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  • nightbringer57 - Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - link

    About the VGA port...

    The spec mentions a "front VGA port" and actually according to this diagram ( http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx... ) the board has a VGA header onboard. So no connector onboard but I guess with a simple adapter fixed on one of the case's PCI slots can provide this VGA connector, no need for a discrete GPU. No idea why they did it, though.
  • PaulJeff - Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - link

    The front VGA port/header on the motherboard is for rack server chassis that have the front VGA port. These ports along with a pair of USB ports are for hooking up crash carts. This far easier and faster than having to goof around with cabling on the back of the rack.
  • nightbringer57 - Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - link

    Okay.

    But in this scenario, a back VGA port would not be used? So having a single VGA header, either connected to a VGA port on the back, or connected to the chassis, would cover all scenarios?
  • ERJ - Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - link

    Since it is an analog output I wonder if you could use the one header and split to both a rear and front output?
  • jhh - Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - link

    I wonder if the IPMI management controller can be flashed with the Facebook OpenBMC code. It's a compatible chip supported by OpenBMC.
  • HideOut - Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - link

    Just wish they'd include 1150 audio. in a board of this class it would barely change the cost. I realize that most true servers wont make use of it, but home/studio types would. Ah well.
  • nightbringer57 - Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - link

    Wouldn't home studios simply have dedicated hardware for that? (either pci-express or external)
  • vred - Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - link

    Has Well? :D
  • Eidigean - Thursday, May 21, 2015 - link

    What a terrible use of PCIe lanes. According to the block diagram, 16 lanes are unused, and they instead only allow x16/x0 or x8/x8 in 4 slots using switches. There are 80 lanes available. With the SAS controller using 8, that leaves 72 lanes available for a x16/x8/x16/x8/x16/x8 setup without switches.
  • SunLord - Thursday, May 21, 2015 - link

    I think that has more to do with running everything with only 1 CPU it's also possible they didn't see a need to work in 8 more pcie lane traces for what is likely a very limited use scenario. I can't think of all that many Pci Express X16 cards that aren't GPU based which would block the last 8x port anyways
  • SuperVeloce - Thursday, May 28, 2015 - link

    ATI crossfire lol. What year is it...

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