ASRock Rack W680D4U-2L2T/G5 Motherboard Review An Intel Core Server Platform

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zir_blazer

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I'm here to rant about how I despise than Intel didn't bothered to update the W680 Chipset to 7xx generation silicon so that we could get the extra 8 PCIe 4.0 lanes (Upgraded from 3.0) of Z790 along with ECC.
Rather interesing to see on the Block Diagram than it doesn't has a M.2 PCIe Slot coming from the Processor as is usual but instead uses it for either a PCIe Slot or OCuLink. Would have done so, but with Chipset lanes.
Also, the Aspeed AST2600 BMC supports Displayport. At which point they say bye to the VGA Port? I would suppose than it could add a bit of confusion if you had 2xDP, one for the CPU IGP and other for the BMC IGP. I don't recall seeing any board with that arrangement.

Finally, take note than AsRock Rack is STILL using the ancient Intel i210 NICs instead of the i225-V ones, but embraced the X710. I wonder if that chip can redeem Intel current reputation. Sadly, it is too expensive for mainstream consumer boards...
 
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I have this board with i7-14700 and Kingston ECC memory.
The board works fine. It does lack PCIe slots but I guess thats expected as it has 2 x onboard 10GbaseT.

The main issue that I have today is Fan Speed control via IPMI/BIOS.

I have 5 Noctua PWM fans (NF-A8 and NF-A6x25)
No matter how set Duty / Temps in Open Loop Control Table or try 20% Duty in Manual Speed Config, RPM of all 5 fans never drops below 2200 RPM. Sensor Inventory page sometimes shows a different reading for 1 fan, but ipmitool always shows 2200 RPM as bare min.
RPM does go up, so curves or manual settings do get applied, but the minimum always 2200 RPM.
(those Noctua fans supposed to go down to ~550 RPM at 20% duty)

By the looks of it I'm not the only one, someone posted similar experience on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/ASRock/comments/1dypjo1/_/lcwv3qv
 
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