A new ASUS P9D-I Mini ITX workstation motherboard has been seen in Japanese stores. It’s probably one of the first workstation motherboard which comes in a Mini-ITX form factor for the new Haswell microarchitecture Xeon processors, including the Xeon E3-1200 V3 series. This motherboard uses the C222 PCH chipset which is currently in a revised C2 stepping.
P9D-I uses C222 PCH, which has a USB bug that needs to be solved by Intel. Therefore, Intel has released C2 stepping to state that this motherboard is free from the USB bug and motherboard manufacturers are allowed to advertise their motherboard with the newer revised chipset.
P9D-I supports a single PCI-e 3.0 x16 slot, has 2 DDR3 DIMM which allows up to 16GB of unbuffered/ECC RAM, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, 2 x SATA 6Gbps ports, 2 x SATA 3Gbps ports and support for RAID 0/1/5/10. At the Back IO area, it has 2 x USB 3.0 ports.
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Hi, thanks for the article and the pictures of the board. I was wondering why its RAM size would be limited to 16Gb since both Xeon E3-12**v3 processors and C222/224 chipsets can handle 32Gb (at least Intel doesn't point such limitation in their chipset factsheet while they clearly state 32Gigs for the processors).
I just ran into some Kingston ValueRAM ECC 1600Mhz 16Gb stick (KVR16R11D4/16), just curious to find out how a pair of those would do in this nice small board with some E3-1270v3…
Regards.
Never mind. I just realized it will only take unregistered memory (UDIMM) while the 16Gb stick are all registered memory (RDIMM).
Anyway, nice blog!