Gigabyte launches mitx server motherboards with Intel Xeon D-socs

Gigabyte has announced four mitx motherboards featuring Intel Xeon D-1521 and D-1541 socs. All boards can handle DDR4 memory, the difference is in the number of cores and threads of the socs and in the available network connections.

Gigabyte’s new motherboards use the BGA-1667 socket, which houses the Intel Xeon D microserver sockets. Gigabyte uses two new socs that Intel announced in November 2015. On the MB10-DS1 and MB10-DS4 motherboard, Gigabyte uses the Intel Xeon D-1521 with 4 cores and 8 threads, with speed of 2.4GHz and turbo boost of 2.7GHz. The MB10-DS0 and MB10-DS3 variants are equipped with the Xeon D-1541, which has 8 cores and 16 threads with speed of 2.1GHz and turbo boost of 2.7GHz.

There are two gigabit Ethernet connections on the DS0 and DS1 versions of the server motherboards. The MB-DS3 and DS4 variants also have two 10-gigabit SFP+ connections for fiber optic. The four mitx motherboards have identical specifications except for the various socs and network connections. In the four memory slots, a maximum of 128GB ecc-ddr4 memory can be inserted, there are six sata600 ports and there is support for remote management via the IPMI 2.0 web interface and iKVM. Gigabyte has not yet disclosed recommended retail prices.