You guys are funny. It's not a workstation board, it's a gaming board. And even if it costs $1000, you hardly need to be rich to buy it...just lacking in taste.
People who ask people for money are never going to be rich. Rich is not someone who makes a lot of money, it is someone who has no bills. I work at walmart and can afford this if i wanted, i literally only have utilities to pay, rest is disposable income.
One actually legitimate gaming use for this would be a single-box LAN party setup. 4 GPUs (hardware pasthrough) plus 6 exclusive cores per VM (and 4 for the hypervisor and any other VMs like virtualised NAS). Of course, 4 dedicated boxes would be cheaper in terms of hardware, so to make sense there would need to be other factors involved e.g. compactness for transport, ease of management, etc. Or very high internal inter-client bandwidth if you're doing some bespoke multi-user VR environment setup without needing to buy piles of 10GbE cards.
yeah the box needs to be tricked out too. I wont accept a plain cardboard box. Something like a transparent hexagon made of Tempered Glass with ROG engraved in the front...at the very least.
Armor 1: defensive covering for the body especially : covering (as of metal) used in combat 2: a quality or circumstance that affords protection the armor of prosperity 3: a protective outer layer (as of a ship, a plant or animal, or a cable) 4: armored forces and vehicles (such as tanks)
Notably absent from Merriam-Webster is any mention of the motherboard plastic panel equivalent of a toy doll's accessory purse that adds style and makes adult boys feel a little more like real men.
When did a 6 pin 12v CPU power option get added to the ATX spec? Way back in the early days of ATX - pre 4pin 12v connector - when systems mostly ran on the 3.3/5V rails there was a 6 pin connector to provide those legacy voltages - but AFAIK the 12V CPU connector has always only been 4 or 8 pins. Is this a new connector (in which case, why not just go with 3x8 pin ones from each PSU instead), or is ASUS connecting a pair of 6 pin GPU power connectors to the mobo for extra power? I've occasionally seen the latter done on the bottom half of boards intended to support 3/4 way SLI/xFire.
The article says the systems supports 128gb of memory. If the system supports 16gb dimms, would the total not be 192gb instead of 128gb (12x16gb=192gb)
The bounding factor is presumably some data structure or hardware interface being power of 2 bound. eg number of bits available to store the address in a bitpacked data structure (where the remaining high bits are used to store metadata), or the number of physical address bit lines in hardware.
Seems more like it was copied from the other Workstation chips since they are 4 channel, or some type of segmentation to discourage datacenter use. The xeon 8180 which this is presumably built on supports 768GB or 1.5TB in the M sku
So... overclockable Xeon gaming motherboard? Did Asus whip this up so that Intel would have something shiny for the new Core launch? I suppose they can afford to make a god emperor board that noone will buy (maybe throw in a free ROG phone to sweeten the deal.)
Uh, only 2 of those mechanically 16x slots are actually electrically 16x. The middle and bottom are electrically 8x as you can see the contacts in the slots only going half-way. This also makes sense as the 28 Core Xeon lacks enough dedicated CPU I/O lanes to do 4x 16x electrically and you don't want to do that from the chipset. (Even TR doesn't have enough, that would be 4 lanes short of what TR can do).
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MajGenRelativity - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
If gamers buy this, I'd like to know who they are and if I can have some of their money. This is a viable product, but not for gaming.peterfares - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
It's really for people who came from very wealthy backgrounds or maybe had a successful startupMajGenRelativity - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
It's for people who need an Ultra High End Workstation. There's a (small) workstation market for this, but not a gaming one.cbm80 - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
You guys are funny. It's not a workstation board, it's a gaming board. And even if it costs $1000, you hardly need to be rich to buy it...just lacking in taste.The Chill Blueberry - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
Yeah, it's not the Republic of Workers.. it's Republic of Gamerz /simaheadcase - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
People who ask people for money are never going to be rich. Rich is not someone who makes a lot of money, it is someone who has no bills. I work at walmart and can afford this if i wanted, i literally only have utilities to pay, rest is disposable income.Lolimaster - Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - link
Not really, AMD Threadripper is killing it.One socket for all your HEDT needs, 32core now, even better 32core next year with 7nm.
