clearly the people that spoke about those SATA PWR ports have never worked with 12volt boards, its very common especially on the HP-Elite SF, but yeah at first glance i did think that was 12volt in, but soon as you said its 12volt on the 24pin i was like yeah that make sense. The Oculink is very common from what i understand of it its basically 4 pci-e lanes to 8 pci-e lanes over cable its purpose is to save space as well as making it possible to have pci-e in other case or board. Like a riser. The confusion is some laptops have been using oculink for docks and external gpu's ect hence some people think gpu. supermicro used oculink for its monster 4 cpu board and used the oculink to have 7x pci-e 16x ports, i forget the model but yeah monster. Nice work on your find look forward to seeing some more vids on this board, also i would love to see the fiber plug on the cpu in use, I have seen them but never seen them in use.
Thanks for the comment! I thought exactly the same thing with the CPU power in, but the manual makes it very clear where the power goes! I don't know too much about the oculink and the new technologies they put on this thing but I look forward to making more videos on it. Sadly I don't believe the FC cpu works on this board. Probably because its an ES chip. Maybe one day Ill have a production FC processor to give a spin!
yeah i think people are forgetting how different server motherboards can be, its just ignorant, the Oculink on my board is for SAS SATA outputs not for External GPU's, My bad the ports are called IPass but the cables are called IPass Oculink.
You probably have an ATX PSU. This has a crapload of 12V wires in the power connector instead of the ATX that uses half the wires for legacy 3.3V and some 5V, and for various signalling so it lacks 12V power in the connector.
Ive had trouble with large chips specifically AMD Epyc where the first 2 cpu's i bought super cheap, turns out there dirt cheap because there Vendor locked to DELL branded Motherboards only, yeah the second cpu often does handle more Memory Channels or PCI-E lanes, i can confirm that. What bugs me and im not goner try and fix it cause of how sensitive these types of sockets are is that ive got 16sticks installed but only 15 are running meaning stead of 128GB im getting 120GB of DDR4 3200.
It doesnt have a power button probably because it isn't using an ATX power supply, and therefore lacks the signalling to the power supply when it should turn off.
just looked it up my second cpu handles the second SAS Port and both U.2 nvme drive outputs and the other 4 dimm channels for a combined but seperate 8 channels as each chip gets 4 channels of ram but can also share the channels least thats how i believe it works. i thought my board was big at 13" x 12" jesse 16"
I think that is EATX size! What is your motherboard model? Do you have an Olympus for AMD processors? I read about those but not sure if they were ever built. Try to reseat your ram and move the sticks around too, sometimes it's that simple, especially with using lots of ram channels. I had to reseat my FBDIMM DDR2 systems so many times over their days
@@dom80TA actually i dont know the server size SSI EEB is exactly the same size as E-ATX, nah its Supermicro H11DSI-NT with AMD Epyc 7302's i picked cause they had realitivily low wattage with a decent amount of cores but can boost to over 3ghz, dont use AMD Epyc 7302P cause thats single CPU only. Any chance you could run cinebench R23 see how those intel chips fly in multicore performance, what size was that again i think you have WTX? theres a wiki page online anyways. Probably shouldve pointed out the 8 pins on the first video, people arent used to seeing motherboard's not having EPS connections to the CPU/CPU's
@@danthompsett2894 I think this is a custom size board, I use passmark to gauge my cpu and system performance, but I will totally give it a benchmark when its running with proper coolers ect lol
Nice video. But 10 years experience is something I would leave out. Many people have many more experience in years. Years doesn't mean that much. Especially in the computer build world. I can brag that I build pc's for 35 years. But that doesn't mean a thing. What need do we have for knowing how to set irq addresses on expansion cards nowadays. Having the right recent (or better time relevant) experience is far more important.
That is true, I should have elaborated more. I have been tinkering with pcs and servers and the like for about 10 years, all self taught. Its my #1 hobby more or less! I know people with years and years of experience in computers and such but I solve an issue they are having in a few minutes sometimes. Point being is I know my way around stuff more or less (or at least like to think so lol)
clearly the people that spoke about those SATA PWR ports have never worked with 12volt boards, its very common especially on the HP-Elite SF, but yeah at first glance i did think that was 12volt in, but soon as you said its 12volt on the 24pin i was like yeah that make sense.
