Boards will often end up costing more than CPUs as they fail more so supply for them dries up quicker.
As for you use case a little more detail on what you’re doing could help. Though if I were you I’d be going for the used gaming hardware if it suits your needs as ECC + management stuff that you get with servers boards while nice isn’t really all that necessary for homelab work.
Another avenue to look is if your workload needs lots of individual add-in cards but they don’t need much bandwidth old mining mobos can be a decent source though they all use conspire CPU slots from what I’ve seen.
Boards will often end up costing more than CPUs as they fail more so supply for them dries up quicker.
As for you use case a little more detail on what you’re doing could help. Though if I were you I’d be going for the used gaming hardware if it suits your needs as ECC + management stuff that you get with servers boards while nice isn’t really all that necessary for homelab work.
Another avenue to look is if your workload needs lots of individual add-in cards but they don’t need much bandwidth old mining mobos can be a decent source though they all use conspire CPU slots from what I’ve seen.