Hi guys, I'm looking to upgrade a 10 yr old Mobo + i7 setup that I built which has been running fine for a long time, but recently I am starting to see issues on restart with memory errors that appear to be potential cracks in the Mobo following it being transported from one location to another. I've had really good results with Supermicro M11SDV-8C-LN4F boards that have an inbuilt EPYC processor in them with Proxmox, but they are old now and buying them is over a $700 price point. They are super low energy consumption, but I can live with a higher power consumption cost here (we are solar powered) if I can get something at a lower price point.

I don't use VMs at all - this is a dedicated backup server I'm trying to build, and I have a LSI PCI-e card in there for my 8 drive array, so I don't need onboard SATA (other than one for the cache drive). I probably won't have more than 32GB of memory in this either, so I don't need a board that can handle high memory. It is going into a larger desktop tower box that can hold the drives, so I can do Mini ATX, etc. I'm totally cool with AMD processors on this if that helps.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

If it is *just* for backups and you don't need many sata ports. Why not some off the shelf N100 board?

18 minutes ago, Shamalamadindong said:

If it is *just* for backups and you don't need many sata ports. Why not some off the shelf N100 board?

Something like that could work. I was hoping to repurpose as much off the original build as I can, particularly with memory prices the way they are. I found this:

Supermicro A1SRM-2558F-O Micro ATX Intel Atom

which appears to allow me to move the 32gb of memory from my old board to this. It is older, but it should work. I have a PCI-e 10GB/s dual network adapter, so I only need 2x PCI-e slots.

What do you think?