CWWK Q670 Gen 5 NAS 8-Bay Board Review

This looks Great to build my N3 NAS, just a quick question, since you know the N3 and this board, what is the best/biggest CPU Cooler to get to avoid interfering with RAM or PCIe Slot?
I'm thinking on going with i5 12500, unless you can provide a better recommendation.
Thanks in advance for your advice and of course, looking forward to see the Build :-)

Cheers

I'd guess, if you populate then gen5 M2 slot, you will lose 8 lanes on the x16 slot. Intel does not have own gen5 PCIe lanes for SSDs like AM5, so board manufactorers need to chop them of from the GPU lanes by bifurcation. Means: placing a SSD of any gen in the gen5 M2 leaves you with a x8 PCIe only slot and that is not possible to bifurcate anymore. Every other Intel 1700 board works that way because of the CPU limitation.

Still planning out my NAS rebuild, I'd love to see one of these manufcturers put a 10gbe/SFP+ port and make the board a little bigger with 2 X8 slots instead of 1 X16 and all the M.2 on top. It's hard to cool some of the hotter running gen4 drives when it's on the bottom of the board. That said the addition of vpro is pretty huge, if you can live with the 2.5gbe this isn't bad for the money.

To me THE number one limiter in "NAS" boards these days is networking. This board should ABSOLUTELY have a 10gb NIC built in and a 1gb Management port. 2.5gb is outdated AF for "do it yourself" NAS's. Especially when the board has so much high speed storage capability and so much bandwidth available from the CPU.
The PCIe slot should NOT be 16x. It should be 8x. PCIe 5.0x8 is more than enough bandwidth for literally anything you want to put in that slot. Including even the latest most powerful video cards. And the PCIe 5.0 M.2 is also a pointless waste on a board made for NAS's. Should have just been another Gen4x4 or even 2 more Gen 4x4's for the same bandwidth.
The extra bandwidth should have been dedicated to 10gb networking and perhaps even some U.2 or Mini SAS or even both.
The slot NEEDS to be left available for Storage, HBA's or a GPU for compute or encoding/decoding. But with only 2.5gb, you would have to waste the PCIe5.0 slot on simple bloody networking.
I keep seeing these boards come out and only ever be NEARLY the perfect home server board. And this is once again the case. How do manufacturers consistently continue to fail in this arena.
This board could have been excellent if only it had friggin 10gb onboard. What a shame, what a waste.
This board is a big "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" from me. Such a shame.

I’m looking for something similar but full-size ATX with a few extra pci slots. Recommendations?

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Quite fancy one of these.

When will we get a 'smallish' system with at least 4 NVMe Gen 5 x4 slots and ECC support?

The AliExpress links don't work for me. Do they work for anyone?

Ok why do all the systems you recommend have to be tiny Motherboards?
I have room as do most people for a full sized computer do you have any videos where you recommend atx or even eatx boards?
I find the one pci slot on these boards annoying.
Is there a video I am missing?

I'm also interested in this tiny beast, but I've got two major questions. What Sata Controller does this board use? JMB or AsMedia? Want to use it with unraid and the JMB often causes problems with power efficient builds. Second: how good are the VRM, the data sheet said max 65 Watt TDP, is it usable with an 14600 or higher, or are we stuck with the "T-Series"?

I'm reeeeally looking for something like this, but for AM4, so i can put my 3950x to use :(

Have a 13700k. Have 8x16 tb hdds. Was thinking about this board or the meg z690i. Which is better in your opinion?

Like this board! Based on you review I've purchased the H670 version and set it up with an i7-13700T, 96GB (2x48Gb) memory, 4x-mirror mode spinning disks, nmve SSDs and a Mellanox ConnectX-4 single 100Gbe.
What I noticed though is that the single PCIEv5 slot shares recources with memory; when using the Mellanox NIC card (PCIEX 16x) the system will only read half of my memory and ignores the second bank. Switching to a ConnectX-3 card (PCIEX3 x8 2x10Gbe) it does work again.....
I'm now trying to figure out how I can force the PCIe slot to work in PCIe 8x mode (as the 100Gbe Mellanox is a single 100Gbe one) but as you've mentoined, BIOS settings on this board are quite elaborate.... If anyone knows what settings to look at or play with I would appreciate that.

Not a bad price, i remember picking up an asrock rack X470 mATX board with dual LAN and IPMI for around $260, boy was i ticked when the one with dual 10G went on sale for $299 and then shot back up to $500+ before i realized.

Imagine it was 4xgen3 drives on the back rather than 2x gen4 drives, sure it would need a 4.0 to 3.0 multiplexer but still that'd be pretty cool.
I wish Optane hadnt died out, would love a gen5 optane drive to go in that 5.0 slot with 7GB/s and near RAM latencies for a special metadata drive, though for special metadata you really should have 2-3 drives.

on the one hand they left the whole reference bios untouched and open to the buyer
on the other hand, they definitely didn't do any test all those features. or indeed any of them i suspect.
let alone combinations of features.

its got an attractive set of ports and slots, but you would want to do some seriously stress and fault testing if you were going to use this to store critical or irreplaceable data.

