Since this forum has been immensely helpful to me in my journey to build my own NAS and virtualisation server , i have enjoyed reading the content here , there are really lots of intelligent people here , the kind of people that makes you feel like a complete noob when they speak even though you have spent your entire life in IT lol
Anyways i have been reading the X470D4u thread and this is kinda the only forum which had some quality discussion on such niche board like that.
Since ASROCK RACK has launched the next iteration of the board that is x570d4u , x570d4u - 2L2T i thought to create a thread for all the discussion on these boards.
i have been in talks with ASROCK RACK and they have been kind enough to provide me the preliminary manual and the block diagram which i am sharing here let the discussion begin
that’s a interesting point you have raised i was also thinking on the same line , if the slot was a physical x8 slot just like x470d4u you could put a capable NIC or HBA into it.
hello @nx2l can you please show me the m.2 to u.2 adapter that you mentioned , it might be useful to my use case also as i am also on the fence to whether to choose between the x470 or x570 version.
this is the preliminary manual for the reference as shared by the ASROCK representative it is a pdf file i have hosted on google drive , please tag or dm if you want me to share as screenshot or mail you directly.
Dual 10gig X550-AT2 hanging off a pcie 3.0 x4 … hmm, I guess most folks don’t really have a need for 10gigs up+ 10gigs down simultaneously, on each of the two ports (40 gbps total, whereas 4 lanes of 3.0 is 32gbps). Not good for a router but probably good enough for other uses that are unlikely to saturate this. this is fine, see below.
I’ve been using a PCIe 3.0 x4 X550-AT2 ethernet adapter, since PCIe 3.0 x4 offers 32 Gb/s bidirectionally you can operate a dual 10 Gb NIC without any bottleneck with it.
Wanted to maybe check out the X570D4U, don’t like that it only has two regular PCIe slots >= x4, if I counted correctly it should have been possible to get an additional x4 slot from the X570 chipset without sacrificing one of the M.2 slots
I overlooked that part ! … yes, in this case I like it for a router build definitely. (the kind of router that does a lot more than routing table in/out)