Interesting take; however, if I go with the A2SDi-4C -HLN4F, not only will I be settling for a 1 Gb/s downgrade, I’ll be settling for a downgrade from an 8-core CPU with the A2SDi-8C±HLN4F to a 4-core CPU. The price delta is only $184.
That’s three to four times the typical delta between -8C and -H-TF…
If cores matter, also look into (second-hand) X10SDV boards—same cooling solution.
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Hello, I recently joined the community and I see your having a bifurcation issue, I looked at that board Pro_WS_W680M as well and was disappointed because I to was looking for a board that supports bifurcation, perhaps you’re willing to look at the WS ASUS C246 Pro. This board supports 4x4x4x4 bifurcation, it is not as robust as the WS_W680M, but it gets the job done.
Configuration follows:
- ASUS WS C246 Pro, 48Gig ECC UDIMM
- XEON E-2176G 3.70Ghz 6 core 12 threads
- PCIe Slot 1 set to Bifurcation in the BIOS to 4x4x4x4
- PCIe Slot 1 is a QNAP QM2-4P-384 (Quad M.2 2280 SSD supported)
- PCIe Slot 2 Dual E810XXV 25Gig/10Gig/1Gig
- PCIe Slot 3 Dual XXV710 25Gig/10Gig/1Gig
- PCIe Slot 4 Dual X550T 10/Gig
Running Windows Server 2025 in a 2 node failover cluster…rock solid performance.
The only issue, the system is unstable at the MAX 64 Gig ECC, system is unstable, a known issue with C246 chipset…tried and could not get the system stable at 64Gig…but solid and at 48Gig.
I hope this helps, good luck
Just to let you know, the previous last post was 8 months ago.
And a C246 with Xeon E is supposzed to take up to 128 GB RAM but only bifurcate x8x4x4, so this necromancer post is weird in many ways.
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