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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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