Gaming Board from Supermicro

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I don't know whether anyone noticed or even cares, but it appears that the C7Z87-OCE Core i7 1150 board from Supermicro is targeting the gaming crowd.

It does offer SLI and CrossfireX (with 2 PCIe 3.0 x16 slots running at x8), and allows overclocking.
 
Very very interesting.... I would be interested in getting my hands on one
I hope you don't mind if I share this
 
Sheppard said:
What's ipmi
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IPMI allows you to connect to the machine remotely while it's powered off (plugged in) or before the operating system loads so you can get into the BIOS, SCSI settings, etc. It's like you are at the console as opposed to something like Remote Desktop or VNC which requires an operating system to be loaded first. It's handy for remote servers but maybe not so much for a gaming machine.
 
This is quite the change for Supermicro. A good change methinks though.
 
Good as long as they stay high end and keep the server grade build quality. If they're trying to turn into an Asus or Gigabyte I'll be more worried than anything else. Newegg wants $244 for one, so that's a good sign I guess.

Now they just need to come up with a socket 2011 board. 8x/4x/4x isn't quite enough.

IPMI seems like overkill for a gaming rig. Wake on LAN would be enough for me I think. With IPMI you can get into the BIOS and reinstall the OS remotely. All I think I'd use it for is turning the machine on from a laptop, HTPC, etc.
 
Gilbert_pwns said:
Doesn't look like a stable overclocker but you never know.
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Reviews show it clocks just fine. You are aware the massive heatsinks on most motherboards are done entirely for bling and visual appeal right? It's ricer creep.
 
Someone needs to tell them the industry moved away from top mounted power supplies years ago...
 
acerbic said:
Reviews show it clocks just fine. You are aware the massive heatsinks on most motherboards are done entirely for bling and visual appeal right? It's ricer creep.
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I would agree with you except for my experience with the msi 870 g45 board from a few years back. The board was known to go up in flames because of poor vrm cooling
 
Gilbert_pwns said:
I would agree with you except for my experience with the msi 870 g45 board from a few years back. The board was known to go up in flames because of poor vrm cooling
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Except Supermicro is not like that cheap ASUS, MSI, GIGABYTE junk most people here buy. If proper components are used, virtually all that VRM you are paying for is for LN2 up (which I know most of you will never do), or visual bling factors.

Cooling on the mobo pretty much turned into a visual fuck fest around 1366. The chip there and the NB on socket 775 were the last time active cooling was actually needed provided you had a solid design.

Supermicro is high end. It's bulletproof, they stand by it (to an insane level), well built, and top notch. But it's always looked like server boards.
 
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