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GIGABYTE Announces XEON-W Motherboards

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GIGABYTE today announced its latest motherboard based on Intel's 'Basin Falls' architecture and targeted at workstation use cases. With this new architecture, GIGABYTE brings Intel's Skylake architecture to the SOHO segment with a new offering: the 'Basin Falls' single-socket platform for workstations. This new build offers a wealth of I/O options, including multiple PCIe lanes to support graphics, storage and USB options, as well as direct SATA and USB ports.

GIGABYTE's new Xeon 'Skylake-W'-based motherboard utilizes the full complement of 48x PCIe lanes direct from the CPU to support up to 4 x GPU dual-slot cards or multiple x8 and x16 add-on cards. In addition, GIGABYTE's engineers have designed densely-packed SATA and USB options, based on direct and PCIe connections from the chipset, leading to a massively flexible workstation board.



Rich I/O Options
Intel's new generation Xeon 'Skylake-W' is a single-socket CPU that provides 48 PCIe lanes from the CPU and 16 further PCIe lanes from the chipset. GIGABYTE has utilized these to create a feature rich board delivering a real punch in graphics and multiple connectivity through add-on card sockets.

Multiple Storage And Connectivity Options
This board boasts 8x USB 3.0 ports, plus 2x USB 3.1 (Type 'A' and Type 'C'), integrated on the rear of the board with the dual 1G ethernet ports. In addition, GIGABYTE has designed-in 10 SATA ports, supported by Intel's software-based RAID on chip. The board is also complemented with a VROC port to enable RAID for NVMe storage on board.

GIGABYTE has applied decades of motherboard design experience, and adherence to enterprise-level component and testing quality to develop this optimized solution for the workstation market.
"GIGABYTE is well equipped to provide flexible, high-quality solutions to all segments of the motherboard market", said Etay Lee, GM, GIGABYTE. "With a wealth of experience in from consumer boards right up to cloud and HPC deployments, and this new platform from Intel, GIGABYTE is well placed to address the specific needs of workstation users..

This motherboard is GIGABYTE's initial offering on Intel's latest 'Basin Falls' Skylake-W platform.
See the link below for more information and stay tuned at b2b.gigabyte.com and our social media channels (below) for new releases based on this architecture!

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I can't believe...

They finally discovered what "radiator" means...

Now we need this "professional" solution in consumer boards.
 
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Look again. If the radiator is held on by push pins, in usual Gigabyte fashion, this is a very professional board indeed, lol.
So it's either useless chunks of aluminum held on by proper screws, or radiators held by puny push pins.
 
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Sober yet modern looks, decent layout, PWM fan headers aplenty.......what the hell happened to you GIGABYTE!? :eek:
 
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http://b2b.gigabyte.com/Server-Motherboard/MW51-HP0-rev-10
 

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I really like this board. I could use it for my next FreeNAS build.
 
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Sober yet modern looks, decent layout, PWM fan headers aplenty.......what the hell happened to you GIGABYTE!? :eek:

GIGABYTE used to know how to build decent boards IMO, the trend of shitty heatsinks that look like mechs and fan control from hell has been a recent one for them (and by that I mean, basically since UEFI became a thing. X58 and before was pretty decent).

Still, they are showing signs of a turn around. My most recent board has a pretty shitty consumer-style heatsink on the VRM section, but at least the VRM section is overkill to the point it hardly matters. I still would've avoided it had it not been part of a bundle, I'm afraid.
 
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