Yes, all servers and PCs use a CR2032 button cell battery.

We recommend an ambient temperature of 20–22°C and a maximum humidity of 40%.

Desktop operating systems are not tested on our servers as we do not support their use. Proper operation cannot be guaranteed. The installation and operation of such software is done at the user's own risk and is not supported by Thomas-Krenn.

No, this NIC is used exclusively for remote management purposes.

Yes, all of our dual mainboards also support single CPU operation. However, only the RAM and PCI slots assigned to the installed CPU can be used in such cases.

No, every PCI slot on this mainboard is assigned to a CPU. If only one CPU is installed, not all slots will be usable. You can learn more about this in our wiki article about this mainboard.

An SAS expander backplane is built into this server. Onboard SATA RAID controllers cannot be used with an SAS expander backplane. An SAS expander backplane can only be used with an SAS RAID controller or an (onboard) SAS HBA.

Yes, it is possible! The link-speed is automatically negotiated and reduced to 6Gb/s. To offer the best possible performance, we only offer 12GB/s SAS3 RAID controllers in our configurator.