Xeon D-1537 X10SDV-7TP4F-O Build

31 Mar 2016

My E5v1 build is sucking more power than I’d like, and it’s due for an upgrade. I therefore picked up an X10SDV-7TP4F-O that I’ll use to shuffle hardware around again.

New hardware

• MDB-X10SDV-7TP4F-O
• 4x16GB DDR4 RDIMMs

And dropping in the existing hardware

• PicoPSU 90w with EDac EA10523C-120 AC/DC adapter
• Sandisk X210 512GB SSD
• Samsung SV843 960GB SSDs
• 3ware 9750-4i4e with BBU
• 2x Intel S3500 800GB
• lots of spinners in Rackable SE3016s, some on 3ware, some on onboard SAS HBA

Xeon D-1537 CPU Benchmarks

CPU	CPU Mark	Relative	TDP	Year launched
Intel Core2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz	2017pts	-76.4%	65w	Q1-2008
Intel Atom C2758 @ 2.4GHz	3719pts	-56.5%	20w	Q3-2013
Intel Xeon E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz	6562pts	-23.2%	80w	Q1-2012
Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3 @ 3.40GHz	7734pts	-9.5%	84w	Q2-2013
Intel Xeon E5520 @ 2.27GHz	7873pts	-7.8%	80w	Q1-2009
Intel Xeon D-1537 @ 1.70GHz	8542pts1	0%	35w	Q4-2015
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz	9689pts	13.4%	140w	Q3-2014
Intel Core i7-5820K @ 3.30GHz	12868pts	50.6%	140w	Q3-2014

Set up

• Took the board out of the box, and found a “FCC & CE pending” sticker on the ATX power connector
• IPMIView (v2.11.0 dated 2016/01/22) fails to connect; in-browser plugin is fine.

Power consumption

Base configuration: X10SDV-7TP4F-O, 4x16GB DDR4 RDIMMs, PicoPSU 90w with EDac EA10523C-120 adapter, Sandisk X210 512GB SSD, single 1Gbps Ethernet, Scythe S-Flex SFF21E fan

Configuration	Power Consumption
Base: Off, IPMI connected	7.3-7.6w
Base: Booted 2012 R2, idle	46.5-48.3w
Base: BurnIntest (CPU, RAM both at 100%)	75.4w
Base + 3ware 9750-4i4e with 1 connected external enclosure, booted 2012 R2, idle	70.9w-71.5w