Supermicro H8SMi-2Product switch module

Socket AM2 PGA-940 workstation motherboard

The Supermicro H8SMi-2 is a workstation motherboard built around the NVIDIA MCP55 Pro chipset and a single Socket AM2 PGA-940 processor socket. It supports Opteron dual-core and quad-core processors with up to 8 GB of DDR2 memory across four slots at speeds of 800 MHz, 667 MHz or 533 MHz. Onboard ATI ES1000 graphics and dual Gigabit Ethernet provide baseline video and network connectivity.

Builders maintaining Socket AM2 Opteron systems

This board suits technicians repairing or upgrading existing Socket AM2 Opteron workstations that require DDR2 memory, Serial ATA/300, Ultra ATA/133 and RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 5 or JBOD. Multi-GPU SLI support is available for period-correct configurations. Buyers needing newer processor sockets, higher memory capacities, or contemporary memory standards should look elsewhere.

Single Socket AM2 PGA-940 processor limit

The motherboard accommodates exactly one processor in the Socket AM2 PGA-940 interface, restricting the system to a single Opteron dual-core or quad-core CPU. This hard constraint defines the maximum compute density achievable on the platform.