Chinese X99 Workstation... Does it work?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Yep, I'm up to my old tricks again... this time with a Chinese X99 motherboard and Xeon E5-2680v3. Is it any good at workstation tasks or gaming? Let's find out!
But first... What am I drinking???
Beer #1 is EL JEFE (J. Wakefield Brewing, 5.0%), a German-style Hefeweizen with coconut added. AMAZINGLY good German beer, but the coconut is completely absent... although that gets a pass, as it's one of the harder flavors to maintain in a beer. Absolutely delicious, get one.
Beer #2 is the How Can I Help Juicy Double IPA (Stickmen Brewing Co, 8.5%). This one is just weird, and I can't decide if I like it or not. It's like Orange Julius made an IPA and skimped on the hops. It's sickly sweet and almost tastes like honey, only to later be overtaken by a very interesting hop mix. 50/50... try it and tell me what you taste.
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Looking sharp mate! :D
Unlock Turbo Boost with undervolt is *MUST* for Xeon E5..... for real comp enthusiast (10 minutes work for everyone with 2 "left hands")... get plus 12-15% performance cpu in all tests, video processing... your *2680v3* running all cores at *3.3 GHz* with full load
I didn't even notice he was wearing the shirt, looks so professional and really blends in. :)
Regarding CPUZ reporting x99... I have seen this in a couple of boards, but when running a ram benchmark over AIDA64 it would show something else. For my particular boards it was Q85 which was actually the case . Same goes for the quad channel, which on AIDA64 was reported correctly as dual... have a check over it.
Thanks for all the useful info of your videos. Keep us informed 😉
I know you reviewed the dual x79 boards, but can you please take a look at those dual x99 boards? They look crazy and I'm curious.
It's on my list ;-)
I want a decent review of those too not just from Russians haha! Looking forward for that soon
Also waiting for your review!
dual 2678 v3 with unlocked turbo and ddr3 memory :)
Did you not notice the 1660 is restricted?
It is a odd card.
I was tempted to do this, but is it not more cost effective to buy a rack and render on older decommissioned server's with dual CPUs, sas controllers etc?
Not a great case, but it's cheaper than having to find the boards and then the case which fits them...
(I have the case) the board is a good price, I'll wait for the dual list to come up before I form a view..
I did something similar with an E5 2690 V2. The Chinese 'turbo' MOBO runs all ten cores at 3.29MHz. I have a 4x SCSI controller, added a Bluetooth chip, PCIE USB 3+3.1 card, card reader, USB wireless adaptor, an M.2 970 EVO SSD, 2TB Barracuda HDD, Blu-ray burner, Noctua NH-U12S fan, 4 pin fan splitter, Corsair modular 650W power supply, 32GB quad RAM OC'd @ 1866MHz, GTX 960, and she runs dead cool at full load. I'm using it for ripping Blu-ray's, and video processing on Handbrake. The CPU cost me $92, and by recycling the GPU, burner, and box the entire thing cost me under $600. I have another new gaming computer with a I7 10700k and RTX 2060, and while the I7 is benchmarked as 30% quicker, the system cost almost three times the price. I have had zero issues with it. The only thing I would change is a better GPU if I could get one. An RTX 3060Ti is what I have planned if they ever become available, just for the extra CUDA cores for video transcoding.
I just got a Huananzhi X99-TF, a Xeon 2678 V3 and 32 GB of DDR3-ECC (10-10-10-26 @ 1866 Mhz). I am quite happy how that build turned out with a bit of tuning, such as the Turbo Boost unlock to 3.3 Ghz. It is cheaper and has similar gaming performance to my former Ryzen 2600 build in BF1 with a Vega 56.
Does it still work?
@@durschfalltv7505 I've seen some headaches along the way, a faulty USB stick killed the Huananzhi motherboard and I also had some faulty RAM. But I am now on a Jinghsa X99-D8 (DDR3) for the past two and a half years and I've recently upgraded the RAM to Samsung modules (4x 16 GB sticks, I got them used for just 19 EUR in total!). I also upgraded my GPU to a 6950XT and the CPU to a 2696V3. But Haswell-EP is still going fine in 2023, I am using a heavily tuned CachyOS nowadays.
