We bought a Gigabyte 1U server based on one of these at my old workplace. (http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5423 http://b2b.gigabyte.com/

We bought a Gigabyte 1U server based on one of these at my old workplace. (http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5423 http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5423) It definitely seemed a half-hearted effort from Gigabyte. Both our usual suppliers were able to source one, but the delivery date kept slipping. It did eventually arrive, months later, and by then we'd lost enthusiasm and/or found alternative ways of doing the work we'd planned for it. Given my experience with another Gigabyte board, I can't recommend using their server platforms until they show a bit more care. I know they've been doing custom integration in this space for a long time -- I remember an article about Google Nehalem servers, for example, that were OEMd by Gigabyte. And many of their efforts look like contract designs pushed out to market -- nothing wrong in that. But they need to take a lesson from Supermicro's book in terms of attention-to-detail in and end-user support before I'll consider them worthy again. Which is a shame, because their new CaviumX ARM platform looks very interesting indeed: http://www.servethehome.com/cavium-thunderx-micro-benchmarks-enterprise-arm-developers-need-machines/ http://www.servethehome.com/cavium-thunderx-micro-benchmarks...