Intel® Xeon® W-series Processor Family Intel® C422 Express Chipset Quad Channel RDIMM/LRDIMM DDR4, 8 x DIMMs Intel® VROC ready ASMedia 2142 USB 3.1 Gen 2 USB controller Realtek ALC1150 HD audio codec 2 x GbE LAN ports (Intel® I210) 8 x SATA III 6Gb/s ports from C422, supports SATA DOM 2 x SATA III 6Gb/s ports from Marvell® 88SE9172 controller Ultra-Fast M.2 and U.2 with PCIe Gen3 x4 interface 4 x Full speed PCIe Gen3 x16 slots; total 7 x expansion PCIe x16 slots Intel® Xeon® W - Engineered For Your Enterprise GIGABYTE brings Intel''s Skylake architecture to the SOHO segment with a new offering: the ''Basin Falls'' single-socket platform for workstations. This new build offers a wealth of I/O options, including multiple PCIe lanes to support graphics, and other add-on card options, as well as direct SATA and USB ports. GIGABYTE''s precision engineering enables you to fulfil your workstation workload needs with ease.Intel® Xeon® W - Key Features Intel''s Skylake-W (Basin Falls) platform brings increases in compute, I/O and memory compared to the previous generation. This functionality, with multiple USB and SATA connections from the chipset, allows for: I/O Options20% more PCIe lanes gen-on-genExtra 16 PCIe lanes from the PCHSupports USB and SATA connectors Memory11% more bandwidth vs. previous generation4 channels - maximum 2666MT/s at 1DPC or 2DPC Compute1S: up to 18 cores; Intel HS Hyper-threading; per core power management Dense Add-On Slot Design GIGABYTE''s Intel Xeon W motherboards are designed to provide serious PCIe options, with options for the fully optimized 100% use of the 48 PCIe lanes available. The addition of an active PCIe switch and three pass-through switches allows for the following permutations: 4 x dual-slot GPU card or Up to 4x alternative PCIe x8 or PCIe x16 cards simultaneously Dense Storage/USB Design GIGABYTE''s engineers have maximized the storage and external connection scope of this board with 10 SATA ports and 8 USB ports. SATA Ports 8x SATA from the chipset 2x ''GSATA'' via the onboard Marvell 9172 SATA controller (from PCIe) USB Sockets 8x USB 3.0 2x USB 3.1 - one Type ''A'' and one Type ''C'' U.2 Connectors Mini-SAS HD type PCIe Gen3 x4 (NVMe) connection offering 32Gb/s for high-speed boot Onboard M.2GIGABYTE''s MW51-HP0 platforms are designed to support on-board ''M.2'' storage devices for time-sensitive operations and leaves room on the standard storage for compute tasks. Delivering up to 32 Gb/s data transfer speeds through a PCIe connection, M.2 offers users considerably faster storage performance than current mSATA devices. Compliant with four different M.2 form factors. TPM 2.0 HeaderGIGABYTE''s MW51-HP0 platform is designed to support Trusted Platform Modules (TPM - discrete cryptographic on-board processors). VROC ModuleVROC Module Supplied For PCIe RAID Management