Pro WS W680-ACE Intel W680 LGA 1700 ATX Workstation Motherboard,2xPCIe 5.0×16 Slot,DDR5,ECC Memory,2×2.5 Gb LAN,3X M.2 Slots,USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Front Panel,SlimSAS,BMC Header,Thunderbolt 4Header,ACCE.

Excellent / Solid Board
I decided to order this board even though the only reviews that were listed were negative (mine arrived with NO bent pins). I paired it with ECC Ram – Kingston’s KSM48E40BS8KM-16HM (2 sticks for 32GB) and an Intel 12600K – lowest/cheapest proc that supports ECC – be sure to check and see if your CPU support ECC before you order – not all do and may cause problems I would imagine. I also decided to run Debian 12 on it instead of Windows (Linux is not listed as a supported OS on ASUS’s website). I have been using it for a couple weeks now and everything is working great. Here are a few caveats with this board that I have encountered:BMC remote management works great with Windows. However, I am running Debian and it works but remote control is a bit slow. However, the other features work fine (remote media, power control, etc). You can even flash the BIOS right from the BMC. Awesome! One thing to note with Linux – Do not have a monitor plugged into the server at the same time you are trying to use the Remote Control. The remote control ends up as a second screen and not the primary. This drove me crazy for a bit until I figured out what was going on. Run the server headless and you are ok. There may be a way around this but I haven’t found it yet.The SlimSAS-SAS port does NOT support SAS disks unfortunately. I tried a slim SAS to SAS cable and it does not work. SlimSAS to SATA works fine though using the same cable. If you need SAS disk support, you will need a SAS controller card in one of the PCI Express slots.Debian OS – Have to set static ip address. For some reason when using DHCP it will not get an ip address unless you manually click connect in the dialog box (if you are using a GUI and KDE – maybe it will work if you just run without the GUI?? havent tested, need the GUI for my specific use case). 2.5Gbps networking works great. All other items were detected and work perfect – USB, etc.Overall I am happy with this board. Has some unique features that arent in too many boards such as ECC and the BMC. Also being able to use quick sync with the 12600K.

Make sure this is actually what you want…
This is a heavily compromised board in my opinion. I bought this for my hobby homelab, which has grown in responsibilities over the years and has reached its peak at this motherboard with a 13700k.It’s been stable-ish for about 7 months, but more recently I’ve been pushing it too hard and getting kernel panics and hard lockups. I don’t blame the board entirely, the faults come down to the available PCIE lanes of consumer desktop processors.DO YOURSELF A FAVOR before buying this board: count how many PCIE lanes you intend to use. Remember that Intel’s 14900k has only 20 PCIE lanes available (x16 Gen 5 and x4 Gen 4). This SEVERELY limits the bandwidth for devices you can use.I’m successfully running:- 1 NVIDIA 3060- 4 NVME Samsung 990 Pros (1 via the IPMI 3.0 x1 slot)- 6 SATA 870 EVO ssds- 12 SATA 16TB Exos hdds via an LSI HBAI think I’m already consuming way more than 20 lanes, so the motherboard is doing some bandwidth magic to keep this thing afloat. I’ve added a 2nd NVIDIA 3060 into the other x16 slot (now both GPUs are running at x8 speed, theoretically fine) and have run into twice weekly crashes usually when the system is fully loaded. I suspect any slowdowns are due to this bandwidth limitation.What I should have done 7 months ago is upgraded platforms to AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon, which have 64-128 PCIE lanes available for all my nonsense.This is 90% my fault for not doing my research, but I do blame the marketing around this board, they don’t make it very clear that filling every slot on this board necessitates extremely slow speeds or complete crashes.Otherwise, the ECC RAM is expensive but it works (shows up in memtest). The SlimSAS port never worked for me, the drives connected never showed up in the bios nor the OS so I gave up on it. POST code display is neat. I tried IPMI briefly but ditched it for another NVME, kinda lame it’s a separate card and not built into the board (like the marketing suggests).

Great Board for Jellyfin Server, it’s been running 24 hours a day for 6 months with no problems so far.

Auf Kundenwunsch war ich auf der Suche nach einem Mainboard mit ECC-Funktion. Dieses Board soll es unterstützen, aber ich glaube lediglich on-Die ECC, das ist wahrscheinlich besser als ohne, aber ich vermute auch nicht das wahre. Wie auch immer bietet dieses Board diese Funktion, andere mit dieser Funktion kosten mindestens das doppelte. Außerdem besitzt es ein Slim SAS Anschluss. Leider aber auch nur einen. Ansonsten hat es natürlich alles was man braucht. Dennoch finde ich das Board mit mehr als 300 viel zu teuer. Für etwa 200 würd ich das Board vielen anderen bevorzugen.