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Asrock J3455-ITX Motherboard ~AU $116 Delivered (Free Delivery) @ Newegg

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Asrock J3455-ITX Motherboard ~AU $116 Delivered (Free Delivery) @ Newegg
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jztilly on 16/10/2018 - 18:56 newegg.com (1149 clicks)
Last edited 17/10/2018 - 01:59 by 1 other user

I've purchased 3 of these over the past few months for specific purposes (NAS, HTPC, Data recovery PC) and they're awesome. Last couple of boards cost me closer to $140AUD delivered (as they're not available in Australia).

The J3455B-ITX is available in Australia (for ~$130) but it lacks the extra 2 SATA ports and the M.2 slot. The only benefit the B model has is the PCIe x16 (although x2 electrically connected) slot vs the x1 slot in this board.

Great little boards - only 10W power utilisation and h265 decoding.

I'm not sure if there's free delivery on everything or not - but theres probably some other good deals on there.

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  • DU99 on 16/10/2018 - 19:10
    +1

    CPU Mention might help

  • JC1986 on 16/10/2018 - 19:19

    ram?

    • jztilly on 16/10/2018 - 20:08
      +2

      yeah you have to buy some and install it like any other motherboard ;)

  • jonathonsunshine on 16/10/2018 - 19:29

    Page says $104 with free shipping for me?

  • g12345567 on 16/10/2018 - 19:36

    This board has 2 x DDR3 2 x DDR3/DDR3L SO-DIMM Slots 16gb max (2GB DRAM per module is not supported).

    Should this be USB 3.1? Newegg listing only says 4 x USB 3.0. Asrock states 4 x USB 3.1.

  • Geekomatic on 16/10/2018 - 19:40

    So, the M.2 isn't for a drive but for wifi— is that correct?

    • jztilly on 16/10/2018 - 20:10

      not sure tbh. it says it supports a wifi module but i'm not sure why storage wouldn't work in it.

      • voltagex on 16/10/2018 - 20:16

        Depends on allocated PCIe lanes.

    • jztilly on 17/10/2018 - 10:01

      from the manual:

      • The M.2 socket does not support SATA M.2 SSDs.

      Does that also mean NVMe M.2 SSDs? I'll assume so

  • MdMa7 on 16/10/2018 - 19:41

    Can it bitstream DTS-MA & TrueHD?

    • pin4e on 16/10/2018 - 20:30

      Atmos?

    • asa79 on 17/10/2018 - 07:19

      7.1 hdmi so very likely

  • Bob81 on 16/10/2018 - 20:32
    +1

    Nice… Add in a IBM M1015, a couple of SAS fan-out cables and you can run a twelve drive FreeNAS setup. Pitty it doesn't support ECC RAM though.

    • [Deactivated] on 16/10/2018 - 21:30

      yup. Nice. Ordered.

    • jztilly on 17/10/2018 - 05:31

      woh is that an x1 pcie card?

    • futaris on 17/10/2018 - 10:43

      A LSI SAS9201-16e could be cheaper.

      https://www.serverbuilds.net/16-bay-das/

      • jztilly on 17/10/2018 - 11:42

        except it wont fit in the boards x1 slot :)

        • futaris on 17/10/2018 - 14:25

          Looks like any HBA will need a PCI Express 1x to 16x Riser to work on that board…

          PCI Express 2.0 x1 will only give about 500 MB/sec bandwidth. Might be an issue if you're running RAID or unRAID parity with more than 3 or 4 disks.

          Bottleneck will generally be Gigabit Ethernet in most other cases.

  • vash12 on 16/10/2018 - 21:50

    NAS in ITX form factor, so tempting.

    But have to somehow source out a sata/raid card, so maybe not.

    Currently ok with running unraid on my ML10v2 server, only limitation is can't run more VMS on the dual core cpu.

    • [Deactivated] on 16/10/2018 - 22:04

      Im tempted to put unRaid on this as well but not sure how well will do with it and VM limitations. But sooo tempting.

      • vash12 on 16/10/2018 - 22:10

        I had no problem running single VM on my HP server (dual core Celeron)

        But if you want to run lots of VMs or dockers. Maybe this might be limiting.

