Unusual motherboards appear odd and quirky.
Unusual motherboards appear odd and quirky.
I searched for unusual motherboards and components to help with your school project. I found a unique Dell server board featuring four sockets and quad channel memory. It sparked some ideas, so I shared it here in hopes someone like Linus might check it out and help source one for a video. If you have any links to other quirky boards or parts, feel free to share!
that's nothing special. Quad socket boards have been around for a while. I used to main an ML350 G6 dual socket for my workstation before I upgraded to X79. The weirdest boards you'll find will usually be server boards. There's AsRock IMB-87, which is an ITX board that uses laptop DIMMs and a laptop CPU (Haswell) but can run a desktop GPU. There's also shuttle form factor, which Dell still uses in some SFF machines.
check the items I purchased on Amazon, they're actually quite reasonable. I was searching for an affordable X99 motherboard when I accidentally broke my X99 Asus Deluxe. I ended up finding it in China. By chance, I watched a video by Linus about the motherboard he bought—an X79. This one was quite similar, except it used a C612 Server Chipset instead of an X99 chipset, and its BIOS was from August of this year.