ASRock Rack Launches mATX LGA-2011-3 Server Motherboard

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ASRock's EPC612E4U-2T8R may be the first mATX LGA-2011-3 board on the market that supports E5 Xeon processors.

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[milkod2001]

Looks like it could be decent mobo for NAS. But could i drop into this board some low power broadwell /skylake CPU other then expensive Xeons?

 

[balister]

Looks like it could be decent mobo for NAS. But could i drop into this board some low power broadwell /skylake CPU other then expensive Xeons?

Actually, there are several Xeon E5 v3s that are cheaper than the cheapest i7 for LGA 2011-v3 sockets.

Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 Haswell 1.6GHz LGA 2011-3 85W BX80644E52603V3 Server Processor is about $220 where as the lowest i7 is about $390. As such, it would be ideal for a low CPU powered application like a NAS.

 

[milkod2001]

Looks like it could be decent mobo for NAS. But could i drop into this board some low power broadwell /skylake CPU other then expensive Xeons?

Actually, there are several Xeon E5 v3s that are cheaper than the cheapest i7 for LGA 2011-v3 sockets.

Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 Haswell 1.6GHz LGA 2011-3 85W BX80644E52603V3 Server Processor is about $220 where as the lowest i7 is about $390. As such, it would be ideal for a low CPU powered application like a NAS.

Thanks

But i was thinking really low power CPUs, if they are or will be compatible with this board. Atom/Celeron/Pentium/braswell/Core M should be enough for my needs(back up files, video streaming for home user) etc.

 

[drtweak]

Looks like it could be decent mobo for NAS. But could i drop into this board some low power broadwell /skylake CPU other then expensive Xeons?

Actually, there are several Xeon E5 v3s that are cheaper than the cheapest i7 for LGA 2011-v3 sockets.

Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 Haswell 1.6GHz LGA 2011-3 85W BX80644E52603V3 Server Processor is about $220 where as the lowest i7 is about $390. As such, it would be ideal for a low CPU powered application like a NAS.

Thanks

But i was thinking really low power CPUs, if they are or will be compatible with this board. Atom/Celeron/Pentium/braswell/Core M should be enough for my needs(back up files, video streaming for home user) etc.

No those won't work. They are Socket 1150 CPU's not 2011 which is for E5 Xeons and i7's only. If you want something really lower powered you need to look into some embedded boards. I have a embedded board with a 1.8 Ghz Dual Core celeron, 4Gb ram, 240 GB SSD for OS, 3 2TB hard drives, and an older Dell SAS 5 HBA RAID Controller (only RAID 1 and 0) and it pulls 60 watts max. The board uses 22 watts max so if you had the money and put in all SSD's with a good RAID controller you can probably get a board at like 35 watts maybe even less. This board is designed for Servers not low end NAS's