I am seeing these ASRock "rack server" type motherboards that feature some really great specs for AMD Ryzen AM5 CPUs. I had a user that recommended the Asrock B650M-HDV/M.2 motherboard for a home lab build
Below is the Asrock B650M-HDV/M.2 motherboard. Looks to have nice specs, including multiple PCI-e slots and standard size memory modules instead of SODIMMs. Specs include:
- Supports AMD Socket AM5 Ryzen 7000 Series Processors
- 8+2+1 Power Phase, Dr.MOS
- Supports DDR5 6400+ MHz (OC)
- 2 PCIe 4.0 x16, 1 PCIe 4.0 x1, 1 M.2 Key E for WiFi
- Integrated AMD RDNA 2 Graphics
- Does not include RGB connector
- CPU Socket: Socket AM5
Reviews look decent.
There is also the B650D4U-2L2T/BCM board that is supposed to be a server type motherboard, also including IPMI functionality. But the reviews on Amazon look to be terrible.
- Micro-ATX (9.6"x 9.6")
- Support AMD Ryzen 7000 series Processors
- 4 DIMM slots (2DPC), supports DDR5 ECC/non-ECC UDIMM
- 1 PCIe5.0 x16, 1 PCIe5.0 x4, 1 PCIe4.0 x1
- Supports 1 M.2 (PCIe5.0 x4)
Curious if anyone out there has used ASRock motherboards for server or other builds and thoughts/opinions? @malcolm-r @t3hbeowulf you guys used similar?
@lucassr-job have you seen or tired any of these? Curious if you have looked at any of these models in addition to the Erying.
@brandon-lee Hello my friend, I saw this B650M-HDV/M.2 but didn't consider it because it has 2 RAM slots, I only saw the other one on the Asrock website but I didn't see any prices or reviews for it, today I'm going to order the Erying 13900HX with 4 DDR5 slots up to 6400MHz and I'm also going to order 2x48GB DDR5 and wait for it to arrive to see how it will do with Proxmox.
@lucassr-job Gotcha, looks like a very interesting board. Are you receiving and building soon? Definitely keep us updated here on how it goes with this board. This latest build I have done for Proxmox has renewed my interest in building again. Was definitely a very fun project. I just added Intel Optane for caching and is working beautifully!
i've looked at these and other similar offerings, but the price was never worth it to me for homelab.
@malcolm-r I have a couple more Minisforum boards coming, so stay tuned on those. Really loving the performance and feel of the recent server build. Has me stoked on building a cluster.
very nice. i would add a third MS-01 in place of my "big" server if i didn't have so much storage.
@malcolm-r Hey what are you using to connect to your storage? Is it direct attached SAS?
@brandon-lee yup. main server has an internal controller then i use expanders to connect to a 2nd shelf.
@lucassr-job You made my day! Wow this is awesome. Actually price is much better than I expected to be honest. Did you pull the trigger?
@brandon-lee Sorry for the delay, but living in Brazil is not easy.
After a lot of paperwork, I managed to import my stuff from China to the US and from the US to Brazil... I paid horrible taxes in Brazil, but it was still worth it.
I'm happy that the 64 sodimm memories are finally out, but I thought they would take longer and went with the interpose kit as I mentioned before.
Now I have:
1x - 13900hx DDR5 4 Slots RAM
4x - G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Series 96GB (2 x 48GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 5200
1x Thermalright AXP 120 Cooler
1x 750W PSU
The case still needs to arrive because of the Carnival holidays.
So I connected everything on top of the box hahaha
The memories work at 4800mhz without xmp enabled, but as I had already seen on reddit it is causing instability and I will have to find manual times and voltages to stabilize, I have already installed proxmox and it recognizes the 192gb.
@lucassr-job Man this looks like a nice setup, especially with the 192 GB of RAM for home lab is a great win. Keep us posted on how you make out on stabilizing the memory on the timings. When are you expecting the case in?
Well, so far I'm having great difficulty stabilizing these memories that I bought, unfortunately the cheap option ended up being expensive, these G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Series 5200 at 1.1v memories are horrible for this erying kit, with 2 sticks I can even get the system to work well, but with 4 sticks it only starts in automatic mode that takes 4800mts, but when I leave the system running it starts giving memory errors a few hours later, I've tried several voltages and times and so far I haven't found anything that works, I'll keep trying, but maybe I'll end up selling them on the domestic market and try to buy others that I've seen reports that work, like Corsair and Crucial 5600.
I ended up getting a very basic and normal case, unfortunately here in Brazil mini and micro cases end up being much more expensive than normal cases. case name: mancer Narok
@lucassr-job Also, I powered up the BD795i SE today, basically same setup as I had with the BD795M, looking good so far!
@brandon-lee This was also my first choice, but unfortunately I would be taxed at 110% which would be unfeasible for me.
But if I had bought it and seen the 64GB SODIMM memories before, I would be happy now and with everything already working.