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Re:Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5 by wmf on Sunday May 22, 2022 @07:43PM (#31473941)
There's some kind of market segmentation at play where nobody will make a high-quality board with a low-end "chipset" even though it would be perfect for many customers.
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Re:Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5 by walterbell on Monday May 23, 2022 @12:59AM (#31475465)
The segmentation goes the other way too. At one point, there were no Ryzen boards that could be rack-mounted for enterprise use.
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Re:Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5 by JonChesterfield on Monday May 23, 2022 @01:34AM (#31475627)
Memory slot direction doesn't seem that important. At least, I've got a desktop board in a rack that seems happy enough. Or is there something other than memory direction that puts you off, ipmi perhaps?
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Re:Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5 by walterbell on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:04AM (#31475767)
Yes, ASRock X470 was the first Ryzen board with BMC/ipmi.
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Re:Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5 by formerly_proven on Monday May 23, 2022 @01:44AM (#31475667)
If you put it in a 1U case I would be very surprised if it didn't matter - I'm doing that with a very low power platform and the clearance between the memory and the case only leaves a 2-3 mm gap, which I doubt would permit sufficient airflow for a normal passive CPU heatsink with a normal CPU power.
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Re:Details on AMD's Quirky Chipset Solutions for AM5 by JonChesterfield on Sunday June 05, 2022 @07:44AM (#31630073)
That's definitely true, 1U is mostly filled by memory height. My boxes all have GPUs in so I don't get to go that short.
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