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
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..
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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. ;)
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 😀
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 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.
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.
Love your content, I'm an Intermediate veteran myself, but i always pick up little tips and tricks in just about everyone of your videos good work keep it up!
I only recently rediscovered storage spaces in Windows 10. I remember back in the original Windows Home Server days the single greatest thing about it was its software JBOD drive pooling called "Drive Extender" and I was so sad when they discontinued Home Server and didn't introduce the drive pooling to any of their other OS's. Many open source projects spawned in the wake of Drive Extender including Greyhole for Linux and I'm pretty sure its why we have Unraid today. I'm so happy to see this feature back in Windows and on their standard OS no less!
If you drink a Hefeweizen you should consider drinking it in a real "Hefeweizenglas" :) as we do it here in good old Germany. I hope you can get one in the USA. And "as always" yet another informative Video from you.
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 :(
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
According to the Intel ARK, the fastest available memory speed for that processor is 2133MHz. Also, other people are mentioning the all-core turbo exploit that Tech Yes City has covered before. If you're gonna go that route, I'd go for a non-ES CPU. The all-core turbo he said was 2.9GHz on the ES. The all-core on a non-ES is 3.3GHz.
I have viewed both the TYC and the Miyconst turbo UNLOCK guides. I am a fan of TYC, but the step by step Miyconst guide is much clearer for newbees AND he gives you the zip package for all of the free tools to complete a BIOS level unlock. This is superior to other unlocks that may be disabled with a Windows update. IMO. Also, the E5-2678V3 is typically cheaper than the E5-2680V3 AND has the added benefit of accepting either DDR3 or DDR4. The 2680v3 only handles DDR4. Of course, the motherboard must also accept DDR3...hence I went with the HuananZhi X99TF...which has two sets of RAM slots...to configure either DDR3 or DDR4. It can also handle R-EEC DDR3 if you are budget constrained. 4 channel capability is onboard, of course. If you have a lot of multi-tasking or heavy desktop server type workloads, this is a really performance to price bargain. Of course, it can manage gaming quite well, especially 1440p with the right GPU. If I had to buy the RAM, then the AliExpress package X99TF + E5-2678V3+32GB R-EEC ram, all for $260 delivered...is a top bargain IMO. As for quality...I was surprised at the quality of the X99TF motherboard. My day to day desktop server is an ASUS P9X79Pro w/E5-1680V2 and 32GB 1600 Fury HyperX; the quality of the X99TF is right up there with AsRock & ASUS...I honestly was surprised at the quality for only $99.
Great video, I like seeing what these Chinese motherboards are capable of. With downloading games, I used to do the same thing. I would wait until they were down downloading on a test system. A few months ago I've decided to dump them on a drive on my server so it makes it easier to copy over to a new test build and install. I'll keep the copy on the server updated if the game has an update after installing it.
I think from what I've been reading this past few weeks that the v3's are limited to 2133mhz memory the v4's offer 2400mhz support but that's it from what I have gathered. I Accidently ordered a 2680v4 rather than the 2680v3 I wanted however I ended up with a better board that will run the F8's bios to enable timing support from what I can gather it may also offer turbo unlocking by default; I'll be getting a higher v3 at some point I imagine from the stuff I've looked up there's 2 in mind.
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
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.
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!
This is almost what I am building, currently waiting for components to arrive. Have a x99TF mobo with a Asus twin 1660ti 16gb Ram DDR4 (can upgrade add more later) . Mainly for studying editing/photoshop dual screen working from home (quarantaine) and gaming occasionally. I wanted to go with ryzen but some programs explicitly say needs an Intel-CPU... Wanted to try the x99 chinese Xeon for a while anyway so I am not that dissapointed, more excited actually.
I'm totally philosopher of sort and this build rules, if you know what's good as oldish and what is good as normally new. You are so cool. Thanks again.
my motor max +1600AF system actually wouldn't run memory passed 2100mhz either. I had to manually turn the min voltage up to 0.8 and it was fine up to 3466. 🤷♀️
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...
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.
I built a 72TB (48 usable) storage(got a deal on new He12s), hooked to a 9300-8i 128GB ECC RAM and dual 2660v3s on a supermicro X10-DRL-i with a used 1080 non ti for around $1200 bucks in a fractal r5 with noctua coolers. The Chinese x99/c612 boards only advantage is NVMe but God help if you need support or BIOS updates. Plus I love BMC now. Could never go back to a workstation or server without it. So nice to be able to manage the system via this interface and then ESXi handles screen scaling well for full screen usage and 1GBe is plenty of bandwidth for feeling like I'm sitting directly connected to the VM
Hi. I have just assembled a dual E5-2670 v3 build. It is absolutely worth noting that you can BIOS mod x99 boards to run single core turbo on all cores, when using v3 CPUs. It wont work with steppings lower than 2, so no ES CPU's sadly. I went from a CB R15 score around 2900 to around 3400 - so quite a bit of an improvement ;)
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.
