Supermicro X9SCA User Manual (English)

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Supermicro X9SCA Workstation/Server Mainboard

The word mètis was also the ordinary Greek word for a quality that combined wisdom and cunning, our good friend Mitty

A over a year now Supermicro’s X8SAX Mainboard has been one of the most successful mainboards to fire out of Supermicro's San Jose headquarters. It has

surpassed all expectations as a reliable workhorse never faltering. Here we have heavily used it within many successful articles especially on the launch of

the new professional workstation graphic cards from both AMD and Nvidia. Time has marched on now and the advent of the release of Intel’s® C204 PCH

Chipset with the new Intel® Xeon® E3-1200 family saw the dawning of the inheritor the Supermicro X9SCA. A formidable adversary and the mainboard

planners at Supermicro have taken into account all due consideration of the needs of the many, in both current upgrades paths for now and the future and

usability of some previous generation PCI cards.

A week ago saw the successful launch of our article covering the new SPECapc for 3ds Max™ 2011 to which the Supermicro X9SCA was heavily

featured throughout. In came the responses for an article of the mainboard in full, what can it do, how fast is the system I/O all the relevant questions good

VARS’s and S.I’s. would ask before up taking a new mainboard of this quality. These are all very relevant questions especially in today’s market when

meticulous stability is the fundamental requirement of any system, whether in DCC, CAD, HPC or finally a server board. So we have your attention now as

this article has had many thinking on new modes of system configurations and upgrade paths as the mainboard really has got the complete remit.

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Supermicro X9SCA Specifications

General

USB 2.0 ports quantity	8
Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports	2
USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) Type-A ports quantity	0
TPM connector	Yes
Number of SATA connectors	6
Number of SATA II connectors	4
Supported DIMM module capacities	1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB
PCI slots	3
PCI Express slots version	2.0, 3.0
Memory voltage	1.5 V
Supported memory types	DDR3-SDRAM
Maximum internal memory	32 GB
Supported memory clock speeds	1333, 1600 MHz
BIOS type	AMI
ACPI version	2.0
BIOS memory size	32 Mbit
RAID levels	0, 1, 5, 10
Supported storage drive interfaces	SATA II, SATA III
Wi-Fi	No
LAN controller	Intel® 82574L
Ethernet interface type	Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
On-board graphics card model	Matrox G200
Parallel processing technology support	Not supported
Processor socket	LGA 1155 (Socket H2)
Intel Xeon series	E3-1200
Processor manufacturer	Intel
Component for	Server
Motherboard chipset	Intel® C204
Motherboard form factor	ATX
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version	1.2
Sustainability certificates	RoHS