Comments on: ASUS Pro B660M-C D4-CSM Review and Making Corporate Fun https://www.servethehome.com/asus-pro-b660m-c-d4-csm-review-and-making-corporate-fun-intel-nvidia/ Server and Workstation Reviews Sun, 03 Apr 2022 16:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 By: B https://www.servethehome.com/asus-pro-b660m-c-d4-csm-review-and-making-corporate-fun-intel-nvidia/#comment-481919 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 16:43:22 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=60195#comment-481919 Imo it’s waiting for the W680 motherboards, such as by Asrock in various formats and also SUperMicro announced some.

Due to competition by AMD, Intel has finallly moved to unlock full ECC on their 12th gen core series chips when used in combination with a W680 motherboard (so still some segmentation). But it means we finally get ECC on this cheaps. The only other workstation chip by intel right now is the W3300 series, which is at a far different pricepoint and offers way lower IPC. (obviously it has some very high end workstation features). Other than that the W1300 series is a bit of a joke, with most manufacturers seemed to have skipped W580 motherboards entirely.

So bottomline, W680 with Alder-Lake S CPUs are going to offer full ECC support with core chips like the I7 12700K etc. Those cheaps offer very good performance and have quite a few PCIE 4.0 lanes when considering the CPU and chipset lanes combined. Very good entry to mid-level workstations. I am really looking forward to that.

Hurray for comptetition!

]]> By: Tony Montana https://www.servethehome.com/asus-pro-b660m-c-d4-csm-review-and-making-corporate-fun-intel-nvidia/#comment-481908 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 02:01:59 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=60195#comment-481908 Do business build their own PC’s? Asus board looks so ugly. Can’t remember the last time they made ugly board. Lol

]]> By: bb https://www.servethehome.com/asus-pro-b660m-c-d4-csm-review-and-making-corporate-fun-intel-nvidia/#comment-481881 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 07:11:07 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=60195#comment-481881 re: sata card
Recommend additional fan for cooling sata card chip.
(Mine could work for 5 day of constant formatting or random access of multiple hdds, but fail (disk not attached) after 6 hours of realtime use of moderate sequential file writes with one hdd)
Hdds, and not consumer fans, are loud, imo.

Already with super wepyc you were warned of low air flow for io cards, also nonrack built.

Would be interesting report: the stability of setup, and if used for 24/7 or not.

It also seems that here 4 fans for hdds could be installed (no top cover anymore though, 2 if top cover remains) in a ghetto version with hdd temp concerns.

]]> By: Joeri https://www.servethehome.com/asus-pro-b660m-c-d4-csm-review-and-making-corporate-fun-intel-nvidia/#comment-481867 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 17:41:25 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=60195#comment-481867 Any ideas about powerusage vs more “gaming/consumer” orientated mainboards?

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