Any reason why the pro art Motherboard could not be used in the HL15 Chassis?
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I don’t think so. I think the reason they didn’t go back and offer it with the HL15 is that the Proart configuration is aimed at creators, which implies high end, triple fan GPUs which won’t fit in the HL15. If you can deal with shorter GPUs, or no GPU, then a Proart in an HL15 should be fine if the rest of your use case fits.
As consumer boards with consumer CPUs, the Proart isn’t going to have as many PCIe lanes as the Asrock Rome server motherboard. So if you have two high bandwidth PCIe cards, like the HBA and a GPU, they are going to run at x8 in each slot. The Proart boards can be pricy for what you get, but if you do need two cards to share the x16 slot’s bandwidth then the creator is one of the few that do that these days; a lot of the boards just give you a single x16 slot with no second slot to share it with. OTOH, if you only need to put in the HBA and a NIC or something then the Proart Creator may be overkill.
I have a Proart Creator B650 in one of my HL15s and it’s been running fine. I’m running TrueNAS on the bare metal though as I’ve relegated Microsoft to a single legacy VM.