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!!!
Could you look at the DDR3 X99 boards, they seem very interesting if you have a spare X99 cpu and some DDR3 laying around. FYI if you have Frontier, they have been having major issues for the past couple of days.
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
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!
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.
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.
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 :)
Have you looked into caching your Steam downloads on your router? Even taking a Steam backup and storing it on a NAS is better than downloading from scratch.
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.
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....
I'm glad i'm not the only one who buys "refurbished" Enterprise drives! I was able to grab 3TB Hitachi drives for around $40 bucks. They are nestled in my workstation as well.
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"
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?
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.
I understand that the Xeons run cool, and cannot be overclocked much. My e5-2698 (18 core HP) Xeon in an Asus x99 does not allow for clocking beyond 2133 (though I have 3200 G Skills :( ) Linus has a video with the e5-2699 when it was new, demonstrating this.
Just a footnote. But moving all those folders to a different drive can cause some issues with windows 10. Downloads is fine Doc's etc caused me no end of issues when a forced update came in
I'm interested in what you said about playing at 1080p vs 1440/4k. I picked up an older T5500 work a 6/12 core/thread Xeon. I put an rx 480 in it, but maybe it could take a better gpu to play on a better screen?
Nice video. Would you recommend this over a Ryzen 5 2600 and B450 motherboard for the same price? I think the ram would work better and easier compatibility which unless the price of older parts drops drastically makes this build just not worth it? Would also massively recommend a steam lancache for your downloads!! Setup on a virtual machine and store on your network, all games after initial download are stored locally so will install at 1Gb (or 10Gb depending on your network connection).
I just built a Xeon E5-1660, GTX 1660, and 16 GB DDR3 on an MSI X79 board. I have a Huananzhi X79 board kicking around I couldn't get to work. Dunno what I'm gonna do with that.
@@flightsimpro8979 I dunno. It wouldn't give out video from the GTX 1660. Once I swapped the mobo all was good both CPU & GPU wise, so IDK what was wrong with the first setup.
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.
Would you recommend this platform or the Chinese x79 platform for gaming/workstation use? Thinking about buying a x79 board with something like a e5 2667 but just stumbled up this video and now I am rethinking it. Currently running a Xeon x3440 with a gtx 980. Just looking for something a little bit different. Thanks!
I'd definitely recommend this over the X79 platform. Haswell CPUs (2011-3) have quite a bit better single threaded performance over Sandy and Ivy chips on X79. You can pick up a 6-core E5-1650 V3 for less than $85, and they're unlocked and overclockable even on these boards. Or for more cores, you can grab a 2678 V3 or 2680 V3 like I have in this video for around the same price.
Craft Computing thanks a bunch! I’m going to definitely set some money aside and start piecing it together. I’ve been a long time fan and I’m happy for your big change in your life. Enjoy it and keep making such amazing content.
it should be possible to modify the bios to run the cpu always at turbo boost all cores with this cpu-motherboard combo if i'm not mistaken. It could improve some cpu related results.
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. :)
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..
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.
@X̶̲̅ H̶̲̅A̶̲̅ Whats 5.1 audio have to do with anything?
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
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 $200. I am going to use it as a Media PC. This made a lot of sense for me because a few months beofre I had upgraded my Supermicro home servers from E5-2620 v4 CPUs to E5-2697A v4 CPUs, and their 64GB of RAM to 256GB; I both had a CPU and memory available. I also have a spare ITX case, spare power supply, and spare nVidia 2060. The only thing left is for me to carefully go through that BIOS and see if I can enable ECC; its not obvious. Even if I can't, for a media PC it doesn't really matter.
so how's the performance for 3years of usage?
Hello, would this motherboard kit will work with Proxmox as main OS ? Planing to use for a minilab homeserver : nas , some linux vms, a windows wm maybe a Hackintosh vm and some other doker stuff. Mostly vms . Also add a decent gpu. No need to overclock. Thank you.
I'm guessing the reason that they included the extra 12-volt connector for PCI Express, it's likely because the board support PCI Lane bifurcation. This means that you can take the x16 slot and cut it up into 16 X1 slots, and you can break that power connector out to power each of them, which would mean that you would need to support more 12-volt power over PCI Express. It's actually really common to have additional PCI Express 12 volt power available on server boards, as it makes things more stable across the 12 volt rails that the motherboard sees.
Wild that i just got a mobo and same cpu for 40$
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 😉
" Even if you're someone who likes to shuck your hard drives".. JASON !!!
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
Probably the best beer ads I've ever seen. Makes me wanna try those beers... And I'm not a fan of beer in general. Lol
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.
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.
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
A special like, not only for the test, but although for the cat from Germany ;)
Good work, go on.
