Gigabyte GA-6PXSV

[TRANCEFORMER]

Just found this pic over a german website, first gigabyte board with 8 ram slots

GA-6PXSV.jpg

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldu...0-1253138.html

[HKPolice]

I'd still prefer 4 slots but all rotated 90deg so that the CPU heatsink will get proper airflow

Oh ya this is a pure server board, so tower coolers won't be used

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

Are those two VGA ports? Serial Ports? What's up with that?

You really can't rotate all 8 dimms sideways. The board would have to longer or you'll sacrifice PCIe slots. You can pack 64gb of ram on one of these boards. That's a lot for a consumer board. Wow. RDimm support for one of these would be amazing, but I won't hold my breath.

I also spy SAS and two USB 3.0 headers. I like it! There also some other funk stuff on the board.

[[XC] hipno650]

Are those two VGA ports? Serial Ports? What's up with that?

You really can't rotate all 8 dimms sideways. The board would have to longer or you'll sacrifice PCIe slots. You can pack 64gb of ram on one of these boards. That's a lot for a consumer board. Wow. RDimm support for one of these would be amazing, but I won't hold my breath.

I also spy SAS and two USB 3.0 headers. I like it! There also some other funk stuff on the board.

she's a server board. that's why it looks a little odd.

[G.Foyle]

Methinks 2 serial ports on the back panel are odd even for a server board.

[Chrono Detector]

Serial ports seiously? I thought they went extinct ages ago, but whatever. I hope to see X79 boards with 8 DIMM slots as well.

[zanzabar]

I'd still prefer 4 slots but all rotated 90deg so that the CPU heatsink will get proper airflow

Oh ya this is a pure server board, so tower coolers won't be used

the socket is square so why dose it matter, u dont need giant dimms and even if u had nice sized dims i dont think that modern large ones would hit most heat sinks.

Methinks 2 serial ports on the back panel are odd even for a server board.

those are not for serial those are network KVM, notice the 2 large chips right next to the USB3 logo

[mattkosem]

Serial ports seiously? I thought they went extinct ages ago, but whatever. I hope to see X79 boards with 8 DIMM slots as well.

Isnt that board up there an x79? That socket sure looks just like all of the S2011 sockets I've seen. It says Patsburg/C600, which I believe is x79...no?

those are not for serial those are network KVM, notice the 2 large chips right next to the USB3 logo

They clearly say com1 and com2 next to them. Those two Etron chips by the USB3 logo appear to be USB3 controllers.

--Matt

[cesariuth]

Date of the news (from the source) is 01.06.2011??? :S

old news?

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

she's a server board. that's why it looks a little odd.

I only know English, but I figured enough out that you're right, wow.

Lack of RDimm sucks. Only E7 has support and those CPUs hover around $4000.

Also, all the audio ports and whatever else. This is a very very strange board.

Does this have KVM-over-IP support?

[zanzabar]

They clearly say com1 and com2 next to them. Those two Etron chips by the USB3 logo appear to be USB3 controllers.

--Matt

why would they have 2 usb3 controllers?

[zalbard]

Not very interesting for us Xtreme folks, I guess... Odd board either way...

[mattkosem]

why would they have 2 usb3 controllers?

My guess would be because x79 has no USB3 and they want a reasonable number of current gen USB ports without too many onboard hubs. They definitely say EtronTech on them, and Etron makes ICs for Ram, USB, Webcams and...well...that's about it. They don't look like ram chips, so they must be USB.

--Matt

[mursaat]

I think this board is for freaks (although I like to call myself sysadmin at work hehe) like me that run a WS2008R2 host with Hyper-V but also want USB3 and good Audio support within reasonable prices. I also have a 4TB RAID10 to have plenty of safe space for my VMs.

Not a real (for production) server board by far if you ask me:

- No redundant PSU
- "Normal" RAM (not sure though)
- No out-of-band management
- And a lot more missing.

[mattkosem]

I think this board is for freaks (although I like to call myself sysadmin at work hehe) like me that run a WS2008R2 host with Hyper-V but also want USB3 and good Audio support within reasonable prices. I also have a 4TB RAID10 to have plenty of safe space for my VMs.

Not a real (for production) server board by far if you ask me:

- No redundant PSU
- "Normal" RAM (not sure though)
- No out-of-band management
- And a lot more missing.

Agreed. Perhaps a high end workstation board, since it's designed for a dual slot card in the top PCI-E slot. Still not sure what to make of those serial ports though. They're still popular for some point of sale equipment and embedded/manufacturing applications I suppose, but those applications usually get by with a lot less hardware. IPMI over lan is a lot more popular than IPMI over serial, so it doesn't really make sense in that context. With 6 phases though, this definitely doesn't look like anything that would be pitched to the enthusiast crowd.

--Matt

[PatRaceTin]

hmmm socket 2011?

[paulbagz]

Agreed. Perhaps a high end workstation board, since it's designed for a dual slot card in the top PCI-E slot. Still not sure what to make of those serial ports though. They're still popular for some point of sale equipment and embedded/manufacturing applications I suppose, but those applications usually get by with a lot less hardware. IPMI over lan is a lot more popular than IPMI over serial, so it doesn't really make sense in that context. With 6 phases though, this definitely doesn't look like anything that would be pitched to the enthusiast crowd.

--Matt

Alot of production machinery still use COM based connections. Could be aimed at that area perhaps?

Although I don't know what you'd need so much RAM for then =/

-PB