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Whitebox Homelab Motherboards

This page contains a list of tried and tested homelab motherboards, as well as links to community members articles and reviews.

Section titled “Popular & Tested Whitebox Homelab Motherboards”
ATX Motherboards

Manufacturer

Model

Socket

DIMM Slots

Maximum RAM

Onboard NICs

PCI Slots

IPMI/ILO?

Notes

SuperMicro

X9SRH-7TF

LGA 2011

8x DDR3

512GB ECC

2x Intel X540 10GBase-T

1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 (in x16)
1x PCI-E 2.0 x4 (in x8)
2x PCI-32 slots

Yes

None

Supermicro

X10SRH-CLN4F

LGA 2011

8x ECC 3DS LRDIMM or
DDR4- 2400

1024GB ECC

4x Intel i350-AM4 GbE LAN

1x PCI-E 3.0 x4 (in x8)
1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 (in x16)
2x PCI-E 3.0 x8
1x PCI-E 2.0 x2 (in x4)
1x PCI-E 2.0 x4 (in x8)

Yes

None

Tyan

S8010WGM2NR

C32

6x ECC DDR3

64GB ECC

2x 1GbE LAN

2x PCI-E 2.0 x8
1x PCI-E 2.0 x8 (in x16)
1x PCI

Yes

LSI SAS2008

Model

ATX Motherboards

Manufacturer Model Socket DIMM Slots Maximum RAM Onboard NICs PCI Slots IPMI/ILO? Notes
SuperMicro MBD-X11SSH-LN4F LGA 1151 4x ECC DDR4 SDRAM 72-bit, 288-pin (UDIMM) 64GB 4 x 1GbE Intel i210-AT 3x PCI-E 3.0 IPMI 2.0 M.2 SATA (PCI-E)
Model

Micro-ATX Motherboards

Manufacturer Model Socket DIMM Slots Maximum RAM Onboard NICs PCI Slots IPMI/ILO? Notes
SuperMicro X10SDV Embedded Xeon-D (2-16 cores w/ HT) 4x DDR4-2133/ 1600/ 1333MHz DIMM Slots 128GB Various 1G & 10G ports IPMI 2.0 via Dedicated 1G 1x PCIe 3.0 x16 1x M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4, M Key 2242/2280

Mini-ITX Motherboards