Hi all. I'm looking for motherboards compatible with the Xeon 3075. Per http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] eon-socket the EVGA 680i does this, and would be fine for my purposes, although I would prefer micro ATX. My requirements are only 8+ GB of RAM, compatibility with the Xeon obviously, onboard video, and preferably mATX.

I've tried searching NewEgg for boards with nVidia 6xx and mATX but they're only returning two boards with 4GB max RAM, both of them EVGA. Does anyone know other chipsets/motherboards that will support the Xeon 3075 besides the expensive boards with the Intel 3000 chipsets?

TIA!

Try Supermicro e.g.:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/matrix/

They have a lot of integration experience with Xeons.


Also, the keywords to use at Newegg.com are:

"micro ATX motherboard"

For example, searching Newegg.com for:

"micro ATX motherboard Xeon"

found 4 matches: 2 x ASUS and 2 x Supermicro e.g.:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813182120

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131135


I hope this helps.


Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell
Webmaster, Supreme Law Library
http://www.supremelaw.org/

Not exactly; those are all dead ends. My search on NewEgg was a power search, manually checking off the nvidia 610, 630, 680, etc. The text search you offered only pulls up 3000 chipset boards (the same ones I don't want, as indicated above). As for supermicro, that matrix is awesome but apparently all of their microatx boards are either 3000 chipsets or they're 946GZs which don't support that chip (being 1333mhz FSB).

But thanks!

Sorry about that! I just wanted to share my own experience
last week at Newegg.com: their search engine didn't locate
what I was looking for when I searched for "mATX"
but it did when I searched for "micro ATX".

If you do find some, would you kindly post your find here?
I'm very curious now.

FYI: tables like the one we found at Supermicro
are not always entirely up-to-date: I suggest you try
contacting Supermicro Sales or Tech Support directly,
for the very latest product data. It might be something
they will soon release.


Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell
Webmaster, Supreme Law Library
http://www.supremelaw.org/

FYI: I found these Xeon mobos with 1333 FSB at Intel's website:

http://www.intel.com/design/server [...] /index.htm

http://download.intel.com/design/s [...] 317899.pdf


Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell
Webmaster, Supreme Law Library
http://www.supremelaw.org/

Yep, that series of boards is based on the 3200 series chipsets - the same ones I'm trying to avoid due to cost, per my original post.

Oh, I didn't know that the 3000 and 3200 series chipsets
were the same. Thanks for clarifying (I'm not at all
experienced with server technology -- I'm learning fast
but only by reading about servers, not any hands-on
to date).

GOOD LUCK and ... thanks again for the quick reply!

I do appreciate the education I'm getting from
helpful professionals like you.


Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell
Webmaster, Supreme Law Library
http://www.supremelaw.org/

Honestly I'm more of an amateur. But I did find this:

http://www.buy.com/retail/product. [...] caid=15890

It's only a minor furtherance of my goal, but apparently the G33 chipset is capable of supporting these 3000 Xeons as I had hoped. I have a real bias against non-Intel chipsets with an Intel chip. It's not mATX but it meets the other requirements as best I can tell. It's also mildly cheaper than the 3000 series chipset boards. Unfortunately Supermicro's site doesn't say it supports Xeons, but i've seen this on a couple of different vendors sites so hopefully it's not a misprint.

I'll continue my quest of googling until someone who actually owns one of these chimes in. Surely my goals aren't unreasonable. Thanks again.

> Unfortunately Supermicro's site doesn't say it supports Xeons, but i've seen this on a couple of different vendors sites so hopefully it's not a misprint.


Is there any reason why you don't want to contact Supermicro
and put that question to them directly?


Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell
Webmaster, Supreme Law Library
http://www.supremelaw.org/

You're right: the C2SBA+ specs at Supermicro's website
do NOT mention the Xeon:

http://www.supermicro.com/products [...] C2SBA+.cfm


Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell
Webmaster, Supreme Law Library
http://www.supremelaw.org/

Tyan had a few Xeon LGA771 products to announce
at the recent SC07 conference in Reno:

http://www.tyan.com/

I didn't see a micro ATX solution at that website, however.


Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell
Webmaster, Supreme Law Library
http://www.supremelaw.org/