ATX mainboard is designed for 24/7 continuous operation

In addition to the mainboard’s 128GB memory (quadchannel DDR4 2133 SDRAM), some of the available processors also offer RDIMM with ECC support. The mainboard is designed, and tested accordingly at the Fujitsu Product Compliance Center, for 24/7 continuous operation in applications requiring high CPU computing performance, such as image and 3D data processing. Thus, its wide range of possible applications includes fields such as medical engineering as well as CAD development workstations in industrial design.

Despite its significantly enhanced computing power, the Fujitsu D3348-B has a power consumption of 160W TDP, which is only about 10W higher than that of its predecessor D3128-B. Furthermore, the D3348-B offers enhanced design options for integrating additional components. It features four PCIe x16 and three PCIe x8 slots, as well as four USB 3.0, nine USB 2.0 and ten SATA(600) ports. However, the basic layout of the new extended lifecycle mainboard is largely modelled on the previous generation. This allows customers from the industrial goods sector to design the D3348-B into existing systems with a manageable effort.

The Fujitsu D3348-B is fully compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 8. The BIOS is AMI Aptio 4.x (UEFI) by American Megatrends. Fujitsu modified the firmware and added additional functionalities which are exclusive to Fujitsu mainboards. These include the possibility of showing the logo of the system manufacturer during start-up (Logo Boot), as well as convenient and security-related features such as Recovery BIOS, BIOS and CPU Microcode Update, Quick Boot, Quiet Boot, Plug & Play, DRAM and PCIe autoconfiguration, and S.M.A.R.T. support.

As a product of Fujitsu‘s Extended Lifecycle Series, the D3348-B is designed for a product lifecycle of four years. Should Fujitsu plan any design changes, these will be communicated to users at a very early stage in the course of a strict lifecycle management ensuring smooth adaptation of existing designs on the part of the users.

Peter Hoser, Sales Director, OEM, Fujitsu, commented: “The ATX mainboard D3348-B for the latest generation of high-performace Intel Xeon and Core i7 processors has an extended lifecycle which not only makes it suitable for CAD workstations, but also ideal for computationally intensive applications in the medical sector, among others. This entirely new level of performance for a single-CPU mainboard offers an ideal alternative to expensive and ‘power-hungry’ dual-CPU systems of the preceding generation.”

In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, the Fujitsu D3348-B mainboard will be available from early October 2014 for a recommended end user price of approximately €290 including VAT.