ASRock C621A WS Workstation Board

ASRock has announced the Intel C621A workstation motherboard C621A WS. The ATX board supports the 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors in the Intel Socket 4189 (Socket P +) design – in other words, included in the Intel Xeon W-3300 series introduced today.

The board is equipped with eight DDR4 DIMM slots. They can accommodate modules up to DDR4-3200 RDIMM, RDIMM-3DS, LRDIMM, LRDIMM-3DS or IntelOptane Persistent Memory 200. The maximum memory capacity depends on the modules used. RDIMMs can dial 64 GB, LRDIMMs – 128 GB, RDIMM-3DS or LRDIMM-3DS – 256 GB.

The board has four PCIe Gen4 x16 slots and three PCIe Gen4 x8 slots. Three PCIe Gen4 x16 slots are paired with PCIe Gen4 x8 slots, so when a card is inserted into a PCIe Gen4 x8 slot, the associated PCIe Gen4 x16 slot switches to PCIe Gen4 x8 mode.

The storage subsystem can be configured using three two SATA 6Gb / s ports, one mini-SAS HD connector, and two M.2 slots. One of the M.2 slots has SATA 6 Gb / s and PCIe Gen3 x4 interfaces, and the other – SATA 6 Gb / s and PCIe Gen3 x1. Both slots are compatible with Intel Optane SSDs and support booting from NVMe SSDs.

The board is equipped with two 1 GbE ports and two 10 GbE ports. Another network port is dedicated to the needs of IPMI. It is provided by an ASPEED AST2500 controller, to which a D-Sub video output is also connected, supporting resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 pixels at a refresh rate of 60 Hz.

The equipment includes connectors for SPI TPM and LPC TPM, a COM port, two USB3.2 Gen2 Type-C ports and six USB3.2 Gen1 ports.