Putting together a Plex Server - bought wrong motherboard?

[MG42Maniac]

Hi All,

I'm looking to build a dedicated Plex server and have already bought the following components for it:

i5 8500
Asus prime h310i plus r2.0 ITX
16GB Corsair 3000MHz
WD Blue SN500 500GB NVME
Corsair H115i Pro (leftover)
Fractal Core 500 ITX case
550w Modular Gold PSU

Then I have 60TB of storage that will be external to this system. I bought this primarily as the UHD 630 is excellent at transcoding for Plex. I have two other gaming PCs so I will never game on this. I have been using Ryzen based PCs so I am out of touch with Intel. I don't need a gaming themed motherboard with loads of RGB and fancy OC functionality, I just want a decent board that will do the following:

1) Accommodate the NVME drive at full speed. - It supports M.2 so I think I'm okay?
2) Support 9th Gen for some potential upgrades
3) Run the RAM at 3000MHz -XMP should take care of this?

I think the board will do all of that, I just see a lot of hate for H310 chipset. Truth is, that there is not much choice in the itx market.

If this motherboard does not, any suggestion on which to get?

 

[demonix]

1) It would, but you have to remember that the M.2 SSD you've selected is a SATA drive so you would lose one SATA port on the motherboard, so if you need all 4 SATA ports you'd have been better off getting a WD black M.2 as they are PCI-e and not SATA.
2) The brief data from intel says yes, and would require a BIOS update to add support.
3) 2666Mhz is all you're going to get as that is the max that board supports and only if you use a 6-core or higher CPU (which you at least did get)

 

[MG42Maniac]

Thanks for your replies. I don't need any additional SATA ports, literally just one drive for an OS drive. 2666Mhz is okay, just means in future if I upgrade the motherboard I will get a free little boost in speed!