today I have a rather interesting Hardware combination this is an Intel
server board okay and this particular one is the s1200 KP and then I also have
a matching Intel xon processor so this is an E3
1260l so that's a 2.4 GHz zeeon chip and
what this is meant for is low
power low heat output applications where
you need server reliability so it's no secret that Intel makes motherboards I
mean it's not something that I've really done too much of on my particular
Channel but they do make motherboards it's also no secret that Intel makes
some of the most reliable motherboards out there so if you were going to build
something like a very small form factor uh server machine whether it's for home
use or SMB use you're going to throw it in a closet somewhere and basically
forget about it I don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to use a configuration
like this another possible application based on the motherboard itself which
I'll actually here I'll get into that in a minute let's look at the accessories would be something like a uh like a Nas
or a storage server if you don't want to use a pre-boxed solution you want to use
a custom software or something like that you could use a product like this so in
terms of included accessories there's not a whole lot there's an IO Shield
there are two SATA cables although I got
to say they feel pretty darn high quality for uh included SATA cables nice
we've got a little diagram of all the stuff on the board which you don't need
because I'm about to tell you all the stuff on the board uh we've got Intel
enabled acceleration server acceleration
Alliance okay sure we've got the Intel
server board quick reference which shows you how to install your stuff on the
thing and finally we have a driver disc which you shouldn't use you should
download the latest off the Intel website so now let's have a look at the board
itself LGA 1155 socket so you're going
to want to use a Zeon on this particular board um which is not really that
different from a desktop uh Core I5 or core i7 processor other than the
additional validation that a Zeon chip goes through so when you buy server
grade components you are paying for reliability so that's what it brings to
the table so you've got your Zeon socket here you've got a PCI e6x slot here
which means you can use this for almost any number of things because that 16x
slot gives you the potential to put a raid card in here it gives you the
potential to put a very Advanced network card in here or whatever else that you
would want to do in terms of included
RAM support we've got dual DDR3 dim
slots so those are supporting dual Channel memory and you can put up to 16
gigs in here so that's not bad considering the ITX form factor we've
got a 24 pin power as well as four pin power for the CPU directly you can see
the CPU vrm circuitry is right here as well as the CPU fan header and an oh
sorry CPU fan header and an additional fan header we've also got um sorry we've
got four SATA ports so two of them are SATA 36 gbit per second and two of them
are s to 3 gbit per second we've got front USB right here so that's USB 2 and
then we've got our front panel connectors over here so everything's all
laid out in a pretty straightforward fashion I would definitely recommend
using an air cooling Solution on this board that has a down-draft cooler so
that you make sure you're cooling these vrm components you can see what Intel's
done is they've actually stood these components on up with metal sinks on
them in order to make sure that they get adequate cooling as opposed to laying
them down directly on top of the motherboard so that has allowed them as
long as you have decent air flow around them to adequately cool the vrm without
installing an additional heat sink on it so here we've got the chipset uh heat
sink and then on the back we see the I/O this is a server board so it's pretty
basic we've got four usb2 ports 2 GB Ethernet ports and one DVI port remember
this chip does have Onboard video HD 2000 Graphics so you're not going to
need uh well yeah that's pretty much it so
that'll power the DVI port so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
Intel s1200 KP Server Motherboard the
ITX Server Motherboard and I'll actually be looking at using this in an upcoming
NC Tech tips we're going to have a look at Windows Home Server with a fractal
design Define sorry not Define array case so that supports up to six hard
drives which means we're going to need a storage controller to go with it and we'll be using the Zeon E31
1260l in addition to that in order to power it don't forget to subscribe for
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