        • [Deactivated] on 16/10/2018 - 22:37

          was thinking at Win10 VM from time to time (optional) …… and 24/7 about 5 - 7 dockers (transmission, duckdns, duplicati, nextcloud, plex, couchpotato, etc). Nothing fancy.

          Will it hold?

          I'm not sure if I should put this or get a proper i3-8100 one.

          Power output:
          This $386(build): Between 14W - 43W
          i3-8100 $555 (build): Between 20W - 100W

          It will stay on 24/7, at idling most of the time.

          • jonathonsunshine on 17/10/2018 - 01:09
            +1

            @[Deactivated]: I have a nuc with j1900 CPU, I get up to 70mbits through a VPN with torrents and Usenet (under Linux). It's running an XP VM as a print server also.

            Runs, emby, BitTorrent, sonarr, radarr, jackett and NZBHyda.

            It could play 1080p hevc 10bit as well but would struggle when downloading because the j1900 didn't have HW decoding.

            In summary, I think the board in OP will do all the things you listed easily with the exception of transcoding in plex. Mine really struggles to transcode.

          • alvian on 17/10/2018 - 02:07
            +1

            @[Deactivated]: Your i3 build has $0 for RAM, so it will cost more than $555.

          • jztilly on 17/10/2018 - 07:17
            +1

            @[Deactivated]: i have synology running on mine with 8GB ram and this many dockers:

            https://imgur.com/a/VYwcTDu

            • [Deactivated] on 18/10/2018 - 09:19

              @jztilly: Thank you.

      • asa79 on 17/10/2018 - 07:20

        Unraid is Linux based so will run on anything

    • Dilbery123 on 18/10/2018 - 09:20

      Go and get a used i7 4770 for $100-$150 and its going to be infinitely better than this.

      I've done it, works great.

  • skyva on 16/10/2018 - 22:56

    what would this be like for pfsense? seems to have aes-ni.

    • jztilly on 17/10/2018 - 07:21

      good question - not sure if the onboard NIC is natively supported by pfsense

  • Rajserp on 17/10/2018 - 04:01

    These CPUs not supporting HDR is frustrating.
    Intel forces you onto super high prices chips for a software and driver that support HDR. Garbage…

    • asa79 on 17/10/2018 - 07:23

      CPUs don't do video it's the gpu chip limitation

      • jztilly on 17/10/2018 - 07:55

        where is the GPU chip? :)

        • g12345567 on 17/10/2018 - 08:22

          IGPU. This has and Intel® HD Graphics 500 GPU integrated into the older 3rd quarter 2016 released J3455 Celeron processor. Hence the limitation of the onboard graphics.

          HDR for IGPU was first introduced on the Intel UHD & HD Graphics 620 and later.

  • [Deactivated] on 18/10/2018 - 09:20

    Got one, free shipping arriving next week. Time to go shopping for SODIMM and case :)

    • skyva on 18/10/2018 - 22:20

      let us know about the sodimms you choose. That is all that is holding me back, the cost of ram.

      • [Deactivated] on 19/10/2018 - 16:36
        +1

        For the RAM, I got Corsair - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory for $89.

        Reasons:

        • I will not be gaming on it so I don't care about the bandwidth loss from 2 x 4GB
        • Future proofs it, if I will stick on it 50TB+ storage, I will get another 8GB.
        • Enough for unRaid / OMV / FreeNas / Nas4Free / XPEnology / whatever + shitload of dockers

        The only thing I can't find fit for purpose is a power supply.

        Anyone has any ideas?

  • [Deactivated] on 19/10/2018 - 17:04

    Can anyone recommend a PSU to power this thing + 4 HDD's (or more)? I'm struggling to find one that can have low output (say max 70w - 100w) and sustain the HDD's as well.

    • skyva on 21/10/2018 - 17:32

      Does it allow staged engagement of drives? HDD don't use much power when running, it is only at startup. SSd's use little. Check bios for delayed bootup of drives.

    • jonathonsunshine on 21/10/2018 - 17:43

      If you get a power supply that's over rated, the rig still only draw as much power as it needs plus a little bit of waste. I'd only worry about the power supply being too low.

  • [Deactivated] on 22/10/2018 - 20:59

    Anyone knows what type of expansion card fits to this motherboard? I want to add another 4+ HDD's to it.

    Any suggestion greatly appreciated.

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