Tell me a good miniTX board for a home server with passive cooling

Question

Iron

After discussing the choice of a platform for a home server (universal - file storage, torrent downloader, media server), I came to build it on the miniITX platform. Please help me choose a motherboard. Requirements:
- passive cooling
- integrated processor and video (enough to play video in HD1080)
- low power consumption
- SATA and eSATA
- at least a couple of USB 3.0 connectors for the future
- HDMI (for connecting to a TV)
- IR for remote control (? I don’t know if there are USB adapters that allow you to organize control from the remote control, if there is something not a mandatory requirement)
- the presence of pci-e for the future (maybe an external video card for video decoding?)
- built-in WiFi (connection to the router will be via WiFi. Because the USB WiFi adapter will not work)
- well, I don’t want to climb out for 3-4 tr on the budget.

Answer 1

IR is not needed, this is the last century, I bought myself a radio remote control with a gyroscope + it can be trained on the signals of IR remote controls that are already at home. www.ipazzport.com/16.html

Answer 2

ASUS E35M1-I DELUXE seems to meet all your requirements, except for IR, but it has BlueTooth. I don't know of a single bare Mini-ITX board that has an IR on its own. Usually this either comes bundled with an external graphics card/TV tuner or on the computer case (if sold as a nettop).

Answer 3

With passive there will be only Atom, which is of little interest to me. I took itc.ua/articles/obzor-materinskoy-platyi-asus-c8hm70-i-hdmi-udachnaya-zagotovka-dlya-htpc/ switched the cooler to lower speeds through an adapter, it seems to be normal for now.

Answer 4

The presence of IR for remote control

DX is full of them.

The connection to the router will be via WiFi. because the USB WiFi adapter will not work

Why is the built-in not suitable? Yes, and for file cleaning WiFi will be quite slow.

Answer 5

Have you ever thought about Mini-itx board + something like core i5 3470t? I already miss the Atom D510 on my home server. Yes, and, the same, more modern, E-350 is on the netbook, everything slows down there.

Answer 6

- passive cooling
Passive cooling severely limits the processor. That is, it will be something like Intel Atom or VIA C7.
If the processor load is small, then it is quite a working option. If you need to encode video or something like that, then it will be rather sad to have it all work.
- integrated processor and video (enough to play video in HD1080)
It's easier. If the video is something like NVidia ION (which is often found on passively cooled Mini-ITX), then it has hardware 1080p video decoding.