[Anandtech] ASRock with first onboard 10GbE get your wallets ready

[capawesome9870]

every one get your SSD Scratch Disk Server ready for your i7 5960x that i know every one here has   and maybe what is left of your wallet because this is what every one has been asking GabeN for every night, and he doesn't disappoint

 

 

 

the ASRock X99 WS-E/10G

 

Features

Dual 10Gb by an Intel X540-BT2                Pricing for a server card with this chip is pricy at $470 (with free shipping so might as well buy 2 ) [amazon]

Dual 1Gb Lan  Provided by Dual Intel I210-AT

 

 

 

 

 

Dual PLX Chips for Quad GPU on quad x16 or a x16/x8/x8/x8/x8/x8/x8 configuration of all the PCIe stuffs

 

 

 

other features on anandtechs page

 

pricing estimated to Ian Cutress at anandtech

Mark this one down at around $800-$900 as a rough guess, with an estimated release date in December.

 

 

i'm guessing that the black thing with 4 dots in the center of it is a 4-pin Molex connector to help supply extra power to the 3 networking Chips, Dual PLX chips and to make sure the 7x PCIe slots get the proper amount of power if you are crazy enough to populate all 7 slots. 

 

 

 

 

 

Source and source of images: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8745/asrock-announces-x99-wse10g-dual-10gbaset-and-quad-x16

[Zeke]

$800 for an ASRock board?

[Archangel1994]

10Gb LAN? Is that even commercially available?

ALso that Quad 16x holy shit

[XTankSlayerX]

To who is this targeted to?

 

A person who's into computers and drives a lambo?

[ERSCreeper]

Damn

[daemonowner]

To who is this targeted to?

 

A person who's into computers and drives a lambo?

You mean Linus?

[Thorium19]

Holy balls that's crazy! That board is gonna cost more than my entire rig most likely.

 

To who is this targeted to?

 

A person who's into computers and drives a lambo?

Possibly a soon to be pink lambo? 

[Rank]

10Gb LAN? Is that even commercially available?

ALso that Quad 16x holy shit

no, i remember JJ from asus talking about maybe doing something like this a few months ago iirc he said it would add around $300 to a boards price. not sure how many people will buy but eventually this is the road we are all headed.

[Hatsune Miku 「 」]

10Gb LAN? Is that even commercially available?

ALso that Quad 16x holy shit

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Hatsune Miku 「 」]

@LinusTech do a speed video of built in PCIE lanes vs having a PLX chip pass through

[ShadowCaptain]

holy fuck, I need this!

 

 

To who is this targeted to?

 

A person who's into computers and drives a lambo?

 

Its not that expensive haha

[qwertywarrior]

10Gb LAN? Is that even commercially available?

ALso that Quad 16x holy shit

yes it is  for a while now

[Hatsune Miku 「 」]

-snip

Need 8 PCIE x16 Lanes or 8 PCIE x32 LANES

[PhantomChevron]

To who is this targeted to?

 

A person who's into computers and drives a lambo?

Like Linus and his lambo

[That Norwegian Guy]

Shame it had to be AsRock, now that they've switched to that unbuyable colour scheme. There's a reason MSi motherboards and Z77 ASUS boards go straight into the trash when I buy a used computer with one (which is budgeted into the value proposition to begin with)

 

@Zeke go eat a cactus, AsRock is a fantastic motherboard maker, and they know how to save money without sacrificing life time for budget boards, unlike MSi (MSi's FM2 entry-level boards have a 99% RMA rate and a 1% explosion-with-result-of-death rate*)

 

There are some sketchy mobo brands but AsRock is not one of them.

 

*exaggerated, but they are truly spectacularly shitty.

[Guest]

Jesus fucking Christ, OP...

'B' stands for 'byte' and 'b' stands for 'bit'.

People who use 'gb' for 'gigabyte do it because they're lazy, but this... this is just malice.

I legitimately opened this thread thinking the board had 10GB of soldered-on RAM.

Edit: correction noticed and appreciated.

[LAwLz]

Jesus fucking Christ, OP...

'B' stands for 'byte' and 'b' stands for 'bit'.

People who use 'gb' for 'gigabyte do it because they're lazy, but this... this is just malice.

I legitimately opened this thread thinking the board had 10GB of soldered-on RAM.

It's an easy mistake to make but yeah, I thought it was a motherboard with a 10GB SSD cache built in or something.

That's one beast of a motherboard. Two 10Gbps ports and two 1Gbps ports? 7 PCIe slots? It's insane.

[wpirobotbuilder]

This solves two problems -- motherboard compatibility with 10G network cards isn't perfect, and the chips being on the motherboard guarantees that you can make use of those ports. In addition, you aren't sacrificing a PCI-E slot or lanes to make use of it.

 

The downside is that you can't transfer that capability to another motherboard, because the chips are on the board. If you change your setup often, then this board doesn't make sense.

 

I see this as being targeted at someone who isn't going to change their setup anytime soon (workstation environment), or is just going to change CPU/RAM. That makes sense, seeing that it is on the 2011-3 platform where there is a lot of room to do CPU and RAM upgrades if you need to.

[MeltyMoon]

Brb. Robbing a bank so I can afford this 

[Zeke]

@Zeke go eat a cactus, AsRock is a fantastic motherboard maker, and they know how to save money without sacrificing life time for budget boards, unlike MSi (MSi's FM2 entry-level boards have a 99% RMA rate and a 1% explosion-with-result-of-death rate*)

 

There are some sketchy mobo brands but AsRock is not one of them.

 

*exaggerated, but they are truly spectacularly shitty.

Cactuses are pretty ok actually, but I just don't see AsRock as a company that sells mobos for the same* amount of money that gets you 5960X. Also I don't like the tendency to put these small fans on mobos (ASUS is guilty of that as well).

 

Speaking of MSI's boards for AMD - can't say anything about that, I've been avoiding AMD in my builds (and got pretty good at it), although I've seen a guy having some serious problems with one.

 

*almost

[LukaP]

Shame it had to be AsRock, now that they've switched to that unbuyable colour scheme. There's a reason MSi motherboards and Z77 ASUS boards go straight into the trash when I buy a used computer with one (which is budgeted into the value proposition to begin with)

@Zeke go eat a cactus, AsRock is a fantastic motherboard maker, and they know how to save money without sacrificing life time for budget boards, unlike MSi (MSi's FM2 entry-level boards have a 99% RMA rate and a 1% explosion-with-result-of-death rate*)

There are some sketchy mobo brands but AsRock is not one of them.

*exaggerated, but they are truly spectacularly shitty.

Colour schemes are subjective, I love blue, hate red/black.

I agree ASrock are awesome, but you're throwing MSI into a wrong basket. Are you maybe living in 2005? MSI are making fantastic motherboards now

[Raid]

I don't really see a market for this. Gamers with insane amounts of money don't have any use for 10gig ethernet, and server builds need more than just fast lan connections.

Maybe for the ultimate ricer rig?

[LukaP]

I don't really see a market for this. Gamers with insane amounts of money don't have any use for 10gig ethernet, and server builds need more than just fast lan connections.

Maybe for the ultimate ricer rig?

Workstations, relying on nas storage. This means you can have a teamed 20Gb connection to your company nas on every workstation, plus 1Gb to the internets and 1Gb to the other Workstations.

[Sintezza]

So again a pointless board, that have cost tons of money for the design work.

And probably nobody is ever gonne buy it lol.

 

I´m sorry but this board is totaly pointless to me

[c3p0_]

Oh asrock. Asus's cheap shit rebrand.

 

This price?

 

 

Preferable getting a real asus board instead of this.