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GIGABYTE Unveils Enterprise-grade Motherboards and an Entry Level Workstation for the Launch of AMD Ryzen 7000 Series

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GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), an industry leader in high-performance servers and workstations, today announced supporting products for the new AMD AM5 platform starting with two GIGABYTE motherboards, MC13-LE0 & MC13-LE1, that pair a consumer CPU with IPMI management functionalities via BMC. Additionally, a new desktop workstation, W332-Z00, was released using the same motherboard series platform that supports remote management, but the W332 does so with a Realtek NIC that enables DASH.

The new GIGABYTE products designed to support host systems are deceivingly powerful with a small micro-ATX form factor motherboard and enterprise rich out-of-band management features on top of PCIe Gen 5 and DDR5 technologies. These new client friendly products will be found in office settings under a desk rather than a rack in a data center, as they be managed from anywhere, provided there is a network connection. Furthermore, these new products are purpose built for the mainstream AMD B650E chipset with AMD Zen 4 architecture for AMD Ryzen 7000 Series desktop processors.



New GIGABYTE MC13 Series
Delivering next gen performance benefits and enterprise features, the new GIGABYTE MC13 series of motherboards are designed for applications in the home or office and upgrades the prior gen MC12 series that is based on the AMD AM4 platform. Differences in the new motherboard models, -LE0 and -LE1, solely comes down to networking needs. For faster networking, the -LE1 has dual 10GbE ports while the -LE0 has dual 1GbE. Compared to the MC12 series, the MC13 series upgrades to DDR5, PCIe Gen5 throughput for GPUs and M.2 drives, and USB 3.2. With that aside, the MC13 board, in the new mini-tower W332-Z00, substitutes for the BMC (ASPEED AST2600) a more cost-effective management solution with a Realtek NIC that supports DASH (a systems management standard) to monitor and control client systems.

The micro-ATX form factor provides the ability to be used in almost all desktop cases, and the MC13 series was also selected for the motherboard of choice in the new mini-tower W332-Z00 that upgrades features compared to the W331-Z00, which supported the AMD AM4 platform.

Remote Management
For MC13-LE1 & MC13-LE0: As part of GIGABYTE's value proposition, GIGABYTE provides GIGABYTE Management Console (GMC) for BMC server management via a web browser-based platform. Additionally, GIGABYTE Server Management (GSM) software is available for download on product pages. This software can monitor and manage multiple servers without requiring an additional license fee. GMC and GSM offer great value while reducing TCO and customer maintenance costs.

For W332-Z00: A cost-effective management solution uses a Realtek GbE NIC with DASH capabilities to utilize Realtek Remote Management Console that employs DASH standards to manage and monitor client devices. Use of this in-band and out-of-band management allows IT admins the ability to access the device whether it is powered on or off, over the network. Included tasks are power state settings, retrieve health status, view event logs, and more.

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dear lord what year is it?
 
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dear lord what year is it?

It even has a 1394 hole at the front...

In case for those vintage sentimental moments. I have a floppy 34pin to USB adapter too... just in case I need to be reminded of authentic sound it emits. :roll:
 

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That case looks familiar. I think I have one exactly like that in my office, just without GB branding (and 15 years older :D ) Gotta snap some pics once I get to the trash pile at my office.
Motherboard, though... might be fine in a 1U server, but consumer/office? There isn't even enough USB ports to plug in bare necessities like KB/Mouse, webcam and printer, let alone a USB flash drive.
There's only one USB2.0 header and one USB3.0 header, which brings you to a grand total of 6-7 usable ports (there's a type-c on the back of some boards, but I doubt anyone will ever use it).
Another idiotic thing, is that neither of these boards have m.2 slot for WiFi adapter, but there are holes in the I/O shield for antennas.
 
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I'm shocked this motherboard doesn't have PS/2 ports in the rear I/O.

The PS/2 are only for keyboard and mouse. Not important.
The VGA and most importantly the RS232 port are here.

....dat design though....
 
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There we go.
If OEMs are capable of making $30 motherboards, the stupid pricing of current launch options are clearly a sham.
Never underestimate OEM's abilities to make things as cheap as possible; As terrible as they are, they set the real-world baseline that keeps rampant price-gouging in check.
 
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There we go.
If OEMs are capable of making $30 motherboards, the stupid pricing of current launch options are clearly a sham.
Never underestimate OEM's abilities to make things as cheap as possible; As terrible as they are, they set the real-world baseline that keeps rampant price-gouging in check.

You would think competition would do that job, but nope.avi
 
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That firewire front IO sure takes me back...
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Early 2000s vintage :eek:
 
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Hummmm, a little retro & a little nex-gen stuff, all together in yet ANUTHA same ole same same, lame-assed, boring AF, no-design-effort whatsoever, rectangular boxen of yesteryear...

whodathunkit possible, hehehe :roll:

Firewirez.... talk about retro.....the last time I heard that word was back in the candy colored mac days....like, 35 years ago !
 
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When I see motherboards I have always asked myself a couple of questions; 1) ignoring that the ports that are located in such a way that they are all on one side of the PCB (rear part) what would be the most optimal organization in terms of space and distribution of the electronic components 2) if we apply the first point and place everything the connectors on the bottom (back) of the board would have the opportunity to make smaller devices. I think that is what applen is applying on their iphone...
 
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Interesting, what about a DIN connector for the keayboard?

Also a funny thing - while MB is photographed with VGA and Serial port backplate, the case is photographed with HDMI/DP backplate.
 
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From my experience. "enterprise-grade" usually means low quality, cheapest components for very high price. Yes, those low quality cheap components still do the job for enterprise workloads.
 
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I unironically like the look of the case. But that IO :shadedshu:
 

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As if most commenters here bashing those were in the market for machines like that anyways :roll:
I'm bashing them exactly because I'm in the market for those. GB had some decent server and WS boards(even on the low-end), but this is absolutely laughable. Kinda reminds me of those old Pegatron/ASUS OEM boards from back in a day.
 
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My god, this has the creme de la crop, PCIe 5.0, insane 1T and MT performance, lots of IO. And they come up with this piece of crap looking like it's 15 years old... Sure it's enterprise grade but nobody is running anything like R7000 in any enterprise application...
 
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Hey look kids, a 6+2 fase VRM setup. On a server board boosting a high end CPU.

Bottomline: motherboards with 22 VRM's are a waste of money.
 
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