Asrock NUC-1135G7 vs Odyssey X86J4105800 ?
Or would you recommend another board?
As both of these don’t have 3 HDMI outputs, I’ll be using USB-C or Thunderbolt (depending on the capability of both boards) and convert that to 2x HDMI running 4K60.
It’s going to be a triple screen Home theatre/automation server. It will also display Grafana on 1 of the screens.
Why do you want so many screens on a server?
1 as a dashboard, 1 as a TV OS/desktop (for YouTube and Netflix etc.) and 1 as a screen that I will put on my fridge.
I just don’t see why I should use multiple devices if you have a suspending ceiling and can, because of that, do the same thing on 1 pc.
What os are you going to use?
Probably Ubuntu, but feel free to recommend me another open source OS if that’s better.
If you have a monitor that does displayport 1.2 out you can daisychain it to the next one
That depends on what screens you’ll be using and how much quality loss you’ll get compared to connecting each screen directly to the desktop/server.
And as I’m going to connect a TV instead of a monitor, I don’t think that will be possible. The other 2 will be touch screens so I also wonder if they will have a similar functionality.
Between these boards i would choose the asrock one. Way beefier cpu.
Othereise, what i can recommend, is building the server out of desktop components. That would be easier to extend later, for lets say you want it to use as nas, itsbhard to throw a 3,5" hard drive in. Something like 10th gen i5, 16 gb ram, atx mainboard, atx case, big aircooler (cooler.master hyper 212 is a cheap one, but its mounting mechanism is a nightmare), 350 to 550 power supply (atleast 80+ bronze or better) and maybe a dedicated graphics card like gtx1030 might be a.bit overkill, but its easier to extend and has much headroom. If you eant, ill configure a system for.you later
Yeah, but I want one with built-in CPU and I don’t want to make things to expensive. Also, I’m going to use the GPIO headers. If I’d go for a normal ATX pc I wont have that, and because of that have to spend more money for an extra Arduino for example.
So I’d rather go for something small that has everything built in than to have to construct my own pc.
With this in mind, would you go for an ASRock or an entirely different one which I didn’t mention? Keep in mind that it should be able to run 3x 4K60 screens (just to be on the safe side with the specs). So 3 HDMI ports, or a combination of HDMI, Thunderbolt or USB-C.
TBH, im not that much into this small form factor market, but i think the asrock one oyu posted should handle your needs. But AFAIK there are no gpios on it. But arduinos or esp´s (i get my esp´s from amazon for like 4 to 5 euros per piece) arent that expensive.
Until HA came to my mind, my only use case for these barebones was a small form-factor office setup or as deskt pc which connects to virtual machines on a server. Raspis where never great as servers because of the use of sd cards. Also like i mentioned, small form factors (and also OEM prebuilt pc´s) are limited in upgrading, you cant simply put in an extra hdd.
Well, I did see there was SATA on one of them. Also, there’s a possibility to put 2 sata ports in 1 m.2 slot so the only thing that makes it less flexible is the lack of PCIe. AFAI can see
ASrock Jupiter X300 looks good for your setup
Yeah, the asrock has sata, but only one port. One m2 port is blocked for the boot drive, the other might be used for wifi or via adaptor for an external graphics card, if it cant handle the 3 displays with one 40k60 screen properly (although not full speed, since only pcie x2 instead of x16), only one sata port left. But that cannot be used for a fullsize 3,5" hdd, since the case is too small. Ok, even for external graphics card, you might need to build a case for those components. Than i can imagine it beeing enough.
Well, the Oddysey I mentioned can handle Thunderbolt? Maybe I can convert that to double HDMI.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have a DDR4 RAM slot.
Not sure if it’s possible to add thunderbolt to the Asrock…
The oddysey has a celeron processor, which isnt powerful enough to drive 3 displays with one 4k60 screen. Atleast thats my opinion.
The asrock has 1 hdmi and 3 display ports.
If i had to choose just between these 2 boards, i would take the asrock one. Befier cpu and dedicated sata port.