Question Recommendations for a low-powered Micro-ITX board ?

[gucurich]

Hi

I am looking for a low-powered Micro-ITX board which will allow the connection of a couple of SSDs. Onboard WiFi would be useful. I will need to pair with a CPU (Ryzen hopefully) and memory and storage.

Thanks for the help.

Rich

 

[CountMike]

Hi

I am looking for a low powered micro-itx board which will allow the connection of a couple of ssds. Onboard WiFi would be useful. I will need to pair with a CPU (Ryzen hopefully) and memory and storage.

Thanks for the help.

Rich

Which Ryzen, there are already 5 CPU generations, 2 socket generations and each with 4 to 16 cores. Newest generation starts with 6 cores. Not all are suitable for small factor motherboards because of required power usage. Some have IGPU, some better than others and some do not have any. Those with letter G have best IGPU and those from 8000 series. All together more than 50 SKUs.
So your first homework would be to decide on CPU according to your needs.

 

[gucurich]

Thanks for the reply.
I want to run a Jellyfin server and a magic mirror configuration. So I am looking at either Ryzen 5 5600G or if budget fits then 8600G.
What do you think?

 

[LordVile]

Any reason you could get a barebones box, install your own RAM and storage and go from there? Thy typically use mobile processors and are tiny. You could also go for a small prebuilt or a Mac mini.

 

[gucurich]

No thanks on Mac Mini. I did wonder about barebones but I like the upgradeable self built system.