Falcon Northwest Tiki 18-core micro PC Review @ PC World
Overkill seems to be such a harsh word but, is so appropriate.
Remember: The Tiki does packs all that firepower into a chassis 4-inches wide, 13.25-inches tall and 13-inches deep. Impossible! After all, you’re thinking, you can’t get an LGA2011-V3 CPU into such a small machine, much less an 18-core Xeon.
That may have been true last year, but this spring Asrock released its crazy X99E-ITX/AC motherboard, which did what others told me was impossible: Put a massive LGA2011-V3 socket into a tiny Mini ITX motherboard. You see, the X99 chipset and its big-boy CPUs feature quad-channel memory controllers, and that means you need four pieces of RAM.
I have my reservations about the Asrock X99 Mini ITX motherboard in that it wastes the main reason to own a LGA 2011v3 processor. The board only has a single PCI Express slot and only supports two memory channels instead of the customary four. Of course, with that being said the Tiki uses this as an excuse to get creative. The system comes with an 18 core Xeon processor and Titan X making it extremely powerful. On top of that the case is super small and can be custom painted to whatever color you desire giving the entire system a footprint close to a first gen Xbox360 and a wow factor beyond no other.
In fact, the only thing more impressive than the raw computing power is the price. > 9k USD. 
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