World's First Mini-ITX X99--ASRock's X99E-ITX/ac

@Jon: Yeah, agreed on the SO-DIMMs, though I wonder what's the real performance difference between those boards. If it's significant, I'd be puzzled which one should I get :/
X99E is still the choice if you want to max out RAM due to those 32GB Samsung modules, also EPC612D4I is a server board, I wouldn't expect much OC from it (but I guess 16 core Xeons don't need OC They do need the quad channel though)

Still - wow, not only do we get a 2011 board, we also got choice!

I just wish those SO-DIMMS were in flat connectors... RAMS take up the most vertical space on those boards.

@Illegalseagull: Yep, all socket pins - but it's not that uncommon for the smaller form factors. If you look around, there are boards much smaller than the ITX for the quad-core mobile processors with TDP up to 75W, with 16+ PCI-E lanes, 16GB Ram, and they literally fit on your hand. There are some companies making such jewels for embedded systems.
But there was a huge niche since no one delivered such boards for the top of the line processors - until now!
AFAIR, the power/volume ratio of these boards is the best available on the market!

Edit: I didn't realize they had the 4 so-dimms on the other board...things move quick around here!

I do like the fact that ASRock is offering the 2011-3 socket in both memory configurations.

I would go the route pictured above, with the 2 standard dinm slots. I can't picture a better board for cramming big processing power into a small case.

Edited by Illegalseagull - 28 May 2015 at 4:27am

I was waiting for this for so long...

I was regularly searching for 2011 ITX mobos since early 2012.
I bought my ASRock Z77E-ITX to get ready for what I then thought inevitable, but as years passed, I began losing hope. ASUS said they won't build a 2011 ITX. EVGA said they won't build a 2011 ITX. And fans asked, and prayed...

And then a few weeks ago I accidentally hit some French OC blog that posted news of this board, I couldn't believe the news! And DDR4's, finally 32 GB RAM in an ITX! And soon followed the news of a server-dedicated board that houses four SO-DIMMs. And then Samsung released 32GB DDR4 DIMMs...

ASRock, I'm grateful for this one beyond words. With this board you got yourself a loyalist :P


This is gonna be my next build, I swear.


Does it have any spare mini-pci-e ports on the board like the other ITX builds used to have?



edit:
Forgot about the dual ethernet slots... it means you can push a lot of data to and from the board, which makes it a perfect render node! They can be also daisy-chained if bandwidth is not a priority. Really awesome.


edit2:
For completeness, this is the server version with 4 SO-DIMMs:
http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=EPC612D4I#Specifications


Edited by sinusoid - 28 May 2015 at 1:54am

What is the likelihood of ASRock pushing a BIOS update supporting (the currently sampling) 32GB ECC RDIMMs in the future? This would allow for a 64GB MAX RAM that would be mindblowing in an ITX form factor.

Edited by Sqrfrk - 24 Apr 2015 at 8:32am