Supermicro H13SSL-N For AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" 1P Servers
👁 Supermicro H13SSL-N motherboard
With this test server needing not any 10Gb Ethernet or any other non-standard / advanced I/O features and working to keep costs to a minimum, the Supermicro H13SSL-N was the best choice I could find of the readily available options. The Supermicro H13SSL-N is available from a number of Internet retailers for $669~690 USD or as high as $989 at Amazon.
👁 Supermicro H13SSL-N rear I/O ports
I ended up buying the Supermicro H13SSL-N from Wiredzone for $632 USD. Besides being the lowest price I could find, Wiredzone uses drop shipping from Supermicro to fulfill the order... So in advance I asked them if they could indeed confirm/request with Supermicro that I receive a 2.x board revision for EPYC 9005 series support and they were happy to oblige. Sure enough, I ended up receiving a Supermicro H13SSL-N R2.0 board with EPYC 9005 series support out-of-the-box paired with their BIOS 3.0 release. It took about two weeks for delivery but was otherwise a nice experience from Wiredzone and able to buy the MBD-H13SSL-N for the lowest price and ensure EPYC 9005 series support.
👁 Supermicro H13SSL-N server setup with AMD EPYC 9655
The Supermicro H13SSL-N has been working out well in my testing thus far. Currently running with a 400 Watt EPYC 9655 96-core / 192-thread processor, 12 x 64GB DDR5-6000 memory, NVMe storage, and a variety of Linux distributions have all been working out fine on this board.
While some Supermicro servers are using OpenBMC these days, this motherboard is not. The conventional Supermicro web-based BMC interface works out fine, there is Redfish API support available, and the HTML5 KVM viewer continues to work out well.
👁 Supermicro H13SSL-N HTML5 KVM viewer
Within a number of upcoming articles you'll be able to find AMD EPYC Turin benchmarks on the Supermicro H13SSL-N as I use it to carry out a number of other focused/follow-up benchmarks in addition to ongoing tests from the AMD Volcano reference platform. In my testing thus far the Supermicro H13SSL-N is working out well.
👁 Supermicro H13SSL-N motherboard view
The "TLDR" is that if you are looking at assembling an AMD EPYC 9005 series server for up to 400 Watt SKUs and with up to 12 channel memory and not needing any extra onboard features like faster networking or other specialized I/O, the Supermicro H13SSL-N is an interesting ATX motherboard that can be bought today with 5th Gen AMD EPYC support and priced competitively.
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