Intel recently released their Greenlow based Skylake series Xeon CPUs and it's a pleasure to take a look at the first enterprise-grade motherboard built for these processors today. I have Supermicro's X11SAE motherboard on the test bench which is a standard ATX-sized single CPU board, but one with all the trimmings.

?Supermicro's new X11 UP workstations, long-life embedded systems and motherboards integrate the latest technologies such as USB 3.1 and M.2 as well as step up performance, density and efficiency to provide a new generation of Green Computing solutions,? said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. ?Indeed, with Supermicro's first-to-market integration, advanced engineering and architecture expertise, we deliver the widest range of Skylake-S platforms available to the industry, enabling our customers with exactly the best competitive advantage on the market.?

Supermicro's X11SAE doesn't just support the new Greenlow Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 family CPUs, you can also use 6th Gen Core i7, i5, i3, Pentium, and Celeron series processors. The brain behind the motherboard is the new C236 chipset which comes with a lot of enhancements over the predecessors and Supermicro generally added the newest technologies to this motherboard. Additionally, the motherboard supports up to 64GB DDR4 2133MHz ECC UDIMMs in its 4 sockets. While this motherboard does support ECC and non-ECC modules, it doesn't support RDIMMS, so make sure you get the right ones.