ashman70 Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 (edited) Looks intriguing. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13079/asrock-launches-c246m-ws-microatx-motherboard-for-xeon-e-cpus Edited July 17, 2018 by ashman70 1 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted July 17, 2018 Author Share Posted July 17, 2018 I just think it's intriguing that they are introducing Xeon based boards in the micro atx size. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 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 Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted July 17, 2018 Author Share Posted July 17, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 i'm wondering about these Xeon E-series - what is a target for them with 16PCIe lanes.. maybe workstations? Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted July 17, 2018 Author Share Posted July 17, 2018 More than likely, video editing/conversion, machine learning etc. Quote Link to comment
pwm Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 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... Quote Link to comment
pwm Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment
uldise Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 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... Quote Link to comment
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