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. ;)
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 😂😂
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
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.
Damn! those v3 Xeon processors are so cheap, and yet so powerful! Great video btw.
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.
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
Love your content, I'm an Intermediate veteran myself,
but i always pick up little tips and tricks in just about everyone of your videos
good work keep it up!
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
You sir are the hero we need, but not the one we deserve.
Also, your taste in beer is 10/10
so i simply searched for this Chinese motherboard and found this channel. i learned a lot. i mean, A LOT!
what model is it? the amazon link is down it seems
I only recently rediscovered storage spaces in Windows 10. I remember back in the original Windows Home Server days the single greatest thing about it was its software JBOD drive pooling called "Drive Extender" and I was so sad when they discontinued Home Server and didn't introduce the drive pooling to any of their other OS's. Many open source projects spawned in the wake of Drive Extender including Greyhole for Linux and I'm pretty sure its why we have Unraid today. I'm so happy to see this feature back in Windows and on their standard OS no less!
If you drink a Hefeweizen you should consider drinking it in a real "Hefeweizenglas" :) as we do it here in good old Germany. I hope you can get one in the USA. And "as always" yet another informative Video from you.
Looks at you with all your modern hardware 😜
I am still rocking dual socket 1366 Intel Xeon X5675’s in my home server 😉
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 :(
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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
The Hammer on Box t-shirt is lit XD
I bought a x79 plexhd motherboard from eBay and a Xeon e5-1650 V2.
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.
According to the Intel ARK, the fastest available memory speed for that processor is 2133MHz.
Also, other people are mentioning the all-core turbo exploit that Tech Yes City has covered before. If you're gonna go that route, I'd go for a non-ES CPU. The all-core turbo he said was 2.9GHz on the ES. The all-core on a non-ES is 3.3GHz.
I have viewed both the TYC and the Miyconst turbo UNLOCK guides. I am a fan of TYC, but the step by step Miyconst guide is much clearer for newbees AND he gives you the zip package for all of the free tools to complete a BIOS level unlock. This is superior to other unlocks that may be disabled with a Windows update. IMO.
Also, the E5-2678V3 is typically cheaper than the E5-2680V3 AND has the added benefit of accepting either DDR3 or DDR4. The 2680v3 only handles DDR4. Of course, the motherboard must also accept DDR3...hence I went with the HuananZhi X99TF...which has two sets of RAM slots...to configure either DDR3 or DDR4. It can also handle R-EEC DDR3 if you are budget constrained. 4 channel capability is onboard, of course.
If you have a lot of multi-tasking or heavy desktop server type workloads, this is a really performance to price bargain. Of course, it can manage gaming quite well, especially 1440p with the right GPU.
If I had to buy the RAM, then the AliExpress package X99TF + E5-2678V3+32GB R-EEC ram, all for $260 delivered...is a top bargain IMO.
As for quality...I was surprised at the quality of the X99TF motherboard. My day to day desktop server is an ASUS P9X79Pro w/E5-1680V2 and 32GB 1600 Fury HyperX; the quality of the X99TF is right up there with AsRock & ASUS...I honestly was surprised at the quality for only $99.
Great video, I like seeing what these Chinese motherboards are capable of. With downloading games, I used to do the same thing. I would wait until they were down downloading on a test system. A few months ago I've decided to dump them on a drive on my server so it makes it easier to copy over to a new test build and install. I'll keep the copy on the server updated if the game has an update after installing it.
I think from what I've been reading this past few weeks that the v3's are limited to 2133mhz memory the v4's offer 2400mhz support but that's it from what I have gathered. I Accidently ordered a 2680v4 rather than the 2680v3 I wanted however I ended up with a better board that will run the F8's bios to enable timing support from what I can gather it may also offer turbo unlocking by default; I'll be getting a higher v3 at some point I imagine from the stuff I've looked up there's 2 in mind.
One comment on this build, seems some explanations are skipped, type of cooling system used wiring set up type of box and why it was chosen...
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
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.
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 swear this man reads my mind... I was thinking about doing a chinese x99 workstation build just last week.
what about dual x99
This is almost what I am building, currently waiting for components to arrive.
Have a x99TF mobo with a Asus twin 1660ti 16gb Ram DDR4 (can upgrade add more later) . Mainly for studying editing/photoshop dual screen working from home (quarantaine) and gaming occasionally. I wanted to go with ryzen but some programs explicitly say needs an Intel-CPU... Wanted to try the x99 chinese Xeon for a while anyway so I am not that dissapointed, more excited actually.
is it still working ?
I'm totally philosopher of sort and this build rules, if you know what's good as oldish and what is good as normally new. You are so cool. Thanks again.
