Chapter 1: Introduction
1-1
Chapter 1
Introduction
1-1 Overview
About this Motherboard
The X10SRA/X10SRA-F Motherboard supports a single Intel® E5-26xx
series , E5-16xx series or Core™ i7 processor, in an LGA 2011-3 socket.
With the Intel® C612 chipset built in, the X10SRA/X10SRA-F mother-
board offers substantial system performance and storage capability for
workstation/server platforms. Please refer to our website (http://www.
supermicro.com/products/) for processor and memory support updates.
1-2 Chipset Overview
Intel C612 Express Chipset Features
•DDR4 288-pin memory support on the LGA 2011-3
•Support for MCTP Protocol and ME
•Support of SMBus speeds of up to 1 MHz for BMC connectivity
•GSX capable of GPIO expansion
•Improved I/O capabilities to high-storage-capacity conguration
•SPI Enhancements
•Intel® Node Manager 3.0
•BMC supports remote management, virtualization, and the security package
for enterprise platforms