ASRock Rack Announces EP2C612D24 and 4L Server Motherboards, 24 DIMM slots for up to 1.5TB of RAM

[AlexGoesHigh]

EP2C612D24-4L notice the two extra network ports 

 

ASRock has announced a new server motherboard for Intel Xeon E5 v3 platform with support for 24 sticks of RAM total, giving a max capacity of 1.5TB of RAM this motherboard can hold on, this is possible since the Xeon E5 memory controller can support 3 DIMM's per channel, though if all the slots were populated according to the Xeon E5 spec memory will downclock from 2133mhz to 1600mhz 

 

The motherboard also features narrow ILM sockets to save space, three PCIe 3.0 x8 slots which are open ended, allowing for x16 sized cards to come in, although one slot will be limited to reduced width cards as some of the DRAM slots would encroach a super long co-processor. Ten (10) onboard SATA ports are supported, and M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 slot (its between the PCIe slots and RAM slots for the first CPU) and an onboard USB 3.0 Type-A port for in-chassis licensing dongles or Live-USB OSes.

 

there's only difference vs the normal and 4L version, the 4L comes with 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports instead of 2 in the normal one, both are powered by a Intel i350 controller, the port above the USB 3 ports is for the AST2400 which provides IPMI 2.0 network management.

 

EP2C612D24

Top down view of EP2C612D24

Source: AnandTech

[NeatSquidYT]

1.5TB RAM? What could that be used for?

[ADZ_123_!"£]

1.5TB RAM? What could that be used for?

Medical research, a massive render farm, massive server.

[Me1z]

1.5TB RAM? What could that be used for?

 

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[UltraNeonGaming]

1.5TB RAM? What could that be used for?

Google Chrome internet browser

[patrickjp93]

1.5TB RAM? What could that be used for?

Host a database. If you put it on the hard drives (other than for backup, save states), then access would be super slow. Most databases are housed in RAM and are backed up.

[NeatSquidYT]

Google Chrome internet browser.

Still not enough

[X_Rated_Box]

..P server board the future is cumming ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

But I think we should research in having higher capacity Ram modules than just more space to put them in

[UltraNeonGaming]

Still not enough

Especially for Linus

[UltraNeonGaming]

Server motherboards just have to be green

[Lazmarr]

1.5TB RAM? What could that be used for?

RAMDisk for your steam library or a modded skyrim

[NeatSquidYT]

RAMDisk for your steam library or a modded skyrim

omg, imagine a RAMDisk with this

[ICantThinkOfAnyGoodName]

Server motherboards just have to be green

I don't think anyone who will use this gives a shit about the color.

[Colonel_Gerdauf]

I don't think anyone who will use this gives a shit about the color.

They do not. The people using enterprise equipment have a function-over-form mindset. Asides from standard matters such as labelling and cable management, they do not care a single bit about how the equipment looks; they only care about whether or not it fufils the required tasks at the intended scale.

[UltraNeonGaming]

I don't think anyone who will use this gives a shit about the color.

I know that, they will also be hidden from sight, motherboards like this just look sexy when they are black

[Embattled]

Literally no one of this forum is probably ever going to even see one in person but very very cool tech nonetheless 

[SeriousDad69]

They do not. The people using enterprise equipment have a function-over-form mindset. Asides from standard matters such as labelling and cable management, they do not care a single bit about how the equipment looks; they only care about whether or not it fufils the required tasks at the intended scale.

Hahaha yeah that's a big true. Equipment aimed at gamers is always masturbatory, while equipment aimed at professionals is pure function. I personally don't give a single heck about what the inside of my computer looks like. I don't need a window side panel so I can whack off to how epic my rig looks, I'd rather have one or two more fan mounts to cool it better. Everything aimed at gamers is sickeningly flashy for my taste.