AM4/TR4/SP3 Mobos with IPMI/BMC

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chriscambridge
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AM4/TR4/SP3 Mobos with IPMI/BMC

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Guide to BMC/IPMI ("Explaining the Baseboard Management Controller or BMC in Servers"):

https://www.servethehome.com/explaining ... n-servers/

BMC/IPMI offers onboard chip based remote management including BIOS + OS level (java/HTML5) KVM, as well as centralized management of temps, power, fans, etc.

This is how servers are managed remotely; unfortunately previously IPMI was never built into consumer mobos/cpus.

However with the power of Ryzen CPUs now outperforming Xeons, some manufacturers are now slowly releasing mobos.

After months of research, I thought I would share the only 3 available Ryzen mobos with IPMI:

AM4 Mobo:

ASROCK Rack X470D4U

https://www.asrockrack.com/general/prod ... ifications

[comments: I have not done any investigation into this (eg CPU coolers etc) as I only really need TR4 mobos]

* Supports AMD AM4 Socket Ryzen™ PRO/ Ryzen™ 2nd and 3rd generation series processors

* Supports 4x DDR4 ECC and non-ECC UDIMM, max. 32 GB

* Supports up to 6 x SATA3 6.0Gb/s

* Integrated IPMI 2.0 with KVM and Dedicated LAN (RTL8211E)

* Supports 2x GLAN by Intel I210AT

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TR4 Mobos:


ASROCK Rack X399D8A-2T

https://www.asrockrack.com/general/prod ... ifications

[comments: A great looking mobo let down by the fact that the RAM/CPU socket are facing the wrong direction for high TDP TR2 CPU coolers!]

* Supports AMD TR4 Socket Ryzen Threadripper Series CPUs

* Support quad channel DDR4 total 8 DIMM slots

* Support 8x SATA 6Gb/s by AMD X399 and 2x SATA 6Gb/s by Asmedia 1061

* Support 2x M.2 (PCIe3.0 x4) up to 22110 form factor

* Support 3x PCIe 3.0 x16、2x PCIe 3.0 x8

* Support Dual 10GbE by Intel X550-AT2

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Tyan Tomcat EX S8020

https://www.tyan.com/Motherboards_S8020_S8020AGM2NR-EX

[comments: A great looking mobo let down by the fact that it doesnt seem to be available practically anywhere just yet!]

* 12" x 9.6" ATX form factor

* X399 chipset w/ 8 DIMM slots

* 2 1000Base-T LAN w/ shared IPMI port

* 4 PCIe Gen.3 x16 slots (1 in x8 link)

* 1 PCIe Gen.2 x8 slot (w/ x4 link)

* 7.1 channel HD audio

* AST2500 BMC with IPMI v2.0 support

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Re: AM4/TR4 Mobos with IPMI/BMC

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And if anyone wants to build one of these into a 4U server, then the only CPU cooler that will fit for TR4 is the Noctua NH-U9-TR4-SP3

https://noctua.at/en/nh-u9-tr4-sp3

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I am not sure about AM4 coolers.
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Re: AM4/TR4 Mobos with IPMI/BMC

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** EPYC mobo with Gigabyte IPMI, usage GPU slots.. CPU cooler wrong direction so would require maybe supermicro cooler. **

Gigabyte AMD MZ01-CE1 ATX EPYC Motherboard

https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Server-Moth ... -rev-1x#ov

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https://store.supermicro.com/4u-active- ... 64ap4.html

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Re: AM4/TR4/SP3 Mobos with IPMI/BMC

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Thanks for sharing Chris. I personally haven't moved into the server world (yet?). I am still in the HEDT space, but am also primarily focused on AMD products at the moment.

BRING ON THE THREADRIPPER 3s!!
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Re: AM4/TR4/SP3 Mobos with IPMI/BMC

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Yeah Threadripper (TR) ROME's are going to be pretty good I think, probably 32/64 cores at the top end.

EPYC are normally far more efficient however in terms of power usage though when you compare against TR.

To be honest unless your running 8+ machines I wouldnt bother with Servers (eg server based Workstations).
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Re: AM4/TR4/SP3 Mobos with IPMI/BMC

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Makes sense. I am about to build a third system. I have a couple of gaming laptops that I use for sprints as well, but aim to pack in as much compute as I can into the three water cooled PCs. Don’t think I will go near 8 systems any time soon!
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