AsRock z87 extreme 11/ac has you covered.
http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/4921/ha ... 013-asrock
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The article wrote:The most striking aspect is probably the 22 (!) SATA ports. 16 of them can be used for professional SAS drives and are provided by LSI SAS3008 controllers. Two of the 22 ports are combined with two mSATA ports, located between the PCI-Express slots. Thanks to a PLX 8747 chip the board is suitable for both 4-way Crossfire and 4-way SLI. Other special features include two Intel Thunderbolt ports and an onboard 802.11ac WLAN controller that also supports Bluetooth 4.0. Like other recent ASRock boards the Extreme11 also features Purity sound. ASRock included a number of overclocking features as well, including onboard buttons, a HEX display and two BIOS chips.
Flying Fox wrote:The article wrote:The most striking aspect is probably the 22 (!) SATA ports. 16 of them can be used for professional SAS drives and are provided by LSI SAS3008 controllers. Two of the 22 ports are combined with two mSATA ports, located between the PCI-Express slots. Thanks to a PLX 8747 chip the board is suitable for both 4-way Crossfire and 4-way SLI. Other special features include two Intel Thunderbolt ports and an onboard 802.11ac WLAN controller that also supports Bluetooth 4.0. Like other recent ASRock boards the Extreme11 also features Purity sound. ASRock included a number of overclocking features as well, including onboard buttons, a HEX display and two BIOS chips.
For the NIC, even if they are not using Intel, should be easy to fix with a discrete card, but of course it will interfere with all 4 of your dual-slot Titans?
just brew it! wrote:The Thermalright cooler worked the best for me. http://www.thermalright.com/html/produc ... hr-55.htmlI used to keep a pile of Zalman passive chipset coolers handy. Lost count of the number of motherboards where I ripped the crappy fan off and installed one of the Zalmans in its place. Sometimes you had to get a little creative and cut some of the fins down to make room for the video card, but it beat the crap out of the noisy, failure-prone fans the motherboard vendors were using.
JustAnEngineer wrote:The Thermalright cooler worked the best for me. http://www.thermalright.com/html/produc ... hr-55.html
I have used a couple of Zalman ZM-NB47J heatsinks.
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just brew it! wrote:Seems like a solution in search of a problem to me. The intersection of people who want fancy overclocking features and people who want an onboard SAS controller with tons of ports is probably very close to a null set.
I also agree that the tiny fans are problematic. Back when chipset fans were more common, I used to keep a pile of Zalman passive chipset coolers handy. Lost count of the number of motherboards where I ripped the crappy fan off and installed one of the Zalmans in its place. Sometimes you had to get a little creative and cut some of the fins down to make room for the video card, but it beat the crap out of the noisy, failure-prone fans the motherboard vendors were using.
just brew it! wrote:OK, so basically it comes down to whether you trust ASrock to provide the motherboard for your storage server.