For years, motherboards in this class offered 6+ SATA ports. Here, we only have four SATA 7-pin ports. One feature that is a bit different is the SATA situation. One can use two M.2 drives in this platform and, for example, mirror them for redundancy. In the bottom corner of the motherboard, we get the second M.2 slot. Other vendors such as Dell do the same thing, on less exciting designs, so Supermicro has this to ensure it is not a competitive differentiator. For most buyers of this platform, that will be the computer equivalent to having a fossil on your motherboard, but apparently, the market for companies using old PCI card devices is still large enough that this is included. Finally, we still have a PCI slot from 20+ years ago as the long white slot on the bottom of this motherboard. There is also a non-reinforced PCIe Gen3 x4 slot for extra I/O such as 10GbE networking. Supermicro X12SCA F PCIe Slots Bottom Half These have metal reinforcements as well under a similar theory to the memory slots. We still get the two PCIe 3.0 x16 physical slots that can be configured as x16/0 or x8/x8. As a result of using PCIe for the BMC, we lose a PCIe x1 slot that is not populated on the X12SCA-F but is on the X12SAE. This is largely the same motherboard with the addition of the BMC. Many of our readers may recognize this motherboard from my Supermicro X12SAE Review. The PCIe configuration is interesting for a number of reasons. Supermicro X12SCA F M.2 Between CPU And PCIe X16 That is what it is.īelow the CPU socket and before the first PCIe slot we get one of two M.2 slots in the system. Still, it seems to be a feature that many people like, and others do not like so with either the traditional dual latch or the “gamer-focused” single latch design some will not agree with the design choice. This is a consumer motherboard feature we are not fond of. The DIMMs have latches on one side instead of both sides. This is more typical on the consumer side, but rarely if ever seen on the server-side. Something you will notice from the photos is that these DIMM slots have metal reinforcement. In this segment, we get a traditional 4x DDR4 DIMM layout which is dual-channel memory and capable of two DIMMs per channel. Supermicro X12SCA F CPU Socket And Memory We are still a few days before we can share details on the desktop Rocket Lake-S parts. Rocket Lake-S will be coming to the Xeon W segment in the Xeon W-1300 series, but we are not discussing this yet. The socket itself is LGA1200 so we get support for the Xeon W-1200 series as well as the 10th generation Core line. With the ATX form factor, we get access to a wide range of chassis from rackmount servers to full-sized desktops. The Supermicro X12SCA-F is a single socket ATX motherboard that is a fascinating mix between a workstation and server platform. There is a lot to unpack, so let us get to the review. We have a platform with Supermicro’s new-generation server IPMI, but also its gaming BIOS. This motherboard utilizes the Intel Xeon W-1200 series, but can also support 10th gen Intel Core CPUs. The Supermicro X12SCA-F is nothing short of intriguing.
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