SUPERMICRO MBD-X9DRH-7TF-O Extended ATX Server Motherboard Dual LGA 2011 DDR3 1600/1333/1066/800

Pros: 10gbe -- The nics will cost $500 if purchased seperately.
lots of ram.
Tons of storage options.
lsi 2208 is a nice controller. Makes sense if you want to do raid. For JBOD type configurations like ZFS it gets more complicated.
IPMI remote management is built in

Cons: LSI 2208 does not have IT firmware to my knowledge... Hard to figure out how to put it in jbod mode.
Not a standard form factor.
Works with but not directly compatible with older super micro chasis.

Other Thoughts: I like supermicro. Their warranty is absolutely the worst though... If you receive a bad product return it to the distributor. They are terribly bad. Will always charge for a repair, will take forever to repair the item.

Pros: Did work with dual Xeons, and supported 128 Gigs of ram at 1600 MHz. Has survived about a day of stress test with no memory errors.

Cons: Poorly organized bios lacking basic features. Appears to have an incompatibility with Kingston 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR3 1600 Server Memory DR x4 Intel Model KVR16R11D4/8I, in that the RAM does not seem to work as ECC RAM. At least not according to memcheck86. But memcheck86 could be wrong, or so I read online. It would be nice if the BIOS said something about whether the RAM was ECC or not, but it doesn't. I called supermicro tech support but they don't answer their phones it seems.

Another bad problem is that the motherboard doesn't really fit in an E-ATX case, which is what I believe it was supposed to fit into. So for the first time in my career, I could not find a computer case to properly support the board. Right now it is flopping around with a few screws missing. But it is working at least.

Overall I'm disappointed, but at least I have a working system, and there's a chance it is in fact using the memory as ECC RAM. And supermicro really needs to provide better technical support if they expect people to pay top dollar for their products.