AOSU i5-12450H ITX Server Motherboard 17x17cm 4x2.5GbE 6*SATA 2*M.2 DDR5

Compact ITX server board

The AOSU motherboard measures 17.0 cm square and integrates an Intel i5-12450H processor with 8 cores and 12 threads. It targets builders assembling a low-power NAS, firewall or router appliance that needs multiple high-speed network ports and dense storage in a small chassis.

Sustained thermal and power demands

The supplier states every unit is tested with a radiator before shipping and that a good radiator is mandatory for operation. The board also requires both the 24-pin and 4-pin ATX 12V connectors to be populated simultaneously to power on, indicating a platform designed for continuous rather than burst workloads.

Storage and expansion constraints

Two DDR5 slots accept non-ECC memory up to 32 GB at 4800, 5200 or 5600 MHz. Six SATA3.0 ports and two M.2 2280 slots provide primary storage, though the second M.2 slot shares its PCIe 3.0 x1 signal with the single PCIe x1 slot so they cannot be used together. Two SFF-8643 sockets allow further expansion to four additional NVMe or four SATA drives.