Ever since Ryzens release I have been waiting for this. This product, as far as I know, the first AM4 socketed server grade motherboard that is going to be released. This would be great for budget minded homelabbers that don’t need a million Threadripper or Xeon cores. Someone like me for example. This would be an awesome budget VM host.
I cannot wait to get my hands on one.
Here are some of the biggest features:
X470 Chipset
ECC UDIMM DDR4 is supported (up to 64GB)
PCIe 3.0 x16 (splittable to x4/x4/x4/x4)
IMPI via Realtek RTL8211E chipset
ASPEED AST2500 with 256MB VRAM for basic display via VGA
What an interesting configuration… PCIe 2.0 x4 to the chipset for one of the M.2 slots. A little sad it doesn’t have 10GBe though, but at least it has the slots to support it, though it looks as though Slot5 takes the NVMe direct from CPU giving the board all 20 lanes to the PCIe slots.
I spoke with Michelle Wu with ASRockRack US Sales.
The mass production date of our X470D4U board is Mid-March, and the board will be delivered and officially available in the US on about the week of March 26.
Unit price is $210 (via US local distributors, Ma Labs or ASI, depends on which you prefer to work with)