Introduction:

    Supermicro is a company specializing in servers, their whole product line is dedicated to them. They make everything from 1U rackmount, 4U towers, to the specialized motherboards themselves. Everything from the small home office servers, to massively powerful motherboards with the ability to have 4 Xeon processors with 6 cores each (24 total), and 192GB of ram (yes, that’s all on *one* motherboard).

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And as much as I would love to try out a motherboard like that, I couldn’t possibly have the infrastructure needed to really put a system like that through its paces. Anyway, most small companies only need a very basic server, maybe 10 concurrent users, or a website that gets a few hundred hits a day, maybe even a few thousand if they do a lot of business online.

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Supermicro’s answer to those requirements is the SuperServer 5035L-IB. It is a small mid tower that has a 300 watt power supply along with a motherboard. All you need to add is a prosessor, ram and hard drive(s).

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Specifications:

Product SKUs SYS-5035L-IB SuperServer 5035L-IB (Black)   Motherboard Super X7SLM-L   Processor/Cache CPU Single LGA775 ZIF Socket Supports an Intel® Core™2 Duo E4000 Series Supports an Intel® Pentium® E2000 Series Supports an Intel® Pentium® D 945, 935, 925, 915 and 820, 805 Supports an Intel® Pentium® 4 600 and 500 Series Supports an Intel® Celeron® E1000 Series Supports an Intel® Celeron® 400 Series Supports an Intel® Celeron® D 300 Series System Bus 1066 / 800 / 533 MHz system bus   System Memory Memory Capacity Two 240-pin DIMM sockets Supports up to 2 GB of unbuffered, non-ECC DDR2 667/533/400MHz memory (Single / Dual Channel) Memory Type DDR2 667/533/400MHz unbuffered, non-ECC SDRAM, 240-pin gold-plated DIMMs DIMM Sizes 256 MB, 512 MB, 1 GB Memory Voltage 1.8V only   On-Board Devices Chipset Intel 945GC + ICH7R Realtek RTL8111C-GR SATA Intel ICH7R SATA 3.0Gbps Controller RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support Network Controllers 2x Realtek RTL8111C-GR Gigabit Ethernet Supports 10BASE-T, 100/1000BASE-TX, RJ45 output Graphics Onboard GMA950 video Super I/O Winbond 83627DHG chip Clock Generator CK505   Expansion Slots PCI-Express 1 (x16) PCI-Express Slot 1 (x4) PCI-Express (in x8 slot) PCI 2x 32-bit 33MHz PCI (5V) slots   Input / Output Serial ATA Four Serial ATA ports ( 3Gbps ) Four SATA hard drives supported IDE One EIDE channel supports up to two UDMA IDE devices Supports UDMA Mode 5, PIO Mode 4, and ATA/100 LAN 2x RJ45 LAN port USB 8x USB 2.0 / 1.1 compatible 2 rear + 2 Type A connector + 2 headers (4 ports) VGA Intel GMA950 Keyboard / Mouse PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports Serial Ports 1x Fast UART 16550 serial port 1x Serial Header   System BIOS BIOS Type 8Mb Flash EEPROM with AMI BIOS BIOS Features Plug and Play (PnP) APM 1.2 DMI 2.3 PCI 2.2 ACPI 1.0 / 2.0 / 3.0 USB Keyboard support Hardware BIOS Virus protection SMBIOS 2.3

Chassis Form Factor Mid-Tower Model CSE-731i-300B   Physical Features Height 14.25" (362 mm) Width 7.25" (184 mm) Depth 16.75" (425 mm) Weight 16 lbs (7.26 kg) Available Colors Black   Front Panel Buttons Power On/Off button System Reset button LEDs Power LED Hard drive activity LED Network activity LED System Overheat LED Ports 2x Front side USB ports (USB 2.0 ready)   Drive Bays Internal 4x 3.5" tool-less HDD trays External 2x 5.25" external drive bays 1x 3.5" external drive bay (OEM option)   System Cooling Fans 1x 9cm (rear) PWM fan w/ tool-less design 1x 8cm (front) cooling fan (optional)   Power Supply 300W AC power supply w/ PFC AC Voltage 100 - 240V, 60-50Hz, 5 Amp DC Output 5V + 12V + 3.3V - 12V < 290W +5V 19 Amp +5V standby 2.0 Amp +12V 11 Amp + 11.5 Amp -12V 0.15 Amp +3.3V 16.0 Amp Certification   80 PLUS Bronze Certified   PC Health Monitoring CPU Monitors for CPU Cores, +3.3V, +5V, +12V, +3.3V/+5V Standby, VBAT, Memory, Chipset CPU Core 3-Phase-switching voltage regulator with auto-sense from 0.8375V-1.6000V FAN Total of five 4-pin fan headers 5 x fans with tachometer monitoring Status monitor for speed control Status monitor for on / off control Support 3-pin PWM fans (with speed control) Low noise fan speed control Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) fan conn. Temperature Monitoring for CPU and chassis environment CPU thermal trip support Thermal Control for 5 x Fan Connectors I2C temperature sensing logic Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2) Support PECI LED CPU / System Overheat LED Suspend-state indicator LED +5V standby alert LED Other Features Chassis intrusion Detection Chassis intrusion Header SDDC Support

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