I’d love to see a picture of how the headers hooked up. I’m trying to get one of these to work nice green light on the MB, but the switch won’t work for me to power up. :(

has support for Windows server 2022 standard?

i cant seem to find any information or user manual on this bord. any one know of one? im would like a definate answer on bifurcation supprot

We need the review of this board ASAP!

Thank you for the video - Newbie question - For a newbie, installing Truenas Scale on a board like this with the 3 M2.nvme slots - what would you do for the boot drive/s ? I have read it is recommended to have a mirrored config, but then I also read the boot drives can only have the os on them ..

please wipe your camera lense or open a window - else... thanks for the great video! :)

I got this board, plus an i5 12500T from AliExpress. The board did not want to boot, it beeps when I power it on. CWWK support said that either memory is incompatible or CPU is not seated correctly. Board keeps beeping even without the memory installed.
I am returning both the board and the CPU, even though it is more likely the board is bad.
Anyone else had an issue like this?

45w ? Hmm ... Was it on idle ? If not then that board isn't suitable for the EU

I was interested in their 4 bay nvme but Lots of reviews saying various CWWK NAS boards & routers etc stop working soon or arrive with some chip (function) not working. This workshop should focus on quality control more, need reputation to grow, not quick bucks by any means necessary. I'll stick with glinet products.

Looks really similar to the Piesia NAS-H670(R100) albeit in a black motherboard color.

I just ordered the Board. Can you recommend some CPU coolers that won't block the udimm slot?
I planning to use a jonsbo n4 - since the n3 will take a month or so. Maybe i will get the n3 anyway but if the n4 is the only option i have to fit a top blower cpu cooler.
Any recommendations?
And did you try the intel stock cooler?

Thanks for testing and thanks for your review post!

Very curious what idle power can be achieved. Can this even get to low c states? The bios spaghetti does not inspire confidence...

I just got this board and cannot get any of the m2 slots to work. And cwwk isn’t responding after over a week

Will you please post a full build for this board? Thanks

Will a intel pentium 12/13/14th gen work on it as well? 🤔

Thanks. But this video leaves a few things to be desired.

It would be nice to see a full blown set up with this motherboard being fully populated

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Wanting to build a 10Gbe NAS with 2 x 2Tb NVME and 4 x 10Tb Rotating Rust. I am trying to figure out how to make the 4TB NVME as a cache fronting the older HDDs. And in the interests of low noise and low power, the 40Tb HDDs should spin down unless absolutely need for a transfer. Does such a thing exist? Thank you for reading this far.

Excuse me, 3 what (hundred)? May I purchase a normal motherboard with 4 sata for $50, a normal cpu for $50, a pcie to sata for $20 into one slot, a pcie to nvme for $20 into another one, and be happy. Because 6-8 3.5" drives require so big case, and psu, that literally any motherboard will fit.

Hi! I assume that this board is made in China? I don't´t trust and don´t want to support China in any way if possible. I really would like to see a video like this (or diy nas in general) but parts that don´t came from the greatest country on earth. Cheers!

Where would a NAS with this much speed, memory and processing power be used?

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I have been dying to build myself a decent nas for about 5 years now (not including splurging money on used servers/workstations which cannot be run 24x7).

The motherboards that cost $200 cost $500-700 used in India. At this point I am beyond frustrated. Time to start looking for that long lost friend who settled abroad to bring back a decent MOBO on his trip back home.

Any micro atx in this similar configuration? Will be using it in the Jonsbo N5

Hi! Thanks for all your videos, I learn a lot with you. I have recently gone ahead with a Jonsbo N3 + CWWK 8505 motherboard. I have configured everything and it works great with Unraid, except fan control. I have switched all the fans in the case to PWM but regardless of whether or not I activate the dynamic control system and its thresholds in the BIOS, or even setting the fan control to a manual PWM value does not generate any change in their behavior, they continue to run at the same speed. I don't know if I should update the BIOS or what I should do, but I can't find any documentation or link to a more updated bios version either. If you could help me I would be very grateful. Best regards.

I built my first NAS recently in a fractal 304 case with an old Ryzen CPU and MB I had lying around, problem is it's only got 4 SATA ports.

I'm trying to decide on whether I upgrade to this and a new intel with an iGPU, or I upgrade to a Micro ATX motherboard with an intel CPU and put it into a fractal 804 :/

Ryzen 5800u on a mini Nuc is cheaper with 16gb ram and dual 2.5G with wifi 6 and 512 nvme. Just add 2 USB 8TB drives and install TruNas. Its 25w TDP and can do gaming with the built in gpu

which PSU would you recommend with this board if i want to use 8x22tb drives?

CWWK released a new version of this board, a white version with 2 SFF ports which can provide 8x SATA

SORRY for the hazy lighting on this video! It was recorded JSUT before I headed to Taiepi for computex and my 'good kit' was all packed up and I was relying on my backup kit - which had a faulty light sensor that failed AFTER I checked everything was up and running.I plan on returning to this board for a larger video soon, and I will be double...no...TRIPLE checking the light levels on that one!!!!!! Have a great weekend all.