Supermicro X10SDV-F Xeon D-1540 SoC Motherboard Review

The Test System and Test Software

As we’re trying to branch out with more relevant reviews for all of our readers, we’ve started this new section with server grade motherboards and we’ve also begun reviewing workstation systems such as the Boston Venom 3401-7T.

To test a server grade motherboard like this, we want to stress every component of the system to check stability and performance. While the benchmarks in themselves test the actual connected components such as CPU and memory instead of the motherboard itself, the results will give us comparable figures allowing you as the reader to pick the best.

This is only the second review in this section which means that we don’t have that many values to compare yet, but that will change as more products get their own reviews and the charts and graphs will be updated to reflect that.

To test a motherboard like this, we need a lot of extra components and we’ll be using the same each time. You can find a complete list of them below.

System components

• CPU: SoC
• RAM: Crucial DDR4 2133 MHz (4x 16GB)
• SSD: Micron M500DC 800GB System Drive
• PSU: be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 1200W
• Case: CoolerMaster Lab Testbench
• Cooler: Noctua NF-F12 PWM fan next to motherboard

Drives

• M.2: Crucial MX200 500GB
• SATA3: Toshiba HG6 512GB
• USB3: Angelbird SSD2go Pocket 512GB

We use a wide variety of applications to gain a broad spectrum of results for comparing diverse aspects of the system performance.

Software

• Windows Server 2012 R2
• AIDA64 Engineer Edition
• Cinebench R11.5
• Cinebench R15.0
• Geekbench 3
• PCMark PerformanceTest 8.0
• SPECwpc
• SiSoftware Sandra
• SuperPi Mod 1.9 WP
• wPrime 2.10