Motherboard question - Suggest me a motherboard

[ggcs.tk]

OK I need a new motherboard

case it will be going in is a antec 4ru case (EATX compatible)

I'm looking for something that's not too expensive

What the board will need:

• at least one 16x PCIE slot (must be able to support NVIDIA/Radon Graphics card of at least 2GB Vram (preferably able to support 8GB Vram))
• Minimum 64GB ram capacity (the more the better)
• at least 8 CPU threads (single or dual CPU)
• 12 sata ports with onboard raid (or ability to take raid cards to have 2x5 port teams and 2 separate sata ports)
• dual 1000/100/10 Network ports (10 Gig would be wonderful but probably out of my price range)
• 1 PCI slot (old PCI wireless network router card) OR onboard wireless of router grade.
• onboard graphics OR iKVM and card available from dedicated IPMI Network port.
• USB 3.0 minimum 5 ports.
• onboard sound.

 

 

what will this system be used for?

• 4k Video rendering (on occasion)
• Video trans-coding/compression 
• Gaming (on occasion)
• Media/data serving (primary focus)
• Media playing (as smart PVR)
• Inbound Video stream recording (from a separate TV capture rig using network mapped storage) this video will be post compressed from raw TS streams.
• Blue ray playing or trans-code to video stream output.
• Data storage/serving (15TB current decentralized storage will be centralized in this unit)
• Running virtual machines for testing.
• will be used as a NAS/SAN for network storage of virtual HDD for systems (archival imaging of old data).

 

with the above in mind I know this will not be a cheap build but I would like to get it in as cost effectively as possible with some future proofing integrated.

I am In Australia to make matters worse so please keep in mind that anything suggested has to be available internationally or locally

 

 

Thanks in advance to all that reply.

 

[LightCode Gaming]

OK I need a new motherboard

case it will be going in is a antec 4ru case (EATX compatible)

I'm looking for something that's not too expensive

What the board will need:

• at least one 16x PCIE slot (must be able to support NVIDIA/Radon Graphics card of at least 2GB Vram (preferably able to support 8GB Vram))
• Minimum 64GB ram capacity (the more the better)
• at least 8 CPU threads (single or dual CPU)
• 12 sata ports with onboard raid (or ability to take raid cards to have 2x5 port teams and 2 separate sata ports)
• dual 1000/100/10 Network ports (10 Gig would be wonderful but probably out of my price range)
• 1 PCI slot (old PCI wireless network router card) OR onboard wireless of router grade.
• onboard graphics OR iKVM and card available from dedicated IPMI Network port.
• USB 3.0 minimum 5 ports.
• onboard sound.

 

 

what will this system be used for?

• 4k Video rendering (on occasion)
• Video trans-coding/compression 
• Gaming (on occasion)
• Media/data serving (primary focus)
• Media playing (as smart PVR)
• Inbound Video stream recording (from a separate TV capture rig using network mapped storage) this video will be post compressed from raw TS streams.
• Blue ray playing or trans-code to video stream output.
• Data storage/serving (15TB current decentralized storage will be centralized in this unit)
• Running virtual machines for testing.
• will be used as a NAS/SAN for network storage of virtual HDD for systems (archival imaging of old data).

 

with the above in mind I know this will not be a cheap build but I would like to get it in as cost effectively as possible with some future proofing integrated.

I am In Australia to make matters worse so please keep in mind that anything suggested has to be available internationally or locally

 

 

Thanks in advance to all that reply.

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I was going to suggest the Gigabyte Z97 G5, but it doesn't have enough sata ports.

[OAcesync]

OK I need a new motherboard

case it will be going in is a antec 4ru case (EATX compatible)

I'm looking for something that's not too expensive

What the board will need:

• at least one 16x PCIE slot (must be able to support NVIDIA/Radon Graphics card of at least 2GB Vram (preferably able to support 8GB Vram))
• Minimum 64GB ram capacity (the more the better)
• at least 8 CPU threads (single or dual CPU)
• 12 sata ports with onboard raid (or ability to take raid cards to have 2x5 port teams and 2 separate sata ports)
• dual 1000/100/10 Network ports (10 Gig would be wonderful but probably out of my price range)
• 1 PCI slot (old PCI wireless network router card) OR onboard wireless of router grade.
• onboard graphics OR iKVM and card available from dedicated IPMI Network port.
• USB 3.0 minimum 5 ports.
• onboard sound.

 

 

what will this system be used for?

