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There’s also this ASUS WS-PRO model that I’ve built many workstations with:
This one is unique due to having an 8-lane PCIe 3.0 slot connected via the chipset, which itself is connected to the CPU via 4-lane Gen4, resulting in three 8-lane slots at full bandwidth.
There’s no other Ryzen board which does this, so if you need to run multiple GPUs, HBA cards, capture cards, 10/25Gb Ethernet adapters etc, this is the one.
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Cheers. They're a fair bit more expensive than what I was looking at. I guess I'm really trying to work out what they offer over something cheaper like this
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/msi-mpg-x570-gaming-plus-amd-x570-am4-ddr4-pcie-40-dual-m2-2-way-crossfire-realtek-gbe-usb-32-gen2-a
aggi
Cheers and @Velocio
Machine will mainly be used as Plex server with NAS with various other stuff like radarr, sonarr, etc and a few other similar always-on stuff. Lots of drives so will be in an ATX case.
It will occasionally also be used for a bit of office and other random shit (through remote desktop). Ideally it would be two machines but I don't really have the space for that.
I don't anticipate changing much on it over the years. It won't be used for gaming/have a graphics card and, given it will likely be in a cupboard or similar, I won't be plugging much in.
The ASRock Rack ones sound interesting but I'm struggling to find much about them (or many places selling them in the UK).