Motherboard designed with flexibility & versatility in mind

The MW70-3S0 has been designed with flexibility in mind, through large memory, storage and PCI-Express platforms that will satisfy the most demanding performance requirements of professional workstation users.  

With the support of 3-way NVIDIA SLI & AMD CrossFireX technologies, this board can support up to three GPU cards running at full PCI-Express Gen3 x16 bandwidth. It is therefore targeting workstation applications where a 4^th GPU card doesn't bring any significant marginal output improvement. This product is a suitable motherboard to build workstations dedicated to computing and graphics intensive applications, such as 3D modeling, rendering, animation, audio & video production, small scale scientific analysis and simulation.

With an onboard LSI SAS 3008 controller, the MW70-3S0 supports up to eight SAS drives running at 12Gb/s via two mini-SAS HD connectors. In addition to its ultra fast transfer rates, this controller is also capable of aggregating any SATA and SAS drives into a single 12Gb/s data stream thanks to the LSI DataBolt technology. Users can therefore enjoy a 12Gb/s speed while using lower grade 3Gb/s or 6Gb/s drives. This can bring a significant upgrade to a system without having to invest in and expensive 12Gb/s SAS drives.   

On Intel's previous server platforms, by design the maximum supported memory frequency has always been automatically downgraded the more DIMMs were being added on a server motherboard. As this trade-off between performance and capacity represents a dilemma to many memory-hungry server applications, GIGABYTE offers a unique solution. All the GIGABYTE boards based on the LGA 2011-3 socket support by default a maximum frequency of 2133 MHz in any memory configuration :

Based on the Haswell microarchitecture, this Intel processor family features a full set of performance enhancing features over the previous generation. In addition to the usual boost in frequencies and core numbers, the Intel Xeon E5-2600 V3 family is the first in the server industry to support the brand new DDR4 memory technology.  Moreover, these processors include encryption performance overhead reduction features, and technologies improving run time and migration VM integrity.

The Intel Xeon E5-2600 V3 family is the first generation of server processors on the market to exclusively support DDR4 technology. Still built on a quad channel architecture, these memory modules feature a increased stock frequency of up to 2133MHz and a lower voltage of 1.2V per module. Together, these two main improvements can not only deliver a large bandwidth performance boost to memory intensive applications, but also considerable energy savings to large scale server deployments.