Supermicro SC846E16-R1200B

[ALFA]

Hi fellas, good day.

Have a doubt about this chassis and is if it could accommodate any x10 supermicro motherboard inside of it, anyone have made this any try to stuff it with some new juice motherboard beside the x8 Models, there is any way to modified it to be compatible with the x10?. Its because a found it in Ebay with a brainless price and I already have this motherboard. Any suggestion please? it would be greatful, and many thanks in advanced.

the link to the chassis: http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/846/SC846E16-R1200.cfm

the link to the x8 motherboard that accept: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DT6-F.cfm?IPMI=Y&SAS=N

the link to the x10 motherboard that I have: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRD-iNT.cfm

Pd. I saw this in one of the note in the X10DRD-iNT motherboard page "To support the new generation Intel® Xeon® processor-based motherboards, Revision M chassis is recommended". Anyone know what its need it the Revision M, what they change in the chassis so it could work with the new E5-XXXX processors?

Kind regards

 

[ALFA]

Dont worry guys, I will answer my own question, based on the @DataKeeper and @pclausen building with and x10 and x7 respectively, and yes I can stuff some x10 juice in this great chassis, my doubt was when I emailed this guy from ebay (wich DataKeeper already mentioned in his awesome building post) and tell me that the x10 cards are to new for this chassis and it wont suit me. But based on the pictures and the experience of other looks like that is in the another way.

Thank you guys and happy day.

 

[Ericloewe]

The motherboard is what Supermicro calls E-ATX (the definition varies across manufacturers), which the chassis explicitly accepts.

However, depending on your cooling solution, you might need the newer covers to properly direct airflow (particularly if you'll be using passive coolers on the CPUs). I'm sure these are available from Supermicro. Alternatively, just use active CPU coolers.

 

[DataKeeper]

Not sure who replied to you from eBay however the seller I bought and linked to certainly knows the X10 e-atx boards fit this chassis. Doesn't matter though since you see some of us have in fact installed into these chassis. I believe @pclausen had an issue with one of the screw holes on the main board not lining up with the chassis hole however all matched just fine for me.

As to the Revision M issues. If there is an M in the middle of the chassis serial then it's an M chassis.
http://www.supermicro.com/support/faqs/faq.cfm?faq=17168

*That said! The chassis I have seems to be a Revision K since there is a K where the M is on a newer 1U Supermicro chassis I have. I would suggest you email support@supermicro.com and provide the chassis and main board you have to verify. Responses typically take 24-36 hours I've found.


Also.. While I wouldn't tell anyone not to do something, I will say I wouldn't recommend a passive CPU cooler in this chassis unless you were using an appropriate low voltage board/CPU setup.. And even then I wouldn't.

 

[ALFA]

Thanks guy for the input, i already send a email to support@supermicro.com and replay me with that my motherboard will fit without problem, but they cannot guarantee a 100% compatibily, but its ok by me, at least It will fix inside the case. About the cooling solution, i will need to change it from passive to active then. Again thank you both of you @Ericloewe and @DataKeeper