" Even if you're someone who likes to shuck your hard drives".. JASON !!!
When is the cat review coming? I mean computers are interresting and all but come on, we want cat videos for 2020. 😂
i'd sub for that
Me too sub for that
not sure if anyone wants to see a cat disassembly 😂😂
Very useful, I have the identical board with an E5-2690v3 that runs at 3 gig on all 12 cores and I use it for video encoding. It came with 8 gig of DDR4 2666 and I added 2 x 16 gig DDR4 2666 and it seems to be a decent "grunter" when running all 24 threads with ffmpeg". Its Cinebench r20 is competitive and the CPU-Z benchmarks are almost as fast as the same CPU in a high end Gigabyte board. Thanks for this review, it has been a useful comparison.
Thx for all the good info! Planning on doing a channel about these price/performance builds since I'm an expat trapped in a Southeast Asian country where the newer stuff is much harder and more expensive to get.
I really like this build. I personally run a Xeon 2699 V3 on a Gigabyte X99 board and 64GB of ram as my do it all VM, storage machine. Very happy with the capabilities considering the price i paid for all.
Im a big fan of your content. I love watching the show with your mates. One thing thats spoiled it a bit for me though is i recommended you to a friend and he said when not on the show your very robotic with your voice and now i cant unhear it since he pointed it out :(
i think the 2680v3 only supports up to 2133Mhz memory anyway so your system is optimal. only other thing would be to bios mod to turbo unlock all cores/threads to 3.3Ghz.
late to this video but great as always Jeff!
I have a 'turbo' MOBO that runs a 3.0GHz E5 2690 V2 all cores at 3.29MHz. No mods. The MOBO cost me $118 on Amazon, and the cpu was $92. I'm very happy with it.
This platform is pretty tempting. But im leaning x79 for now. i do eventually want to get an x99 setup. Ideally with a Broadwell i7 6900X and the upcoming AMD 6900XT gpu. Ill call it the Double 69er haha.
aren't you funny
I have absolutely no experience with RAID, servers, NAS seteps, or anything along those lines, but I really enjoy seeing how you set things up and make it work. The server videos are super interesting, your talks on setting up the RAID configuration is neat, and your home network is super interesting to learn about. I'm wanting to learn more about those kinds of things for when I build my house next year, so I'll keep watching for inspiration!
is it still working ?
Wow! Awesome video Jeff! Can't wait for you to do this full time!
I think my pants just got tighter after seeing that super smooth pan & zoom at 11:48!!!
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gaaaay
Why is there "Roermond, Limburg" on that SAS drive? hahahaha
What a small world we live in ;)
Great video!
As for your games, i'd suggest having a local steam cache server for your benchmark games. It could even make a nice video!
Have to agree with other comments, engineering samples generally don’t like memory speeds higher than 2133 on X99. Ran into this with mainstream boards
Random, but what wireless keyboard and mouse are you using when you are talking about the benchmarks @17:32 ? Looking for a tkl wireless keyboard that's alright! Really cool video, always love learning stuff from you :)
In AliExpress the combo with RAM + x99 huamán+ 2680v3 about 320€, totally worth
Why not Turbo Unlock? (sorry if I missed that).
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i buy such a mainboard, i hope the issues will be fixed after that time
Fairly certain all mainboards are made in China.
Ive had a 5280k on an evga x99 micro 2 but I’m just got a Lian Li o11d in anticipation of the 3080 build I’m working towards and these Chinese boards look enticing.
Would it be wise to plug 3080 into a random Chinese mobo in the meantime while I save up for a new intel platform?
Well, i think this video is kind Confidential... :D
Thanks man!
Wild that i just got a mobo and same cpu for 40$
Hello, would this motherboard kit will work with Proxmox as main OS ? Planing to use for a minilab homeserver : nas , some linux vms, a windows wm maybe a Hackintosh vm and some other doker stuff. Mostly vms . Also add a decent gpu. No need to overclock. Thank you.
