I’m sorry to disappoint you, in that this is a consumer motherboard. So yes, AMD PSP exists, no iLO.

However, that’s where the bad part ends.

Behold, what is in my opinion, the most server-like MicroATX board released to the consumers: the MSI PRO B550M-VC WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard/alternate link.

If you followed the link and read the specifications you would know exactly what I’m talking about, but for people who didn’t, here is the summary:

  • 4 x16 ports (3 of them work at x1 speeds, the one closest to the CPU is PCI Express 5.0 x16).
  • 8 SATA3 ports (people who wanted to build a NAS should be visibly salivating at this point).

Apart from that, there are 2 nice features that I would personally like to point out, as I look for these features in every board:

  • 128GB of RAM supported (no ECC, and I suppose a lot of motherboards support it now, but nice to have).
  • A 2230 E-key slot.
    • I know a few of you might be wondering why I’m mentioning the slot used for a WiFi card in this post - I invite you to take a look at this.
      • It’s a link to an Aliexpress item, so if you don’t want to click, here’s a short version: It’s an E-key to 2.5Gbe converter, using a Realtek RTL8125B chip. It’s amazing, I learnt about these adapters from a random Level1Techs video. I think a lot of people could use this.

And there you have it. If you’re building a system that requires heavy PCIe access and a lot of SATA3 storage, I think this is the best value you can find when purchasing new.

Cheers

  • Qazwsxedcrfv000AEnglish
    16•1 year ago
    1. The first PCIe x16 slot should be 4.0 only. PCIe 5.0 is not supported until AM5.
    2. Most AM4 CPUs support ECC memory. So you can use DDR4 ECC UDIMM with this board. The problem is that the ECC feature support is incomplete.
    3. Half of the 8 SATA3 ports are from the chipset while the remaining half is from AM1064.
    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Thanks for pointing that out. Newegg and Microcentre say it’s PCIe 5.0, but maybe I got the board wrong. I’ll correct it (Lemmy.world has been horrible today; I can’t edit posts, can’t reply to anyone and am having a generally awful experience).

      I didn’t know about the ECC memory, thanks.

      I don’t see the problem in using different chips if you’re using an FS that deals directly with the drives, unless the chip is an unreliable one