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Nice! I think that makes X570 a very interesting choice for a low-power yet powerful NAS, since you could easily add more drives than you could fit in almost any case with some PCIe 4.0 lanes What do you think?

Ahhh, you got into my head... now I'm thinking about using my current X570 Master and buying a 3950x when it comes out. Being 16c/32t at 105W it could do very well for an all-purpose server/NAS. I wonder if having PCIe 4.0 means that there could be new HBA cards that added the double of ports...

I was wondering if there's going to be HBA's that use PCIe 4.0 so there can be double the ports in a single HBA, it would be good for a x570 powered NAS.

I know that maybe I could do with that amount, but since I'm going to invest that amount of money now I want to future-proof as much as possible, if that makes sense. The PCI lanes are welcome too of course. I'm planning on using one alone in a NVMe * 4 adapter, which already takes a x16 out.

Thanks for your answer Philmatic. I actually have a desktop with a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master, so if I considered that option I could even use that board. The problem with AM4 is that it's pretty limited in regards of RAM. Theoretically you can get 256GB, but unbuffered DDR4 sticks are 16GB...

Would you have any recommendations about motherboard? My budget is ~ 1600€ for both mobo and CPU. I was looking at Supermicro H11SSL-i, althought it bothers me buying a board for a 7002 series without PCIe 4.

That's another option to consider, yes. The new series are a little bit more efficient, but maybe if I get a good deal it can be better value to buy an Epyc 1st Gen. Which board are you using?

Hello. I'm upgrading a server I have at home and I'm looking at Epyc & Threadripper CPUs. My needs are: 1 VM as main development server which also acts as CI/CD running tests Multiple VMs for testing VPN & firewall Media center (automation with Plex, Sonarr, Radarr...etc) I currently have...