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Motherboard for Homelab recommendations? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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Hi there peeps,

Currently got an old B250M Performance motherboard, although it does the job im looking to upgrade to something that is AM4 compatible, already bought a wraith stealth cpu cooler for dead cheap second hand.

I'm changing from Debian to Unraid too, mainly using the server as media server, but hosting some other apps too. Only got one ssd, the rest are hdds, so multiple ssd slots are not much of interest for now at least.

Is there anything I should be looking for in a motherboard whilst browsing? Anything that would make it more future proof etc? I don't really know a whole lot about Motherboards.

Appreciate any tips 😇

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[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The ASRock X570 Phantom motherboard is $99 on Amazon right now. If you don't need IPMI or ECC RAM, this is the board to get. It has fantastic IOMMU groups, so it's very easy to do PCI-e hardware passthrough to VMs. I currently use it and have a GPU passed through to a VM for transcoding and an HBA passed through to a different VM for storage. This kind of thing can be a pain or impossible on the B-series motherboards.

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the recommendation! A few words I gotta loon up here though haha, I'm still a it new 😅