u/CelestinNain

To make a long story short, I was looking for a CPU/MB combo supporting:

• Mini-ITX form factor
• Intel iGPU
• ECC memory

And I came across this board, BKHD C246-NAS-ITX-MB, which ticks all the boxes.

But even better: it is dirt cheap. While this type of motherboard is usually not widely available and much more expensive (Supermicro X13SCL-IF, Asus P11C-I, AsRock C246 WSI), the BKHD is sold for less than $100 on AliExpress.

I'm thinking of pairing it with an i3 8100T. It was confirmed working by this Reddit post.

Sure, C246 is quite old, but I think this would work fine for my use case (lightweight media center on ZFS with 8+ HDD).

Onboard connectivity looks too good to be true, though:

• 8x SATA
• 2x M.2
• 4x RJ45 2.5GbE
• 1x PCIe 3.0 x16

Thoughts? Can I buy this to tinker with, or is that a bad idea?