It's 3 years later, but they still have them. Just last month I managed to grab the ITX sized version of that motherboard off eBay for $80. The alternative name brand ITX motherboards even for LGA2011-3 are over $200. I am going to use it as a Media PC. This made a lot of sense for me because a few months beofre I had upgraded my Supermicro home servers from E5-2620 v4 CPUs to E5-2697A v4 CPUs, and their 64GB of RAM to 256GB; I both had a CPU and memory available. I also have a spare ITX case, spare power supply, and spare nVidia 2060. The only thing left is for me to carefully go through that BIOS and see if I can enable ECC; its not obvious. Even if I can't, for a media PC it doesn't really matter.
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2133 RAM is the best this CPU can do, on any motherboard !
^ this was about to say
Yep and quad channel, so it doesn't really matter much
That being an an Arch Limit of X99/C612 and Haswell-E... Nevertheless you can do at least on the Core i7s based on Haswell-E use faster ram... And more than the official max 8 GB dimms that Intel specifies... Just went on my Server from 8x8 DDR4-2400 to 8x32 Gb 2666 Mhz
While Intel officially says Haswell-E is limited to DDR4-2133 Mhz, I gave it a shot...
@@itmkoeln well you could go faster on the i7s, Broadwell-E barely upped the stakes for memory speed and its more or less intel doing it because higher memory speeds would use more power and they didnt really have any competition so what yer gonna do back then
@@DLTX1007 as I would like to use it as a whitebox Server I would rather have it stable and with much RAM instead of having 2666+ which is quite steep on Haswell-E
You have done the chinese x79, dual x79, and the x99. Now you have to do a review on the new "dual x99" to complete the set.
I saw another youtube channel do a review on the dual x99. It was informative, but it just wasn't Craft Computing good.
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Would you consider over clocking the cpu using Tech Yes City’s methods? His performance gains on these cpus were substantial. Thanks for the video!
Miyconst channel has some great videos on this. Seems well worth it
By flashing an altered bios from a different board brand allowed an all core turbo. Though not sure he had 4 chanel memory success.
@@krzysztofkrawiec3211 doesn't work on ES cpus as far as I am aware
The 1650 Super is the cheapest card you can get with a turing nvenc encoder. It's $170 new on ebay/newegg. Oh and the extra pcie power is for miners. I think your ram is running at 2133 because your cpu only supports up to 2133.
You know there's a bios hack you can do to get these V3 Xeons up to the single-core max turbo on all cores? Just dropping this here as an idea for a follow-up video. ;)
I'm guessing the reason that they included the extra 12-volt connector for PCI Express, it's likely because the board support PCI Lane bifurcation. This means that you can take the x16 slot and cut it up into 16 X1 slots, and you can break that power connector out to power each of them, which would mean that you would need to support more 12-volt power over PCI Express. It's actually really common to have additional PCI Express 12 volt power available on server boards, as it makes things more stable across the 12 volt rails that the motherboard sees.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper to go with ECC DDR3 on the huanazhi x99 mobo which has DDR3 and ddr4 slots on it
and a 2678v3
As an alternative, I got a Lenovo workstation from eBay for under $300, and take upgrade of the $100 Xeon e5 and $200 video card yield a similar result and trade offs.
Like, I could understand trying to be crafty and all, but I got my 3700x on an MSI x570 with 32gb vengeance rgb Pro, MSI Duke RTX 2070 OC, all the storage you could ask for, and a 750w fully modular Corsair psu, with a Deepcool captain 240 rgb Pro v2 inside a Deepcool Matrexx70ADDRGB with 6 matching Deepcool CF120 ARGB fans, all for $1k. Sure it cost me more than a few hundred, but itll also last me longer than 6/mo as well.
I went with the 2660 V4 since it runs cooler with a TDP of 105.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I thought Xeon E5-26xx v3 series CPUs are limited to max 2133mhz memory speed? at least that is what the processor spec sheet says. I know v4 versions are limited to max 2400mhz. I recently upgraded from v3 to v4 of these CPUs and got an automatic memory speed bump from 2133 to 2400mhz.
I agree, was quite confused.
