GIGABYTE Intros MZ30-AR0 Motherboard for AMD EPYC

[btarunr]

GIGABYTE introduced the MZ30-AR0 motherboard for single-socket AMD EPYC processor-powered servers and workstations. The motherboard is built in the E-ATX form-factor, and features a single SP3r2 socket, for AMD EPYC 7000-series processors. Given that EPYC is a full-fledged SoC, the board has no chipset. An ASpeed AST2500 remote-management chip puts out basic display and IPMI features. The board draws power from two 8-pin EPS connectors, besides the 24-pin ATX. The CPU socket is flanked by 16 DDR4 DIMM slots, which support up to 512 GB of octa-channel DDR4 memory.

Expansion slots include four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 with full-time x16 wiring, one x16 with x8 wiring, and two x8 slots. Storage connectivity includes four slimSAS 12 Gb/s ports, which put out sixteen SATA 6 Gb/s ports, and a 32 Gb/s M.2 slot. Networking is care of two 10 GbE ports driven by a Broadcom BCM57810S processor, and a single GbE port. There's no onboard audio or even USB 3.1 ports.



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[chaosmassive]

 

[HopelesslyFaithful]

wow...and 2 10GbE built in? This is one nice board. What does it cost

 

[pcexpert]

wow probably 500$+ motherboard and they did not included the CMOS battery WTF???

 

[Frick]

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I'll save that reaction to the dual socket version.

 

[Lionheart]

I'll save that reaction to the dual socket version.

Was thinking the same thing, although still a nice board

 

[Exceededgoku]

Was thinking the same thing, although still a nice board

Really looking forward to this, I was scouring the web trying to buy one to test!

Where are you AMD, stop teasing with soft launches!

 

[efikkan]

It's a nice no BS motherboard.

There is something beautiful with that many RAM slots…

 

[jabbadap]

wow probably 500$+ motherboard and they did not included the CMOS battery WTF???

Don't be silly, of course it will have cmos battery and probably vrm heatsinks too

Pics are just for marketing to show layout, thus I would have wanted to see closer look on that I/O.

EDIT: Ahh there was I/O pic on Gigabyte product site:

Spoiler: pic

 

[Duality92]

Where's the RGb header?

(jk, don't kill me)

 

[nemesis.ie]

It's in the same place as the CMOS battery.

 

[qwerty_lesh]

the 2x 10G MiniGBIC ports are very interesting, I wonder what transmitter compatibility'll be like.

 

[ypsylon]

Yeah nice IT pr0n, but let's be honest everybody is faping for TR.

 

[noti5see]

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This cat is overfed??

 

[noti5see]

No USB 3.1 ports, no audio features ? No, not buying it.