Monday, October 3rd 2022
GIGABYTE Outs Trio of Socket AM5 Server Products Based on B650E
GIGABYTE released three of the first Socket AM5 server motherboards and barebones, letting you build small-business/home servers using AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors. These boards may feature a client-segment CPU socket, but come with server-grade components for 24/7 or high-uptime operation, and remote-management features. The three are based on the AMD B650E chipset, which means it gets full PCI-Express Gen 5 (for an x16 slot and an x4 Gen 5 NVMe).
The MC13-LE0 and MC13-LE1 motherboards are built in the Micro-ATX form-factor, but with a design optimized for rack airflow. Both boards feature an identical PCB layout, but differ in their network connectivity options. The MC13-LE1 offers two 10 GbE interfaces driven by an Intel X710 controller; while the MC13-LE0 gives you two 1 GbE interfaces, each driven by an Intel i210. Both boards offer an ASPEED AST2600 remote-management chip with its dedicated 1 GbE port; one M.2 PCIe Gen 5 slot, a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 slot, and four SATA 6 Gbps ports. The W332-Z00 is an M-ATX tower server/workstation barebones (you add your own processor, DDR5 memory, and storage). This features a different motherboard than the MC13-LE#, with two M.2 PCIe Gen 5 slots, and Realtek-supplied remote-management and 2.5 GbE chips.
The MC13-LE0 and MC13-LE1 motherboards are built in the Micro-ATX form-factor, but with a design optimized for rack airflow. Both boards feature an identical PCB layout, but differ in their network connectivity options. The MC13-LE1 offers two 10 GbE interfaces driven by an Intel X710 controller; while the MC13-LE0 gives you two 1 GbE interfaces, each driven by an Intel i210. Both boards offer an ASPEED AST2600 remote-management chip with its dedicated 1 GbE port; one M.2 PCIe Gen 5 slot, a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 slot, and four SATA 6 Gbps ports. The W332-Z00 is an M-ATX tower server/workstation barebones (you add your own processor, DDR5 memory, and storage). This features a different motherboard than the MC13-LE#, with two M.2 PCIe Gen 5 slots, and Realtek-supplied remote-management and 2.5 GbE chips.
34 Comments on GIGABYTE Outs Trio of Socket AM5 Server Products Based on B650E
Plenty of people will gladly save on useless esthetic, led, plastic and metal whatsoever and some of us still preferer the non-glass case so the look is even more pointless.
Just plain functionality, that's all I'm asking.
Above product is great. Most EPYC have relatively low clocks on avg 2.4 ~ 3Ghz but a Ryzen 7950X based server boosts double those speeds. There's still a league of applications where you want to have maximum core clocks instead of more threads. At least i can think of a few workloads that would benefit a high speed desktop consumer CPU rather then a server based CPU.
These boards have the grade to run 24/7 for years. I have servers (15 to be precise) on which some of 'm have'nt even rebooted since 3 years ago. Just saying.
Save all the materials, assembly, software and engineering of "make it look pretty and cool" and reduce price or give more functionality and stability.
www.techpowerup.com/299439/gigabyte-unveils-enterprise-grade-motherboards-and-an-entry-level-workstation-for-the-launch-of-amd-ryzen-7000-series
Greed knows no bounds...
Now that I think about it... Considering that OCing is basically dead, and the even stock PBO/Turbo 'delivers' when kept 'overcool'; boards like this might end up 'choice' for gamers, etc. that don't upgrade often.
I prefer the minimalist look, any aesthetics that are powered(controlled) from the BIOS is a complete was of BIOS space, you wouldnt see RGB on a board meant for LN2.
It's perfect for my early 2000 builds!
Agree with all the comments re RGB and keeping costs down, wish more MB manfacturers focused more on functionality and design/layout rather than bling.
I plan to put this board in a closed chassis anyway so pointless having tons of RGB.
Gigabyte: Shut up and take my money, I needs me Firewires. :twitch: (Still need a FW expansion card lol) /No I don't need it because sarcasm.
Lol, not even a +60 years old IT (that even loves retro gaming) and when he looks at it, it reminds him his youth doesn't like the design.
You can have minimalistic sturdy cases like Sharkoon S25-V & M25-V starting at €59 (including VAT) for example.
Between the massively oversized VRM designs the quad NVME and all the other gimicks tacked on to the X670 and B650 "budget lol" boards the 7000 series launch is the worst cash grab I have seen since Rocket Lake and the 11700K.