Q370 motherboards?

rtho782

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I'm in the market to rebuild my home server and I'm trying to find a Q370 motherboard (for vPro).

It seems like these just don't exist anywhere??

Anyone seen any?
 
rtho782 said:
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Then the Supermicro X11SCZ-Q (or one of there other models) is probably worth a look - failing that your going to need to probably look at getting boards from Dell or HPE enterprise desktops/workstations

Could be worth considering if you really need AMT over a decent IPMI/ILO/IDRAC type solution
 
BongoHunter said:
Then the Supermicro X11SCZ-Q (or one of there other models) is probably worth a look - failing that your going to need to probably look at getting boards from Dell or HPE enterprise desktops/workstations

Could be worth considering if you really need AMT over a decent IPMI/ILO/IDRAC type solution
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Excellent, thanks! Now I need to find one for sale...

I wouldn't wholly object to another IPMI solution.
 
rtho782 said:
But C236 doesn't support coffee lake, so this limits me to 4 cores.
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Ah right, will be a few months if you have to go CFL (C246 chipset) - I suppose you could look at a normal non-vPro board and build your own solution; https://github.com/Fmstrat/diy-ipmi

But it seems your after something that's not available to buy easily right now - at least not on CFL! Though the SM board I posted is available to order, but is quite expensive!

Whats your budget? Would Xeon-D be to expensive, or and Atom c2/3000 series? Boards with those embedded CPU's will typically have good remote management capabilities, though might be overkill for what you want.

If you went for LGA2066 CPU instead of socket 1511 that could open up more options that support more than 4 cores, feature AMT, and have IPMI - E.G something with the Intel C422 chipset like the Supermicro X11SRM-F

Could also look at Ryzen Pro I suppose - they have a version of AMT (called DASH), though have not seen any Ryzen Pro CPU's in the consumer channel yet

How are you intending to exploit AMT? Other than the rather limited Intel dev toolkit - most solutions for using it are paid for tools
 
Yes, I realise I will need to pay for things for AMT, but I have RealVNC Plus for this already (I use AMT at work). My original logic with vPro is that it's what I'm used to.

I want Coffee Lake for Intel QuickSync HEVC transcoding abilities - I lose this with LGA2066 - and 6 cores. Ryzen also has no GPU, except the low end 4 core versions.

I'm building a new home server, that currently hosts 60TB of HDDs, various VMs/dockers in Unraid for Plex, Unifi Video, Unifi controller, FreePBX, Apache, Nextcloud, OpenVPN, and a few other things.

I was looking at Xeon D but it seemed senseless to throw more cores at a problem that could be solved with hardware transcoding. The current CPU is an i5-4460, it is fine until someone streams something encoded in HEVC requiring transcoding, and the thing just chokes.

Sorry, I realise I have drip fed info here :P

I might wait for the new coffee lake xeons I guess, that way I can have ECC ram as well.

I'm not really constrained on budget, I'd pay up to about £1000 for CPU/board/ram, I want at least 32GB, if I have to go over to achieve what I need that's fine.

I already have a Highpoint RocketRaid 2840a for it. 10GBe, preferably SFP+, would be a bonus but I can add that via PCIe if I have to.
 
rtho782 said:
This is amazing, I might have a play with it. Especially because it's completely platform agnostic and I can use it with whatever server I build now or in the future.
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I have just finished one for my server, and it's a great little project!

Might also be worth considering using a GPU to do your trancode - seems some users have had success with this on the plex forums, but have not tried it yet myself - would guess you will need to do PCIE pass through to your plex vm/container which may complicate things somewhat. May well give your more freedom on CPU/Motherboard choice though - and cut power usage at same time.

Good luck with it all - be sure to post your build on the forum somewhere; we don't get enough non gaming builds on here imo :)
 
BongoHunter said:
I have just finished one for my server, and it's a great little project!

Might also be worth considering using a GPU to do your trancode - seems some users have had success with this on the plex forums, but have not tried it yet myself - would guess you will need to do PCIE pass through to your plex vm/container which may complicate things somewhat. May well give your more freedom on CPU/Motherboard choice though - and cut power usage at same time.

Good luck with it all - be sure to post your build on the forum somewhere; we don't get enough non gaming builds on here imo :)
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I had considered that, I have a number of 10 series nvidia cards kicking around from mining rigs etc, but there is a driver limit to two encodes at a time with nvidia ( https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/ ) and even then I have to do it on a Windows VM and not in docker, as hardware decode doesn't work in Linux.

My build probably won't be pretty enough for the forums :D
 
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