ASUS WS C621E SAGE Motherboard The Search of Incredible is Over

[William Harmon]

Our ASUS WS C621E SAGE motherboard review. We show why this dual Intel Xeon Scalable (LGA3647) platform with PCIe slots, U.2 NVMe ports and up to 768GB of ECC RAM is a great workstation platform. We also show how it has iKVM features that make it useful as a server for AI and deep learning applications

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[TLN]

I've also read that it doesn't support XEON ES CPU's. If that's true I'd look elsewhere.

 

[System48]

They had me until 1GbE, Supermicro has a $100 price difference from the C621 to C622 boards. Given the total build cost for this kind of workstation, I'd rather pay the extra money than have an AIC.

 

[William]

I would prefer 10G also.

But... not one workstation board that I have reviewed so far, either single or dual processor comes with 10G, except for the X99-E-10G.
https://www.servethehome.com/category/workstations/workstation-motherboards/

 

[AdrianB]

I would prefer 10G also.

But... not one workstation board that I have reviewed so far, either single or dual processor comes with 10G, except for the X99-E-10G.
https://www.servethehome.com/category/workstations/workstation-motherboards/

Supermicro X11SRA, which I use with a Xeon W, has one 5G Ethernet and one 1G Ethernet.

5G is less useful than 10G, mostly because you must pair it with a less common compatible interface at the other end of the cable. Nonetheless, if you can use it, that is a large improvement over 1G.

 

[William]

Ok that's strange, about the only board I have seen that has 5G.

 

[Evan]

Ok that's strange, about the only board I have seen that has 5G.

And it’s a premium board expected to take expensive cpu, the 10g version of the same chip should be only a few $ more.
Would be fine if there was more multi gig switches about but don’t see that many.... yet...

 

[TLN]

Agree. Strange is that super-expensive mobos don't have all whistles integrated: 10G, SAS controller, etc. It's a cool board with 6x PCIE 16x slots, but then I add 10G card and RAID controller and can only put two videocards =(