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As anyone with a passing familiarity with Futurama has guessed by now, there's bad news.
RDIMM support is confirmed not to be present. That means 64GB maximum RAM with 16GB DDR4 UDIMMs, which should eventually be affordable. Eventually.
A few noteworthy improvements:
- The C236 PCH now supplies PCI-e 3.0 connectivity, instead of 2.0. 8 SATA ports are also available, allowing for 6-drive pools + plus a boot device or two. Do note that total upstream bandwidth is still some 8x PCI-e 3.0 lanes or so.
- The PCH has moved to a newer process (22nm, so it's nearly cutting-edge - C226 was 45nm, IIRC), which should allow for a reduction in system power consumption (at the same CPU TDP).