Smallest Motherboard

[hackalive]

Hi guys,

I am after the smallest possible motherboard which will take a Xeon E5.

Does not need on board graphics - but needs at least one (pref 2) PCI-E x16.

Also gigabit (or two) NICs.

Cheers in advance

 

[Feronix]

http://www.msi.com/product/mb/X79MA-GD45.html#/?div=CPUSupport

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/X79 Extreme4-M/?cat=CPU

 

[Goldskis45]

If you are looking for a specific motherboard we would need to know the socket.
E5 would be 2011 or 1356

Anything that is the same socket will run the Xeon it just won't be officially supported.

There are ZERO mini-ITX boards that are 2011 (I'm assuming that's the socket you want)
So you will be stuck with a micro-ATX of which there are few choices.

BUT if you wanted to make a project out of it, you can take the motherboard out of this and then you will have the smallest 2011 motherboard there is.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...arebone+Systems-_-Shuttle+Computer-_-56101128

 

[benitto]

I agree asrock could be an option anyway biostar is also kicking out very well to the market they have a lot to offer then =) they focus for Audio quality specially for gamers..

 

[johnnyme]

Thats a tough task. If it should be small you should not use a server CPU like that Nano-ITX would be your choice but i know -- wrong processor ^_^