CPU Cooler Fit & Included Accessories
CPU Cooler Fit
To test the amount of space surrounding the CPU socket, we mounted a Noctua NH-D15 cooler to the CPU socket. Both a overly large CPU air coolers, sporting a dual fan construction and two huge vertical cooling towers.
Noctua NH-D15
With the NH-D15 oriented to blow air towards the board's rear panel, the cooler does not come into contact with any of the memory modules or heat sinks surrounding the CPU socket. As is common with the X99-based boards, the fit between the cooler and a video card seated in the primary PCIe x16 slot was tight. The video card fits without issue as long as there was not an overly large back plate on it. The card would need to be seated to the secondary slot if the back side of the PCB contained large protrusions, however.
The side views illustrate that the memory slot layout is designed to be usable with even the largest CPU coolers, as long as the cooler design adheres to the Intel design spec. The fit between the front fan and the front memory modules could be tight, depending on the fan seat height.
Noctua SecuFirm2™ mounting system
Noctua's SecuFirm2™ mounting system is a good method to quickly determine how well the CPU socket laid out to accommodate a larger cooler. The mount easily fits within the constraints of the upper and lower memory modules as well as the heat sinks to the left and right of the CPU socket. Even though the memory slots are a bit closer than normal to the CPU socket, the mount did not come into contact with modules seated in either of the colored slots (black or blue).
Included Accessories
SUPERMICRO bundled in the bare necessities to get the board operational in your system.
Included with the motherboard is a fold-out quick reference guide and an install CD only, no printed manual is included. However, a highly detailed motherboard manual in PDF form is included on the install CD. The manual included surprisingly details information all aspects of the board, including detailing out all jumpers, headers, and buttons, as well as the BIOS.
The rear panel shield is a simple chromed aluminum plate with icons imprinted directly on the surface identifying the ports. However, even under good light, you may find the port identification symbols hard to read.
SUPERMICRO included a total of six 6Gb/s rated SATA cables for use with the integrated ports. The cables are simple straight connectors without integrated port locks.
For multi-GPU use, SUPERMICRO includes a single two-way NVIDIA SLI cable.
Glad to see Supermicro in
Glad to see Supermicro in prosumer market. I like their sys. boards and chassis. Good quality products.
What’s next, you’ll be
What’s next, you’ll be telling me about DFI’s X99 LAN Party board?
If DFI releases a new
If DFI releases a new LanParty board I’m no board for it.
Ahh..DFI how I miss thee,
Ahh..DFI how I miss thee, design wise it was very impressive for it’s times..
Still, as for this board, it looks quite good, but I’d stick to other manufacturers for the desktop segment.
apparently this board isn’t
apparently this board isn’t that good if it didn’t get at least a silver award for CMOS battery placement.
How come all the images
How come all the images provided by super micro show a vga port that isn’t in the photos you took morry?
suspect it could only used
suspect it could only used for IPMI – so for consumers they decided to just drop it?
unfortunately, that is the
unfortunately, that is the only one I could find of the rear panel…
The review is for the
The review is for the C7X99-OCE, thus video port is missing.
VGA/video port is only included with the C7X99-OCE-F (IPMI) variant.
PS/2 is very welcome. The
PS/2 is very welcome. The only thing missing is m.2 for me.. but nothing a PCIE adapter can’t handle. Interested to see a review of this board.
4x8GB is 32GB isn’t it?
4x8GB is 32GB isn’t it?
you are correct. Thanks for
you are correct. Thanks for the heads up…
Cool! Xeon E5 support right
Cool! Xeon E5 support right out of the box.