I'm upgrading my old x7dwe, and I'm looking for something *radically* more energy efficient.

 

My wishes are:

 

- Single processor, server grade grade (ECC, virtualization/passthrough support, etc..)

- Energy efficient (support CPU with less than 25w tdp, Low voltage ECC, etc etc..)

- minimum 2 real (bandwidth) PCIex8

- minimum 8xSATA onboard

- minimum 2 intel Gigabit Ethernet ports

- mATX would be very nice to have (but I guess it's impossible)

- Unraid Support (obviously)

 

I don't seem to find a motherboard that meets all requirements... Maybe someone can enlighten me

 

Thanks!!

Good luck with your search.  I think the closest you are going to come is one of the Supermicro X9 or X10 based boards.

I was looking at the x10s, some of them could work, even thought they seem to lack expansion slots and/or SATA ports.

 

What about the Asrock c226ws? On the paper it looks perfect! my only concern is the brand itself.

 

Supermicro is rock solid and reliable, my two previous server boards and my current chassis are from supermicro. But I'm a little sick of their customer support, and their product support (I'm still pissed that my chassis does not support the new supermicro boards) So maybe the C226 is worth a look, I don't know..

if anybody can recommend something similar for me please.

my needs are much simpler.

 

I need to build a UTM rig.

I was planning to run a VM to replace my router but it does not look very stable in my case, so I decided to go a hardware route.

my only true need is MB with IPMI (got hoked on IPMI with my current main server and can't even think of making this build without having one)

 

so low power consumption + IPMI+gigabit NIC (although it is not as important as I have an Intel Pro dual port PCI card)