Posted May 1, 2015 After the X99E-ITX/ac, Asrock on Wednesday (29/4) announced another socket LGA2011-3 ITX board, called "EPC612D4I". This board is designed to be a powerful mini-ITX platform for micro servers and other small form factor rendering solutions, thus it has some differences with the X99E-ITX/ac. Firstly, this board has 4 ram slot, support quad channel DDR4 ECC ram, instead of 2 ram slots,and dual channel DDR4 ram on the X99-E/ITX. But those 4 ram slots are SO-DIMM ram slots, not the DIMM ram slots on the X99E-ITX/ac. Since there are no DDR4 SO-DIMM ram available at this moment (pls feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), you may not be able to build with this board until those rams are available. Also this board has 3 GLAN ports, one from Intel i210 , one from Intel i217, and one from a Realtek IPMI/ out-of-band management chip RTL8211E. It also supports 3 USB 3.0 (no USB 3.1 ports on this board), 2 on the backplane, and one on the board as an internal Type-A connector. In addition, this server board has fewer SATA ports than the X99E-ITX/ac (only 4 ports instead of 6), and lack of any M.2 connector onboard. But it has a PCI 3.0 16x slot like many other ITX boards. Lastly, it use the same narrow ILM LGA2011-3 socket, which means most after-market LGA2011-3 coolers won't work on this board. But unlike the X99E-ITX/ac, which Asrock bundled a server-sized CPU cooler and an optional CPU water cooler mount plate (which is is compatible with Cooler Master's Seldom 120V Plus/120V closed loop CPU liquid coolers, according to techspot.com) with the X99E-ITX/ac, this board won't be bundled with any of those. But since there are some server-grade narrow ILM CPU coolers available on the market, it should not be difficult to buy one. Tomsitpro.com reported that the EPC612D4I LGA2011-3 mini-ITX motherboard is available now for $265. EPC612D4I's spec http://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-epc612d4i-releases-intel-xeon-e5-v3-mitx-motherboard/ http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/mini-itx-server-motherboards-asrock-rack-lga2011-3,1-2561.html Product page of Asrock Rack's website: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=EPC612D4I#Specifications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 1, 2015 Literally just started looking for a mini-ITX server board that can do it all. This comes out. † Christian Member † For my pertinent links to guides, reviews, and anything similar, go here, and look under the spoiler labeled such. A brief history of Unix and it's relation to OS X by Builder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 1, 2015 Who is the general buyer of this kind of product? the last thing i remember about microservers in AMD pulling out of the market... Everything you need to know about AMD cpus in one simple post. † Christian Member † Wii u, ps3(2 usb fat),ps4 Iphone 6 64gb and surface RT Hp DL380 G5 with one E5345 and bunch of hot swappable hdds in raid 5 from when i got it. intend to run xen server on it Apple Power Macintosh G5 2.0 DP (PCI-X) with notebook hdd i had lying around 4GB of ram TOSHIBA Satellite P850 with Core i7-3610QM,8gb of ram,default 750hdd has dual screens via a external display as main and laptop display as second running windows 10 MacBookPro11,3:I7-4870HQ, 512gb ssd,16gb of memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 1, 2015 What an interesting little board. Not a mm of PCB wasted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 1, 2015 Who is the general buyer of this kind of product? the last thing i remember about microservers in AMD pulling out of the market... I don't know to be honest. I know they are great for building very powerful mini-servers. I love Mini-ITX servers. There's basically no reason to have the big ones in my personal opinion, for most consumers who would want a server. Servers usually don't need several PCI-e cards too. I honestly can't think of a demographic this specifically pertains too. I guess it's whichever one I'm in, because I love these things. † Christian Member † For my pertinent links to guides, reviews, and anything similar, go here, and look under the spoiler labeled such. A brief history of Unix and it's relation to OS X by Builder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 1, 2015 Who is the general buyer of this kind of product? the last thing i remember about microservers in AMD pulling out of the market... Anyone who wants a small but powerful server really, I'd use it for general server stuff like repositories or raid storage and use the CPU for building projects. Seems pretty sweet to me especially the 3 gigabit ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 1, 2015 Anyone who wants a small but powerful server really, I'd use it for general server stuff like repositories or raid storage and use the CPU for building projects. Seems pretty sweet to me especially the 3 gigabit ports. I just want to point out that one guy who benchmarked the C750 Avaton had Plex transcoding 3 different 1080p videos at the same time with only 86% CPU usage and a temperature of ~56C in what was basically a Fractal Design Node 304 with the CPU