Minimum Viable General-Purpose VM Server

mutation666 · February 15, 2020, 9:01pm

I highly recommend you read the thread on that board. While Asrock Rack has done well in the past this board has had some mixed issues.

ASRock Rack has created the first AM4 socket server boards, X470D4U, X470D4U2-2T Motherboards

ASRock Rack Product Page Ever since Ryzens release I have been waiting for this. This product, as far as I know, the first AM4 socketed server grade motherboard that is going to be released. This would be great for budget minded homelabbers that don’t need a million Threadripper or Xeon cores. Someone like me for example. This would be an awesome budget VM host. I cannot wait to get my hands on one. Here are some of the biggest features: X470 Chipset ECC UDIMM DDR4 is supported (up to 64GB) PCIe 3.0 x16 (splittable to x4/x4/x4/x4) IMPI via Realtek RTL8211E chipset ASPEED AST2500 with 256MB VRAM for basic display via VGA Dual Gigabit LAN via Intel i210 chipset Dual M.2 slots Dual USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports Serial and VGA ports on the back. Better late than never! EDIT: Added iGPU detail 2nd Edit: Added model names: X470D4U, X470D4U2-2T

There are a ton of x470 boards with 2 nics on it so really all you get is the IPMI and I guess the igpu. You could throw a low power gpu in if you want on any x470 and still have similar experience. If you are set on it, I dont blame you but I was in a similar decision but ended up on an x570 to give me pcie 4.0 for the future (only 2700 in it atm) and the lane spit i wanted and x470 was more expensive.