ITX fans rejoice! Mini-ITX LGA 4096

Fasauceome · November 27, 2020

You read that right, a mini ITX motherboard equipped with a legit SP3 socket for Epyc CPUs has been birthed by none other than the madlads at ASRock. Sauce.

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ASRock Rack has unveiled its latest small form factor motherboard designed for AMD's EYPC processors, the ROMED4ID-2T. It is based on a new proprietary form factor similar to Mini-ITX, affectionally colloquialized as 'Deep' Mini-ITX, which is slightly larger than standard mini-ITX. The board supports for EPYC Rome 7002 processors up to 64 cores.

I'll admit, the superimposed screenshots of TR4 sockets onto existing ITX boards made it look like it couldn't be done, but as the sole representation of ITX for multiple HEDT generations, ASRock said "haha tiny motherboard go brrr"

You really do get more for less:

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For storage devices, other than the single M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 slot, there is plenty to accommodate multiple drives, despite the size limitations, with up to sixteen SATA ports support from two of the Slimline ports, which ASRock states can be configured within the BIOS. This also includes support for bulk U.2 storage, with two Slimline ports operating at PCIe 4.0 x8 or eight SATA ports, and the other four Slimline simply listed as being PCIe 4.0 x8 only.

And yes, the motherboard is for server and enterprise only, and yes, it's unfortunately limited to quad channel, but now that it's been physically achieved, one wonders if a Threadripper might be sitting inside the next quintessential SFF workstation