ASRockRack's first Epyc effort

[EffrafaxOfWug]

Saw once again that ASRock had updated their server page with the "2018 catalogue" PDF. Interestingly it contains an entry for what is I think their first AMD server platform board, dubbed the EPYCD8-2T. It's a 1P ATX board with 2x10GbE (or another option with 2x1GbE), 4xPCIe 3.0 16x, 8x SATA ports, 2x M2 ports.

Page 43:
http://www.asrockrack.com/general/Catalog2018.pdf

Of course, being ASRock it's another story if we actually see any of these in the retail channel but I thought other readers might find it interesting and gives me hope they might come out with an Epyc 3000 mITX before the heat death of the universe

 

[TomUK]

That board looks great - hopefully we will see them hit the channel in the next few months

 

[alex_stief]

I already asked them a few months ago if they had any plans for dual-socket Epyc boards. They confirmed, really looking forward to replacing my Supermicro board when that happens.

 

[Patrick]

I think I will be stopping by ASRR on Thursday. I know they had several EPYC boards in progress as of October 2017 when I was in Taipei last.

 

[nallar]

Hopefully they will make a ryzen or threadripper board with IPMI.

 

[diskdiddler]

gives me hope they might come out with an Epyc 3000 mITX before the heat death of the universe

I see I'm not the only one crying crying out loud for this!

Who do we need to email or tweet? I'm dying here.

 

[EffrafaxOfWug]

Who do we need to email or tweet?

Someone's who's good at lopping the heads off horses I think... or perhaps some pipe-hitting gentlemen with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch

 

[Patrick]

A few points. I saw this on the wall in the ASRR booth. I will get something up over the next few days.

On the EPYC 3000, not from ASRR, and not something for a general purpose server, but I did open a machine, tear off a heatsink in a Computex booth to find a system with a single die EPYC 3000. It is happening.

 

[diskdiddler]

It's a start.

ASRock and super micro are the only two companies who will likely offer the products I'm after.

 

[e97]

EPYCD8 looking really nice. Pinged ASRock Rack about availaibity and pricing.

 

[balnazzar]

I have the EPYCD8-2T with a 7282. I just built the system, but it seems solid (for now).

Bought it over Supermicro since I needed 4 16x slots and two m.2 sockets.

The docs are a bit wanting if I am to be honest though. There are tons of AMD specific settings in the BIOS, all of them undocumented or poorly documented. I had to leave everithing to default, but maybe there is lot of room for optimizing.

 

[IamSpartacus]

I have the EPYCD8-2T with a 7282. I just built the system, but it seems solid (for now).

Bought it over Supermicro since I needed 4 16x slots and two m.2 sockets.

The docs are a bit wanting if I am to be honest though. There are tons of AMD specific settings in the BIOS, all of them undocumented or poorly documented. I had to leave everithing to default, but maybe there is lot of room for optimizing.

Have you found a way to configure the RAM Speed in the BIOS? I can't find it anywhere.

 

[balnazzar]

Have you found a way to configure the RAM Speed in the BIOS? I can't find it anywhere.

Frankly I noticed that but I had the impression that server-grade motherboards just auto-configure the ram speed and latencies strictly following the SPD. I think that they prevent the user from tinkering with them *on purpose*. I may be wrong though: I am a total noob with server boards..

 

[IamSpartacus]

Frankly I noticed that but I had the impression that server-grade motherboards just auto-configure the ram speed and latencies strictly following the SPD. I think that they prevent the user from tinkering with them *on purpose*. I may be wrong though: I am a total noob with server boards..

Yea that's not the case. I had the SuperMicro H11SSL-NC board before this board and RAM speed was configurable in there.

 

[balnazzar]

Yea that's not the case. I had the SuperMicro H11SSL-NC board before this board and RAM speed was configurable in there.

You just demonstrated I have little or no knowledge of server-grade hardware. Maybe it could be worth to send a mail to Asrock Tech Support...

 

[IamSpartacus]

You just demonstrated I have little or no knowledge of server-grade hardware. Maybe it could be worth to send a mail to Asrock Tech Support...

Yup, already in the pipeline.

 

[balnazzar]

Yup, already in the pipeline.

You remind me of the shuttle pilot from the film Aliens (1986).. "We are in the pipe, five by five"