Motherboard SFF Threadripper motherboard petition thread

[SeñorDonut]

haha, that's awesome. Hey @ASRock System are you hiring?

That's like my dream job

 

[alamilla]

And I made a (very shitty) ITX mockup! M.2 on the back, I guess...

Not going to lie, I legitimately LOLed!

 

[Necere]

And I made a (very shitty) ITX mockup! M.2 on the back, I guess...

Ha, nice... who needs a chipset anyway, right? And that "X399" heatsink towards the back probably wasn't covering anything important

Realistically though, I think the smallest form factor you could cram this into is DTX (203x244mm; n.b., not mini-DTX). That would actually still fit into a lot of mini-ITX cases, too. Would make for a killer compact workstation.

 

[SeñorDonut]

Ha, nice... who needs a chipset anyway, right?

Dammit, I knew I forgot something! Use SO-DIMMs maybe?

\And that "X399" heatsink towards the back probably wasn't covering anything important

I figured it was probably just VRMs which could be relocated to a PCB perpendicular to the motherboard like on other high end ITX boards.

Realistically though, I think the smallest form factor you could cram this into is DTX (203x244mm; n.b., not mini-DTX). That would actually still fit into a lot of mini-ITX cases, too. Would make for a killer compact workstation.

Honestly. I'd probably be fine with that. DTX is good enough

 

[|||]

I wonder how much I/O is present on the processor that is exposed through the massive socket...

Also curious if the X300 chipset could be compatible with the TR4...

 

[3lfk1ng]

 

[Boil]

What about M.2 or SATA...?!?

 

[BirdofPrey]

What about M.2 or SATA...?!?

M.2 on the back, U.2 serving NVMe or 4 SATA on a breakout cable.

 

[VegetableStu]

Would boards or the NVMe protocol just accept SATA drives on an NVMe U.2 port? o_o

 

[|||]

You can't do 4 SATA with the Z270 (X299 is pretty much identical; you could with Z170, as HSIO lanes 19-22 had Intel RST & there were no lanes 27-30), but you can do 2. It could be a connector connected to HSIO lanes 15-18 or 23-26, where you could configure the lanes to either be 2 SATA or a x4 PCI-e storage connection.

 

[Boil]

You MIGHT be able to squeeze two M.2 slots on the backside of the MB ('under' the chipset), but then you need make room for the restraining screw hole (I would stick with a single hole per slot, 2280 M.2s only)...

Any storage beyond that would be via external USB or a NAS array...?

 

[BirdofPrey]

Would boards or the NVMe protocol just accept SATA drives on an NVMe U.2 port? o_o

They'd just have to multiplex the SATA ports with the PCIe. U.2 aka SFF-8643 aka Mini-SAS HD was originally designed to carry 4 SAS/SATA ports and backplane monitoring but has been repurposed for multi-link SAS and NVMe

 

[Dyson Poindexter]

Oooh! Do one with the DIMM slots on the back!

 

[jeshikat]

Threadripper posts from X299E-ITX/ac thread moved here.

 

[alexep7]

first for nuc sized socketed pcie slotted threadripper

 

[VegetableStu]

 

[BirdofPrey]

Come now guys, what you really want is a picture of a threadripper smartphone

 

[Therandomness]

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Why not power delivery on a daughter board, SODIMMs in a box of 4 (two parallel with the other two beneath them, power connectors along the right hand edge, and non-major connectors (USB, audio, FPH...etc) embedded and facing outwards? SATA data can be like the ports Asrock use on their H110M-STX, and power can be done with an onboard header.

 

[SeñorDonut]

And I thought trying to fit it on STX was crazy...

 

[cmyk78]

I want this.