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Unless it's a server motherboard, it most likely supports DisplayPort or HDMI, possibly even over Thunderbolt/USB-C? Legacy compatibility is not an issue (unle
by drdaeman 4y ago
Unless it's a server motherboard, it most likely supports DisplayPort or HDMI, possibly even over Thunderbolt/USB-C?
Legacy compatibility is not an issue (unless it makes things complicated, unreliable or limited in the name of backward compatibility). Lack of modern functionality is.
Similarly, presence IPv4 support in devices is not a problem - lack of IPv6 support is. The comparable issue would be if you have bought a new motherboard but all it supports is VGA - now, that'd be quite inconvenient (even if it's a server board that runs headless 99.99% of the time).
- zamadatix 4y agoThis reminded me of an e300-8D I recently parted ways with. Bought new in 2017 but only had VGA out from the BMC... I gave away the VGA monitor I was using with it. Looking back I'm surprised I didn't just buy an active converter, it was such a pain to pull that monitor out :p.
- drdaeman 4y agoSame story, except that I have an ASRockRack EPYC board for a home router/server/NAS combo. Fortunately, most of server boards have a built-in LOM solution with some sort of IP-KVM. So the actual video output is only ever needed for the very first time - and that's if LOM defaults are not known. Or, well, if things break - e.g., I've had issues because management port sharing was enabled by default and I haven't realized I should turn it off until I've noticed that my server became unresponsive for IPMI-over-IP queries. I'm a bit frustrated that I had to purchase an adapter, but at least that was an one-in-a-lifetime purchase.