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> What’s the best price/performance for a home lab server running Linux with ECC these days? Bonus points if it is rackable.

Old used enterprise server. None of them will be great at power/performance in typical (i.e. mostly idle) home use tho. Intel ones usually far better here

I recently(ish) built a new home server using an cheap AM5 motherboard from ASUS that supports ECC. Good performance and power usage is around 45 W idle with a couple of SSDs and a couple of HDDs spinning.

Not the cheapest, but I wanted to keep power consumption low for noise and reduced heating while still having good performance if needed.

I also considered a motherboard with IPMI on AM5(Asrock rack), but that was much more expensive.

Worked out quite nicely.

put something together with used supermicro parts, maybe with a H11SSL-i or H12SSL motherboard and epyc cpu

or whatever dell 730 or something fits your budget