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  • Konstantin2233 - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    What i want to know- is when E5 Skylake CPUs/mobos are going to launch.
  • extide - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    I dont think even Broadwell E5 has launched yet has it? It will probably be Q1 or Q2 of next year at least.
  • Casper42 - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    Broadwell E5 is April 2016
    Skylake E5 is likely a year after that. (2017)
    And then don't forget that we now get Cabylake which is closer to a Skylake Refresh than a Tick. (2018?)
    And then finally comes Canonlake which will be 10nm (2019?)
  • vred - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    Sometime in 2017 IIRC.
  • ZeDestructor - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    If you mean the forthcoming Broadwell-EP (E5 v4), then the current LGA2011-3 boards should do nicely, probably after a UEFI update.

    If you mean Skylake-EP (E5 v5), that's a while out yet.
  • SuperSpy00bob - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    That Mini-ITX looks like a tasty FreeNAS board.

    I wonder what powers it's extra SATA ports. Or, does the C236c chipset support 8 natively?
  • Vepsa - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    C236c chipset supports 8 SATA natively.
  • ZeDestructor - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    Ark says 8 supported on the chipset, and I see no extra controller either.
  • Sublate - Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - link

    I can't see how that would translate into any kind of noticeable performance gains, I'm assuming it will consume less power though?
  • ZeDestructor - Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - link

    Many cheap non-Intel/LSI/PMCS/Adaptec controllers reportedly have issues working reliably (I can't confirm or deny, having only used Intel SATA and LSI SAS controllers so far), so many people (myself included) insist on Intel or better SATA controllers.

    less power use is a nice bonus too...
  • BobSwi - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    On the ITX board, naybe that's a spot for a SAS controller.
  • extide - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    That's possible, because it looks like there is a spot for the header in the middle of those SATA ports.
  • ZeDestructor - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    That looks like an M.2 header, not an SFF-8087 header pad (two holes to mount the M.2 header, plus third screwhole further down)
  • ZeDestructor - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    The M2_1 label is also a bit of a dead giveaway for what is supposed to go there :P
  • ZeDestructor - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    I don't think so, since there's no room to put in more SAS/SATA ports.

    I'd say BMC/IPMI, but no pads for memory and somewhat far from the ethernet ports. Of course, memory chips could be on the back, so there's that.
  • ZeDestructor - Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - link

    Some staring later, and it definitely looks like a pad for a BMC, from the BMC_D151 (I think that's what it says) label, right under the PCIe port to the right of the sticker - it's fairly common to move labels around like that if there's components in the way. The real trick is matching the bits...
  • legolasyiu - Thursday, November 19, 2015 - link

    ASUS P10S-V/4L has more PCI slots and LAN ports and even supports M.2

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