Need a quality ECC supporting motherboard under $150-$175 USD

TheEnthusiast

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Hello again World,

I have spent a couple weeks trying to research and choose a quality server motherboard that supports ECC memory and costs somewhere between $150-175 USD. It must be for an LGA1150 socket.

This has been substantially more difficult than I thought it would, seeing as how every time I think I have found a good candidate, I stumble upon a disturbing amount of poor reviews for said board. I'm referring to YOU Supermicro..

I have waiting, 16GB of ECC ram, and will be supporting 4-6 users daily who perform light tasks simutaneously. I will run Windows Server 2008 R2 and will be hosting an Active Directory, File, Printer, DNS, DHCP, Backup, and Media server on this one machine. I will likely host my small Website off this server as well, which is strictly a Resume/About me page for new contacts of mine. I have (in RAID5) qty:5 of 2Tb WD NAS HDDs with my OS on a 240Gb SSD. This is more than enough storage trust me. I am really trying NOT to have to buy an LSI RAID card such as the 9260 because I dont want to fork out another $275-300 right now. I am debating on whether or not I will need to purchase a Xeon like the 1240v3 cpu or if I can keep my older i7-3770. I also have a Pentium G3258 server 2008 R2 that I could dedicate to managing my Print and Backup server roles(just a thought, in case i can get away with keeping my 3770).

Please, if you have any experience with non-enterprise requirement Servers, please enlighten me as to a couple options for a RELIABLE quality motherboard that accepts ECC memory.
 
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Hello,

You will need a motherboard sporting a C222, C224 or C226 chipset; unfortunately, they are out of your reach, as a decent motherboard as ASUS P9D-E/4L will run you close to 350$ (it has 14 SATA ports and 4 LAN ports). Around your budget limit you should find an Asus P9D-X or Intel DBS1200V3RPS, but they have only 6 SATA ports.

You already have a very capable CPU (i7-3770), you won't see notable improvements going for that particular Xeon (which by the way don't have an integrated GPU; E3-1246 V3 has P4600). An ECC memory subsystem will help your system to run more stable and prevents data corruption, but if you keep your system in best shape you'll have no problems with non-ECC memory.

rdc85

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most mainstream mobo don't support ECC officially, some unofficial support only ECC un-buffered rams one..
to get buffered ECC u need sever grade mobo, and equivalent processor..

make sure what your ram u using is it un-buffered or buffered ECC rams, u have...
 

Cristi72

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Hello,

You will need a motherboard sporting a C222, C224 or C226 chipset; unfortunately, they are out of your reach, as a decent motherboard as ASUS P9D-E/4L will run you close to 350$ (it has 14 SATA ports and 4 LAN ports). Around your budget limit you should find an Asus P9D-X or Intel DBS1200V3RPS, but they have only 6 SATA ports.

You already have a very capable CPU (i7-3770), you won't see notable improvements going for that particular Xeon (which by the way don't have an integrated GPU; E3-1246 V3 has P4600). An ECC memory subsystem will help your system to run more stable and prevents data corruption, but if you keep your system in best shape you'll have no problems with non-ECC memory.
 
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