UEFI Features
SUPERMICRO includes the latest version of their UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) with the the C7X99-OCE motherboard. The UEFI offers full keyboard and mouse support while using the UEFI pages. However, right clicking the mouse has no affect on screen navigation. Also, SUPERMICRO did not include any type of imbedded screencap functionality into the UEFI.
UEFI Notable Features
SUPERMICRO's UEFI design is simplified compared with many of the other manufacturer's UEFIs, using a single operational mode.
Main page
The UEFI opening screen contains a series of sub-menus logically dividing the UEFI settings across functional areas. The buttons contained in the title bar (and the title bar itself) display in all sub-menus as it appears in the main page. The Home button is used to return to the UEFI main screen, as you traverse through the various sub-menus. The Overclocking button is a quick link to the Overclocking sub-menu, bringing up the CPU OverClocking page. The Expert Mode button displays advanced settings in specific menus. If additional configuration settings exist of the active page, they display after clicking the Expert Mode button and are hidden upon clicking the Expert Mode button again. The Save and Load button spawns the save and profile settings pop up in the lower right corner of the page.
Save & Load pop up
Clicking the Save & Load button in the title bar opens the Save & Load pop up in the lower right corner of the page. The pop up contains multiple generic save and exit settings, as well as some settings unique to this implementation. The "Save Setting to OC3" option creates a special system profile tied to the integrated OC3 button on the motherboard. Pressing the OC3 button automatically loads the settings saved to this profile. The OC3 profile settings are separate from the two user defined profiles defined through the "Save Profiles" option in the same menu.
Save Profiles screen
Load Profiles screen
SUPERMICRO supports the creation and use of two user defined profiles through the Save Profiles and Load Profiles options, accessed from the Save & Load pop up menu. The profiles are statically named Profile 1 and Profile 2 with no option for user configurable names. These profiles exist in addition to the OC3 profile.
Overclocking menu, CPU Overclocking page
Overclocking menu, Memory Overclocking page
The board's overclocking-related settings are housed acrossed two pages in the Overclocking menu – the CPU Overclocking page and the Memory Overclocking page. The Expert Mode button must be clicked to expose all settings contained within these pages.
Overclocking menu, CPU Overclocking page, Automated overclocking settings
The UEFI automated overclocking settings are housed in the Load SMC CPU OC Setting option within the CPU Overclocking page. The settings displayed depend on the active processor in the board. These settings dictate process speed and voltage settings when selected, but do allow for user tweaking of the pre-defined selections. Note that when any setting aside from Manual was selected. the CPU voltage was auto-set to 1.50V. Also, it was found in testing that the desired overclocking speed must be set via this setting or the board will ignore overclock settings manually entered by the user.
UEFI Walkthrough – Processor(CPU) and Overclocking menus
Processor(CPU) menu, Information page
Processor(CPU) menu, Performance page
Processor(CPU) menu, Performance page continued
Processor(CPU) menu, Power Management page
Overclocking menu, CPU Overclocking page, CPU core settings
Overclocking menu, CPU Overclocking page, CPU core and bus speed settings
Overclocking menu, CPU Overclocking page, Bus speed settings continued
Overclocking menu, CPU Overclocking page, Turbo mode settings
Overclocking menu, CPU Overclocking page, Turbo mode settings continued
Overclocking menu, CPU Overclocking page, Voltage settings
Overclocking menu, CPU Overclocking page, Voltage settings continued
Overclocking menu, CPU Overclocking page, CPU Input Voltage page
Overclocking menu, Memory Overclocking page, Memory Timing settings
Overclocking menu, Memory Overclocking page, Memory Timing settings continued
Overclocking menu, Memory Overclocking page, Memory Timing settings continued
Overclocking menu, Memory Overclocking page, Memory Timing settings continued
Overclocking menu, Memory Overclocking page, Memory Timing settings continued
Overclocking menu, Memory Overclocking page, Memory Timing settings continued
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.