Aside from some 680 chipset boards, would anyone have a recommendation for mobos supporting 12th and 13th gen Intel CPUs having 6+ SATA connectors and 2+ NVMe connectors that don’t disable one another? Without using a breakout board?

better take a look at the AMD fraction instead. Their CPUs have more lanes to offer...

(although that "if you turn on THAT, other features will be unavailable then" crap happens there too unless you take a Treadripper which handles 6 16x Slots perfectly and with bifurbication too. So be prepared to read the manuals carefully before you buy and watch out for (*) footnotes...).

Edited May 27, 20251 yr by MAM59

Consumer-processors usually have about 20 lanes or so, the latest about 24. Take away 16 for a GPU, one or two for the chipset, and there is almost none left, so you'll always have to share, either from slots, or because it has to go through the chipset-connection. You'll need server processors and boards to avoid most of those bottlenecks. Plus they are designed to run 24/7 and last longer, as in a decade minimum instead of 2-3 years.

@MAM59 Thanks for your feedback. I neglected to add into the post I need to stay in the Intel orbit for QuickSync. I'll update the post.

@Wody I agree with you...Enterprise stuff is great. I currently run a Brocade 6450P Switch. Unfortunately, every time I dabble in enterprise-grade stuff, I get caught with compatibility issues, one or two pieces of important info that never came up in my research, etc. I tend to stick with consumer-level stuff. If I had local resources to deal with, I would dig in a little more, but dealing with folks on eBay for find stuff wears me out ;)

I was hoping to get lucky...my current Windows machine is a series 7, so it's getting converted due to lack of official Win11 support for Series 7 processors...but if I can find a good modern solution that was all in one, I was going to do that instead.