The Supermicro X11SRA Motherboard Review: C422 based Workstation for Xeon-W
by Joe Shields on May 30, 2018 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Workstation
- Supermicro
- ECC
- Skylake-SP
- Xeon-W
Gaming Performance
AoTS Escalation
Ashes of the Singularity is a Real Time Strategy game developed by Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment. The original AoTS was released back in March of 2016 while the standalone expansion pack, Escalation, was released in November of 2016 adding more structures, maps, and units. We use this specific benchmark as it relies on both a good GPU as well as on the CPU in order to get the most frames per second. This balance is able to better display any system differences in gaming as opposed to a more GPU heavy title where the CPU and system don't matter quite as much. We use the default "Crazy" in-game settings using the DX11 rendering path in both 1080p and 4K UHD resolutions. The benchmark is run four times and the results averaged then plugged into the graph.
Our tight-knit AOTSe results find the Workstation X11SRA hanging with the X299 platform and 'gaming' motherboards. It put up 44.2 FPS at 1080p and 34.9 in 4K blending in seamlessly. Who needs a 'gaming' board to game well, eh?
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013's Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections, while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story.
One of the unique aspects of this benchmark is that it’s actually the average of 3 sub-benchmarks that fly through different environments, which keeps the benchmark from being too weighted towards a GPU’s performance characteristics under any one scene.
Rise of the Tomb Raider also continues its close results as the X11SRA delivered 93 FPS at 1080p and 39.7 FPS using 4K UHD resolution. This workstation-class motherboard plays games just fine.
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tricomp - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - link
No Ryzen to buy IntelPsycho_McCrazy - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - link
So many X299 mobo reviews and now a WS one, so niche.Spare a thought for us mortals looking for AM4 B350 boards. Mini ITX AM4 mobo reviews anyone?
ruthan - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - link
Gaming charts are almost useless for me, i want to see comparision with 7820x and 8700K.. I now that gaming performance wouldnt be better, but not everybody have enough money and room for separated gaming and working PC..bill.rookard - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - link
Well, that sucks. It used to be that you could buy some regular boards, and eventually through server replacements get a hold of Xeons on the secondary used market. These are actually quite useful, and decently powerful.Now, server motherboards and chipsets will be required. Grr....
Sartorial - Wednesday, May 30, 2018 - link
Does it support bifurcating / "quadfurcating" PCI-E slots for passive M.2 risers?cinematicket - Thursday, May 31, 2018 - link
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porcusRex - Thursday, May 31, 2018 - link
im in the market for a new workstation. I would like to see this motherboard compared to the Asus WS C422 pro/se. build will be used for developement/db work and to run VMs. plan is for 128 g memory and xeon w-2155. the only other available board only supports 64 G memory i think.stanbessami - Thursday, December 6, 2018 - link
Excellent scalability, full support for the Broadwell-EP family up to E5-2699 v4 from BIOS 2.0. There are all modern and really necessary connectors. Technical support manufacturer, fresh bios.All stores indicate in the description that the memory is only ECC REG, but this is not the case, it works fine with regular 2133 boards. Really effective energy saving options specified in the specification. Power, reliability, a decent manufacturer in its segment "SUPERMICRO". Price = quality. By the way, I write argumentative essays and reviews for https://writemyessayonline.com/, where you will also find a lot of useful information, as well as be able to order any paperwork.
hansmuff - Monday, March 25, 2019 - link
Maybe IPMI isn't a requirement in a workstation class board, but it sure would be nice especially at this price. My X10 Supermicro server board was only about $220 and has IPMI. It would be a nice distinguisher in this space.charliejoe752 - Tuesday, July 16, 2019 - link
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