The Oculink is very common from what i understand of it its basically 4 pci-e lanes to 8 pci-e lanes over cable its purpose is to save space as well as making it possible to have pci-e in other case or board. Like a riser.
The confusion is some laptops have been using oculink for docks and external gpu's ect hence some people think gpu.
supermicro used oculink for its monster 4 cpu board and used the oculink to have 7x pci-e 16x ports, i forget the model but yeah monster.
Nice work on your find look forward to seeing some more vids on this board, also i would love to see the fiber plug on the cpu in use, I have seen them but never seen them in use.
Thanks for the comment! I thought exactly the same thing with the CPU power in, but the manual makes it very clear where the power goes! I don't know too much about the oculink and the new technologies they put on this thing but I look forward to making more videos on it. Sadly I don't believe the FC cpu works on this board. Probably because its an ES chip. Maybe one day Ill have a production FC processor to give a spin!
Excellent progress sir
Thank you, its been an adventure to say the least!
yeah i think people are forgetting how different server motherboards can be, its just ignorant, the Oculink on my board is for SAS SATA outputs not for External GPU's, My bad the ports are called IPass but the cables are called IPass Oculink.
glad you said that, about the x2 8pin's cause my dual epyc has x2 8pin for the cpu's not for sata power out.
You probably have an ATX PSU. This has a crapload of 12V wires in the power connector instead of the ATX that uses half the wires for legacy 3.3V and some 5V, and for various signalling so it lacks 12V power in the connector.
Ive had trouble with large chips specifically AMD Epyc where the first 2 cpu's i bought super cheap, turns out there dirt cheap because there Vendor locked to DELL branded Motherboards only, yeah the second cpu often does handle more Memory Channels or PCI-E lanes, i can confirm that. What bugs me and im not goner try and fix it cause of how sensitive these types of sockets are is that ive got 16sticks installed but only 15 are running meaning stead of 128GB im getting 120GB of DDR4 3200.
It doesnt have a power button probably because it isn't using an ATX power supply, and therefore lacks the signalling to the power supply when it should turn off.
just looked it up my second cpu handles the second SAS Port and both U.2 nvme drive outputs and the other 4 dimm channels for a combined but seperate 8 channels as each chip gets 4 channels of ram but can also share the channels least thats how i believe it works. i thought my board was big at 13" x 12" jesse 16"
I think that is EATX size! What is your motherboard model? Do you have an Olympus for AMD processors? I read about those but not sure if they were ever built. Try to reseat your ram and move the sticks around too, sometimes it's that simple, especially with using lots of ram channels. I had to reseat my FBDIMM DDR2 systems so many times over their days
@@dom80TA actually i dont know the server size SSI EEB is exactly the same size as E-ATX, nah its Supermicro H11DSI-NT with AMD Epyc 7302's i picked cause they had realitivily low wattage with a decent amount of cores but can boost to over 3ghz, dont use AMD Epyc 7302P cause thats single CPU only. Any chance you could run cinebench R23 see how those intel chips fly in multicore performance, what size was that again i think you have WTX? theres a wiki page online anyways. Probably shouldve pointed out the 8 pins on the first video, people arent used to seeing motherboard's not having EPS connections to the CPU/CPU's
@@danthompsett2894 I think this is a custom size board, I use passmark to gauge my cpu and system performance, but I will totally give it a benchmark when its running with proper coolers ect lol
Hello, can you send me a copy of the BIOS firmware if you have extracted it? Thanks!
Nice video.
But 10 years experience is something I would leave out. Many people have many more experience in years.
Years doesn't mean that much. Especially in the computer build world.
I can brag that I build pc's for 35 years. But that doesn't mean a thing.
What need do we have for knowing how to set irq addresses on expansion cards nowadays.
Having the right recent (or better time relevant) experience is far more important.
That is true, I should have elaborated more. I have been tinkering with pcs and servers and the like for about 10 years, all self taught. Its my #1 hobby more or less! I know people with years and years of experience in computers and such but I solve an issue they are having in a few minutes sometimes. Point being is I know my way around stuff more or less (or at least like to think so lol)