robin gazi

Do they have the same number of PCI-e lanes? any retailers you can point to who'd be willing to sell? I'd need to to be delivered to Bangladesh.

I'd need a 2nd land card for virtualization purposes. And a x1 graphics card as well.

Hi, I am planning to rebuild/upgrade my home server running an ancient AMD 6800K. It has two x8 LSI HBAs with some 12 drives connected to it. The cards are PCI-E gen 2 (LSI 9211-8i). I also have an additional 100mbps Lan card and a USB drive for back ups. Now I am planning to go the AM4 route and get something like a 3600 or a 3700x and keep the 2 HBAs and the Lan card and add a cheap graphics card since the Ryzen chips don't have graphics. I am concerned about whether I would have enough PCI-E lanes for all the components. Will they work okay?

I currently have a NAS running on AMD A10-6800k apu, MSI FM2-A85XA-G43 motherboard (it has 8 sata ports), 8GB DDR3 1866 ram, and Windows server 2016. It has 7 2TB drives and a sata SSD. I know this is in no way ideal but this is what I have after 8/9 years of adding stuff and retiring stuff. The CPU I believe is a 100watt TDP and consumes a lot. I use it for plex, streaming at home and away, torrenting, storing photos and tv shows and movies. I want to upgrade the server and perhaps windows server 2019. I was thinking of Ryzen 2700 since it is cheap, 65watt TDP, here in Bangladesh. I recently ordered a used LSI HBA in JBOD mode, which requires a PCIE 2.0 x8 slot and a nvme SSD. But if I go for the Ryzen 2700, I'd need a gpu of some sort that would occupy the top x16 slot. I do not understand PCIE lanes at all. So I was wondering if anyone could tell me which motherboard I should choose or if I should rethink the CPU. I live in Bangladesh and there are limited options for getting stuff here. Basically this and this are the only decent stores from which I can buy a motherboard. Thanks in advance.