Just wanted to highlight these ebay WC621D8A Asrock boards as a bit of a bargain if you're looking to build a budget Skylake/Cascade Lake Xeon Workstation. No skin in the game, just a happy customer...
I offered £100 GBP and seller accepted £140.
First board I've had which uses 4 CPU power connectors for a single CPU socket, I believe these boards will run the unlocked 3175X 28 core CPUs.
I'm Using with W-3235 Xeon & Noctua NH-U12S DX3647 air cooler. I have no need for 10Gb ethernet which is missing on these NL boards, just added cheap 2.5Gb PCIe LAN card and it's all good.
Interested to hear other's experiences with this board as to which other CPU options (ES, QS etc) will work with it.
I offered £100 GBP and seller accepted £140.
ASRock WC621D8A-NL Motherboard (WC621D8A-2T variant) "BRAND NEW/NEVER USED" | eBay
BIOS Features Plug and Play (PnP), ACPI 6.2 and above compliance wake up events, SMBIOS 2.8 and above, ASRock Rack Instant Flash. Form Factor CEB. M.2 slot 1 M-key (PCIe3.0 x4 or SATA 6Gb/s) [PCH]; support 22110/2280/2260/2242/2230 form factor.
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First board I've had which uses 4 CPU power connectors for a single CPU socket, I believe these boards will run the unlocked 3175X 28 core CPUs.
I'm Using with W-3235 Xeon & Noctua NH-U12S DX3647 air cooler. I have no need for 10Gb ethernet which is missing on these NL boards, just added cheap 2.5Gb PCIe LAN card and it's all good.
Interested to hear other's experiences with this board as to which other CPU options (ES, QS etc) will work with it.