Hesitating beetween 4 Asrock X570 boards

[Nixx]

I want to make an unraid config with at least one VM dedicated to gaming (so with PCIE-passthrough) and i'm currently hesitating beetween 4 motherboards.

(And yeah, i know Intel are better suited to this task, but i'm a AMD fanboy, so ...)

 

I could need an advice.

(And btw sorry, english is not my main language)

 

The 4 boards i'm considering are :

Asrock X570 Taichi
Asrock X570 Taichi Razer Edition
Asrock X570S PG Riptide
Asrock X570S PG Velocita

 

 

Asrock X570 Taichi

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X570 Taichi/index.us.asp
So probably one of the X570 board with the most review on unraid forum, seems to work fine.
Still there is two things that annoy me with this board, first it's only a 1GB ethernet, not a 2.5G. Second is more annoying in my opinion, the chipset fan is in intake mode and located just near the first GPU slot, so he get all the heat from the GPU card. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/ccyxmn/psa_x570_taichi_design_flaw_chipset_overheat/

I don't know, maybe that can be solve with some raiser PCIE4 compatible and use the GPU vertical on a desktop case that allow it ?

 

Asrock X570 Taichi Razer Edition
https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X570 Taichi Razer Edition/index.us.html
On this one, they fix their faulty design moving the fan lower, and you got a 2.5G Ethernet. But damn, the price hurt.

 

Asrock X570S PG Riptide
https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X570S PG Riptide/index.us.asp
Ok, so this one is cheap, you got 2.5G, no chipset fan it's full passive. No bluetooth or wifi but i don't really care and you got a ton of PCIE-1X slots. Power delivery is inferior to their high end boards and the second PCIE16X is only wired on 4X and the third on 2X. And if you plug a second M2 you remove some of the sata connector. On paper i like it i mean i'm not going crossfire so 4X and 2X are good enought for a 10GB network card and a low end gpu like a GT710, but there is no review amongst unraid users and from the 4, that's probably the mobo the most different than the Taichi, so i have absolutely no idea if i'm gonna have problems with it.

 

Asrock X570 PG Velocita

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X570 PG Velocita/index.us.asp#Specification

Seems kinda similar to Taichi Razer, but only 2 PCIE16X and seems i guess i probably have to add a second GPU to make unraid works since my CPU don't have integrated gpu, that count.

 

Edited July 2, 2022 by Nixx

[ChatNoir]

9 hours ago, Nixx said:

Power delivery is inferior to their high end boards

You probably don't want to overclock a server, so a beefy power supply stage on the MB is probably not really important.

 

9 hours ago, Nixx said:

if you plug a second M2 you remove some of the sata connector

Only if you use a SATA M.2, a NVME will not disable the SATA port.

 

9 hours ago, Nixx said:

i guess i probably have to add a second GPU to make unraid works since my CPU don't have integrated gpu

Not sure what you mean by that, Unraid by itself can run without a video output. Most people run it headless.

It will depend on what you want to do with it.

 

Except from those generic details, I do not have any specific input with those boards myself.

[Nixx]

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, i agree, i'm not gonna overclock anything.
I forgot to mention that i want to use a 5950X as CPU, so no igpu.
I heard that quite a lot of board refuse to run headless and if you want to passthough your PCIE GPU, you need to have a second one, either a igpu (that i will not have) or a secondary gpu card.

Edited July 3, 2022 by Nixx