passively cooled. The things those little 8 core CPUs can do is pretty great honestly. Here is the link to his blog for part 1 of the review he did of the FreeNAS Mini (which came with a C2750D4I motherboard from ASRock). Full Disclosure: He is a moderator on the FreeNAS forums. Take that how you will. † Christian Member † For my pertinent links to guides, reviews, and anything similar, go here, and look under the spoiler labeled such. A brief history of Unix and it's relation to OS X by Builder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 1, 2015 Seems pretty sweet to me especially the 3 gigabit ports. It only uses 2 of the 3. One is for IPMI, it is a network interface so you don't have to connect a monitor, mouse or keyboard. _ The only downside I can see for this is if you have an HBA or RAID card you cannot expand to 10Gbe. I know that the vast majority of people will not need 10Gbe but I like to have the option for future expansion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 2, 2015 It only uses 2 of the 3. One is for IPMI, it is a network interface so you don't have to connect a monitor, mouse or keyboard. _ The only downside I can see for this is if you have an HBA or RAID card you cannot expand to 10Gbe. I know that the vast majority of people will not need 10Gbe but I like to have the option for future expansion. I wouldn't see this as a motherboard for a storage server. The form factor alone suggests it would have access to a networked storage array because most ITX cases don't have many drive slots and, if you do use this in a bigger case, you might as well by a bigger motherboard anyway. I'd fill the PCI-E slot with either a GPU or 10Gbe (I don't saturate 1Gbe so unlikely). This could be a great small form factor folding box too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 2, 2015 looks cool. Atleast i can use quad channel ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 2, 2015 I wouldn't see this as a motherboard for a storage server. The form factor alone suggests it would have access to a networked storage array because most ITX cases don't have many drive slots and, if you do use this in a bigger case, you might as well by a bigger motherboard anyway. I'd fill the PCI-E slot with either a GPU or 10Gbe (I don't saturate 1Gbe so unlikely). This could be a great small form factor folding box too. I agree that that does make more sense. I just found the iStarUSA S-917 recently and thought it would make a cool NAS box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 2, 2015 Author I agree that that does make more sense. I just found the iStarUSA S-917 recently and thought it would make a cool NAS box. I want 2 of this case to build my NAS~~~ I have several 5.25" to multiple 3.5" drive cages, and since there are not much 5.25" drive bays in computer cases nowadays, I was wondering what I could do with those cages. Now I think I could build my NAS with those cages.... Thx for sharing this, @Comrade_Dave~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 2, 2015 @snowComet You're welcome. I was looking for cases that have a lot of 5.25" bays for hotswap cages. I am thinking about upgrading to a larger NAS and looking into FreeNAS and other solutions. I also would like for it to have a fairly powerful CPU for it to be my plex server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 2, 2015 I wouldn't see this as a motherboard for a storage server. The form factor alone suggests it would have access to a networked storage array because most ITX cases don't have many drive slots and, if you do use this in a bigger case, you might as well by a bigger motherboard anyway. I'd fill the PCI-E slot with either a GPU or 10Gbe (I don't saturate 1Gbe so unlikely). This could be a great small form factor folding box too. Personally, I love M-ITX storage servers. Most people won't ever need more Storage than you could fit in a M-ITX form factor. Just my opinion. @snowComet You're welcome. I was looking for cases that have a lot of 5.25" bays for hotswap cages. I am thinking about upgrading to a larger NAS and looking into FreeNAS and other solutions. I also would like for it to have a fairly powerful CPU for it to be my plex server. Regarding Plex, CPUs, & FreeNAS, the FreeNAS team has a thing called the FreeNAS Mini which is basically their version of a M-ITX small Storage Server. You can build something equivalent for like $200 less, so I wouldn't buy one unless you don't like DIY. However, the motherboard they use (the ASRock C2750D4I) has an Intel Avoton 8 core CPU, which a moderator on the FreeNAS forums (cyberj0ck) reviewed in his blog. Long story short: In that M-ITX space, with a passively cooled CPU, the CPU could handle transcoding three 1080p streams at the same time and only hit 86% CPU usage on FreeNAS with Plex. The temperature was around 55C IIRC. So it holds up pretty well imo. † Christian Member † For my pertinent links to guides, reviews, and anything similar, go here, and look under the spoiler labeled such. A brief history of Unix and it's relation to OS X by Builder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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