GIGABYTE R163-Z34

CPU: Single AMD EPYC^™ 9005/9004 Series Processor

MEM: 12-Channel DDR5 RDIMM, 12 x DIMMs

STO: 4 x 3.5″/2.5″ Gen5 NVMe/SATA/SAS-4 hot-swap bays

LAN: 1 x 1Gb/s LAN port via Intel I210-AT

PWR: 1+1 1300W 80 PLUS Titanium redundant power supplies

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Example Use Cases

• Private or hybrid cloud compute node
  The product is explicitly positioned as a “Networking Hybrid/Private Cloud Server,” and its single EPYC CPU, 12 DDR5 DIMMs, Gen5 I/O, and remote BMC management align well with virtualization clusters and internal cloud infrastructure.

• Virtualization host for branch, edge, or dense data center deployments
  The 1U form factor, single-socket design, high-memory-channel layout, and redundant power make it well suited for consolidating multiple VMs where rack density and power efficiency matter.

• NFV / networking appliance platform
  With two OCP NIC 3.0 Gen5 x16 slots, additional PCIe Gen5 expansion, and explicit networking-oriented positioning, it is a strong candidate for virtual firewalls, SD-WAN, packet processing, or telecom-style network functions.

• High-performance database or transactional application server
  The platform supports fast local Gen5 NVMe storage, high-bandwidth DDR5 memory, and very high-power EPYC CPUs, which makes it a good fit for latency-sensitive databases, caching tiers, and transactional middleware.

• Hyperconverged infrastructure or software-defined storage node
  The mix of four front hot-swap Gen5 NVMe/SATA/SAS bays, high-speed expansion, and centralized remote management fits HCI or SDS roles where you want compact nodes with strong CPU and storage I/O, especially in scale-out clusters.