edzieba - Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - link
One actually legitimate gaming use for this would be a single-box LAN party setup. 4 GPUs (hardware pasthrough) plus 6 exclusive cores per VM (and 4 for the hypervisor and any other VMs like virtualised NAS). Of course, 4 dedicated boxes would be cheaper in terms of hardware, so to make sense there would need to be other factors involved e.g. compactness for transport, ease of management, etc. Or very high internal inter-client bandwidth if you're doing some bespoke multi-user VR environment setup without needing to buy piles of 10GbE cards.Hxx - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
waiting for Imperator Caesar Augustus Maxmus board. Only Dominus wont do it for me Asus sorry.WatcherCK - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
the product box would be the size of a surfboard with a title that long (as is anything worthy of having Caesar in the title 😆)Hxx - Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - link
yeah the box needs to be tricked out too. I wont accept a plain cardboard box. Something like a transparent hexagon made of Tempered Glass with ROG engraved in the front...at the very least.PeachNCream - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
Armor1: defensive covering for the body especially : covering (as of metal) used in combat
2: a quality or circumstance that affords protection the armor of prosperity
3: a protective outer layer (as of a ship, a plant or animal, or a cable)
4: armored forces and vehicles (such as tanks)
Notably absent from Merriam-Webster is any mention of the motherboard plastic panel equivalent of a toy doll's accessory purse that adds style and makes adult boys feel a little more like real men.
Flunk - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
I think, calling in what it is, a dust cover, didn't look good in the promotional material.DanNeely - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
"6-pin 12 V ATX CPU power inputs"When did a 6 pin 12v CPU power option get added to the ATX spec? Way back in the early days of ATX - pre 4pin 12v connector - when systems mostly ran on the 3.3/5V rails there was a 6 pin connector to provide those legacy voltages - but AFAIK the 12V CPU connector has always only been 4 or 8 pins. Is this a new connector (in which case, why not just go with 3x8 pin ones from each PSU instead), or is ASUS connecting a pair of 6 pin GPU power connectors to the mobo for extra power? I've occasionally seen the latter done on the bottom half of boards intended to support 3/4 way SLI/xFire.
Chaitanya - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
Those are 6 pin Pci-e connectors not CPU connectors and looking and power config(2x24 pin) that 28core cpu is going to be a power hog.Chaitanya - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
Also there are bent pins in the photos sent to press so I guess shoddy build quality should also be added to feature list of this motherboard.jcc5169 - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
The article says the systems supports 128gb of memory. If the system supports 16gb dimms, would the total not be 192gb instead of 128gb (12x16gb=192gb)Ian Cutress - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
Intel said the chip supports up to 512GB memory. I've updated the articleDevo2007 - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
That is a weird amount across 12 DIMM slots.DanNeely - Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - link
The bounding factor is presumably some data structure or hardware interface being power of 2 bound. eg number of bits available to store the address in a bitpacked data structure (where the remaining high bits are used to store metadata), or the number of physical address bit lines in hardware.wkennington - Friday, October 26, 2018 - link
Seems more like it was copied from the other Workstation chips since they are 4 channel, or some type of segmentation to discourage datacenter use. The xeon 8180 which this is presumably built on supports 768GB or 1.5TB in the M skuvailr - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
12 slots x 32 Gb = 384 GbWatcherCK - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
So... overclockable Xeon gaming motherboard? Did Asus whip this up so that Intel would have something shiny for the new Core launch? I suppose they can afford to make a god emperor board that noone will buy (maybe throw in a free ROG phone to sweeten the deal.)Ian Cutress - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
It's specifically for a single chip:https://www.anandtech.com/show/13449/intel-announc...
CheapSushi - Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - link
I just want it because it's ridiculous and I love extreme halo products. But....maybe used someday.AshlayW - Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - link
Uh, only 2 of those mechanically 16x slots are actually electrically 16x. The middle and bottom are electrically 8x as you can see the contacts in the slots only going half-way. This also makes sense as the 28 Core Xeon lacks enough dedicated CPU I/O lanes to do 4x 16x electrically and you don't want to do that from the chipset. (Even TR doesn't have enough, that would be 4 lanes short of what TR can do).