MSI D3052 Motherboard At Computex 2024
Although Patrick was sidelined with baby STH, we still had a small team contingent at Computex 2024 in Taipei. One booth that the team visited last week was the MSI booth. MSI is probably best known for making consumer motherboards, GPUs, and other peripherals. Now the company is using its motherboard expertise to transition into the server market. At the show, the team saw new AMD EPYC 4004 motherboards with 10GbE and even 25GbE built-in.
MSI D3051 10Gbase-T Motherboard
Here is a really interesting board, the MSI D3051. Many of the motherboard we have seen for EPYC 4004 servers are 1GbE only. This has both dual Intel i210-AT 1GbE ports, but also dual 10Gbase-T ports using Intel X710 IP.
MSI D3051 MATX At Computex
Aside from the networking, we can see PCIe slots, dual M.2 slots, and several SATA ports. MSI also has a really neat array of fan headers in front of the memory slots.
MSI D3051 Specs
As a mATX board, we also get an ASPEED AST2600 BMC. You can find the specs above.
While that is the 10Gbase-T version, there is a 25GbE alternative as well.
MSI D3052 25GbE AMD EPYC 4004 Motherboard
The MSI D3052 is in many ways similar, in layout, with some major differences. For example, there the PCIe slot moved. Another big change is that the 1GbE ports are no longer present, but we now get a SFP28 solution for 25GbE built-in via an onboard Intel E810-XXV NIC.
MSI D3052 Motherboard At Computex 2024
This is another mATX board, but we are not sure where the second M.2 slot is that is listed on the specs.
MSI D3052 Specs
Still, 25GbE is going to be a big feature for many folks, especially when paired with the EPYC 4004 CPUs.
Final Words
These are cool motherboards, and it is great to see MSI using higher-end networking onboard. While many servers using these chips will undoubtedly be built around 1GbE networking, having an onboard option for 10Gbase-T or SFP28 25GbE is different which makes these boards very interesting.
If you want to learn more about the AMD EPYC 4004 series, you can also watch our video here: