Smitty2k1 Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 I was recently given an AM4 Ryzen 3600x and figured it would be good to use to upgrade my unraid server. Currently have an integrated motherboard with intel zeon-d 5120, which is pretty underpowered. Any suggestions for a motherboard for the Ryzen 3600x? Biggest desire is IPMI as my server is buried in a closet without a monitor. Lower cost is better! Sent from my SM-G991U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
_cjd_ Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 ASRock Rack has a few options good in mATX and a few different chipsets. I'm using an X570d4u with a 5600x - no issues, though a little obscure where some settings are in the bios when I was using an HBA - only time I've had to sort out how to attach a monitor was when the bios upgrade left things wonky and I had to go find the settings to fix this, otherwise everything has worked perfectly using IPMI. I've ditched that and just use the onboard SATA plus an m.2 > 6 SATA adapter. x710 dual SFP+ card in the mix too, 5 SSD and 5 Ultrastar 16tb, 1 m.2 nvme. Idles around 45w with a usb device attached tracking my electricity usage at the meter (e.g. power company reading) and HomeAssistant docker running (this is worth a few W). Quote Link to comment
Smitty2k1 Posted February 4 Author Share Posted February 4 Thanks, that board looks great but about $300. More than I wanted to spend but I suppose that's just the cost of boards with IPMI. I'll have to consider if it's really worth the upgrade over my budget low power zeon-d build. Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 4 hours ago, Smitty2k1 said: Thanks, that board looks great but about $300 I have three Unraid servers (all Intel CPU based) and all have Asrock boards; two Asrock Rack server boards with IPMI and one Asrock consumer board in which I have a Geekworm KVM-A8 PiKVM for remote management. Yes, server boards with IPMI are a bit pricier than the consumer models but I have found them to be worth it. I have also found Asrock Rack server board support to be excellent and very responsive any time I had a question. Quote Link to comment
_cjd_ Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 On 2/4/2024 at 2:13 PM, Smitty2k1 said: Thanks, that board looks great but about $300. More than I wanted to spend but I suppose that's just the cost of boards with IPMI. I'll have to consider if it's really worth the upgrade over my budget low power zeon-d build. Yup. the x470 or b450 variants are a bit less but... trade-offs, features... it's not going to get you the best efficiency either (relative to what's possible with Intel). Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 5 hours ago, _cjd_ said: it's not going to get you the best efficiency either (relative to what's possible with Intel). Not sure any potential efficiency gains can overcome the price difference of a free CPU in this situation over the lifetime of the system. Quote Link to comment
Nidhoggur Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 On 2/5/2024 at 3:21 AM, _cjd_ said: ASRock Rack has a few options good in mATX and a few different chipsets. I'm using an X570d4u with a 5600x - no issues, though a little obscure where some settings are in the bios when I was using an HBA - only time I've had to sort out how to attach a monitor was when the bios upgrade left things wonky and I had to go find the settings to fix this, otherwise everything has worked perfectly using IPMI. I've ditched that and just use the onboard SATA plus an m.2 > 6 SATA adapter. x710 dual SFP+ card in the mix too, 5 SSD and 5 Ultrastar 16tb, 1 m.2 nvme. Idles around 45w with a usb device attached tracking my electricity usage at the meter (e.g. power company reading) and HomeAssistant docker running (this is worth a few W). May I ask if you are running with any graphic cards with IPMI? I currently have a 3600X + 1060 windows server and want to change to Unraid, I'm not sure if I can use IPMI to manage the server without graphic card with 3600X Quote Link to comment
_cjd_ Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 16 hours ago, Nidhoggur said: May I ask if you are running with any graphic cards with IPMI? I currently have a 3600X + 1060 windows server and want to change to Unraid, I'm not sure if I can use IPMI to manage the server without graphic card with 3600X No graphics card. Nothing even connected to the VGA port. I have used the VGA port a couple times, still no video card needed. If your current system will boot without a video card, you could use one only to set things up then pull it. I wanted a couple other things (ECC support....) pushing me to a server board... Not sure if it's worth it or not in the end. Quote Link to comment
Nidhoggur Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 5 hours ago, _cjd_ said: No graphics card. Nothing even connected to the VGA port. I have used the VGA port a couple times, still no video card needed. If your current system will boot without a video card, you could use one only to set things up then pull it. I wanted a couple other things (ECC support....) pushing me to a server board... Not sure if it's worth it or not in the end. Thanks, I'll try install with a spare graphic card for installation then pull it out, hope it can work Quote Link to comment
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