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While home networking is moving slowly forward in the march towards 10GBase-T, having high speed access in the enterprise arena can be a specific requirement for a mission critical application.&nbsp; The most common way to add 10GbE capabilities are through add-in cards, or buying motherboards with them on board.&nbsp; The higher specification the motherboard (dual socket or more, many $$$$), the more likely this capability is to be added.&nbsp; For comparison, a PCIe card with 10GBase-T can cost $400+, so adding this to a motherboard requires that high end specification.&nbsp; GIGABYTE Server (a subdivision of GIGABYTE) emailed us today regarding the release of their GA-6PXSVT single socket LGA2011 motherboard that implements a single SFP+ 10GbE port on the rear panel.</p>
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By adding this feature to the motherboard itself, it means that users do not need that add in card and can implement other PCIe devices.&nbsp; The GA-6PXSVT is a fully equipped server LGA2011 motherboard with support for E5-1600 v2, E5-2600 v2 and 2nd/3rd Generation Core i7 processors.&nbsp; The 8 DIMM slots support ECC and non-ECC UDIMM/RDIMM, up to 1866 MHz with E5-2600 v2 processors.&nbsp; The single 10 GbE SFP+ Intel 82599EN port is coupled with two Intel 82574L Intel GbE Ethernet ports, along with an Aspeed AST2400 2D video adaptor.</p>
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The DIMM layout is designed for a server chassis such that airflow goes from right to left as the picture is displayed.&nbsp; The platform is designed for both compute and storage as well, with two SATA 6 Gbps + four SATA 3 Gbps from the C602 chipset paired with two Marvell 88SE9230 controllers, giving another eight SATA 6 Gbps ports.&nbsp; Due to these extra controllers and features, the PCIe layout supports dual x16 or x16/x8/x8 depending on how jumpers are applied on the motherboard.</p>
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The motherboard has four fan headers, a physical USB 2.0 port on board (for internal licence dongles), a TPM header, a USB 3.0 header, a USB 2.0 header, a backplane board header and various server related jumpers.&nbsp;</p>
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GIGABYTE Server motherboards are usually sourced by GIGABYTE&rsquo;s regional offices (and thus pricing and warranty is individual to the purchaser based on units), although recently they have been placed for public purchase at malabs.com. &nbsp;The GA-6PXSVT should be availble there in the next few weeks.</p>
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