Supermicro X9SAE-V Desktop Motherboard - Intel C216 Chipset - Socket H2 LGA-1155 - Retail Pack

Pros: Working well so far with:
CPU: Intel E3-1230V2 LGA1155 Processor BX80637E31230V2
Chassis: Supermicro CSE-822T 2U case. BUT, the power supply BARELY REACHES the motherboard connectors.
Drives: WD1003FBYX and WD10EFRX drives.
Memory: Kingston 8GB DDR3 1600MHz PC3 12800 ECC CL11 DIMM KVR16E11/8

Cons: Fan 4 connector is near the "rear" of the board where the keyboard connector is. This necessitates a fan extension cable to reach fans in a typical 2U rackmount chassis. (All the other fan connectors are at the "front" edge of the board where the power LED is.)

Other Thoughts: eth1 did not come up, although it showed up in lspci and dmesg. Connecting the port to the network switch showed no lights on the motherboard port. Turned out the solution was to completely remove the power and pull the CMOS battery (as is the solution for many Realtek/Gigabyte boards in the past year.)

Pros: Great affordable desktop server motherboard. Has VT-d and works with the i7 3770.

Cons: Works with http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148561 only at 1333.
CPU is not in the correct location for large heatsinks.

Pros: Does what it says on the tin.

Cons: Had to update BIOS to 2.0a (came with 2.0) before I could prioritize my on-board GPU.

Other Thoughts: Works well with a hypervisor and GPU pass-through. Supermicro support is awesome.

Pros: stable E3-v2 Xeon board
works with ESXi 5.1
USB3s & extra USB2s, HDMI, SATA3 & SATA2
2xGB Lan

Cons: not really any cons - maybe that the manual is a bit sparse

Other Thoughts: Building up an ESXi 5.1 (on USB stick) environment, running NexentaStor, Centos, Windows Server 2012 essentials. Got a PCI Lan card to jump start (ESXi 5.1 doesn't support the Intel nics out of the box, needed to downgrade the drivers), and a LSI3081e-r HBA to allow pass-through of 2TB WD Red drives to Nexenta ( requires another set of patches to ESXi 5.1 to make the pass through work).

The motherboard has been stable so a couple of weeks of playing around with ESXi and VMs.

With the fanless power supply, and the relatively low power CPU in a fractal design r4 case, this is a silent but high power box

Setup:
motherboard MBD-X9SAE-V-O R
cpu XEON E3 1245V2 3.4G HT R
cpu cooler ARCTIC| ACALP11-PRO-R2 R
ram 4x 8G|KST KVR13E9/8HM R
power ROSEWILL | SILENTNIGHT-500

Pros: Fairly priced for the features
Desktop-style board for the server-oriented user
Dual LAN, USB 3.0, HDMI, lots of slots

Runs Ivy Bridge Xeon without a hitch

Never had a BSOD or frozen POST

Cons: Only holds 32 GB RAM, and you can NOT use Registered memory. You can use unbuffered ECC or non-ECC, but can't mix. Keep in mind that non-registered ECC is usually a little harder to find and more expensive than registered ECC.

Other Thoughts: Overall great board. I was looking to build a Xeon server on the cheap, and this had the features I wanted at the price I was willing to pay.

It is easy to confuse this with the X9SAE because there is NO DIFFERENCE between the two boards except for the fact that this one has an additional PCI Express slot.

I see no reason not to get this board over the X9SAE because whichever x8 slot you use WILL run at x16 until you add another card (people mistakenly believe it only runs at x8, this is only true if other slot is full). With this model you have ability to add second card, albeit both will run at x8 then.

Pros: I was looking for a motherboard that support intl E3 CPU, ECC RAM, AMT, USB 3.0. X9SAE-V is perfect to me. I had a very smooth integration and bring-up. AMT is super!

Cons: Manual (downloaded from supermicro website) doesn't tell more information.

Other Thoughts: This motherboard requires a CPU integrated with GPU or an independent video card to display. Of course, you can make a headless server after setup.

Pros: C216 Chipset
Surpermicro
X16 video
PCI

Cons: Item pictured is the MBD-X9SAE-0 as it only has one x16 slot

The MBD-X9SAE-V-0 has two x16 slots

Other Thoughts: For some reason the C216 boards are very rare. Not even Intel makes C216 board. Maybe it has issues in general?

I own the MBD-X9SAE-O board as it was the only one I could find. It works great so far, but have used it very little.

I run Windows Home Server as a virtual machine under ESXi without issue.

I run headless with an E3-1220L V2, 16GB ECC/UDIMM

Pros: all the features

Cons: given the supermicro-newegg 204 chipset cluster-%$#@, I wouldn't purchess this board until the image matched mfr's product page; and newegg and supermicro commit to support the E3-12x5 processors without some crazyass bios upgrades!!!!