I am considering reusing some older components and wanted to know if going with an LGA 1150 motherboard still makes sense today. Are there any reliable new models still available, or should I move on to a newer platform? Would appreciate advice on performance, compatibility, and upgrade options.
It all depends on what you plan to do with it.
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What are the specs of the motherboard? Personally, I wouldn’t go with a motherboard for TrueNAS unless it had:
- ECC memory support
- NVMe slot for my boot drive
- IPMI Support - to access the console of my server remotely
- Eight SATA ports
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IMHO pro are
- 1150 CPU Xeon are pretty cheap (ca ~20-25€ on aliexpress) and available, and with the 4@8 core they provide more than enough power to handle quite everything in an home nas; i3 also have ecc support, better to keep power consumption low, Xeon 4@4 are not so convenient IMHO
- server grade motherboard not cost much
cons:
- DDR3 ECC UDIMM are not so easy to find (REG instead are cheap and easy to find), and you will be capped in any case to 32gb max
- old architecture = more idle power consume
- hard to finde NVME native support, and hard that those mainboard can boot from NVME+adapter (sweet things to preserve SATA ports trust me
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IMHO, if you move into Intel 7gen, you will spend pratically the same with more benefits
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For whatever it’s worth, you can see my post at Doing a motherboard transplant to upgrade my NAS - #25 by MarkHoltz on the cost of the hardware for a fairly modern CPU (i7-14700k) from my perspective in USD. Unfortunately, the big cost was the motherboard that supported ECC memory.
Do you need to spend that much money when starting out? No. You have to define what you are going to do. If I was personally starting out again, I wouldn’t touch anything less than DDR4 ECC memory.
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