The AMD v1000 series seems like the perfect system for a small form factor 1xM.2 2800 NVME + 1xSATA SSD/HDD Ceph OSD system. Connecting to an Infiniband backbone is paramount so a PCIE 3.0 x8 slot for QDR is a must have. Up to this point the best I've seen is PCIE 2.0 x8 outside of EPYC which is more costly.
So far the GigaIPC AMD Ryzen V1605B Quad Display Dual GbE LAN Mini ITX Motherboard LAN Mini ITX Motherboard is the only product I've found that has a PCIE slot built-in and is about $50 cheaper on MITXPC than Amazon/Newegg. Does anyone know of any other barebones V1000, preferably v1605b or better, with at least PCIE x8 expansion for less than $400?
So far the GigaIPC AMD Ryzen V1605B Quad Display Dual GbE LAN Mini ITX Motherboard LAN Mini ITX Motherboard is the only product I've found that has a PCIE slot built-in and is about $50 cheaper on MITXPC than Amazon/Newegg. Does anyone know of any other barebones V1000, preferably v1605b or better, with at least PCIE x8 expansion for less than $400?