News [Tom's IT Pro] Gigabyte's mITX Xeon D Motherboards

http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/gigabyte-intel-xeon-d-mini-itx-motherboards,1-3104.html

 

[PlayfulPhoenix]

With the network connectivity and four memory slots, this seems to be a pretty good bet for compact dedicated servers, and in particular environments that need a lot of them.

Also - yikes, up to 128GB of DDR4 memory! And here I am getting by 16...

 

[jØrd]

Im lusting after the model of this w/ SFP+ sockets on it, $++ though

 

[confusis]

A quick google search shows the non-SFP model going for around 600 euro!

http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00199859.html (in french)

 

[QinX]

A quick google search shows the non-SFP model going for around 600 euro!

http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00199859.html (in french)

That's expensive, but we shouldn't forget your are getting a very capable Xeon D with it.
Anandtech did a review and when comparing against and E3-1230 v3 it beat it almost everytime.
an Intel Xeon E3-1230 retails around just under €300
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9185/intel-xeon-d-review-performance-per-watt-server-soc-champion/9

 

[Phuncz]

I really would like a reason to own one of these boards but my NUC running ESXi and Socket 1155 platform used for ZFS NAS do the job really well. I'd also like a reason to go to SFP+ for 10Gbit between NAS and switch, but I'm just not that demanding enough when 70-100MB/s is plenty. Some day though, I'll find an excuse to plop down the cash !