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The original was posted on /r/sffpc by /u/Aromatic_Wallaby_433 on 2024-10-14 19:51:22+00:00.

They’re just so weirdly rare. If you want one with AM5, the Gigabyte Aorus B650I is your only option, and then even weirder is that Gigabyte’s newest revealed ITX board, the Z890I Aorus, just goes back to 2. That is a $350 motherboard that has less M.2 than a $240 AM5 board.

ASRock managed 3 M.2 on the Z890I Nova, ASRock even managed to cram 3 M.2 and an X299 socket on an ITX board, the X299M-ITX/ac.

My Asus X670E-I would almost be the ultimate ITX motherboard except that Asus didn’t give it a 3rd M.2 slot on the back, both M.2 slots are on the front.

Now, for normal builds this isn’t as much of an issue, but basically I’m trying to build a NAS using an ITX case, and finding enough SATA ports while still having an M.2 for OS and an M.2 for caching is INCREDIBLY difficult. 3 M.2 slots with 4 SATA on the board would let me do everything, but that’s unobtanium unless I spend nearly $500 on a 7 year old ASRock board, or spend equally exorbitant money on an ASRock Rack server board with OCulink or SlimSAS.