The GIGABYTE MW51-HP0 Motherboard Review: Consumer Meets Workstation for Xeon W
by Gavin Bonshor on March 6, 2019 9:30 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Intel
- Gigabyte
- Workstation
- server
- Xeon-W
- C422
- MW51-HP0
Gaming Performance
For motherboard reviews in 2019, we are running an updated version of our test suite, including OS and CPU cooler. This has some effect on our results. Due to the lack of overclocking options within the GIGABYTE MW51-HP0 firmware, the Kingston RDIMM memory is operating at DDR4-2666 CL19 and not DDR4-2666 CL16 like in our previous C422 review of the Supermicro X11SRA. This will have a slight impact on some of the results.
AoTS Escalation
Ashes of the Singularity is a Real-Time Strategy game developed by Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment. The original AoTS was released back in March of 2016 while the standalone expansion pack, Escalation, was released in November of 2016 adding more structures, maps, and units. We use this specific benchmark as it relies on both a good GPU as well as on the CPU in order to get the most frames per second. This balance is able to better display any systematic differences in gaming as opposed to a more GPU heavy title where the CPU and system don't matter quite as much. We use the default "Crazy" in-game settings using the DX11 rendering path in both 1080p and 4K UHD resolutions. The benchmark is run four times and the results averaged then plugged into the graph.
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013's Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections, while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story.
One of the unique aspects of this benchmark is that it’s actually the average of 3 sub-benchmarks that fly through different environments, which keeps the benchmark from being too weighted towards a GPU’s performance characteristics under any one scene.
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gavbon - Friday, March 8, 2019 - link
Hey, sorry! I have 32 core on the brain at the moment. Will edit when I'm on the train! Thanks for pointing it outMDD1963 - Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - link
With the W-3175X and this mainboard, I think I could assemble quite a snappy FreeNAS rig for home use! :/Xpl1c1t - Thursday, March 7, 2019 - link
"Note however that despite the naming, the new 28-core Intel Xeon W-3175X isn’t supported by the MW51-HP0 since that that chip uses a different socket." second paragraphgavbon - Friday, March 8, 2019 - link
The W-3175 is C621, but I'm going to be looking at the ROG Dominus Extreme at some point in the next month!Hixbot - Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - link
I cant help but drool at the thought of a 512MB RAM drive.jospoortvliet - Thursday, March 7, 2019 - link
Are there any half-decent professional/workstation Threadripper boards? Esp with the upcoming (based on leaked slides) threadripper 3, this would be very good to have... All vendors have gaming boards, for which Threadripper isn't very suitable.Cooe - Thursday, March 7, 2019 - link
Specifically what features are these so called "gaming" X399 boards missing that you absolutely need? People aren't buying them to game, & they really aren't designed for such. That just happen the dominant "aesthetic" in consumer motherboards atm.gavbon - Friday, March 8, 2019 - link
The Asrock X399 Phantom Gaming 6 board review is coming soon and in all honesty, gaming features these days are limited to NIC, audio and software.El Sama - Monday, March 11, 2019 - link
Never really did a custom build of a server, it's always whatever Dell offers in its webpage, with the three hours replacement warranty. This is interesting enough, but hardly changes anything. Maybe for a workstation it will fare better.timecop1818 - Saturday, March 30, 2019 - link
Wow that's a really shitty rear panel USB arrangement. basically all the USB3 ports are bandwidth limited with a bottleneck of 10gbps, since they're hooked up to a hub directly after South bridge, and the only separate chipset ports are wasted on "front panel" sockets. The same goes for USB2, and GL850 is one of the cheapest 2.0 hubs in existence, it's not even Multi TT, blah.anyway for half a grand cost board i certainly expected better USB engineering.