ASRock Rack Launches Mini-ITX Server Board With Embedded Xeon E3-1500 V5

[kcarbotte]

Intel just launched the Xeon E3-1500 v5 today at Computex and ASRock already has a mini- ITX server board featuring the embedded new chip.

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[bit_user]

Yum. Should have 10 Gigabit, though. And is that a VGA connector I spy?!?

 

[Darkk]

This would make a nice FreeNAS server.

 

[Valantar]

This should have been around when I built my combo HTPC/NAS. Although it'll probably cost an arm and a leg (and my build was low-budget), it looks pretty amazing. 6 SATA ports for mass storage, m.2 for a boot drive (PCIe?), a more than decent iGPU, PCIe x16 for better graphics or RAID down the line, and quad ethernet to act like a firewall/router all the while? That's amazing. Hopefully it supports non-ECC memory as well, and preferably at higher speeds than 2133 MHz.

That heatsink looks like crap, though. Would need to be replaced, for sure.

 

[Eman25th]

Yum. Should have 10 Gigabit, though. And is that a VGA connector I spy?!?

it has 4x 10GbE ports, this board is perfect for homelab use.

 

[Casper42]

it has 4x 10GbE ports, this board is perfect for homelab use.

No, it has 4 x *1* Gb NICs.
http://asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C236%20WSI#Specifications
The Intel 200 series is all 1 Gb.
Their 10Gb NICs start in the 500 series and continue with the 700 series. X520, X710, XL710, etc.

 

[heat_death51]

Would this be overkill for a home NAS unit?