Supermicro X7DWA-N

[antonsvideo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close antonsvideo]

I am thinking of rebuilding my SP with new mobo from Supermicro with fastest current processors

mobo Supermicro X7DWA-N with 3.2GHz processors

anyone see any issues with this board before I spend big$

[Crespel Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Crespel]

The Mobo seems to be state of the art - besides the missing onboard dual channel SAS chip.

[shueardm Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close shueardm]

It's the one we need a beta tester for :)
It would be first on my list for a new system board.

There are addon cards for SAS raid and HBA (no SCSI) but they cost a premium. These cards do not take up any of the normal slots, they use a UIO slot with independant PCI-e bus.

[antonsvideo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close antonsvideo]

I was thinking of running it on SATA for a while

1 x 250GB for system
1 x 1TB for backup
4 x 500GB in Raid0 for video
4GB Ram and more later under 64bit OS

and later, when Edius 5 is out, I may try Vista 64bit and get the SAS controller with 4x 300GB 15,000rpm drives, they should do around 600mb/sec in Raid0

I can't see any show stopping specs with that mobo, so I may go ahead and just try my luck, if it fails, then I have a super fast office PC :)

[antonsvideo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close antonsvideo]

ouch

looks like XP or Vista are not supported with this mobo, back to the drawing boards
http://supermicro.com/support/resour.../5400_5100.cfm

[shueardm Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close shueardm]

You can bet that is untrue. I think they possibly mean that Windows does nto have all the new chipset drivers for the board and that you would simply install from the CD provided.

I'll investigate.

[antonsvideo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close antonsvideo]

yes, I also find it impossible to believe and I already started the investigation

[Crespel Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Crespel]

Oh, yes I see Mark - SAS HBA is handled via UIO Slot.
Interesting question concerning OS support !

[Jerry Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jerry]

yes, I also find it impossible to believe and I already started the investigation

Anton,
That is the board I am looking into. However, finding the 3.2 processors are harder than finding the motherboard.
I also find it VERY hard to believe that it will not run under at least XP

[antonsvideo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close antonsvideo]

my supplier assures me that XP and Vista are supported and he is now contacting Supermicro to fix their documentation

3.2 processors are easy to get here, they are not cheap

[shueardm Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close shueardm]

Anton

So you mean the 1600FSB 45-nm model CPU's? Model X5482.

Let me know where to get these if you can, cheers.

[antonsvideo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close antonsvideo]

these are the ones and as it turns out, my supplier is having troubles getting them as well

he can easily get the 1300FSB E5450 processors, I may go with them if it is impossible to get hold of the X5482 (I gave him another 2 days to look around)

[shueardm Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close shueardm]

9072 PassMark

I'm languishing on 2867 :(

[antonsvideo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close antonsvideo]

wow, the E5450 is not bad after all, I may go with that if the X5482 can't be found

[peterC Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close peterC]

Like to have seen the 5462 spec, but it is not there. My other option is way down - the 5150.
Makes you wonder, there's a $1K diff in it between the 2 + some extra ram and an 8800 vs a 7300 for that for my next machine.
mmmm......