I'm looking for a do-all home system, something to store camera video, maybe act as media center, and host some files. This maybe over-kill, but this is what I came up with so far
I did some searching through Reddit's Small Form Factor PC, I picked up a few ideas. Most pointed idea was the link for PCPartPicker to look for Mini-ITX boards with ECC memory. I first looked at the Asus P11C-I, but it didn't have any HDMI or Display Ports, which force the use of a Graphics card. But I did like their CPU Listing site for selecting CPUs.
There was the ASRock Rack Motherboard C236 WSI, but it doesn't appear to have a location for an M.2 storage card.
But the selector didn't show what I was looking for. In a reddit post I came across GigaByte C246N-WU2 which suits my needs better.
- GIGABYTE C246N-WU2 LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel C246 SATA 6Gb/s Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
- Intel Xeon E-2176G Coffee Lake 3.70 GHz LGA-1151 80W CM8068403380018 Server Processor Intel UHD Graphics P630 - maybe overkill, and 80W, more than the recommended 65W for the case
- Crucial 16GB DDR4 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) Server Memory CT16G4WFD8266
- Fractal Design Node 202 case. Some discussion on fans - may need a custom 3D duct for short CPU fan. 202 designs. more fan stuff
- Noctua NH-L9i fan (but may need a printed 3D duct)
- Western Digital WD BLACK SN750 NVMe M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 64-layer 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
- CORSAIR SF Series SF450 450W 80 PLUS GOLD Active PFC SFX SFX12V Micro ATX Full Modular Power Supply
- Total: CDN $2000
As a reference, there is also SFF.Network for small form factor systems.
- Chassis
- Premium Builds has some MiniITX case suggestions.
- Supermicro Superchassis CSE-721TQ-250B Mini-Tower with 250W Power Supply - seems to have good airflow
- SilverStone but their airflow doesn't look good