I have been looking for a server motherboard and this is in my price range, but I ran across links where this board craps out. Has anyone here for more than a year without problems? I don’t want to buy a board and have problems like in the link below. I am wanting to run Proxmox on it.
There have been reports about failures and the slow BIOS updates aren’t very encouraging. If you can live without IPMI Asus ProArt X670E-CREATOR have proven to be a reliable board and popular here on the forums. If you want a cheaper one Asus ROG Strix B650E-E Gaming WiFi might be of interest, both support ECC memory (if that’s a requirement) and uses Intel onboard LAN. Be aware of PCIe sharing on B650* boards and both also supports splitting 16x PCIe slots into 8x.
I don’t really need IPMI, so I can get by without it. This will be a home server, mostly for tinkering with. Except for my Pi4, everything else is old. Wanting something newer with more power.
If you don’t need “all” PCIe lanes the cheaper B650E-E will do fine, you might even want to look at the ROG Strix B650E-F in that regard. I’m not sure what CPU you’re looking at but I would recommend sticking to the 65W ones unless you have specific requirements.