Supermicro MBD-X11SAE-M-O LGA 1151 C236 server motherboard

Socket and Chipset

The Supermicro MBD-X11SAE-M-O is a Micro ATX server motherboard built around the Intel C236 chipset and the LGA 1151 socket. It accepts Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 processors alongside 6th-generation Core i7, i5, i3, Pentium and Celeron CPUs with a thermal design power up to 95W. The board provides four 288-pin DDR4 slots supporting unbuffered ECC or non-ECC memory at 2133, 1866 or 1600MHz for a maximum capacity of 64GB. Expansion includes one PCIe 3.0 x16 slot, one PCIe 3.0 x4 slot and a legacy 5V PCI 32-bit slot.

Expansion and Connectivity

This board suits builders who need eight SATA 6.0Gb/s ports with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 support plus dual Intel gigabit Ethernet controllers. It also offers two rear USB 3.1 ports at 10Gbps, two rear USB 3.0 ports, two rear USB 2.0 ports and additional USB headers for front-panel connections. Buyers requiring more than two PCIe slots, a second M.2 connector or 10-gigabit networking should consider other platforms. The single-socket design also limits the system to one processor.

Memory Configuration

The single specification that decides suitability is the four-slot unbuffered DDR4 layout capped at 64GB. If the workload demands registered DIMMs or a total memory capacity above 64GB, this motherboard cannot meet that requirement.