July 17, 20187 yr Looks intriguing. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13079/asrock-launches-c246m-ws-microatx-motherboard-for-xeon-e-cpus Edited July 17, 20187 yr by ashman70
July 17, 20187 yr Why intriguing? On a related note Supermicro also announced the new Xeon E boards a few days ago: https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/#1151
July 17, 20187 yr Author I just think it's intriguing that they are introducing Xeon based boards in the micro atx size.
July 17, 20187 yr Ah, OK, I'm more used to Supermicro and most common UP Xeon models from the X8/X9/X10/X11 series are micro ATX, like the X9SCL/M, X10SLL/M, X11SSL/M, etc
July 17, 20187 yr Author I guess I haven't been keeping up, I didn't know there were a lot of other Xeon based micro ATX options. I still think it's pretty cool that you can pack all that power into a little board. Great for some unRAID users who want a compact server that could still do VM's and Plex.
July 17, 20187 yr i'm wondering about these Xeon E-series - what is a target for them with 16PCIe lanes.. maybe workstations?
July 17, 20187 yr 2 minutes ago, uldise said: i'm wondering about these Xeon E-series - what is a target for them with 16PCIe lanes.. maybe workstations? NAS, firewalls, camera servers, light workstations, ... There are lots of times when you have simple tasks but you want a stand-alone solution instead of having it as a VM in a large machine. But you still want ECC memory and long expected lifetime instead of picking up some consumer-class hardware.
July 18, 20187 yr 12 hours ago, uldise said: i'm wondering about these Xeon E-series - what is a target for them with 16PCIe lanes.. maybe workstations? Same as the previous Xeon E3-12xx series they are replacing.
July 18, 20187 yr 2 hours ago, johnnie.black said: Same as the previous Xeon E3-12xx series they are replacing. ahh, just rebranding.. i have an old E3-1230 V2, now in my test server, and with 20PCIe lanes...
July 18, 20187 yr 11 minutes ago, uldise said: ahh, just rebranding.. i have an old E3-1230 V2, now in my test server, and with 20PCIe lanes... Not rebranding - newer cores with newer instruction sets.
July 18, 20187 yr 10 minutes ago, uldise said: ahh, just rebranding.. i have an old E3-1230 V2, now in my test server, and with 20PCIe lanes... Yes, though few boards can use the 20 lanes, and curiously when they can they also work with cheaper CPUs, like pentiums, despite Intel indicating those only support 16 lanes, new ones do now go up to 6 cores now, so some progress.
July 18, 20187 yr 6 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: so some progress agree with attention on word "some".. but, if you look at passmark for these new cpus, it looks amazing...
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