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  • mischlep - Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - link

    "In what appears to either be a silent launch, GIGABYTE has launched a new workstation motherboard called the X299-WU8."

    What is the other choice than a silent launch?
  • Ian Cutress - Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - link

    A press release.
  • DanNeely - Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - link

    @Ian, that doesn't address mischlep's concern with the quoted text.

    "In what appears to either be a silent launch [or a press release]" doesn't make sense, since which one it is should be obvious: Did they put out a PR, or did someone find it in a product listing?

    "Either a silent launch, or a leak" could work if that's what was originally meant.
  • Ian Cutress - Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - link

    Ah that makes sense. My bad.
  • WithoutWeakness - Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - link

    I think it means they just added it to their website or put it up for sale without sending out press releases to tech media outlets. It's pretty standard for companies to send press releases containing specs and some marketing info to media outlets when they are launching new products to spread the word but in this case it looks like Gigabyte just put this up for sale without really announcing it at all. Possibly due to a retailer listing it for sale before they could send out press releases or maybe they just expect it to be a niche, low-volume product and if you need this sort of gear you will go looking for it rather than them needing to spend any time marketing it.
  • HawkFest - Monday, February 11, 2019 - link

    Agreed (limited volume), and I've discovered it since I was specifically looking for this type of motherboard. It's not made for "gaming" (like any other X299 for that matter)... lol
  • stanleyipkiss - Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - link

    That 6-pin power connector in the middle looks awful for cable management.
  • WithoutWeakness - Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - link

    You can probably run it pretty easily across the top of the PCIe slot and below the CPU heatsink and then under the memory slots on the right and straight over between the SATA ports and USB 3 headers. It might tuck nicely under the graphics card in the top PCIe slot assuming those heatpipes aren't in the way too much. Might be easier with individually sleeved wires or an extension with individually sleeved wires.
  • HawkFest - Monday, February 11, 2019 - link

    It's placed in the same area as on the ASUS Sage, or even the MSI Carbon for AMD TR4 socket (X399 boards), for feeding those numerous PCIe lanes. I guess they don't have much choice design-wise.
  • alpha754293 - Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - link

    Is Supermicro the only board manufacturer that has IPMI? (Come to think of it, I think that for this platform, not even their workstation boards have IPMI.)
  • tommo1982 - Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - link

    I'm curious. What is the purpose of all those add-ons on mainboards, except visual. I refer to the black, radiator like thing, with Gigabyte written on it.

    I was looking through the SP4 mainboards of the mentioned company and the server types are as plain as it can be. With a single radiator. I understand power section needs cooling due to the high current, but why all the fancy stuff everywhere else?
  • stux - Sunday, October 27, 2019 - link

    It’s not a server board if it doesn’t have IPMI. Looks like a pretty neat workstation board though.

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