Comments on: ASUS Pro WS C621-64L SAGE/10G Xeon W-3200 Review

By: Avlin

Avlin — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 20:45:27 +0000

This motherboard is awesome, but Intel did go wrong with cpu lineup/segmentation with constant adjustements. Best is a xeon W3200 but when looking at xeon W2200 the cpu is no more interesting…

By: Nikolay Mihaylov

Nikolay Mihaylov — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:06:22 +0000

@KarelG: “Because of orientation of RAM slots.”

I’m sorry but this is the most ridiculous excuse I’ve ever heard.

By: KarelG

KarelG — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:32:23 +0000

@Tyler: “I would really like to see some Epyc 7002-based *workstation* solutions (not server). That would be exciting.”

Me too, but, it looks like AMD is preparing something for Threadripper. Rumored 3 chipsets make me curious if WRX80 will really be for workstation. Rumored capability of supporting (L)RDIMMS (besidees UDIMM ECC) and in 8-channel manner allows some hope here. So let’s see in the future…

By: KarelG

KarelG — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:29:05 +0000

@Nikolay Mihaylov: “Also, why would you think a server mainboard is not suitable for a workstation?”

Because of orientation of RAM slots. For workstation I prefer vertical orientation while for server obviously horizontal. There is no single Epyc board which would support 700*2* and yet provide vertical RAM slots orientation. Or have you found any?

By: Nikolay Mihaylov

Nikolay Mihaylov — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:39:05 +0000

@Tyler:”I would really like to see some Epyc 7002-based *workstation* solutions (not server). That would be exciting.”

And you couldn’t be bothered to do a Google search for “Epyc workstation mainboard”? There are enough options, albeit for the 7001 platform. However, they are supposed to be compatible with 7002. And you are essentially only missing on PCIe 4 which Intel don’t have anyway.

Also, why would you think a server mainboard is not suitable for a workstation?

By: Sam Davis

Sam Davis — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:44:28 +0000

We use ASMB9 and it’s just the SP-X rebranded. I think the special part about this motherboard is 64 PCIe lanes from the CPU with more from the PCH for NVMe drives.