Asus announces E3 Pro Gaming V5 Intel Xeon motherboard

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Might be an interesting option...

http://www.fudzilla.com/news/mother...unces-e3-pro-gaming-v5-intel-xeon-motherboard

As it is based on Intel's C232 Express chipset, the new Asus E3 Pro Gaming V5 motherboard supports Intel's Xeon E3-1200 v5 CPUs as well as standard 6th generation Core Skylake LGA 1151 CPUs. According to Asus, the new ATX motherboard brings server class CPU support to gamers.

Asus also claims that Intel's C232 Express chipset provides better price/performance for gamers as well as a choice between Intel's server-grade Xeon E3-1200 v5 line of CPUs or the standard consumer Skylake CPU and packs it in a motherboard with gaming oriented features.

When it comes to specifications, the new Asus E3 Pro Gaming V5 motherboard supports up to 64GB of DDR4-2133 memory in dual-channel, has two PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots (x16/x4), two PCI-Express 3.0 x1 slot and two standard PCI slots, single M.2 slot, six SATA 6Gbps ports, single USB 3.1 Type-C port and plenty of USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports. It also features Gigabit LAN from Intel I219LM controller and ASUS SupremeFX 7.1-channel audio.
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Burpo

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Good news.. I like it.. However does not support ECC memory..
 
moonbogg

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So is this like Skylake-E way ahead of time? You can buy a skylake xeon, is that what's going on here?

Nevermind. Those are all quads. BORING!
 
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Considering the ridiculous price gouging on the Ci7 6700K, a Xeon E3 1230V5 overclocked via Base Clock looks like an interesing alternative. It depends on the price and features of the Motherboard compared to standard consumer ones.

Keep in mind that it uses C232 Chipset. You can NOT use the Processor IGP with it, so a E3 1245V5 doesn't make sense there. Seems than the choice was intentional since if you overclock via Base Clock the IGP goes nuts. Which is also the reason why I wouldn't purchase it, considering the amazing possibilities of GPU virtualization via XenGT/KVMGT/Intel iGVT-g
 
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Magic Carpet said:
See one delidded?
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I doubt you will see one, since Xeons usually don't fall on the hands of enthusiasts and until now, you couldn't really overclock them, so it made little sense to delid one. But no reason why they should use solder, E3 are the the same as standard consumer Core i5/i7 Skylakes. They just have a better name.



10 U$D for 50% of the Skylake die is a no brainer, seriously. Intel usually values 20 U$D their IGPs, which are a bargain considering how useful it actually is.
The "Gamers uses discrete Video Cards, Intel should sell gamers Core i7s with no IGPs" are merely haters. As soon as you put QuickSync to use to do encoding on-the-fly for either gameplay recording or streaming, that argument becomes totally invalid. Sad that it doesn't apply here if you're going for a C232 Motherboard as you can't use it, or for the Base Clock overclock hack, since it breaks the IGP.
 
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Yeah, it's nice to have for QuickSync, and all it would require is an overclock profile saved, and a reboot to stock..
 
LTC8K6

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Burpo said:
Yeah, it's nice to have for QuickSync, and all it would require is an overclock profile saved, and a reboot to stock..
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Yep, no problem for a gamer who overclocks.

Also, the mobo mfgs may improve the bclk bios in the future to cure the problems with it.
 
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zir_blazer said:
no reason why they should use solder
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Certainly, you make a lot of sense. But then I see something like that:

Samus said:
sorry to revive an old thread but I have a Xeon 1230 v3 (Non-refresh Haswell) and I'm fairly confident it is soldered, because I can't get the lid off and I've delidded a dozen Ivy and Haswell chips using the same "vice" method with a 2x4 as the hammer wedge directly after removing the chip from a burn (so the die is hot)

Since the lid doesn't come off without literally breaking the chip, possibly removing the die from the LGA, it can only be joined by solder.

Another dead giveaway the Xeon's are soldered is the lower idle and slower "build-up" temps. Where say, an i7-4770K, spikes to 60-70C pretty quickly, a Xeon 1230v3 spikes to 50C and hovers in the 50's for awhile before getting into the 60's, more in line with the i7-4790K with its improved (but still not soldered) interface material.
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Guess who I am likely to believe?
 
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Anyone seen a release date for this board, or the ASRock competitor? I'm looking to do a Skylake build in the next month or two, and the Xeon option is very enticing.
 
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I don't get it. I thought we were in an age in which the GPU was more important in gaming than the CPU.
 
LTC8K6

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BarkingGhostar said:
I don't get it. I thought we were in an age in which the GPU was more important in gaming than the CPU.
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Skylake Xeons without an igp can sometimes save you money over having to pay for an igp you don't want/need.

The real question is whether a non server board will accept a Skylake Xeon chip.

Since the server board accepts all of the chips, it may be that a non server board will accept a Xeon.

I don't think I have read of any definitive test of putting a Xeon in a 170 board, for example.
 
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