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Preface
Preface
About This Manual
This manual is written for system integrators, IT technicians, and knowledgeable end users.
It provides information for the installation and use of the X11DPX-T motherboard.
About This Motherboard
The X11DPX-T motherboard supports dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable-SP and 2nd Generation
Intel Xeon Scalable-SP processors (Socket P) with a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of up to
205W and three UPI (Ultra Path Interconnect) links of up to 10.4 GT/s (Note 1 below). With
the Intel C621 chipset built-in, this motherboard supports 3DS LRDIMM/RDIMM/LRDIMM/
NVDIMM DDR4 ECC memory of up to 2933*/2666 MHz in 16 slots (Note 2 below). It also
supports up to 2TB Intel Optane™ DC Persistent Memory in memory mode (2nd Gen Intel
Xeon Scalable-SP 82xx/62xx/52xx/4215 series processors only). The X11DPX-T provides
maximum performance, system cooling, and PCIe capacity. Also, this motherboard is optimized
for high-performance computing head-node, I/O intensive storage, security monitoring/DVR,
and industry applications. Please note that this motherboard is intended to be installed and
serviced by professional technicians only. For processor/memory updates, please refer to our
website at http://www.supermicro.com/products/.
Notes: 1. UPI/memory speeds are dependent on the processors installed in your sys-
tem. 2. Support for 2933MHz memory is dependent on the CPU SKU.
Manual organization
Chapter 1 describes the features, specications and performance of the motherboard, and
provides detailed information on the Intel C621 chipset.
Chapter 2 provides hardware installation instructions. Read this chapter when installing the
processor, memory modules, and other hardware components into the system.
Chapter 3 describes troubleshooting procedures for video, memory, and system setup stored
in the CMOS.
Chapter 4 includes an introduction to the BIOS, and provides detailed information on running
the CMOS Setup utility.
Appendix A provides BIOS Error Beep Codes.
Appendix B lists software program installation instructions.
Appendix C lists standardized warning statements in various languages.
Appendix D contains UEFI BIOS Recovery instructions.