Intel Xeon 1260L Lower Power CPU & S1200KP mITX Server Board Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I have a rather interesting Hardware combination this is an Intel
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server board okay and this particular one is the s1200 KP and then I also have
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a matching Intel xon processor so this is an E3
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1260l so that's a 2.4 GHz zeeon chip and
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what this is meant for is low
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power low heat output applications where
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you need server reliability so it's no secret that Intel makes motherboards I
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mean it's not something that I've really done too much of on my particular
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Channel but they do make motherboards it's also no secret that Intel makes
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some of the most reliable motherboards out there so if you were going to build
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something like a very small form factor uh server machine whether it's for home
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use or SMB use you're going to throw it in a closet somewhere and basically
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forget about it I don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to use a configuration
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like this another possible application based on the motherboard itself which
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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
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or a storage server if you don't want to use a pre-boxed solution you want to use
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a custom software or something like that you could use a product like this so in
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terms of included accessories there's not a whole lot there's an IO Shield
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there are two SATA cables although I got
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to say they feel pretty darn high quality for uh included SATA cables nice
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we've got a little diagram of all the stuff on the board which you don't need
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because I'm about to tell you all the stuff on the board uh we've got Intel
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enabled acceleration server acceleration
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Alliance okay sure we've got the Intel
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server board quick reference which shows you how to install your stuff on the
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thing and finally we have a driver disc which you shouldn't use you should
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download the latest off the Intel website so now let's have a look at the board
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itself LGA 1155 socket so you're going
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to want to use a Zeon on this particular board um which is not really that
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different from a desktop uh Core I5 or core i7 processor other than the
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additional validation that a Zeon chip goes through so when you buy server
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grade components you are paying for reliability so that's what it brings to
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the table so you've got your Zeon socket here you've got a PCI e6x slot here
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which means you can use this for almost any number of things because that 16x
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slot gives you the potential to put a raid card in here it gives you the
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potential to put a very Advanced network card in here or whatever else that you
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would want to do in terms of included
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RAM support we've got dual DDR3 dim
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slots so those are supporting dual Channel memory and you can put up to 16
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gigs in here so that's not bad considering the ITX form factor we've
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got a 24 pin power as well as four pin power for the CPU directly you can see
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the CPU vrm circuitry is right here as well as the CPU fan header and an oh
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sorry CPU fan header and an additional fan header we've also got um sorry we've
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got four SATA ports so two of them are SATA 36 gbit per second and two of them
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are s to 3 gbit per second we've got front USB right here so that's USB 2 and
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then we've got our front panel connectors over here so everything's all
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laid out in a pretty straightforward fashion I would definitely recommend
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using an air cooling Solution on this board that has a down-draft cooler so
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that you make sure you're cooling these vrm components you can see what Intel's
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done is they've actually stood these components on up with metal sinks on
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them in order to make sure that they get adequate cooling as opposed to laying
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them down directly on top of the motherboard so that has allowed them as
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long as you have decent air flow around them to adequately cool the vrm without
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installing an additional heat sink on it so here we've got the chipset uh heat
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sink and then on the back we see the I/O this is a server board so it's pretty
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basic we've got four usb2 ports 2 GB Ethernet ports and one DVI port remember
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this chip does have Onboard video HD 2000 Graphics so you're not going to
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need uh well yeah that's pretty much it so
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that'll power the DVI port so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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Intel s1200 KP Server Motherboard the
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ITX Server Motherboard and I'll actually be looking at using this in an upcoming
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NC Tech tips we're going to have a look at Windows Home Server with a fractal
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design Define sorry not Define array case so that supports up to six hard
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drives which means we're going to need a storage controller to go with it and we'll be using the Zeon E31
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1260l in addition to that in order to power it don't forget to subscribe for
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