ASUS LGA2011-3 Motherboards that support Haswell-E and dual-socket Haswell-EP?

[NEXTECH]

When will we begin to see ASUS LGA2011-3 Workstation motherboards for the Haswell-E and Haswell-EP (E5-2600v3) processors?

We're ready to build over 300 new machines, but I'm waiting for an upgraded ASUS "Z9PE-D8 WS" motherboard and also an upgraded ASUS "P9X79-E WS" motherboard (that supports LGA2011-3, Haswell-EP E5-2600v3 processors, DDR4 memory, USB 3.1, and Thunderbolt 2).

When can we expect to see an upgraded single-socket workstation motherboard (an upgraded "P9X79-E WS" motherboard) that supports the newer LGA2011-3 (Haswell-E/EP and Broadwell-E/EP) processors?

When can we expect to see an upgraded dual-socket workstation motherboard (an upgraded "Z9PE-D8 WS" motherboard) that supports the newer LGA2011-3 (Haswell-EP and Broadwell-EP) processors?

Haswell-E and Haswell-EP processors should be released fairly soon, any news on when ASUS will release new updated 2014 Workstation/Server-class motherboards supporting USB 3.1, DDR-4 ECC memory, Thunderbolt 2, and the Haswell-E and Haswell-EP processors with LGA2011-3 socket (with support for future Broadwell-E and Broadwell-EP processors via a firmware upgrade/update)?

[NEXTECH]

I have some money burning a hole in my pocket. Does anyone from ASUS have a release date for the new LGA2011-3 (Haswell-EP) Workstation/Server motherboards?

[Myk_SilentShado]

Info regarding Haswell-E should be announced today hopefully, or during the week of Computex.

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Does ASUS have any news/comments as to when Haswell-EP motherboards will be made available for sale? I don't really need to wait till Haswell-E, or Haswell-EP processors are "officially" released, but I just want to purchase/own the motherboard(s) and I wish that ASUS would make some new LGA2011-3 motherboards available for purchase now.

It's difficult to even prototype a new hardware build (or a new hardware baseline) if we don't have any motherboards currently available for purchase (or even pre-order), and I'd really like to purchase an ASUS motherboard (if at all possible) and I'm really hoping for a new direct replacement (dual-socket LGA2011-3 upgrade) for the ASUS "Z9PE-D8 WS" dual-socket motherboard (with dual LGA2011-3 sockets), with DDR4 memory support (and six onboard USB 3.1 ports, and also an onboard Thunderbolt 2 port).

I'm ready to purchase the motherboards now/today, and even if we just had one or two motherboards (for prototyping/testing purposes) so we can at least do a prototype system build and at least begin to create a baseline "hardware list" (of exact model / part numbers) that we need and a baseline build cost per workstation. But it's hard to even start prototyping/building if we can't even get our hands on a motherboard for prototype test builds (and an estimated MSRP).

I believe the only motherboard available (right now) is a SuperMicro X10DRC that supports dual socket 2011-3 (E5-2600v3) processors, but it's a server mainboard, and is not designed for workstations (no onboard audio, etc.). I'm really looking for a dual-socket workstation motherboard (by ASUS) that is exactly the same/identical to the ASUS "Z9PE-D8 WS" dual-socket Workstation motherboard, that supports new Haswell-EP (E5-2600v3) processors and the latest DDR4 memory, and hopefully supports onboard USB 3.1 ports and Thunderbolt 2.0 ports. Onboard Thunderbolt 2 support would be a wonderful added bonus if that was added/included as well. I'm just really hoping that ASUS would release new Haswell-EP Workstation motherboard(s) fairly soon (within the next few days/weeks) that supports the latest Haswell-EP processors (E5-2600v3 and be software upgradeable to support future Broadwell-EP E5-2600v4 processors), as well as support DDR4 memory, onboard USB 3.1 ports, and onboard Thunderbolt 2.0 ports. Dual Intel 10GbE nics (Intel X540 LOM) LAN on motherboard would also be a GREAT feature to include (as standard).

[NEXTECH]

We're looking for a direct-replacement for the ASUS "Z9PE-D8 WS" motherboard, that supports dual LGA2011-3 sockets (for dual Haswell E5-2600v3 and future Broadwell-EP E5-2600v4 processors) with current support for at least EIGHT 284-pin DDR4 DIMM memory sockets (with DDR4-2133, DDR4-2400, DDR4-2666 and DDR4-3200 284-pin DDR4 DIMM memory support). We are also looking for at least two onboard rear USB 3.1 ports (using an onboard ASMedia ASM1142 controller).

We are also looking for THREE onboard NICs on the mainboard with dual 10GBASE-T onboard LOM NICs (Intel X540), and also one (or dual?) onboard 1GbE ports (with IPMI 2.0 support for dedicated LAN remote IPMI 2.0 management) with a total of three (or four?) onboard NICs (dual 10GBASE-T using an onboard Intel X540 chipset and also one or two onboard 1GBASE-T ports with integrated IPMI 2.0 and KVM with dedicated LAN support using Nuvoton WPCM450 BMC and Realtek RTL8201N PHY chipset) that are all VMware/ESXi compatible.

We need a bare minimum of three (or four) onboard NIC ports (VMWare/ESXi compatible). Dual onboard 10GBASE-T ports (Intel X540), and also a single (or dual) 1GBASE-T ports (for dedicated IPMI LAN and remote IPMI 2.0 and KVM / KVM-over-IP management)

We need one physical onboard VGA port (connected directly to onboard Nuvoton WPCM450 BMC Winbond chipset) for physical/remote console KVM and KVM-over-IP as well as IPMI 2.0 management.

In addition to dual 10GbE ports, and dual 1GbE ports (for dedicated IPMI 2.0 LAN and remote management), we would also love two onboard USB 3.1 ports and also two onboard Thunderbolt 2.0 ports on the workstation motherboard.

Also, can you please create EIGHT full-length 16x PCIe 3.0 slots on the mainboard? Please support quad-SLI and quad-CrossFire on the mainboard, and please make THREE "double width" PCIe 3.0 16x slots (for three dual-slot GPU/Video cards in "double-width" slots 1, 2 and 3), and also make slots 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 full-length 16x mechanical (and 16 electrical) slots (using a PLX PCIe 3.0 switch chipset), and also please support four graphics cards (quad-SLI and quad-CrossFire) as well as support for any combination of up to four quad-SLI or quad-CrossFire graphics cards and/or two, three, four, five or even up to six Xeon Phi / NVIDIA Tesla GPU Accelerators (using the EIGHT full-length 16x PCIe 3.0 mechanical/electrical slots) via dual PLX Technology (PEX 8747) ExpressLane PCIe 3.0 chipset.