SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SBE LGA 775 Intel 3210 ATX Intel Xeon/Core 2/Pentium/Celeron Server Motherboard

Pros: Takes just about any LGA775 CPU, if you can still find them or have any lying around. Supports ECC and non-ECC unbuffered DDR2 up to DDR2-800. Will take an IPMI card for KVM-over-IP (though it isn't cheap and needs to be sourced elsewhere). Has 4x PCI-X slots - 2 of them are 100MHz and two of them are 133MHz.

Cons: No PCIe x16 slots. Only one PCIe x8 and one PCIe x4 slot, which limits modern expansion choices.

Other Thoughts: Got this board after retiring my old Q6600 system on a junky mATX desktop board. I moved the CPU and 8GB (4x 2GB) of non-ECC DDR2-800 RAM, then added a bunch of disks to the SATA ports. Windows Server 2012 has a new feature called Storage Spaces that makes setting up a DIY NAS a piece of cake on a system like this, which is my intended goal.

The company I work for uses the X7SBA boards for a different application. They have a slightly different slot arrangement but they're rock-solid in the many 24/7 environments they're deployed in. This X7SBE should be no different.

The front panel header is definitely geared towards use in Supermicro chassis but can be connected to standard ATX headers. You'll just have to look up the pinout in the manual.

Pros: Works with pentiums 775

Cons: price for old board is kind of high

Other Thoughts: to the person talking about the Retention bracket. What you are saying doesent really make any sence. If ur talking about a bracket to mount a heat sink that is suspose to come with the heatsink no the motherboard or case.

Pros: We never could find any "pros" on this motherboard

Cons: No CPU Retention bracket. We scoured the internet
looking for one - most difficult to find. We found some
vendors looking for 20.00 to ship one. No Thanks.
Even a Magician could install a cpu without the bracket.


Daniel James Tyler

Other Thoughts: Nice Box

Pros: Needed a cheap server motherboard with PCI-X slot for the SuperMicro 8 port SATA RAID card. This motherboard allowed me to use a cheap C2D CPU to keep costs down.

Worked well out of the box and booted on first attempt. Windows 7 installed without a hitch.

Cons: Nothing

Pros: This board is used for entry level server I just built. Works like a charm, no issues at all. If it helps memory used was Kingston KVR800D2E6K2/4G.

Cons: None

Pros: Good board for the price. Supports RAID 5, and it works with Windows Server 2k8. Has decent onboard video, dual NICs. All the features in a server motherboard you could want for the price.

Cons: The CPU socket is turned sideways, so using Zalman fans or anything that requires the fan to be straight is questionable. It's working for me however.

Other Thoughts: Currently running 8GB Crucial Memory, 4x640 WD Caviar Black in RAID 5, Intel C2Q 6600, Antec 900, Corsair HX520.

Pros: Running in an OpenSolaris-based server, with ~8TB of storage (3 ZFS raid-z arrays of 4 disks each). Rock solid since 2/09. See other thoughts for complete list of server components.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: * 2 x SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA Controller Card - Retail
* 1 x CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply - Retail
* 1 x Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80569Q9550 - Retail
* 4 x Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
* 1 x LITE-ON Slim 8X DVD Burner Black SATA Model DS-8A2S-A01 - OEM
* 1 x LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE Model GH22NP20 - OEM
* 1 x NORCO RPC-4020 4U Rackmount Server Case - Retail
* 1 x BYTECC 18" Sata and Slim Sata Power 7+6pin Cable, for Sata Slim OD Model SATA-XP118 - Retail
* 1 x Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
* 1 x SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SBE LGA 775 Intel 3210 ATX Intel Xeon/Core 2/Pentium/Celeron Server Motherboard - Retail

Pros: none

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: This is a socket 775 motherboard, what do you mean heatsync retention bracket? OEM Intel HS has no retention bracket, if you are using some aftermarket HS that needs one that would have to come from the HS mfg not supermicro.

Pros: It looks nice.

Cons: Supermicro doesn't ship a retention bracket for the cpu heat sync with this motherboard.

Other Thoughts: I bought a supermicro case and another brand mobo. The mobo didn't work in the case so I bought this one as per supermicro's support. I had it overnighted so we could get this build done for a customer today. Got this mobo today and now I am unable to finish this setup since it doesn't come with the cpu retention bracket. I am going to scrap this build and return all supermicro parts. This is unacceptable.

Pros: Plenty of SATA ports, PCI-X slots, PCIe slots, dual gigabit NICs, and onboard video, what more do you need?

Cons: Can't think of any.

Other Thoughts: I've been running this 24/7 for 7 months with absolutely no problems. I've been running Ubuntu Server (went through I think 3 releases so far) as a file server as well as VMWare server with a highly active torrent seeder running virtually. I paired this with the AOC-SAT2-MV8 to run a 7 drive RAID5 using Linux software RAID. No problems whatsoever.