I like it. Cool to see a Supermicro not be in a rack. 

I'm in the middle of a Supermicro build myself at the moment and am tempted to un-rack the thing to be more desk friendly. It was already a rude awakening when I had to deal with the server fans to Noctua fan conversion. 

Brad_Hawthorne
I like it. Cool to see a Supermicro not be in a rack. 

I'm in the middle of a Supermicro build myself at the moment and am tempted to un-rack the thing to be more desk friendly. It was already a rude awakening when I had to deal with the server fans to Noctua fan conversion. 

Thanks .  It's working as a horizontal case, but I may end up putting it on end anyway to use less table top space .  I might put it in the kitchen .
I bet it is nice on your ears to have those server fans out !  If you still are thinking desk top use, you might check out Supermicro website .
They have a few vertical cases for their various boards .  They all have optical drive bays, too .  What motherboard are you using ?
 
Supermicro just dropped a new BIOS for the C9Z790 boards .  So, I updated my BIOS with it .  Lost my old settings, and reset BIOS to default .
This new BIOS is even hotter than the old one was :0    Just in BIOS "optimized defaults" I'm thermal velocity boosting to 6.2 Ghz all over the place .
That's just in Windows balanced power mode .  I will have to make some adjustments before running Cinebench again .
I tried Timespy, for the fun of it, CPU went up to 98 C, with thermal throttling .
 
Also, put an old EVGA GTX1060 graphics card that I had in it .  It works great, and EVGA even had an up to date driver for it .
It's a step up from integrated graphics .  I can now run most games on my old 1080p monitor .  All at no cost :)
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The 1060 will do until the new cards come out .  Still waiting for gen. 5 :)
Have a great time with your own Supermicro build .
 
Too The Moon !
 
Gamdias Neso P1 case, Supermicro C9Z790-CGW main board, Intel 14900KS CPU, 2 x 24 GB Viper ELITE5 DDR 5 RAM, one 2 TB Crucial T500 gen.4 main drive,
two 1 TB Crucial P3 gen.3 storage drives, EK Velocity Sq. pump, heat sink, and reservoir combo, plus 420 MM radiator,
EVGA 1000G FTW Supernova ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 compliant PSU, and nine Noctua case fans .
 
 

My build is an old Supermicro server which has the  X10QBI motherboard. That thing is slow but the capacity is ridiculous. 11 PCIe slots, 4 E7-8895v2 15-core CPUs for a total of 120 threads, 24 hot swap bays and 6TB (96 dimm slots) of ram. To keep with the theme, I dropped in a handful of Nvidia Tesla M40 24GB into it. The capacity on the thing is totally irrational for home use. Currently using it for large language model (LLM) inference. Every thing about it is decade old compute, but it's a min-max build that just brute forces everything computationally. It has the capacity for most anything.
 

This was a great Supermicro build

Brad_Hawthorne
My build is an old Supermicro server which has the  X10QBI motherboard. That thing is slow but the capacity is ridiculous. 11 PCIe slots, 4 E7-8895v2 15-core CPUs for a total of 120 threads, 24 hot swap bays and 6TB (96 dimm slots) of ram. To keep with the theme, I dropped in a handful of Nvidia Tesla M40 24GB into it. The capacity on the thing is totally irrational for home use. Currently using it for large language model (LLM) inference. Every thing about it is decade old compute, but it's a min-max build that just brute forces everything computationally. It has the capacity for most anything.
 

I think that is a pretty cool mother board .  I looked at it, it's big .  You'll need a full tower case for it, more of a floor
stander than a desk top :)  Something like a Fractal define7 XL .  I have that one's little brother; it's big and strong,
and heavy .  That's OK though because it makes a great end table .  An XL would be even better .
You should post a picture of your machine here .  This machine reminds me of JayVenturi's God Box !
I was wondering if you use the VGA integrated graphics in your set up, or another different graphics card ?
I was surprised at the wide availability of new VGA monitors for sale .
 
P.S. Was looking at that LLM thing, apparently it takes a real beast of a computer, like yours, to run it efficiently :)
 

rjohnson11
This was a great Supermicro build

Thank's Mr. rjohnson11, there will be a little more .  I won't be satisfied with the 1060 forever .
BTW, I've been busy reinstalling my Win10 OS on my old ASUS computer, it got corrupted somehow, so I reinstalled it
from the old original USB stick .  Took allot of updating, and update got stuck at one point, so I used the system file
checker to correct it .  I learned a new command prompt command to go with it; DISM .  DISM downloads missing
image files so that sys. file checker can have ALL files available to repair the system .
First run  DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
Then run   sfc /scannow
 
Too The Moon !
 

I didnt even know they made z790 boards o.o I have never seen one before now!

Yeah, they came out with two models in 2023 .  One with WiFi, C9Z790-CGW, and one without, C9Z790-CG .
They didn't do much advertising, and production was slow .  Those are currently the only consumer boards Supermicro sells .
It's a good board .  Hasn't given me any trouble .  BIOS flashing is a little more difficult than on other consumer boards,
but not extremely hard .  Supermicro has finally updated their SuperO-booster software for the Z790 boards .  Last time I
updated BIOS, I used it, it was a cinch with that, almost completely automatic .  I think it is superior in performance to my
Gigabyte Z690 board, which is also a good board :)  It's hard to tell though because the processor is also slightly better .
 
Too The Moon !