
The only server motherboard that allows you to use a consumer grade Zen 4 CPU. For workload that is not memory bound, a 16-core Ryzen 7950X will outrun any 16-core EPYC, at half the price or less.

Great board; they really pack a lot into a small form factor!

Great little server CPU. Not costs only a tiny bit more than a 9600x but includes some nice enterprise-level features like transparent memory encryption. Makes for a great home lab CPU.

Sturdy, well made, quiet, all the pieces were there.


- Great for the price - USB 2 and 3 front headers - 5.25" device slot, very useful to add hot swappable drives

The LSI-9305 required no setup. Merely plug it in, connect the SAS cables to the backplane and poof, done. This card supports 3.0 and 6.0 gb/s hard drives and SSD's

Solidly constructed: I'm confident will hold my (expensive) equipment Came with maybe a dozen cage nuts



- I/O for days, there is so so much I/O for something this size! 6x slimsas 8x gen 4!!!!!! WuT! -Asrock Rack worked a pcb engineering miracle! -Seems really well made and all the features of a full size server -Perfect board for the ultimate home server built in a boutique sff. -A great option for the cheap oem 32 core 7d12 if you want to put this in something small the 7d12's lower power is easy to keep cool, also the 7d12 is a 4 memory channel chip so you are not wasting any slots! -Got on sale for $379 insane deal.


Very well designed.

Lots of space, well ventilated, light but sturdy.

-Durable powdercoat -Sturdy -Rack nuts are neither too loose nor too tight. Can be removed without a tool, but they don't fall out.

Used with an intel core 2 ultra 9 285k on an asus ws w880-ace se, and it has worked flawlessly with the expected 4400MT/sec (what it is supposed to be at with 4x) and ECC.

Small, sturdy design Nice looking face plate

I gave this product full stars because is worked as advertised without issue successfully from day one for the last ninety days plus. This is after two failed attempts using the ASUS Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE and a six month hiatus. For details, see my Total Disaster Newegg review for that ASUS motherboard. Other than solid quality and solid reliability, it is difficult for me to review this Gigabyte board. The reason is that the board is most definitely designed to be a server motherboard. I configured it into a workstation motherboard.

