I am looking to buy PC MoBo with lots of memory and PCIe slots DDR4 etc

going to build as my chrismas present

 

Look on Amazon, you can get good bargains there. I bought an ASUS Prime B250 Pro complete with i5 CPU and fan for under 100 Euros. There are no moving parts that wear out on a motherboard (except the fan - but mine was fine). I've bought quite a lot of 2nd hand boards, CPU's and memory over the years and some of them are still going strong. I've always found ASUS components to be top quality and excellent support.

Most new motherboards don't have many PCIe slots, usually 2 or three. My B250 has three as does my wife's ASUS H110m-k

If I had the cash for a new board, I would go for this :
https://www.asus.com/microsite/motherboard/Intel-Z390/ROG/
Being able to throw 128GB RAM at it should sort you out, Not a lot of PCIe slots though

 

if on LGA1200 and 10th gen intel i9-10900K cpu

this is the one i'm going for, it has 5x pcie, just what i need for my 3x UAD2 Quad and RME HDSP9632 pcie:

https://rog.asus.com/fr/Motherboards/ROG-Strix/ROG-STRIX-Z490-E-GAMING-Model/

its a bit more expensive than the PRIME series, but there can be nothing wrong with a beefy "gaming" computer for pro-audio / DAW

 

I looked at the specs, I only see TWO PCIe and 6 x SATA

 

But there are 4 free PCIe slots (one is for GFX card). And if you use internal one - you have all 5 free.

 

hmmm it looks like im going to have to go for a supermicronics server board with more memory and lots

 

Take a look at the ASROCK Rack series. Server Boards (Intel & AMD) or Workstation Boards (Intel)

I have a build plan based on the EPYCD8-2T. 8 PCIe slots & 8 memory slots (1ch for testing, 2ch, 4ch, 8ch), ECC 3200.

8 & 16 core CPUs for this board have a U.S. list price below $1000. Anandtech has a few articles on the AMD EPYC 7002 series. Start with this one: AMD EPYC 7f52 Reviewed.

The board I was really thinking about - ASROCK Rack ROMED8-2T.

 

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It actually has 6 pci-e gen.3.
2 x16 physical size, config'd at either 1x16 or 2x8. It also has another x16 physical size only it runs at x4 from the chipset. And another 3 x1 pci-e slots.
@quadcore64 The ASRock EPYCD8-2T is a very nice mobo. I also like the Supermicro H12SSL-CT. In Europe it costs 470+VAT :

 

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did you check how much max memory supports the amd cpu you are going for? since im only an intel guy, the i9-10900k supports max 128gb ram, so 4 ports is just enough. tbh there is no need for more ram in pro audio/daw, unless u really want to use the same pc to run some sick ass server or else that requires a lot of ram.

 

ASRock EPYCD8-2T thats a cutie I love it that is what im looking for THANK YOU will now investigate further
but im on the right track

 

Nobody should buy this now. If you want to go Intel no matter, the (100mhz less in core clock and tb, otherwise identical) 10850K at about 70-100 dlrs less is the smart choice for simple desktop cpu

He wants to go big with a bang, so lemme place some more info here.
- AMD Epyc mobos like the ASRock and Supermicro posted can go up to 2 tb of ECC DDR4 ram.
- AMD Epyc 7002 series cpus come with 128 pci-e gen.4 lanes per cpu, out of the box and technically support up to 4tb of ECC ram. Typical build examples would be 4 gpus and 16 nvme ssds, lol. Or 3 gpus, 16 nvme ssds and a bunch of USB expansions + audio interface(s) for the workstation musician who also make their own videos.
- Btw, the Epyc 16 core/32 threads 7f52 has a base of 3.5 ghz and boosts up to 3.9. It has 256mb L3 cache lol. Costs about 3000 dlrs.
Speaking logically this is a huge investment, but one that may pay off in time considering the expandability of the system.

 

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MacPro has most of these actually and there's no PC/Windows counterparts to build from sadly

 

It´s not true
But the Mac Pro is impressive with the 12 RAM slots and 8 PCI-E (if my counting is correct XD)





But
this is on the next level 11 PCI-E and 16 RAM Slots (as well 2 CPU sockets )
Supermicro X11DPX-T bulk (saidly it´s Intel )


And most RAM goes to ( 24Slots)
Intel S2600WFQR



Or Single Socket nearly on par with the MAC
Supermicro X11SPA-T


If it makes sense to go for this is a different question

Personal I share the opinion with
taskforce that an AMD Epic build is the most interesting ATM (PCI-E 4.0 and more Powerful CPU’s to name just 2 Points)

 

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Some of those last mobos are incredible but are designed for slim rack-mounted servers. Well, like you almost said.
Only VGA output, no room for GPU, and incredibly noisy.

I think pretty much anything past 8 RAM slots is strictly for servers but probably there're a few exceptions for desktop workstations.

 

lol why do u need 2tb of ram for?

 

Most PC builders don't need or even want PCIe slots, so that's why. Also the H110m is a Micro ATX, it's reasonable to only have two 1x expansion slots + one 16x for the GPU. Both of these are entry level cheap and cheerful boards btw, if you want good stuff you gotta up the budget a bit.

Z390-based boards force you to go with 9th-gen Intel which is a terrible idea in 2020. Anything made in the last several years gives you 64 or 128 gigs, and you don't need more for desktop workloads, especially audio. Unless you're doing orchestral soundtracks, but then you're probably going to end up setting up several server machines anyway.

6x SATA is what you'll find on pretty much everything, there's a 6-port SATA controller in the chipset. Adding more would require them to purchase one more controller chip and find space for it. Most people wouldn't want to pay $25 more for 4 more SATA ports, so they don't bother. BTW you can get the same additional SATA controller on a PCIe card, look up SATA/SAS HBA cards.

Have fun waiting 15 minutes for your computer to start, server boards are a different beast from your regular desktop ones.

 

what your telling me ion this day and age your going to need for music more than 128 gigs of ram, my system has 64 gigs and im not going anywhere near it

 

I went Ryzen 5900x, Rx 6800 & 32 GB ram
Motherboard is Asrock X570 Pg Velocita.. it has 2 nvme, 8 Satas, a Thunderbolt header, High quality sound.

 

The Supermicro boards are interesting but, tend to lag behind in feature development such as PCIe 4.0 & Thunderbolt. Especially for AMD platform. The ASROCK Rack EPYCD8-2T was the only board with a full feature set plus PCIe 4.0 & Thunderbolt 3 when I started my build plan.