can anyone recommend me a x570 board for my needs

intertan · July 7, 2019

strictly an unraid board. I do require an extra drive even m.2 for plex meta data.

cpu will probably be 3900x. waiting for a few peoples response before purchasing.

case is norco 4224 with a max of hot swap drives of 24.If I can find a good equivalent then will go with that.will need to be rack mountable.

I am upgrading my current setup to this and have a few components to move over

mainly the hba cards 3 cards that support 8 drives each. I don't need all 3 in the new system as long as I can get 24 drives plus an extra drive for plex.

Jurrunio · July 7, 2019

what form factor of boards can it hold?

intertan · July 7, 2019

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

what form factor of boards can it hold?

Support EEB (12″x13″), CEB(12″x10.5″), ATX (12″x9.6″), Micro ATX (9.6″ x 9.6″), Mini-ITX (6.7″ x 6.7″) motherboard

direct from there site http://www.norcotek.com/product/rpc-4224/

Jurrunio · July 7, 2019

21 minutes ago, intertan said:

Support EEB (12″x13″), CEB(12″x10.5″), ATX (12″x9.6″), Micro ATX (9.6″ x 9.6″), Mini-ITX (6.7″ x 6.7″) motherboard

direct from there site http://www.norcotek.com/product/rpc-4224/

These are the only boards with 3 PCIe x16 slots and 8 SATA ports, in other words as good as it gets to hold a ton of drives through expansion cards while still having a GPU.

Asrock X370 and X470, Asus X370-Pro, X370-F dont have bios flashback, in other words need older CPU to work with 3900x. not saying they are bad choices but they arent as good as the others.

As for VRM, the Asus X370-Pro can't do it for the 12 core. Even 8 core is on the edge of breaking it.

Crosshair VI Extreme is the only EATX board, check the size first before considering it.

And then you can pick based on brand preference and other features.

fr05ty · July 8, 2019

I'm currently thinking about going through this myself and making it my gaming rig as well, then donating my 6700k to my dad.

To cut down on the HBA cards needed for 24 bays you might want to think about one of these res2sv240 sas extender cards(around $90 usd on ebay) it can be powered off a molex power cable and stuck (non conductive tape of course) to the inside of the case or plug into a spare pcie slot, it does not transfer any data over the pcie lane it connects back to the HBA via 1 or 2 (your choice) 8087 cables

Eg. if you have a lsi-9201-16i + res2sv240 you could have 8 drives (2x8087 to what ever the back plane uses) off the 9201-16i then 2x 8087cables connected to the extender for another 16 connected dives from that and only taking up 1 pcie x8 slot and x1 slot.. or 1 HBA cards + 2 extenders. 1 cable from the HBA to each extender gives you 40 drives in total (i know overkill but just split it up 3 ports off each extender to the back plane to maximize the throughput)

Here is a link to the unraid forum about the cards https://forums.unraid.net/topic/49340-hbasassata-controller-and-sas-expanders/

i use one of these in my system currently and never had a problem with it i have just plug and play, I have 15 drives running off it. hope this helps making the choice easier.