Cheap motherboards for AMD Epyc 4005?
Hi everyone! i have been looking for the past few days for a better rig for my server (changing everything in its entierity as its pretty much outdated, its an old gaming rig which i remade into an ubuntu minecraft and personal cloud for medal server)
i looked through google, reddit and here a little bit but i cannot find for the love of god a motherboard that isn't twice the price of the cpu i want (amd epyc 4245P, about 250€ ish)
I know those kinds of cpu aren't compayble with any motherboards, but i dont think it NEEDS to be a server that handles ECC and all that fancy server graded stuff? i only need a server that can use most of my cpu power, i dont feel like my little server needs to have ECC for a mincraft server for my friends and i, and some clips from my games, my current server is running perfectly fine and it never crashed whatsoever.
couldn't i just use a motherboard thats handles AM5 B650E around 200€ and maybe install a specific bios on it? i really dont want to spend 500€ on a cpu thats not even half its price
ps: image of the cpu i currently use and the cpu i want
Posted Sep 28, 2025, 1:29 PM UTC