One company that has long been engineering motherboards for high core-count and high power consumption scenarios is Supermicro. This respected server vendor has also been manufacturing consumer motherboards since Intel’s Z87 generation (2013).

We’ve talked about it and teased you with it, and now we are finally delivering the VMware vSAN with Intel Optane Review. This will mark the third major review of vSAN starting with a multi-part review of a hybrid vSAN 6.0 followed up by an all-flash review of vSAN 6.2.

One company that has long been engineering motherboards for high core-count and high power consumption scenarios is Supermicro.
This respected server vendor has also been manufacturing consumer motherboards since Intel’s Z87 generation (2013).

Today we have another dual socket Intel Xeon Scalable workstation motherboard in the lab, this time the Supermicro X11DAC. For those professionals that need the power and RAM capacity of a dual socket platform, this is an excellent platform.

With the Intel Xeon E-2100 launch today, Supermicro announced a trio of motherboards for the new Intel C246 platform today in the X11SCA line. Each has a different set of features with the Supermicro X11SCA-W, adding wireless capabilities over the X11SCA.