• 4k Video rendering (on occasion)
• Video trans-coding/compression 
• Gaming (on occasion)
• Media/data serving (primary focus)
• Media playing (as smart PVR)
• Inbound Video stream recording (from a separate TV capture rig using network mapped storage) this video will be post compressed from raw TS streams.
• Blue ray playing or trans-code to video stream output.
• Data storage/serving (15TB current decentralized storage will be centralized in this unit)
• Running virtual machines for testing.
• will be used as a NAS/SAN for network storage of virtual HDD for systems (archival imaging of old data).

 

with the above in mind I know this will not be a cheap build but I would like to get it in as cost effectively as possible with some future proofing integrated.

I am In Australia to make matters worse so please keep in mind that anything suggested has to be available internationally or locally

 

 

Thanks in advance to all that reply.

This doesn't make a lot of sense Motherboards do not affect the CPU or GPU specs 

[ggcs.tk]

OAcesync to reply to your statement: This doesn't make a lot of sense Motherboards do not affect the CPU or GPU specs 

• They can it depends on the motherboard in this case i have listed the GPU and CPU requirements as some of the features I am interested in are usually on server boards which limit CPU types in some cases to the point of only supporting quad core cpus but must run two for example.
• some Limit GPu due to compatibility issues
   

here is an example where CPU types not matching the main-board can cause headaches (also CPU coolers are an issue if there is a narrow ILM on the board):

 

Even Linus gets a different Mainboard in the end because it doesn't work

And on an even simpler note AMD and Intel are Different sockets so yes Mainboards do effect the CPU.

 

[ggcs.tk]

The other question is what graphics Card should I look at as this will be a rack-mount system I will need to be able to remote in and use the system so will need a GPU that works over RDP at 4k, I'm assuming that a lot of network bandwidth ill be needed anybody had any experience with 4k over RDP?
 

As for motherboard I'm thinking this type of board: ASRock X99 WS-E/10G LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard
 

Specs:

1. Server-Grade 10G LAN Chip Support
2. Microsoft® Windows® Server 2012 R2 64-bit / Server 2012 64-bit / Server 2008 R2 64-bit Support
3. ASRock Super Alloy
   - XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink
   - Premium 60A Power Choke
   - Premium Memory Alloy Choke
   - Ultra Dual-N MOSFET (UDM)
   - Nichicon 12K Platinum Caps
   - Sapphire Black PCB
4. Supports Intel® Core™ i7 and Xeon® E5-1600/2600 v3 Processor Family for the LGA 2011-3 Socket, up to 18 Cores and 160W
5. Digi Power, 12 Power Phase design
6. Supports Quad Channel DDR4 3200+(OC), with maximum capacity up to 128GB
7. Supports DDR4 UDIMM ECC*, RDIMM Memory (*ECC is supported with Intel® Xeon® processors.)
8. 7 PCIe 3.0 x16, 4-Way SLI™ & 4-Way CrossFireX™ (x16) supported by PLX 8747 bridge
9. 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1150 Audio Codec), Supports Purity Sound™ 2 & DTS Connect
10. 2 x 10G LAN (Supported by Intel® X540), 2 x Gigabit LAN (Supported by Intel® I210AT), Intel® Quad LAN with Teaming Function
11. 12 x SATA3, 1 x eSATA, 1 x SATA Express, 1 x M.2 (PCIe Gen2 x4 & SATA3), 1 x SATA DOM
12. 8 x USB 3.0 (4 Front, 4 Rear), 8 USB 2.0 (4 Front, 4 Rear), 1 x USB DOM
13. Supports ASRock Full Spike Protection, APP Shop, Full HD UEFI

this board meets all the below:

• at least one 16x PCIE slot (must be able to support NVIDIA/Radon Graphics card of at least 2GB Vram (preferably able to support 8GB Vram)  this board is supposed to be able to support 4 cards at 12 gig a card)
• Minimum 64GB ram capacity (the more the better)
• at least 8 CPU threads (18 cores is more than enough)
• 12 sata ports  ( not sure if this has an onboard raid)
• dual 1000/100/10 Network ports (10 Gig would be wonderful but probably out of my price range dual 10g and dual 1g nics)
• USB 3.0 minimum 5 ports.
• onboard sound.

 

 

the only thing I'm going to be disappointed it that it doesn't support the following any ways around the issue would be appreciated

• 1 PCI slot (old PCI wireless network router card) OR onboard wireless of router grade.
• onboard graphics OR iKVM and card available from dedicated IPMI Network port.