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))

• Thermaltake Core W200
  • Compatible with caveats
    • Talos™ II mainboard will fit in E-ATX compatible side only (when viewed from rear of case, the right side) if the dual system case.
    • Missing standoff holes for the top-left and top-middle positions. (non-essential but ensure proper support when inserting and removing RAM to avoid bending mainboard)
    • Must remove wire-hole rubber grommets present under Talos™ II mainboard on right lower side for proper fit

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
• Corsair 760T (mosst)
  • Reasonably cheap.
  • Unusually tasteful aesthetics for a consumer/gaming case. Looks like something Aperture Science would come up with.
  • Yet to confirm if E-ATX is fullsize.
• Bitfenix Aurora (MarcusC)
  • Seems to be missing some standoff holes, modification may be required

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 PRIME 1300W
• Seasonic PRIME Ultra 650W

Memory

The criteria are basically "is it ECC, is it registered, is it NOT LRDIMM"

From the manual:

Total Slots	16 (4 channels per CPU)
Capacity	2TB maximum
Memory Type	DDR4 1600/1866/2133/2400/2666
Memory Features	ECC
Module Sizes	8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB (RDIMM)

Tested memory

Module						Validation
Manufacturer	Model	Size	Speed	Type	ECC	Stepping	Firmware	Source	Notes
Pacific Sun	X10723042S	8GB	DDR4-19200	Registered	Yes	POWER9 DD2.1	Hostboot cc2d45a	Official
Samsung	M393A1G40DB0-CPB	8GB	DDR4-17000	Registered	Yes	POWER9 DD2.2	Hostboot 30dfd3b	meklort	Requires System Package v1.02
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	M393A2K40BB2-CTD	16GB	DDR4-21300	Registered	Yes	POWER9 DD2.2	Hostboot 0c8fa110	meklort	Will run at 2400MT/s with System Package v1.00
Samsung	M393A4K40BB2-CTD8Q	32GB	DDR4-21333	Registered	Yes	POWER9 DD2.2	Hostboot 28927a7	luke-jr
Samsung	M393A2G40EB2-CTD	16GB	PC4-21300V-R	Registered	Yes	POWER9 DD2.2	Hostboot 30dfd3b	JSharp	Tested extensively with System Package v1.02 but does boot on v1.00, Dual 8-Core POWER9, x8 DIMM Modules (RCS Recommended Slot Configuration)

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.

Boards with onboard SAS have 1x MiniSAS (or something like that? confirm!) port, and 4x standard SATA-III ports.

PCIe Devices

Storage Controllers

• LSI 9300 SAS HBAs
• PM8068-based SAS HBAs
• Supermicro AOC-SLG3-4E2P 4-port OCuLink adapter

NVMe Storage Drives

• Samsung 960 EVO / PRO (with M.2 to PCIe adapter)
• Intel Optane 900P NVMe XPoint PCIe

Graphics Cards

• AMD Radeon HD 5850 - Must disable onboard VGA with firmware hack first. Currently has issues with only using 32-bit DMA.
• AMD Radeon HD 7950 - Must disable onboard VGA with firmware hack first. Currently has issues with only using 32-bit DMA.
• Radeon R9 290X
• AMD Radeon Pro WX7100 - Available pre-installed on Talos II workstation, server, and desktop configurations.
• AMD Radeon Pro WX5100
• AMD Radeon Pro WX4100 - May need at least linux 4.16 in order to get Xorg to work.

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)
• AMD Radeon HD 5850 and 7950 (HDMI audio)

CAPI Devices

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