Industrial Mainboard

[TFOSAFEG254]

Dear Community,

 

I am in need of a motherboard for my small engineering company.

The motherboard should be capable of supporting the latest CPUs, be robust, well-designed, and known for its high quality and professionalism.

 

Which manufacturers have a good portfolio for such requirements? Who are considered the best motherboard manufacturers for industrial and non-consumer purposes?

 

Thank you very much in advance!

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

uhhh what features do you need? stuff like wifi usb portspcie bifurcation etc. cause by that description even a b650m hdv will do just fine

[DoctorNick]

6 minutes ago, TFOSAFEG254 said:

Dear Community,

 

I am in need of a motherboard for my small engineering company.

The motherboard should be capable of supporting the latest CPUs, be robust, well-designed, and known for its high quality and professionalism.

 

Which manufacturers have a good portfolio for such requirements? Who are considered the best motherboard manufacturers for industrial and non-consumer purposes?

 

Thank you very much in advance!

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

Your requirement is very vague. What's the requirement for the PC running the motherboard. What is the PC used for etc?

[Needfuldoer]

If the computers are that mission-critical, you should be shopping for Dell or HP workstations with an on-site support contract. Forget DIY.

 

They're not cheap, but they're cheaper than downtime if their absence will grind your operation to a halt.

 

EDIT:

1 minute ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

If It's a server, supermicro is the first name that comes to mind when it comes to enterprise server hardware

Yuck.

Edited August 7 by Needfuldoer

[AndreiArgeanu]

Depends on what you're making, is it a server or workstations for employees. If It's a server, supermicro is the first name that comes to mind when it comes to enterprise server hardware, but I'm not particularly experienced in that realm. For workstations I'd probably recommend at looking what Puget systems uses given their reputation and possibly buying a few extras as cold spares in case something breaks in the future. There's also various options from the likes of Asus who advertise creator or workstation specific motherboards that might be worth looking at.

 

At the same time if it's a small company like a startup it might be worth just saving the money and picking something more value oriented instead of looking for the professionally branded stuff that might not be so different from your average consumer hardware, especially when it comes to workstations.

[TFOSAFEG254]

@DoctorNick @Somerandomtechyboi

 

First of all, Thanks for your quick replies.

I don't need Bluetooth or WLAN; the PCs should just be fast and able to handle large workloads.

Additionally, our manufacturing site is a bit humid, so the motherboard needs to be robust. We require industrial-grade peripherals, so no HDMI or similar ports. We need DisplayPort, fast PCIe slots, DDR5 RAM, and two M.2 slots for 2280 M.2 SSDs.

 

Most manufacturers offer a wide palette of motherboards to choose from, but I need to identify a suitable manufacturer first.

 

What do you think of Advantech, Kontron, ASUS IoT, AAEON, Supermicro, or iEi Integration Corp.? Maybe DFI?

[TFOSAFEG254]

9 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

If the computers are that mission-critical, you should be shopping for Dell or HP workstations with an on-site support contract. Forget DIY.

 

They're not cheap, but they're cheaper than downtime if their absence will grind your operation to a halt.

 

EDIT:

Yuck.

We have a very small business and need to do the "support" ourselves. On-Site support is too expensive

[AndreiArgeanu]

11 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Yuck.

Is there actually anything wrong with them? I've seen LTT use them heavily in their servers which is why they come to mind, including their storinators.

[Needfuldoer]

4 minutes ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

Is there actually anything wrong with them? I've seen LTT use them heavily in their servers which is why they come to mind, including their storinators.

I've seen more inexplicable hardware failures from SuperMicro than from Dell and HP servers combined, their IPMI is last-century compared to iDRAC and iLO, and their support is far worse.

 

Whiteboxes in critical production use sketch me out. I spent too long supporting homebuilt "servers" built out of desktop parts in a rackmount chassis, all slightly different from each other.

[DoctorNick]

57 minutes ago, TFOSAFEG254 said:

@DoctorNick @Somerandomtechyboi

 

First of all, Thanks for your quick replies.

I don't need Bluetooth or WLAN; the PCs should just be fast and able to handle large workloads.

Additionally, our manufacturing site is a bit humid, so the motherboard needs to be robust. We require industrial-grade peripherals, so no HDMI or similar ports. We need DisplayPort, fast PCIe slots, DDR5 RAM, and two M.2 slots for 2280 M.2 SSDs.

 

Most manufacturers offer a wide palette of motherboards to choose from, but I need to identify a suitable manufacturer first.

 

What do you think of Advantech, Kontron, ASUS IoT, AAEON, Supermicro, or iEi Integration Corp.? Maybe DFI?

But what workloads? Is it a dusty environment? Is this for CAD or is it for CNC?

[anirudthelinuxwIzard]

@TFOSAFEG254 I can second @Needfuldoer advice of getting a Dell or HP worstation, preferable with a MIL-STD-810 rating.

[Bagzie]

Don't know many motherboards known for there professionalism.