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The Supermicro X8SIL-F motherboard is a high performance board for small business or home servers. The Supermicro X8SIL-F motherboard can offer onboard devices such as an Intel Xeon CPU socket, an Intel 3420 chipset, two Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet controllers, and integrated Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.0. The CPU compatibility of the Supermicro X8SIL-F board is Intel Core i3-530 and Intel Xeon X3440, because of the Socket LGA 1156. The Supermicro has a different feature set than other motherboards, and since it is compatible with operating systems like Windows Home Server (V1 or V2 Vail), FreeNAS, and others, it can be perfect for a virtual machine or storage server. The Supermicro X8SIL-F also offers seven USB ports, six SATA ports, six SATA hard drives are supported, one VGA port, PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports, and three LAN ports. All of these connections can give the user plenty of flexibility for connecting other components, such an internal hard drives and external USB devices. Since it has a form factor of microATX, it could fit in your machine nicely, and since the IPMI interface lets you control it remotely, you can run it headless. That means your X8SIL-F board can be dedicated to providing services to other computers or used completely as a storage device and can be controlled via a local interface without needing to have keyboards, mice, or monitors hooked to the box. It supports up to 32GB DDR3 ECC of RAM and up to 16GB DDR3 ECC of unbuffered memory (UDIMM), but choose your CPU carefully and know what type of memory is supported, because this board does have limited memory-type available to it. Dual Core processors of Ci3 and Pentium, for instance, will only support ECC UDIMM. There are four 240 pin DDR3 gold-plated DIMM expansion slots which have a memory type of 1333, 1066, 800MHz ECC Registered, ECC Unbuffered DDR3 SDRAM 72 bit. You can choose DIMM sizes of 1GB, 2GB, 4GB or 8GB, as they are all supported. With the right memory and the right CPU, your board can be rock solid, and it can detect double bit errors and correct single-bit errors. You can hook up to five fans to this board to keep it cool. The BIOS type is a 32MB SPI Flash EEPROM with AMI BIOS and can provide USB keyboard support. The Supermicro X8SIL-F motherboard can be power efficient as well, offering Power configurations that include ACPI/ACPM Power Management, a main switch override mechanism, and keyboard wakeup from soft-off among others. It also provides PC health monitoring for the voltage, fan, and temperature. It can monitor for such things as CPU Cores, fan speed control status monitor, and chassis environment for temperature. It also has two LED lights that will light if the system overheats and will alert you when it is on standby. For a home or small business server or storage device, you can’t go wrong with this motherboard. It is solid and built to last.

Product Identifiers

BrandSupermicro

MPNX8SIL-F

UPC0672042055227

ModelX8SIL-F

eBay Product ID (ePID)80259044

Product Key Features

Socket TypeLGA 1156/Socket H

Most Suitable ForCasual Computing

Memory TypeDDR2 SDRAM

Compatible CPU BrandIntel

Input/Output PortsSerial Port X 2, Rj45 Lan Port X 3, USB 2.0x7, PS/2 Keyboardx1, PS/2 Mousex1

Form FactorMicroATX

Expansion SlotsPCI, 2 Pci Express 2.0x8, 1 Pci Expressx4

FeaturesDual LAN

Number of Memory Slots4

Dimensions

Depth9.6in

Width9.6in

Additional Product Features

Storage ControllersSerial Ata-300 (Raid)

Chipset TypeIntel 3420

CPU TypeXeon, Quad-Core Xeon 3400 Series

Audio Output TypeNone

Product TypeMotherboard

Supported RAM Integrity CheckEcc

Networking TypeEthernet

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SuperMicro Computer X8SIL-F LGA 1156 Intel i3420 Micro ATX LGA1156 Socket Motherboard