Do Industrial Grade Motherboards run in a seperate pack?

bomberboysk

Active Member
Used to be that the MTBF was significantly higher,as they are designed to be used in an Enterprise environment and the tolerances on components demonstrates that. That being said, compared to enthusiast class motherboards, you'll be hard pressed to find a much of difference these days. Support is probably where you'll see the biggest difference (e.g. Asus isn't going to overnight you a replacement board for free under warranty, but someone like supermicro perhaps may).

Enterprise class boards may also have connectivity that you don't see on consumer boards, such as SAS.
 

storp

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Used to be that the MTBF was significantly higher,as they are designed to be used in an Enterprise environment and the tolerances on components demonstrates that. That being said, compared to enthusiast class motherboards, you'll be hard pressed to find a much of difference these days. Support is probably where you'll see the biggest difference (e.g. Asus isn't going to overnight you a replacement board for free under warranty, but someone like supermicro perhaps may).

Enterprise class boards may also have connectivity that you don't see on consumer boards, such as SAS.

With MTBF= mean time between failures, for those unaware, aren't many Industrial boards designed around or best suited for certain types of business applications?

Then of course there is the cost factor.
 
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