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The Supermicro X8DTE-F is a dual-socket LGA1366 server board built on the Intel 5520 chipset, with twelve DDR3 DIMM slots and support for two Xeon 5500 or 5600 series processors. It is an extended ATX board aimed at home labs, small offices and anyone rebuilding a used rack server on a budget. Its appeal is capacity and expandability: two CPUs, up to 192GB of registered ECC memory and plenty of PCIe lanes, which modern single-socket consumer boards cannot match. The trade-offs are age and size: no native USB 3.0, no NVMe, DDR3 only, and a large E-ATX footprint that needs a full-tower case and a server-style power supply.
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Lowest price we've seen: $179.49 on Nov 11 at ctspoint.com. Tracked across 4 stores since Nov 11.
Owners of this generation of Supermicro dual-socket boards generally rate them highly for stability and memory capacity in home labs and small servers. Complaints center on age, power draw and the fussiness of memory and cooling setup.
The Supermicro X8DTE-F-O is an Extended ATX system board (motherboard) built around the Intel 5520 chipset. It uses Socket LGA1366 and supports two Intel Xeon 5600 or 5500 Series processors.
The board has 12 DIMM slots for DDR3 memory.