For this same budget price I was able to throw together off of ebay a Dell t7910, 2x E5-2678v3, 128gb 2133 ram, weird chinese GTX 1080 with KHO chip, and a p102-100. Not with 4x 8tb SAS drives, but the t7910 I bought did come with 4x 2tb SAS drives, of which I resold 3 to refund my budget a bit. Benchmarks I've ran on it have put CPU performance on par with 3900x, and GPU performance (where both GPUs can be used with CUDA) around 2080ti. Optix on RTX obviously outperforms. Note on the chinese 'KHO' 1080: it only works on windows with driver version 377, but works flawlessly on linux with latest drivers.
Quality control inspector "the cat" had done good job - so tired after work :D
Thinking about those chinese x99 boards - should be good enough
2678v3 + DDR3 would be a bit cheaper with same level of performance.
edit: Don't forget to unlock all core turboboost and do undervolting with EFI drivers. Hefty jump in multicore performance.
Now can write boost into ROM without EFI
Damn! those v3 Xeon processors are so cheap, and yet so powerful! Great video btw.
Use a gpu for video editing? 😂 there are plenty of better reasons
Looks at you with all your modern hardware 😜
I am still rocking dual socket 1366 Intel Xeon X5675’s in my home server 😉
Would be interested in knowing how many watts this uses at light, medium and heavy loads. Running costs should be included in reviews nowadays, specially for workstation setups. Cheers 😀
electricity cost a lot on this.
350-500 минимум
I bought a x79 plexhd motherboard from eBay and a Xeon e5-1650 V2.
In my experience, the x99 processors work most stable with 2133 MHz memory. My former x99 machine would just crash if I ran it faster then that. My new x299 machine uses the same memory sticks and is running very stable at 2966 MHz
Chinese x79 and x99 boards work quite well,as they should,considering its x99.
E52660v3 is better though imo
I would have picked the 2678 v3 though as you could use it with cheaper and similar capable DDR3-ECC memory on some boards (Huananzhi X99-TF and there is a DDR3 variant of the Jingsha X99 D8).
I built one a month ago: HuananZhi X99TF (US$99) with E5-2678V3 (12C/24T for $105) and 4 channel of Mushkin Redline 32GB DDR3 1600. I applied the BIOS turbo unlock (see Miyconst channel for step by step guide). All core turbo is now 3.2Ghz. Easily cooled to about 50C at full power with a Snowman 6 pipe cooler with dual 120mmm RGB fans (for $28). CB R15 score is 1830.
The E5-2678V3 and the HuananZhi X99TF both support DDR3 OR DDR4 (there are 8 ram slots, 4 gray slots for DDR3 and 4 black slots for DDR4). Note, the E5-2680V3 only supports DDR4, which is why I prefer the E5-2678V3. The HuananZhi X99 F8 only supports DDR4, as well.
To get max performance...UNLOCK the turbo in the BIOS (did it once and it took me 15 minutes using the MIYCONST youtube guide) and install INSPECTRE. The big savings for me were in DDR3...I did not have to buy DDR4 and can benefit from 4 channel DDR3 at 1600.
I also installed WIN10Pro on the NVME m.2 slot, using an ADATA Pro 512GB stick.
The combo: X99TF + E5-2678V3 + 32GB R-EEC 1600 RAM totals $260 delivered. In my opinion, if you have to buy 32GB of RAM, this is one hell of a deal.
Im buy x99 ddr4 with 4 channel 2678v3. Flash ROM with unlock boost at 3.3Gz. Fantastic performance!
Hey you!!!!!, check out X99 force turbo boost mod. It's popular thing with X99 xeon's, built two build myself one with huanan x99 TF gaming and e5 2678v3 it's 12 core 24 threads cpu, going for 82eur and after turbo hack mod, it works at 3.3ghz on all cores also benefit of buying this cpu is that it supports DDR3 ecc memory and board works with ddr4 and ddr3. Check out "Miyconst" channel he did tutorial how to force lock turbo boost clock using FFs driver method it works on any operating system and is easy to do. Did same with cheap e5 2620v3 it's 6 core 12 threads cpu which cost 12 eur and on kllisre x99 v102 (same machinist board) now that cpu works at 3.2ghz on all cores, i have easy click and install bios update which does mod for that motherboard, reply me if ur interested.
