Lately on the used market, there are compute nodes (blades) of Supermicro Microcloud on sale. As expected, they aren't selling well, as you need the Chassis to power and control them. Single nodes are usually pretty useless.
However a few homelab'ers on the ServeTheHome Forum just tried out their luck to figure out how to utilize these boards manually.
- Single Socket H3 (LGA 1150) chipset, which supports Haswell and Broadwell Generation cpus.
- Officially suported are E3-1200 V3 and V4, Celeron, Pentium and Core i3 cpus up to 80 watt TDP.
- Able to use up to 32GB Ram via 4 Slots (1,2,4 and 8GB Dimms), but only UDIMM ECC allowed - No Non-ECC or Reg-ECC can be used!
- 5 SATA3 Ports
- AST2400 IPMI Interface (including Redfish and HTML5 Remote Console)
- MicroLP-Port for 2x 1GBE Ethernet (Most times included), but 1-2x 10GBE is available as well
IPMI Compatiblity Matrix when used without Chassis
Howto Backup and Restore BIOS and BMC Firmware with SPI Flash Programmer