse and monitor in front of it.

I do so regularly with the two machines based around the X9SCM-F and E3-1230 processors I have at home.

I don't really see the need for vPro for remote management when you have IPMI 2.0 and KVMoIP.

RB

Worth knowing! Thanks for the info RB.

 

[RimBlock]

Worth knowing! Thanks for the info RB.

Np.

One other thing I have just also found out for those considering the Intel offerings for the E3 processors...

The S1200BTL/BTS do not support the E3 v2 (Ivy Bridge) processors. You need to look for the S1200BTLR and S1200BTSR which do.

Details can be found in the new tech spec here. I have no information on the S1200KP mITX version but would suggest anyone thinking of going that route have a check on Intel Ark just to be sure.

RB