News Asus mini-itx greenlow P10S-I

Hello,

Hi,
apparently a new motherboard mini-ITX server :

http://www.asus.com/event/2015/server/P10S/

 

[Vittra]

Thanks for the link. Can't find any specific product pages thus far, hopefully those come soon for some further scrutiny

 

[iFreilicht]

I guess it's nice that M.2 comes to the server market as well, and that it's wired to four lanes, but other than that, there's nothing special about the ITX board, right?

 

[Vittra]

Pretty much. It does look quite basic, which would be the expectation of a C232. It looks like only the ATX options have C236 and thus more connectivity.

 

[EdZ]

That's actually a pretty tempting board if you want ECC RAM, and thus need a Xeon. The E3-1270 v5 is an interesting uption. Cheaper than a 6700K and not far off the boost closk (4GHz vs 4.2GHz), and faster single-threaded performance than Haswell-E. You can no longer put an E3 Xeon in a Z-series board, you need something with the C230 series chipset.

 

[Vittra]

The performance gap is a bit larger than that, depending on motherboard used.

A 6700K on a Z-series board will run all 4 cores at 4.2GHZ due to "Multi-core Enhancement".

The Xeon will run 1 core at 4.0GHZ at best. All 4 cores will probably be 3.8ghz. This is, of course, assuming Intel didn't change how Turbo operates on Skylake/Greenlow.

My Xeon E3 1230 V3 is 3.3 base / 3.7 boost, but only operates at 3.5 boost on all 4 cores in most applications. On certain punishing applications, it actually drops straight down to the base on all 4. This is on a C226 board.

 

[lololo]

i found more info :

https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/P10S-I/

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket1151/P10S/Manual/E10748_P10S-I_UM_WEB.pdf

 

[lololo]

Onboard M.2 up to 32Gb/s Speeds
With x4 PCI Express 3.0/2.0 bandwidth, one M.2 supports up to 32Gbit/s data-transfer speeds. It is the perfect choice for an operating system or application drive. In addition, the special design on the edge for M.2, it will increase more choices for M.2 expansion, even if up to 22110.

I do not understand how they can put a 22110 while in the photo there is no place

 

[Vittra]

I believe they mean that because it's situated at the end of the board, it can overhang and potentially not conflict with anything else.

You'd have to devise something to secure it if you weren't comfortable with that, or just use the smaller (and quickly being antiquated) SSD drives.

 

[lololo]

oh yes..I understand now.

Thank you