Talos II/Hardware Compatibility List

This is a collection of components known to work with the Talos™ II-based solutions. It's maintained by both Raptor CS and community members.

Cases

These cases were successfully used by someone.

• SuperMicro SC732i-500B
  • Not recommended for 12 core and higher CPUs
• SuperMicro SC732D4-903B
  • Add-on sound card recommended
  • Add-on USB 2.0 card or USB 3.0 hub recommended
• SuperMicro SC747TQ-R1400B
  • Hot swap drive capable; SAS recommended
  • Recommended for use with one or more high-end GPUs
  • Listed as EoL by Supermicro, replaced with 1620 versions. Same fan modules and PDU used in newer, higher watt, version. (Robbieab (talk))

Known problematic cases

• Fractal Design Define XL R2
  • Missing standoff holes for the top-left and top-middle positions.
  • Some alternative standoff in at least the top-middle position may be required to prevent too much bending of the motherboard while inserting RAM.

• BeQuiet Dark Base 900 (Robbieab (talk))
  • Claims to support E-ATX on the BeQuiet website
  • Infographic showing the motherboard space to only be 322mm deep, which is 8.2mm short of the full-size E-ATX.
  • Emailed them for clarification, but no response. Can't confirm either way.

Candidate Cases

These cases claim E-ATX support and are planned to be used by someone.

• Nanoxia Deep Silence2 (Sharkcz)
• Thermal Take Core W100/W200/WP100/WP200 (Robbieab (talk))
  • Heavy, expensive, massive.
  • Similar price point to the Supermicros with high power PSU + fans.
  • Passed over in favour of the SuperMicro SC747TQ-R1400B
• Lian Li PC-V1000L (Robbieab (talk))
  • Similar price point to the Supermicros with high power PSU.
  • Very "Apple" brushed aluminium aesthetic.
  • Couldn't confirm E-ATX was fullsize.
  • Passed over in favour of the SuperMicro SC747TQ-R1400B

Power Supplies

When planning to run with both CPU sockets populated keep in mind that the power-supply should support also 2 8-pin EPS connectors.

• Seasonic

Memory

Module						Validation
Manufacturer	Model	Size	Speed	Type	ECC	Stepping	Firmware	Source
Pacific Sun	X10723042S	8GB	DDR4-19200	Registered	Yes	POWER9 DD2.1	Hostboot cc2d45a	Official
Kingston	KTH-PL424/16G	16GB	DDR4-19200	Registered	Yes	POWER9 DD2.1	Hostboot cc2d45a	Official
Micron	MTA18ASF2G72PZ-2G3B1	16GB	DDR4-19200	Registered	Yes	POWER9 DD2.2	Hostboot 28927a7	Official
Micron	MTA18ASF2G72PDZ-2G3D1	16GB	DDR4-19200	Registered	Yes	POWER9 DD2.1	Hostboot cc2d45a	Official
Samsung	M393A4K40BB1-CRC	32GB	DDR4-19200	Registered	Yes	POWER9 DD2.1	Hostboot 1e2221d	Official
Samsung	M393A4K40BB2-CTD8Q	32GB	DDR4-21333	Registered	Yes	POWER9 DD2.2	Hostboot 28927a7	luke-jr

Known Incompatible Memory

NOTE: Memory may be removed from this table after firmware support has been added, or there may be a fundamental hardware incompatibility. If you have incompatible memory listed in the table below, you may want to bookmark and check this page from time to time to see if a firmware update has resolved the issue.

Module						Test Conditions
Manufacturer	Model	Size	Speed	Type	ECC	Stepping	Firmware	Last Test
Samsung	M386A8K40BMB-CRC	64GB	DDR4-19200	Registered LRDIMM	Yes	POWER9 DD2.1	Hostboot 1e2221d	02/14/2018

SAS/SATA Storage Drives

Connected via optional on-board PM8068 controller, or via PCIe controller. NVMe cards are also supported.

PCIe Devices

Storage Controllers

• LSI 9300 SAS HBAs
• PM8068-based SAS HBAs

NVMe Storage Drives

• Samsung 960 EVO / PRO (with M.2 to PCIe adapter)

Graphics Cards

• Radeon R9 290X
• AMD Radeon Pro WX7100 - Available pre-installed on Talos II workstation, server, and desktop configurations.

No display? Check out the GPU Troubleshooting page.

Sound Cards

• Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX SB1570 PCIe 5.1 Sound Card
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity PCIe Audio Sound Card (SB0880)

CAPI Devices

• Mellanox ConnectX-6 EN 200Gb/s Adapter Card