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Hey Jeff, hope all is well. I have several X99 rigs up and running myself. All of them are based on the Machinist x99z v102 board. I have been using that board because there is active bios development ongoing for a couple years now. I am very interested in this full ATX board like you demonstrated here. My other rigs are console replacements to give some cheap steam boxes in a couple rooms and repurposed things I had laying around. Now I am wanting another for editing. Think you could do another vid talking about how this has worked out for you? I really want to repurpose one of these cheap Xeons for an editing box. I have been in the server space for years but know nothing about video. That's next. Take care! Enjoy the content!
have the motherboards giving u any problems
I got a difcuy board with a 2650L 10c/20t 32GB DDR3R for a VM server add on a $30 case under 200$. (rest random parts i had around) Two 256GB ssd's and a 1TB mechanical works awesomely. Didn't like ESXI at all. had to inject drivers into the install image and even after that some functions didn't work.. ended up with hyper-v.
If you want a server... +1 if you want a gaming pc.. get a 1st/2nd gen ryzen. better performance only slightly more and rather plentiful used.
2680 v3's max ram speed is 2133mhz and it hard locks to that unless you overclock via bclk, my 2680 v4 locks to 2400mhz edit:(its not the board)
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Thank you for the video.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\ -> ProfileImagePath points to the base directory if you want to keep things together.
Aaaahm, isn't the purpose of a workstation to provide a reliable platform to get your shit done? If reliability counts anything .... then this build is a fail:)
Edit: But wait, it has a RGB-slowcoach. Forgive everything.
Check out Miyconst's youtube channel, with English reviews of many X99 and X79 Chinese motherboards. Very detailed testing and bechmarking.
Also, E5 V3's are sometimes DDR3 compatible...there are at least 5 variants that manage both DDR3 and DDR4. I am using the E5-2678v3 paired with HuananZhi X99TF, with 4x8GB Mushkin Redline 1600 DDR3 in 4 channel. With all core turbo unlock (step by step tutorial also from Miyconst) it runs all 12C/24T at 3.3 Ghz per core and with temps below 60C on air.
I have used some Chinese motherboard and they work pretty well. One thing you have to do is to figure out where the power switch connection goes. After that, everything is a breeze.
they are good
Are you trying to blame the motherboard for limitiations of the PROCESSOR you selected? Hint: try looking at the specs for the E5-2680 v3. FYI, I am making a somewhat similar system using an X99-RS9 board and E5-2680 V4.
You have some weirdness going on here. 19.2TB? You should be getting about 22100 GiB or 21.58TiB of storage space on RAID5.
You can get HGST SATA 8TB as well at 120$ each on eBay.
Why LSI controller on top? You are not going to get any latency benefits and the LSI does not require x16, x4 or x8 if i recall right.
Not unimportant for server operation, how is the power consumption in idle compared to the Ryzen 5 3600?
If you are considering unRAID 2678 v3 or a Ryzen, the power consumption at idle is important... the CPU is usually asleep... DDR3 ECC® RAM is still available.
Awesome video thanks, so I was looking at the alibaba dual Xeon X99 mobo that supported DDR3 (only works with the e5 v3 chips that support ddr3 like the 2678 v3) but decided in favor of the dual X99 that supports e5 v3 and v4 because I feel like the v4s will crash in price in 2-3 years.
More expensive rig but it would be worth it for the upgrade path. What are your thoughts? e5 v4s ever going to come down in price? Dual e5 2698 v4 would be a sweet rig. Workstation only, not much of a gamer and I really need the cores.
Anyway love the format keep up the great work.
Easy BIOS Mod, Turbo Boost unlock an have fun. Mine 2678v3 runs with 3.3 full Turbo all core in AVX2 Benchmarks with lover than 1,0 Volt Core Voltage. Max temps in AVX are 50 with an AIO. 3.3 All Turbo Kicks in.
I'm building with the same CPU as I watch this, how crazy!
