binhex Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 (edited) Hi guys, im really out of the loop on hardware and therefore need your help. I have a friend who wants to build a unraid system, he has some recently acquired parts but needs a decent mobo, here is the list of requirements (cpu and ram already purchased), if anybody knows of a mobo that matches the below required (and maybe some of the wish list) then please reply with the make and model of the motherboard. Required 6 x SATA 3 or more, non RAID (obviously) Support for intel 8th gen core i5 CPU with socket 1151 Compatible with non ECC unbuffered RAM (Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2666MHz) 2 x 8GB thus require 2 or more slots 1 x 24 pin main psu connector, 1 x 8 pin CPU power connector 1 x Gigabit NIC Wish list USB port on mobo for internal insertion of USB key 4 x RAM slots IPMI VGA or DVI fine, ideally not HDMI but can be worked around. Total cost for mobo should not exceed 150 GBP Thanks!. Edited June 14, 2018 by binhex Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 2 hours ago, binhex said: Hi guys, im really out of the loop on hardware and therefore need your help. I have a friend who wants to build a unraid system, he has some recently acquired parts but needs a decent mobo, here is the list of requirements (cpu and ram already purchased), if anybody knows of a mobo that matches the below required (and maybe some of the wish list) then please reply with the make and model of the motherboard. Required 6 x SATA 3 or more, non RAID (obviously) Support for intel 8th gen core i5 CPU with socket 1151 Compatible with non ECC unbuffered RAM (Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2666MHz) 2 x 8GB thus require 2 or more slots 1 x 24 pin main psu connector, 1 x 8 pin CPU power connector 1 x Gigabit NIC Wish list USB port on mobo for internal insertion of USB key 4 x RAM slots IPMI VGA or DVI fine, ideally not HDMI but can be worked around. Total cost for mobo should not exceed 150 GBP Thanks!. I'm not a hardware guy, but I think he's going to be pushing it to get required and wish list all for under £150 knowing UK prices. Quote Link to comment
binhex Posted June 12, 2018 Author Share Posted June 12, 2018 I'm not a hardware guy, but I think he's going to be pushing it to get required and wish list all for under £150 knowing UK prices.Well wish list is just that, as long as required is doable then that's fine.Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
ken-ji Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASROCK-Socket-1151-V2-90-MXB760-A0UAYZ-Board-Black/dp/B07BMVV827 Seems like this will tick all your boxes save for IPMI... not really familiar if there is an IPMI mobo for 8th gen i5 Quote Link to comment
binhex Posted June 13, 2018 Author Share Posted June 13, 2018 11 hours ago, ken-ji said: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASROCK-Socket-1151-V2-90-MXB760-A0UAYZ-Board-Black/dp/B07BMVV827 Seems like this will tick all your boxes save for IPMI... not really familiar if there is an IPMI mobo for 8th gen i5 Thanks!, that looks like a pretty good board, the best ive seen from my search results. Quote Link to comment
tdallen Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 Unfortunately you'll probably need to drop IPMI from your wishlist, and probably the on-board USB slot. Those are "server class" features (i.e. Xeon) and the 8th gen chips have only been released as consumer class chips (i.e. Core iX). Is there any required form factor for the mb? Quote Link to comment
Jcloud Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 (edited) https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-PRIME-H370-PLUS-Motherboard-Socket/dp/B07BR86775/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528913131&sr=8-1&keywords=H370-prime https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-PRIME-H370M-PLUS-Prime-H370M/dp/B07BP6W357/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1528913220&sr=1-1&keywords=H370M-prime The shop I work for sells these products, they're solid consumer boards. They're also CSM boards so ASUS will have these boards around (for RMA context). These are consumer boards so no IMPI or the USB-A header on the MLB. However these boards have plenty of internal USB ports so, something like this (USB3) or this (USB2) are cheap and not prone to failure - they're just not that sexy. Hope that's helpful. Edited June 13, 2018 by Jcloud Quote Link to comment
binhex Posted June 13, 2018 Author Share Posted June 13, 2018 Thanks Jcloud, those boards also look pretty damn good, ive actually gone with the Asrock board that ken-ji linked to, i got confirmation from another member on here that has the same board that its all working well, so that was enough to sway me to go for it. Thanks again guys for all the suggestions and comments, really appreciated. Quote Link to comment
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