Supermicro X10DAX (Intel C612) Workstation Motherboard Review

BIOS

On Supermicro’s X10DAX we find an ordinary looking AMI BIOS, just as we want it on a motherboard like this. It is easy to find what you’re looking for and change the settings you want to.

Advanced

The advanced tab is where you will find almost all settings, as you can see in the photo below. I will be taking you along each of those screens to show what can be set and what not.

The SMC Performance Tuning page allows you to enable the two Supermicro technologies, Hyper-Speed and Hyper-Turbo for CPU overclocking.

We can further access and change the memory timing and tune those to the perfect settings for us.

The boot features are also added under the advanced tab and that is a bit unusual. We also have a boot tab on its own, but that is kept more simple due to most settings being here.

We can watch and configure the CPU configuration from the same named tab.

The next parts we can edit is the chipset for both the north and southbridge, starting with the north bridge. We got the IIO Configuration, QPI Configuration, and Memory Configuration here.

The South Bridge is a bit more simple from a settings point of view and only has the ones seen below.

SATA and sSATA configuration look like they always do on our Intel based boards, not much to say to that.

The Supermicro X10DAX features a lot of PCI Express lanes and slots, and those need to be managed at times too.

Moving on, we find the ACPI settings as well as the hardware monitoring that provides temperatures, voltage, and speed for all relevant parts of the system.

As previously mentioned, the motherboard is Thunderbolt 2 ready and we find all the settings for this too. Keep in mind, this requires an add-in board to work.

Events

The next tab is for events, we can change in the settings as well as view the current Smbios Event logs.

Security is kept ot a basic with user and administrator password abilities, then again – what more can we expect from a BIOS.

Boot

We’ve already seen most boot settings, but the priorities have their own page here.

The final page is the Save and Exit that also allows you to override the default boot order with another connected device.