C216 Boards?

[OPP]

Any news or information on boards based on this chipset for 1200-series v2 Ivy Bridge based Xeon's....?

The Z77 WS board does not support (un)buffered ECC, from what I understand? and although my P8B-WS well 'eat' an IB Xeon fine?

I wonder if Asus will update the P8B WS or other manufactures will make any boards with this chipset? Super Micro? or so?

 

[Lashton]

ASUS P8C WS have c216 chipset, but I haven't found anything official yet, only info from reseller pages http://www.serversdirect.com/product.asp?pf_id=MB1378

 

[OPP]

Lashton, thank you a bunch, that's way more info than I've been able to gather anywhere (which is zip, apart from the fact that Intel is supposed to release the C216).

Now I at least have an idea of what to look out for



--> http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/...5&s=27&m=P8C WS&os=&hashedid=Oze6KWqkhhWyntWA

although no specs page yet

 

[Patrick]

Guys, hold tight.

http://www.supermicro.com/newsroom/pressreleases/2012/press120514_UP_IVB.cfm

http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/BIOS_Upgrade_Instruction_E3-1200_V2.pdf

 

[mobilenvidia]

More ASUS info over here http://event.asus.com/mb/p8c_ws/

 

[Patrick]

I don't have one of those yet :-( Will work on it.

 

[mobilenvidia]

They had better send one soon before I do a preview and get them all confused

 

[Patrick]

Go for it on that and anything coming out of Tyan/ Intel/ Gigabyte.

I'm flying busy right now.

 

[mobilenvidia]

ASUS P8CWS full specs

 

[OPP]

Thanks to everyone that supplied with information so far

My comments...

Supermicro (Until recently I was working at a scandinavian Supermicro solution builder and reseller company), I'm well aware of their offerings, and so far it's still the 'old' X9 lineup with BIOS updates. meaning it's still C20X based products.

Asus, glad to see Asus still caring for a middle ground workstation/small 1P server doing a follow up to the P8B (WS) series with P8C (WS) based on C216, but I'm sad to see them still only supplying 6 SATA ports..
I would have loved to see 8-10 ports without using an add-in controller.

So for me, next step will be to keep:
-my 'old' sandy bridge based Xeon 1240
-my P8B WS
-16GB (4x4) Kingston Unbuffered ECC


Issues I'm waiting out:
-eventually settle with a LSI/Highpoint(or the likes) controller for storage
-to see if Intel has TIM caused heat problems for Ivy Bridge Xeons as well ref-> http://www.tweaktown.com/news/24059...ndeed_caused_by_intel_s_tim_choice/index.html
-and eventually do 32GB (4x8) Kingston Unbuffered ECC

 

[john4200]

What improvements does the C216 offer over the C20X ?

 

[mobilenvidia]

What improvements does the C216 offer over the C20X ?

USB 3.0, thats about it.

 

[Patrick]

Issues I'm waiting out:
-eventually settle with a LSI/Highpoint(or the likes) controller for storage

Just as a thought, virtually every large OEM (Dell, IBM, HP, Fujitsu, Lenovo, Sun-Oracle and etc) use LSI controllers, nobody that I know of uses Highpoint. There might be something to that.