14 DAY TRIAL // Motherboard maker Gigabyte has recently added a new LGA 2011 server solution to its product portfolio, dubbed the GA-6PXSV1, which was designed in order to be used together with Intel’s latest Xeon E5-1600 series processors.
The board is based on the Intel C604 chipset and it sports a single LGA 2011 socket.
The first thing that one notices when taking a look at the GA-6PXSV1 is the fact that the board comes equipped with no less than eight DIMM memory sockets.
According to Gigabyte, these are compatible with both RDIMM and ECC memory modules and enable the board to support as much as 256GB of 1600MHz memory.
Right to the left of the DIMM sockets, Gigabyte has placed the board's expansion slots, which include a pair of PCI Express x16 Gen 3.0 slots, one PCIe x8 slot, one PCI Express x4 slot, as well as a legacy 32-bit PCI slot.
Storage is provided by no less than six SATA ports, two of these working at 6Gbps speeds, and are accompanied by four SAS 6Gbps ports placed right near the board's left margin. All of these are driven by the C604 chipset.
Other features include USB 3.0 connectivity, support for the enterprise version of Intel's Rapid Storage Technology (IRST), and a six-phase CPU PWM with DrMOS MOSFET transistors.
On the back of the GA-6PXSV1, outside of the regular connectors, users will also find a pair of KVM network ports.
Sadly, Gigabyte hasn’t provided any information regarding the release date or the price of this server motherboard.
The picture accompanying this article is that of a pre-production sample which was showcased during IDF 2011, as Gigabyte hasn’t made any new images of the GA-6PXSV1 board available.