I was just planning on building something like this. But with the 2683 V4 16c/32t. Mainly for a video editing station. My gaming consists of Minecraft and stuff like Factorio. Which will play on a potato....
ram speed is locked at default value (2133mhz) for the e5 2600 v3 series,,,if u had a e5 1600 v3 series cpu it would allow 2400mhz oc
also the engineering models do not accept the turbo unlock mod like the final models do. if mod is applied then all cores of 2680 v3 should run at 3.3ghz
imo e5 2678 v3 is by far the best value/performance choice on a x99/c612 motherboard since it is identical to e5 2680 v3 but cheaper and with a ddr3 and ddr4 support feature
My MSI X99A SLI plus just stopped displaying video. Swapped the PSU, GPU, move ram sticks all around, pulled the battery, tried both bios modes to no avail. I suppose I should probably swap RAM sticks and see what that does since it was an early set of 3000 MHz relatively early on in the DDR4 days. Is there any risk of damaging someone else's modules if I stick it in this mobo. I guess the next step is to order a speaker. The P55 build I use to this day has a post code, which I am incredibly thankful for the couple of times that I've needed it. I was looking at these Chinese mobos on ebay (stateside) and was wondering if it was better to roll the dice on a used x99.
Neat build but IMO someone buying would just be better off getting something like a 3600/B450 board. You can get that combo for as little as 255 and you are getting brand new parts that also have a pretty significant upgrade path now that AMD announced Ryzen 4000 will work with B450.
Hi Jeff - I am looking for a motherboard cpu combination that would suit 3x 3090s for a deep learning rig. Do you have any recommendation taking value into consideration? Thanks a lot.
Productivity of this is about AMD 3600X, which is a better choice: it comes with good cooler, more power for one core, motherboards are also cheap.
CPU-Z is known to be scammed a lot by Chinese board manufacturers. Typically to mislead with memory channel numbers. Wouldn't take X99 chipset indication at face value. Huananzhi is a board maker I trust 100% nevertheless. You can't lump them all together.
There are some very good deals on ebay for used HP X79/99 servers. There are systems for just a couple of hundred dollars that just need an OS. Some sellers will even build the system up for you, or you can go as bare a bones as you want, and do it yourself. CPU prices are generally better on ebay than AliExpress, plus AE shipping can be painfully slow, and good luck with a return. Some systems come with a CPU, and even Quadro GPU's, which are able to be resold if you want.
Come on guys. Stability , which is your blind zone. -- I had such motherboard in x79 time, they will broken anytime when you use after 6 months. When I found it became unstable, crash time to time, I sold it second-handed with a lower price, the buyer contact me 2 or 3 times saying it crash when running, I cannot help but feel sorry for the poor guy. I don't believe the quality is evolved when it comes to x99. the phenomenon is call "fanche" in chinese, means "overturned". someone said it's about luck, but no one buy thing using luck except lottery, it is just a lie to the victims. "cheap" things normally costs more.
Please help, I bought an X99 Atermiter mobo off Alliexpress and there is coil whine / buzzing coming from the motherboard when I open up games. I've tried 2 diffferent GPUs and PSUs and the problem still persists.
Hey, you can actually get fee performance on these v3 CPUs. It's basically deleting a microcode patch so that the chip can run at its single threaded turbo boost always. TechYesCity did a video on it and it works fantastically. I actually did my own method where I flashed an edited BIOS. I'll send you a link: www.miyconst.com/Blog/View/2081/xeon-e5-2600-v3-turbo-boost-unlock
don't waste your money...i purchased one of these thinking wow all this and the price too...and yes it looks pretty...i received mine a month later after it took them 17 days to process the order..i purchased the combo the 12 core Xeon, 32gb ram and the x99-tf...when i checked it out i found one ram module was bad and it actually was used server ram...no biggy, the CPU was also used(but so far it works) i then found that the drivers supplied did not work with windows 10 pro, so i went to their website and downloaded their questionable drivers with no driver date/version (actually said unknown date on download). these also did not work...so i went to the (Ethernet) chip set manufacturer and finally got the thing to connect to the internet. and then i tackled each problem individually...you see it (MB) was not fully compatible with Windows 10, and while it has the same problems that plague other X99 boards from legit manufacturers these guy locked or removed many of the functions in bios that where used to correct those same issues.. i also had wiring problems as the motherboard jfp1 connectors where too small and the case wire connectors fell off repeatedly. then the screaming started i installed a MSI RX5600 xt Mech and it came unglued...fearing for my video card i continued using a cheap MSI, eventually i manage to get the system working to find it did not recognize my M.2 or SSDs. after contacting them i found there was no warranty and no customer service also aliexpress sided with them as i didn't use an eraser on the contacts as was told by the manufacturer (my belief was that i wanted something that worked, not a used and defective item i had to coax and trick into working)...so if you are a programmer and know your way around bios you may be able to have a working system in a day...if not get a legit board. i will be posting this warning for as many as possible to see so they do not suffer as i did
On the topic of those ring cooler adapters: I don't know about the Wraith Spire, but I can tell you from experience that a Wraith Prism doesn't fit inside the ring. Nor are there any adapters out there for the 2011 socket/Wraith Spire combo.
