StoneStorm Q670 8-Bay NAS Mini ITX Motherboard(LGA1700, 12th/13th/14th Gen. Desktop Processor), 2*U-DIMM DDR5 MAX 64G

I purchased this motherboard for a new home built NAS in 2025. I have had the unit and installed the OS (Unraid OS) for a few weeks now with a Intel Core i5 (12th Gen) i5-12500 CPU. At this time I have no complaints for the motherboard. All the components I purchased for the NAS seem to work without any issues. I purchased Crucial RAM 64GB Kit (2x32GB) DDR5 4800MHz CL40 Desktop Memory CT2K32G48C40U5 as the vendor recommended Crucial as a supported/tested RAM vendor. The board seems to be of good quality. I put the motherboard inside a Jonsbo N3 case which supports up to 8 HDDs. I was able to connect the 2 SFF-8643 cables with no major issues to the Jonsbo SATA backplane and the BIOS sees all the SATA ports correctly. At this time I'm only using 3 of the HDD bays/ports actively. I also installed 2 NVME drives (2x of Crucial P3 Plus 2TB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 5000MB/s - CT2000P3PSSD8) into the 3 slots of the motherboard, 1 near the CPU on the top and 1 on the underside of the motherboard. I would caution these can be tight spaces. I put 2 low profile NVME heatsinks on the SSDs before mounting them and the NVME slot next to the CPU is a VERY tight fit. Also, as I mentioned I used 2 of the 3 NVME slots, the last remaining slot on the underside of the motherboard is I think out-of-reach when the motherboard is fully installed in the Jonsbo N3 case ... so if I want to install a 3rd NVME drive I would have to dissamble everything to easily reach that location on the motherboard; there is simply to way to reach it with all the sata cables and the N3 fully assembled and hooked up. I was able to setup WOL with Support of the Vendor. I have not tried using the i226-LM 2.5G vPro remote access port at all yet (this is for my home office). The vendor was very helpful the few inquiries I sent them, and they did send a PDF manual (pretty simple and bare manual) when I purchased the mobo initially. I have also purchased a Sparkle A310 Intel Arc GPU card and I had no trouble disabling the onboard GPU in favor of the PCIE GPU card and the Arc card has had no issues with the mobo that I can tell. 1 issue I did encounter with the motherboard was the RAM sticks had to be pushed _very_ hard into the motherboard or the system would not POST and emitted some beeps. They have a video showing how the system should POST typically -- it would be nice if they explained if there are any significant error beep codes to be aware of. I think I heard a repeating beep once, and another time a shorter sequence of beeps. I believe the long beep sequence was neither RAM stick being seen, and the shorter sequence may have been 1 RAM stick not fully seated. I had try 5 or 6 times to reseat the RAM, and once it did post with 1 stick of RAM ... so eventually I just figured out, push in the RAM sticks very very hard and then the POST will work. In general I am very pleased with the motherboard itself and as mentioned the vendor was very receptive to inquiries.

DAVID PETER GURBA · 2025-04-14 · via amazon

Received a defective board. Only one ram slot works. Will not boot with any ram in one of the slots. Tried two different brands(4 different sticks) including crucial brand as recommended by the seller. Disappointing. Seems quality control is very hit or miss.

Amazon Customer · 2025-08-29 · via amazon

I wish I could love this motherboard, but the setup was difficult. First, I used Crucial memory as the description says. 64gb, but only one bank would work. Bad memory? Maybe as when I used one stick in a bank it worked but the other stick in the same bank didnt. So I replaced the memory. Second set of memory didn't work in the dead slot either. So running out of time, I ordered a replacement mother board. Swapped everything over and it had similar memory issues but the other bank. I eventually found 2 sticks of memory that would work on their own, and then attempted to boot with both banks loaded. it worked, I now have 64fb of memory running. The next issue is that this is a rebranded CWWK motherboard and they don't have any real bios updates in a while. Support will be bad. The good? Once I got the memory working and everything installed, it seems to be a good little motherboard for running OMV. I have Plex, Minecraft, and a few other containers running. I have 7 SSDs and 2 nvme drives. all with out using the PCI slot. that means I could add another 16 drives with an expansion card.

Mike · 2025-09-20 · via amazon

The Good Part: Function-packed mITX motherboard, working well as the heart of my new Rockstor NAS. Compact CPU cooler (Noctua NH-L9x65) fit in nicely without colliding with RAM or blocking any connections on the Motherboard. Enough SATA connections to drive all 8 mass storage drives, plus three M.2 slots for the OS and container storage. In the latter's case, you'll want to make sure you've installed the two M.2 drives fitted to the back BEFORE completing assembly, as installing them later would be a pain. The Not-So-Good Part: Arrived naked in a box with no manual. Mounting plate and screws included. Managed to find a manual online for a similar compact motherboard and cribbed from that. 8-pin front panel connector matched up with standard 9-pin connection with the connector overhanging, and the status lights on the case work (power, drive activity, etc.) but took some finangling to figure out the pin-outs and confirm that plugging in the case FPANEL connector (Jonsbo N3) wouldn't blow up the entire motherboard. Overall Rating: Five stars, as it (quite literally) filled the square and performance is more than acceptable. If you've done your own builds for a while, this board is easy to install and configure.

Elvis Impersonator · 2025-11-04 · via amazon

I purchased this motherboard to go along with my JonsBo N3 Case. It’s been working just fine. Support for the board from the very beginning was accurate. I purchased the memory that was suggested by the seller and I have not had any issues thus far. The first build was for a Linux plex server. Worked great no issues. I just changed the OS to Windows 11 plex server. So far it’s running great. I normally only purchase Asus and Asrock motherboards and this board is doing just as good…..for now. Stability and longevity is what I will be paying close attention to. StoneStorm Q670 JonsBo N3 4x 22TB WD Gold Drives 4x 4TB WD Red SSD drives 1xSamsung NVME 2TB pro. (Boot) 2xSamsung NVME 8TB Evo. (Data) 64GB DDR5 Crucial Memory Intel I9 13900 (non K) Intel Arc Pro B50

Marcus D Void · 2025-11-04 · via amazon

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Socket

AM5

Chipset

B850

Form

ATX

WiFi

WiFi 6E

Socket

AM5

Chipset

B850

Form

ATX

WiFi

WiFi 6E