Passive cooling systems are used in various industrial applications such as automation, IoT gateways, medical systems, surveillance, and digital signage. In addition to avoiding moving parts, systems for industrial applications must be built to operate 24/7 in harsh environmental conditions.
the super micro Systems targeted at this market It falls into the embedded/IoT category in various form factors. Scenarios with minimal I/O requirements can use a compact chassis that supports a 3.5 inch SBC. The company also offers passively cooled chassis configurations for industrial mini-ITX boards.
of Super Micro SYS-E302-12E Based on the Intel Atom x6425E embedded SoC, this system is the company’s highest performing system in the Elkhart Lake lineup. Optimized for industrial automation, digital signage/data visualization, and IoT applications. In the review below, we’ll take a closer look at the system’s capabilities and performance profile, along with evaluating thermal solutions.
Introduction and product impressions
Supermicro’s SYS-E302-12E is Super A3SEV-4C-LN4 Mini ITX board.the board is purchase With integrated heatsink. Supermicro also offers a SYS-E302-12E barebones system based on this board by removing the heatsink and mounting the board inside his CSE-E302iL2 passively cooled chassis.
Intel’s Tremont microarchitecture for low-cost processors has been on the market for several years with Jasper Lake-based systems intended for use as entry-level PCs. Processors for the embedded market (such as Elkhart Lake SoCs) are delivered to end customers much later than consumer processors. These processors have a long lifecycle and long qualification cycles. Elkhart Lake-based consumer systems are already on the market, but only now are embedded SKU-based systems such as the Atom x6425E becoming widely available.
SYS-E302-12E is marketed as an IoT Superserver, but it does not have a separate BMC and does not support ECC memory. However, embedded SKUs officially support in-band ECC. We have already evaluated the performance impact of in-band ECC in our review of Raptor Lake-P. Unfortunately the currently available BIOS version for SYS-E302-12E does not have the option to toggle in-band ECC, but Supermicro has confirmed that the option will be enabled in a future release.
Supermicro equips the SYS-E302-12E with a wide range of I/O interfaces: 4 RS232 COM ports, 4 Gigabit LAN ports, 6 USB 2.0 ports, 2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports. It has three display outputs and also has room for a 2.5-inch SATA drive inside the chassis.
In addition to the main unit, Supermicro also includes a lockable 150W (12V @ 12.5A) adapter, AC power cord, 2.5″ drive caddy, appropriate screws and cable ties in the package.
Our review sample included 2x 16 GB DDR4-2666 SODIMMs and 256 GB InnoDisk M.2 SATA drives. Full specifications for the review sample are listed in the table below.
| Supermicro SYS-E302-12E Specifications (tested) |
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| processor | Intel Atom x6425E Elkhart Lake 4C/4T, 2.0-3.0 GHz Intel 10, 1.5MB L2, 12W |
| memory | Innodisk M4SI-AGS1O50K-C DDR4-2666 SODIMM 19-19-19-43 @ 2666MHz 2x16GB |
| graphic | Intel UHD Graphics for 10th Generation Intel Processor (32EU @ 500MHz) |
| disk drive) | Innodisk M.2 (S80) 3TE7 DEM28-B56DK1EW1QF (256GB; M.2 2280 SATA III;) (64L 3D TLC; InnoDisk ID301 Controller) |
| networking | 1x GbE RJ-45 (Intel I210-IT) 3x GbE RJ-45 (Intel EC1000S MAC + Marvell Alaska 88E1512 PHY) |
| audio | Realtek ALC888S Audio Codec Onboard (Optional Audio Jack, N/A in Review System) Audio bitstreaming support via HDMI port |
| video | 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4 1x VGA (via eDP from SoC) |
| Other I/O ports | 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A (rear) 2x USB 2.0 Type-A (rear) 4x USB 2.0 (front) 4x RS-232 COM (front) |
| operating system | Windows 11 Enterprise (22000.1335) |
| price | (Street pricing on March 9thth2022) we $894 (bare bone) $1,315 USD (when configured, no OS) |
| full spec | Supermicro SuperServer SYS-E302-12E Specifications |
The system can be purchased from $894 now only Shipped directly from the manufacturer. Supermicro is still in the process of expanding retail availability.
The SYS-E302-12E is a slightly unique system compared to previously reviewed embedded/industrial PCs. First of all, it is one of the first systems to officially support in-band ECC. The abundance of network ports and other communication options are unmatched by other low-power, fanless systems we’ve covered so far. Also, the chassis seems to be heavily over-engineered for his 12W TDP SoC. A keen observer may have noticed that on the SuperServer E302-9D he successfully handled the 60W TDP Xeon-D, the same one. You can expect the best thermal performance and the system can operate over a wide temperature range.
A top view of the motherboard integrated into the system is shown above. The heatsink shown has been replaced with a solid metal block that uses a thermal pad to make a solid connection to the top of the chassis. M.2 SATA ports and SODIMMs are easily accessible, but no x8 PCIe slots are available in the system (space for PCIe add-in cards is allocated in the 2.5 inch drive tray instead).
In the next section, we look at the system setup and provide an analysis of the platform.