My solution was to cut the adapter in half and carve out just the right amount of space on each piece (top and bottom) needed to mount the fat rectangular Prism heat sink. This literally cuts it close - you'll be forced to carve out 90 degree corners that go into the screw compartments. However, the plastic of the adapter is sturdy enough to hold it even with weak points being introduced. I cut them in half for top/bottom adapters because my board's RAM slots are too close to the socket, forcing me to direct the Prism's protruding heatpipes bottom and topwise. Do a dry test on your cooler/board with RAM installed if you wanna try this.
Then, I took those four of the little rubber silencer pads with holes in the middle that come with most cases, and used them as substitute "springs" that you sometimes see on AMD heatsinks. The ones I used were thick enough to only need four, you might need eight (two on each hole). Screw in the two adapters - don't fasten them entirely - lower the AMD heatsink onto the thermal pasted CPU, attach to the two halves of the adapter, and then use the screws to fine tune the pressure.
Currently running a $20 6c Xeon at around 40 degrees idle on this setup.
Hi do you have any idea how to enable IOMMU on the Chinese x99 motherboard I have proxmox 6.3 installed and it show when I try to pass through the PCI device "No IOMMU detected, please activate"
Just bought a PC with a 2060 32gb ram 3200mhz and 12 core 24 thread cpu with 256 nvme and 4tb storage all for 800 canadian... you got ripped off
Thanks I am building with same MB， however Samsung M2?NVME SSD is not recognized in bios now. Can you give some suggestions? Thx
Spinning HDD's sucks - power outage and they dies! Better only SSD's as they nowdays are cheap but more reliable in terms of data durability and electro-shock resistance.
WGAFF??? Likely to be ripe with nasty little hidden surprises!
hello, maybe you know if this motherboard can accomodate an e7-4850v4. this cpu has those small condensators on the pins side a bit too thick and a traditional x99 cannot accomodate it, the cpu stays with a gap to the pins, thank you
Completely unrelated, but the shelving you have mounted to the back wall is quite nice. Is this a kit or something youve made yourself? Or is it something I can Amazon? It would look great in our living room
Instead of using tape you can just buy a SATA extension cable and cut the line that corresponds to the pin in question.
A special like, not only for the test, but although for the cat from Germany ;)
Good work, go on.
You can unlock turbo boost for all cores :) and your cpu will work at 3.3 ghz, find info about bios turbo boost unlock on 2011, x99
I just bought this. It is doing excellent. 400 bucks on newegg. Using it for Linux virtualizations.
Why u didnt unlock turbo mode by changing BIOS? Simple af, 5 mins of searching in google..
Just a question, im not trying to be rude but, is a single fan connector even rated to power 6 fans? I keep reading that a single header can supply up to 3 fans safely...
I found a dell precession T7600 quad core for $156 it’s a dual socket platform so I’m going to go for it.
All the prices you mention are bullshit. If you follow your Amazon links. This build easily costs twice as much for normal end users.
Does anyone know how much power this CPU (or the e5-2678v3) draws at idle please?
you gonna miss out on the turbo boost bios mod becuase you using a ing sample here. but you probably know about that already . also i am awaiting a board just like that. the graphics card would not be my choice i would even go back and get me a gtx 1080ti becuase of the 11 gb and the speed it has and the fact that i do not need ray tracing
I'm looking at getting a cheap x99 combo as a upgrade for my dual xeon x5650 system