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  • TomWomack - Thursday, March 4, 2021 - link

    Umm, wasn't one of the key points of Ice Lake, taken as a starting point by everyone trying to build chips intended to compete with it at its initial expected launch in 2018, that it had eight-channel DDR4? Unless Intel are doing something very aggressive with pricing, so that low-end Ice Lake is cheaper than current low-end Sky Lake, I don't see the point of a six-channel motherboard for it.
  • brucethemoose - Thursday, March 4, 2021 - link

    Is there even space for 8 slots in that config? Looks like the final slot would mash up against the first PCIe slot, at best.
  • PixyMisa - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link

    They often cut boards down to 6 PCIe slots for precisely that reason.
  • frbeckenbauer - Saturday, March 6, 2021 - link

    There's plenty ATX boards with similar layouts and 8 DIMM slots.
  • kgardas - Thursday, March 4, 2021 - link

    384 GB max only? Even W-22xx in some boards may use up to 1TB so I'm not so sure this is the right max number...
  • Slash3 - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link

    Yeah, that's a bit of a weird one, but it's what's stated on the official site and in the product PDF. Maybe they just didn't have any 128GB or 256GB LRDIMMs on hand to try? Odd.
  • Everett F Sargent - Thursday, March 4, 2021 - link

    It would (maybe) be the 1st MB to support two 16x lanes at PCIE 4.0 and at the same time provide only one M.2 at PCIE 3.0! That makes no sense whatsoever. Ice Lake-SP is supposed to be PCIE 4.0. I think Ice Lake-SP needs a PCIE 4.0 chipset. Until then, I would use a PCIE 4.0 drop in card (on this particular MB) that supports 4x PCIE 4.0 for four M.2 at PCIE 4.0, if possible (bootable).

    Otherwise, these server MB's are starting to look like two decade old technologies, stale, boring and expensive.
  • damianrobertjones - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link

    "simplistic green PCB" - Back in the day, many, MANY, consumer boards were green. Those were the days. Things were a LOT cheaper back then (Or, should I say, there was a low end bracket).
  • notb - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link

    Why would you even need "low end bracket" in 2021? DIY PCs are either for gaming or for showing off. :)
  • mode_13h - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link

    > Axiomtek (who?)

    LOL. As their website says, they're a specialty industrial PC maker.

    Perhaps that goes some ways towards explaining some of the weird things about it, like why only ATX (not EATX) and only 6-channel RAM. I'd guess that maybe its VRM isn't even spec'd to handle the highest core-count CPUs, in which case the final 2 channels might not be missed.

    Also, if you count each PCIe 3.0 lane as 1/2 a PCIe 4.0 lane, then I count a total of 48 PCIe 4.0 lane-equivalents, not including the M.2 slot. So, does that add up? How many lanes is Ice Lake SP supposed to provide? Maybe not all of the models provide the maximum lane count.
  • mode_13h - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link

    Oh, and only dual-gigabit in 2021?!? Definitely a specialty board.
  • mode_13h - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link

    BTW, I kept wanting to read IMB as IBM...
  • mode_13h - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link

    > With not much furor surrounding expected motherboard models at the moment

    Can't recall a time there was ever exactly "furor" surrounding motherboard models...
  • mode_13h - Friday, March 5, 2021 - link

    Sooo... I guess Ice Lake SP might *finally* launch, in 2021??? I wonder if Intel was planning on just going straight to their 7 nm server CPU, until their 7nm started running behind schedule, as well.
  • croc - Saturday, March 6, 2021 - link

    With that socket's width, it is easy to see why they chose to only go with six DIMM slots Don't forget that this is a process PC, suitable for industrial applications. Do note that it has serial port and SMB As well as an 8 channel I/O that is programmable. Basiclly, a very well endowed PLC.
  • tygrus - Sunday, March 7, 2021 - link

    It's like 2 sockets conjoined at the hip. Probably will need a leaf blower or 2xWater on top. This relatively budget board is not attractive to me.
  • mode_13h - Tuesday, March 9, 2021 - link

    Ice Lake SP is 10 nm and expected to clock rather low. Intel server CPUs always come in a wide range of core counts and TDP, with some sub-100W models being a certainty.
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