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    Intel intros Rocket Lake Xeon E-2300 server CPUs

    First update to Xeon E-2X00 range since Q2 2019 adds PCIe 4.0, support for DDR4-3200.
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    Re: Intel intros Rocket Lake Xeon E-2300 server CPUs

    Base level one of these in a new HP Microserver would be nice..

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    Re: Intel intros Rocket Lake Xeon E-2300 server CPUs

    It always annoys me that the Xeon E line is referred to as server processors. They're just as much used for entry-level workstations, if not more. They're basically Core i processors with a few features less fused off.

    Before I upgraded to a Ryzen processor I might've been all over these. Luckily, AMD doesn't artifically segment their processors quite as much as Intel.

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    Re: Intel intros Rocket Lake Xeon E-2300 server CPUs

    Yeah I moved to AMD when I dropped from mATX to iTX for my home server, from an i7-3770s to a Ryzen 3400G, x570 will give me a better upgrade path as well..

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    Re: Intel intros Rocket Lake Xeon E-2300 server CPUs

    I was initially interested but these CPUs have only 20 user-accessible PCIe v4 lanes when 32 are needed - 16 for GPU, 8 for second card, and 2x 4 for two NVME drives for 32 in total.

    The low total RAM capacity is troubling.

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    Re: Intel intros Rocket Lake Xeon E-2300 server CPUs

    Amount of lanes seem low on both sides of the fence though, also in most consumer platforms, unless you really spit in.

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    Re: Intel intros Rocket Lake Xeon E-2300 server CPUs

    Quote Originally Posted by Quartz View Post
    I was initially interested but these CPUs have only 20 user-accessible PCIe v4 lanes when 32 are needed - 16 for GPU, 8 for second card, and 2x 4 for two NVME drives for 32 in total.

    The low total RAM capacity is troubling.
    I'm sure they will turn up, but beyond graphics cards I haven't seen any PCIe4 cards around. My work machine has a dual 25GbE card (x8) and an SDI video interface (x4) but despite being expensive bandwidth monsters they are only PCIe gen 3 and gen 2

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