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[Dougy]

I'm looking for the same type of board for LGA1156 that the X7SBL-LN1/2 was for LGA775.. any suggestions?

SuperMicro only.. onboard KVM not necessary.

Looking for it to support i7 860 / i5 750.. and possibly X3400 series xeons.

I guess a LGA1366 version also would work, being that i7 920's are <200USD for me now..

[Dougy]

I guess the X8STI would be the LGA1366 one. But what about 1156? I love the X8SIL-F but was wondering if there was any other options. I had a bad experience with i5's and the X8SIL-F.

[FastServ]

Originally Posted by Dougy

I guess the X8STI would be the LGA1366 one. But what about 1156? I love the X8SIL-F but was wondering if there was any other options. I had a bad experience with i5's and the X8SIL-F.

What kind of problem? I haven't seen any issues with ours.

[cwl@apaqdigital]

Originally Posted by Dougy

I'm looking for the same type of board for LGA1156 that the X7SBL-LN1/2 was for LGA775.. any suggestions?

SuperMicro only.. onboard KVM not necessary.

Looking for it to support i7 860 / i5 750.. and possibly X3400 series xeons.

I guess a LGA1366 version also would work, being that i7 920's are <200USD for me now..

for around $150, X8SIL will be your best choice. we've installed over 100 of these and saw very little issues other than the 1st version would not work with supermicro 560-watt PSU inside 2U SC825 chassis. thus far, we've seen just one defective board out of 100+, and that can be called a very reliable board.

Asus/Tyan/Intel do make socket 1156 server boards, but they all priced much higher than X8SIL/X8SIL-F.

mind you that i7-920 is rated 130watt TDP which is not very 1U friendly even with super-duper passive ccoling, let along the high power draw.

[PCS-Chris]

What about Supermicro X8SIE?

Only thing it I5's arn't supported on their spec sheet, yet they take I3s and X34xx Xeons

http://www.supermicro.com/xeon_3400/...IPMI=N&TYP=LN2

We have a couple of those with Xeon X3460s and no problems at all

[cwl@apaqdigital]

Originally Posted by PCS-Chris

What about Supermicro X8SIE?

Only thing it I5's arn't supported on their spec sheet, yet they take I3s and X34xx Xeons

http://www.supermicro.com/xeon_3400/...IPMI=N&TYP=LN2

We have a couple of those with Xeon X3460s and no problems at all

X8SIE costs ~$20 more than X8SIL because it comes with 6x DIMM slots which are not very useful unless you want to load it with 6pcs dual-rank 128x8 4G ECC registered modules which are basically not in existence.

also, X8SIE can't be installed in SC510/SC502/SC503 chassis which require micro ATX board.

[Dougy]

Originally Posted by FastServ

What kind of problem? I haven't seen any issues with ours.

I put a (now appearingly defective i5) in it and it didn't post (albeit ECC RAM), but also did not post when there was no RAM. I got an asus desktop board and still didn't post with proper non-ecc ram, so I just RMA'd it.