Absolutely. Miss the days of beautiful engineering like this in the enthusiast space with their plus and deluxe models. I want THIS Mobo design with a z370 chipset.
I agree. This is a decent looking motherboard and I think its a pity that the industry pivoted away from using similar designs for their enthusiast products.
We all know you can't game on a PC unless the components come with a zillion RGB leds, edgy XTREMEZ styling and GAMING painted everywhere and optional auto "QUICK AND EASY" auto OCing that overvolts everything nearly to the brink of electromigration for an insignificant +10% clocks.
Why no NBASE-T or 10GBASE-T NICs? I would expect that kind of thing on new workstation-level products, especially since they're already available on other boards. At least there are enough PCIe slots that adding a 10G NIC isn't likely to be a problem.
Exactly. It is 2018 and this is the latest high-end platform and NONE of the C246 boards have 10Gbit NICs. It's like Intel specifically told the manufactures to NOT ship 10Gb stuff. I'm waiting until a board has a pair.
Supermicro C246 lineup isn't unveiled completely yet; their own "C246 OS compatibility" page lists more mobos than officially announced. And names of another dozen are known for months, including 10GbE ones and one X11SCM-LN8F (8x 1GbE plus IPMI).
Asus previously launched their server/ws mobos in several waves (this happened with P9D* and P10S*). So, probably more to come, including 10GbE, integrated SAS etc.
Reminds me of my Asus X58 WS motherboard. No doubt it could be just as stable. The X58 continues running to this day, 10 years old, on an overclocked i7-920 with 12GB DDR3 and a few drives. Most stable system I’ve ever owned, possibly rivaling the 440BX, and Intek hasn’t made anything like it since. Until possibly now with C246.
Im assuming this has the same DMI3.0 bandwidth issues as its sister desktop platform? What a waste of a great attempt. At the end of the day if you are serious about using any of these slots or M2 connectors you need to move up to something with more "real" PCIe lanes, not this bottlenecked face lane stuff... Come one intel, Its come to throw us a bone here! You want to sell more Optane? Give us somewhere to put it!
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rozquilla - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
Great features, and sober design, wish there were more of this on the mainstream (non-workstation) side.PhrogChief - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
Absolutely. Miss the days of beautiful engineering like this in the enthusiast space with their plus and deluxe models. I want THIS Mobo design with a z370 chipset.PeachNCream - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
I agree. This is a decent looking motherboard and I think its a pity that the industry pivoted away from using similar designs for their enthusiast products.StrangerGuy - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link
We all know you can't game on a PC unless the components come with a zillion RGB leds, edgy XTREMEZ styling and GAMING painted everywhere and optional auto "QUICK AND EASY" auto OCing that overvolts everything nearly to the brink of electromigration for an insignificant +10% clocks.cdillon - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
Why no NBASE-T or 10GBASE-T NICs? I would expect that kind of thing on new workstation-level products, especially since they're already available on other boards. At least there are enough PCIe slots that adding a 10G NIC isn't likely to be a problem.mooninite - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
Exactly. It is 2018 and this is the latest high-end platform and NONE of the C246 boards have 10Gbit NICs. It's like Intel specifically told the manufactures to NOT ship 10Gb stuff. I'm waiting until a board has a pair.bolkhov - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
Supermicro C246 lineup isn't unveiled completely yet; their own "C246 OS compatibility" page lists more mobos than officially announced. And names of another dozen are known for months, including 10GbE ones and one X11SCM-LN8F (8x 1GbE plus IPMI).Asus previously launched their server/ws mobos in several waves (this happened with P9D* and P10S*). So, probably more to come, including 10GbE, integrated SAS etc.
Samus - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
Reminds me of my Asus X58 WS motherboard. No doubt it could be just as stable. The X58 continues running to this day, 10 years old, on an overclocked i7-920 with 12GB DDR3 and a few drives. Most stable system I’ve ever owned, possibly rivaling the 440BX, and Intek hasn’t made anything like it since. Until possibly now with C246.cbm80 - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
Instead of VGA/DVI they should have put two more displayport outputs (for double or triple monitor setups).danielfranklin - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
Im assuming this has the same DMI3.0 bandwidth issues as its sister desktop platform?What a waste of a great attempt. At the end of the day if you are serious about using any of these slots or M2 connectors you need to move up to something with more "real" PCIe lanes, not this bottlenecked face lane stuff...
Come one intel, Its come to throw us a bone here! You want to sell more Optane? Give us somewhere to put it!
0ldman79 - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
Good to know the Core iX works on these as well.I was wondering if the Xeon was going to be on it's own platform going by the previous news on the topic.
bolkhov - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link
No BMC (IPMI)? So, of no use for servers.cdillon - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link
I wouldn't expect it to have a BMC on what is specifically a "workstation" board, though they're not unheard of.kgardas - Saturday, July 28, 2018 - link
If you need this, then for example supermicro x11sca-f may make you happy.meacupla - Sunday, July 29, 2018 - link
wow, they put actual heatsinks on the VRMs?Lolimaster - Sunday, July 29, 2018 - link
Only 40 lane no matter what, how is this even worth it to write about when AMD's X399 run circles around this?Ian Cutress - Monday, July 30, 2018 - link
Vastly different price point.