Is pcpartpicker.com compatibility check broken for server hardware?

[indivision]

I was putting together pricing for a new server with an X11SSM-F-O motherboard and a Xeon E3-1230 v6 CPU.

I find pcpartpicker.com convenient for listing out pricing from various sources at once. But, if the compatibility filter is on it's showing the above two items as not compatible.

Am I missing something?

 

[sretalla]

In the operating systems selection, I only see Windows Client OS in the list... I guess you could say that makes it a bad candidate to help with FreeBSD system building.

 

[jgreco]

I find pcpartpicker.com convenient for listing out pricing from various sources at once. But, if the compatibility filter is on it's showing the above two items as not compatible.

Am I missing something?

It's right there in the name, "PC part picker".

You're looking for "Server part picker".

The way sites like that work is that there's a high volume of inputs from a community of people building gaming and desktop computers. There isn't going to be anywhere near as much for people making servers.

 

[indivision]

I see. So, I am not crazy.

It still seems like, if a product is entered at all (and a lot of Supermicro boards have made it in) they would at the very least enter the CPU socket, etc... I wonder if there is a setting to turn off basic compatibility assumptions just because some of these boards have more nuanced requirements than the gaming ones.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Server vendors usually have their own tools which let you configure a guaranteed to work system. Some even give these to customers. Fujitsu at least did.

 

[jgreco]

Well I am guessing that the way the site works is that it will hold a Q&A for new parts with a user, and enter them into its database. Boards like the X11SSM would have started life as "compatible with E3-12xx v5" and then someone might have needed to tweak that later for v6.

 

[indivision]

That's probably it. They probably don't even have a metric to follow the version number.

It still works for shopping since you can turn off the compatibility filter feature. But, the false alarm made me worried that I overlooked a compatibility issue. I guess I have to rely on my own capabilities!