MINISFORUM BD795i SE Mini ITX NAS Motherboard, AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX, 16C/32T, PCIe 5.0 x16 Slot, Dual PCIe4.0 M.2 Support, DDR5, 8K Triple Output (HDMI/DP/USB-C), RJ45 2.5G, USB 3.2

only had the unit for 2-3 months and the system will not boot anymore. support is difficult to find and I'm still trying to get help on this item. Hope someone contacts me soon to resolve. support did reach out and offer a return and refund. I would have to pay for shipping it back.. until i complained about that, then they did offer to reimburse or provide shipping. not an ideal process. took about a week to work though the return process. not terrible. I feel like they wanted me to be a satisfied customer and were offering a fair process.

Perfect dual boot windows/linux gaming and dev board. Yep, you need to install an AX210 wifi/bt m2 E key if you want wireless stuffs. Yep, no ability to add sata hard drives for deep storage. Yep, only 2 M2 slots for nvme's. Yep, no ability to change the cooler. Yep, not a good amount of USB ports. For $380 its still 100% worth it. I have had 0 problems with this board, I currently boot windows 11 primary and dual boot into linux daily. This is super simple to setup and all works as needed. I paired this board with 96GB crucial sodimm kit for $180, set the speed to 5200mt/s in the bios, set a CO of -15. The fans are a bit goofy to control but you just need to set your min 'c' spin up values and your max pwm 'c' value, below that you will see a PWM number represented by 16bits, this will be your 'normal' fan speed. Its a 2 speed setup, one temp for how much you want to fan to run and one temp that runs at max. I set the 'normal' temp to 127 pwm and 25c so it always runs my silent wings 4 high speed at 1800rpm. The max fan speed temp is set to 68 and almost never hits that temp. I have paired this board with an asrock creator rx 7900 xtx and its just perfect. Gaming and machine-learning work perfectly. Gaming performance is great, you really wont miss anything here. This is essentially a 7950X light when running at 100w.

As the subject says, these have been operating for over a month now with a fairly heavy workload. Not a single hiccup or crash, just flawless operation. My config includes 3x of these motherboards, all with 128GB Crucial DDR5 SO-DIMM RAM (2x64GB, and yes it works fine). 2x Crucial T500 NVME M.2 SSD. Corsair SFX PSU for each motherboard. OS is Proxmox 8.x. On all units the PCI-e x16 is bifurcated to x8x8 and a slot expander on each has an NVIDIA RTX 4060ti 16GB and a Silicom Power quad 10g SFP+ card. The VMs on each system are doing various GPU stuff. One has Ollama serving LLMs, another running ComfyUI for image/video generation, ACE-STEP for generating music. All are doing audio transcription, PDF OCR, RAG data classification and so on. Over the last month these systems have been under extreme loads. Just the podcast audio transcription alone was over 50,000 files and took weeks with 100% system utilization. These systems all performed flawlessly, stayed cool and used on tiny amounts of power at the wall, which is VERY impressive. I do have a few gripes with the motherboard though, as it could be better. Those are: * System REFUSES to re-boot (warm boot) from USB. Cold booting from USB works fine, power it on and it boots from USB with no problems. Doing a reboot from within a running OS and the system will fail to boot from USB. Super annoying. My recommendation is, if you need to reliably boot (and reboot) from USB, this is not the system for you. You've been warned. * Idiotic Secure Boot Management in the BIOS - If you're installing any operating other than Windows, you'll need to disable Secure Boot. In my case, all fresh system booting is done via PXE, which doesn't support Secure Boot. Minisforum has made it unnecessarily difficult to disable secure boot, so much so, I've called it idiotic. Seriously, search how to disable Secure Boot on this motherboard. * No way enforce "Last Power State" after power outage in ACPI settings. This one is damn near a game changer. If I had known about the lack of this super basic feature, I'd never have invested in 3 of these motherboards. The only correct way for a PC/server to operate is such that after a power outage, the power state of the system must return to whatever it was before the outage occurred. Powered off systems stay off, powered on systems should turn themselves back on. Seems only logical. You can't do that with this board and it's a darn shame that such a basic feature is missing. * Memory speed is not adjustable. Many systems in the range allow manually overriding the memory speed. This one doesn't. Those are some real annoyances and my justification of why this board gets a 4 instead of 5 star.

The best motherboard for your DYI NAS or Storage Server! I built this into a storage server with all Natura fans and it’s better than an enterprise grade storage server. So quiet it can live in your home undetected if you add the correct fans.

This motherboard with CPU combo is a huge money saver. For the processor specs and the board combo, you would be paying easily $50-150 more. I love that it is ITX but keep in mind, this is just a "larger laptop board". It uses laptop sized DDR5 but it does have 2 NVMe SSD Slots which is cool. The overall heat does kick up there on AAA title games but it does hold it's own. I would minus one star as it doesnt have ARGB or any RGB components, needed to have a USB powered one to get the look I wanted.