Yes. But looking at the reasoning it makes sense When you look at the size of that unit, server boards in general, what is really added over a standard single socket boards? The two things that push a motherboard over peripheral, beyond the obvious of a socket or soldered cpu, are internal connectors and the I/O chipset. This has no internal connectors so; We’ll let the extra, less valuable, ram ports make up for the missing BUS ports. Looking for the I/O system, this may have 4 sockets but only one I/O set. It’s the rectangle set-off in the middle.
If you were to cut this board into clean even quarters you’d have four peripheral boards as none would have all the requirements for motherboard. A/V rack control computers, terminal hosts, and cube servers, and some blade base boards, are about the only places modern-ish motherboards make the telco grade as they duplicate everything, on much more expensive heavy sandwich boards with a thick layer of copper or silver running the centre layer of the entire board. Hope that clarifies the reasoning
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