ASRock AM4 Rack X570D4U-2L2T

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I’ll look into a better LSI HBA option…open to recommendations as I can’t say I am very familiar with their line. That was supposed to read LSI 9207 by the way – sorry for the typo! Or maybe I just use a breakout cable on the second port of that card with SFF-8087 to SATA so I can pass through some SATA SSDs…not sure if there is a way to pass through NVME that way.

This change of mind return policy is in addition to, and does not affect your rights under the Australian Consumer Law including any rights you may have in respect of faulty items. To return faulty items see our Returning Faulty Items policy.Whilst there seems to be a lot of bad points, I have managed to overcome all of them, with the exception of the RAM which I hope will be fixed with a BIOS update.

I like that they’re working well but I’m worried that I’m not fully getting my money’s worth with this RAM. Any thoughts?

Price development

Ok, so this board is not perfect. I will start with what I believe to be a design flaw that I currently suffer through, but that may be a deal breaker for many prospect buyers. There is a fundamental and inherent layout and power delivery design incompatibility: you have three PCIe lanes that fight for space and electronics, and there are no ideal configurations to maximize the potential of this board. Holes for CPU cooler meant the orientation of a Noctua Cooler had the fans blowing upwards rather than to the rear of the case)

RAM will only run at 2133MHz despite using 3200Mhz modules. There are no BIOS settings to be able to adjust As others have mentioned, the RAM slots are REALLY close to the CPU. My CPU cooler hangs over the nearest RAM slot so I'm limited to using just 2 of the 4 slots, at least until I go to the trouble of replacing the CPU cooler. I would prefer to have seen even a single USB 2.0 header on the board somewhere, especially on the IO panel, but that does not cause me major heartburn. The KVM is available via HTML5 or Java, and one small perk over the Supermicro HTML5 client is the ability to easily mount CD/DVD ISO media directly from the HTML5 KVM client. Since the inclusion of the BMC is the defining feature of this motherboard, executing this feature well is a must and the solution on the X570D4U-2L2T mostly works well and does not require any additional licensing for full functionality. I just recently installed a X570D4U with a Ryzen R7 3800X. Everything is working fine (running Unraid on it) except the IPMI is not really working correctly or I missed something.When it comes to benchmarking storage arrays, application testing is best, and synthetic testing comes in second place. While not a perfect representation of actual workloads, synthetic tests do help to baseline storage devices with a repeatability factor that makes it easy to do apples-to-apples comparisons between competing solutions.