I remember when after fiddling with consumer grade components for quite some time I first saw a server grade motherboard and thought: "holy bananas, it looks absolutely ridiculous". I still get that feeling sometimes.
"I have been wondering about the consumer adoption of 10GbE Base-T on motherboards and given the heatsink here to cool it, I am not surprised that it has not made it over yet."
Anyone who transfers more than 1VM a month at home (like me) whines about the lack of 10Gb ethernet on consumer boards when the transfer starts. SSDs all round... and no ethernet to make it faster...
The MW50-SV0 looks very promising. I'm seriously considering an E5-1650 v3 for my next system, and this looks like it would be a good board to pair it with.
A little off-topic maybe, but I wonder if the narrow LGA2011-3 socket would make an X99 mini-ITX board possible, at least for the consumer market? The extra PCI-e lanes might be wasted, though they could be used for something else, like a pair of x4 (or x8?) M.2 slots. However, it would allow for more CPU cores to be squished onto an ITX board, where the limit at the moment is 4C/8T.
Haswell-E is quad-channel - it'll be almost impossible to fit 4 RAM sockets in mini-ITX. Of course you'll also lose use of most of those 28-40 PCIe lanes. It kinda defeats the point of a 6-8-core monster, if you can't stock up on either GPUs or RAM. It would probably be fairly niche. Most will be as well served by mATX.
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Barilla - Monday, September 8, 2014 - link
I remember when after fiddling with consumer grade components for quite some time I first saw a server grade motherboard and thought: "holy bananas, it looks absolutely ridiculous".I still get that feeling sometimes.
vred - Monday, September 8, 2014 - link
Seems like none of these support 4 2-slot GPUs. Is that more of a workstation area?LauRoman - Monday, September 8, 2014 - link
Those boards don't look sexy, like not at all... :DMrSpadge - Monday, September 8, 2014 - link
They don't have to be. Powerful, flexible and reliable with solid bang-for-the-buck is enough for some ;)FunBunny2 - Monday, September 8, 2014 - link
Are you joking?? :) with a pair hooters like that???ZeDestructor - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link
"I have been wondering about the consumer adoption of 10GbE Base-T on motherboards and given the heatsink here to cool it, I am not surprised that it has not made it over yet."Anyone who transfers more than 1VM a month at home (like me) whines about the lack of 10Gb ethernet on consumer boards when the transfer starts. SSDs all round... and no ethernet to make it faster...
JDG1980 - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link
The MW50-SV0 looks very promising. I'm seriously considering an E5-1650 v3 for my next system, and this looks like it would be a good board to pair it with.flemeister - Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - link
A little off-topic maybe, but I wonder if the narrow LGA2011-3 socket would make an X99 mini-ITX board possible, at least for the consumer market? The extra PCI-e lanes might be wasted, though they could be used for something else, like a pair of x4 (or x8?) M.2 slots. However, it would allow for more CPU cores to be squished onto an ITX board, where the limit at the moment is 4C/8T.wireframed - Sunday, September 14, 2014 - link
Haswell-E is quad-channel - it'll be almost impossible to fit 4 RAM sockets in mini-ITX. Of course you'll also lose use of most of those 28-40 PCIe lanes. It kinda defeats the point of a 6-8-core monster, if you can't stock up on either GPUs or RAM. It would probably be fairly niche. Most will be as well served by mATX.