What are the Pro's/Con's of using Storage Spaces to create a pool with 1 disk parity Vs using the RAID controller setup as RAID5?
my motor max +1600AF system actually wouldn't run memory passed 2100mhz either. I had to manually turn the min voltage up to 0.8 and it was fine up to 3466. 🤷♀️
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...
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.
I built a 72TB (48 usable) storage(got a deal on new He12s), hooked to a 9300-8i 128GB ECC RAM and dual 2660v3s on a supermicro X10-DRL-i with a used 1080 non ti for around $1200 bucks in a fractal r5 with noctua coolers. The Chinese x99/c612 boards only advantage is NVMe but God help if you need support or BIOS updates.
Plus I love BMC now. Could never go back to a workstation or server without it. So nice to be able to manage the system via this interface and then ESXi handles screen scaling well for full screen usage and 1GBe is plenty of bandwidth for feeling like I'm sitting directly connected to the VM
Thanks I am building with same MB， however Samsung M2?NVME SSD is not recognized in bios now. Can you give some suggestions? Thx
Most of us are paying this money for mid range gaming systems, and somehow you've got an insanely good workstation for the same price. Nice.
Hi. I have just assembled a dual E5-2670 v3 build.
It is absolutely worth noting that you can BIOS mod x99 boards to run single core turbo on all cores, when using v3 CPUs. It wont work with steppings lower than 2, so no ES CPU's sadly.
I went from a CB R15 score around 2900 to around 3400 - so quite a bit of an improvement ;)
What keyboard is that? Looks wireless mechanical, smaller than tkl, with some backlighting?
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.
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
@Craft Computing Where can we get those amazing beers you are drinking?
Could you look at the DDR3 X99 boards, they seem very interesting if you have a spare X99 cpu and some DDR3 laying around. FYI if you have Frontier, they have been having major issues for the past couple of days.
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
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!
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.
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.
The ram issue is a XEON ES issue, not a board one. Had the exact same issue with my asus prime x99 and a 24 core xeon ES
Love your tech videos mate.. you deserve a million subs
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 :)
Have you looked into caching your Steam downloads on your router? Even taking a Steam backup and storing it on a NAS is better than downloading from scratch.
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.
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....
I'm glad i'm not the only one who buys "refurbished" Enterprise drives! I was able to grab 3TB Hitachi drives for around $40 bucks. They are nestled in my workstation as well.
I just picked up 8x3TB for $22 each :-)
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!
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"
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?
Thanks for the video. Any chance of a stand-alone review of that InWin C200 case? It's piqued my interest ever since you showed it at CES...
I likely will do a stand alone review.
@@CraftComputing Nice! Will definitely be looking forward to it...
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.
Love your content and channel! :) Great work!!
Maybe a stupid question but i was wondering if these boards have VT-D and VT-X? I have a spare E5 2680 V3 (real one) i would like to use again.
They have VT-d enabled, but sadly no VT-x support.
I understand that the Xeons run cool, and cannot be overclocked much. My e5-2698 (18 core HP) Xeon in an Asus x99 does not allow for clocking beyond 2133 (though I have 3200 G Skills :( )
Linus has a video with the e5-2699 when it was new, demonstrating this.
I think I have a weak bladder. Everytime I hear your pour intro I end up wanting to go the loo :D
Hello, could you answer me if the Sapphire Radeon Nitro + RX570 is compatible with this board?
Just a footnote. But moving all those folders to a different drive can cause some issues with windows 10. Downloads is fine Doc's etc caused me no end of issues when a forced update came in
I'm interested in what you said about playing at 1080p vs 1440/4k. I picked up an older T5500 work a 6/12 core/thread Xeon. I put an rx 480 in it, but maybe it could take a better gpu to play on a better screen?
Great video as always. Looking forward to starting my own X99 build in the next few weeks.
Nice video. Would you recommend this over a Ryzen 5 2600 and B450 motherboard for the same price? I think the ram would work better and easier compatibility which unless the price of older parts drops drastically makes this build just not worth it? Would also massively recommend a steam lancache for your downloads!! Setup on a virtual machine and store on your network, all games after initial download are stored locally so will install at 1Gb (or 10Gb depending on your network connection).
Does anyone know how much power this CPU (or the e5-2678v3) draws at idle please?
I just built a Xeon E5-1660, GTX 1660, and 16 GB DDR3 on an MSI X79 board.
I have a Huananzhi X79 board kicking around I couldn't get to work.
Dunno what I'm gonna do with that.
@@flightsimpro8979 I dunno. It wouldn't give out video from the GTX 1660. Once I swapped the mobo all was good both CPU & GPU wise, so IDK what was wrong with the first setup.
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.
Changing you desktop location to a different drive/letter can cause issues. All other user folders are fine to change though.
Why is there "Roermond, Limburg" on that SAS drive? hahahaha
What a small world we live in ;)
Would you recommend this platform or the Chinese x79 platform for gaming/workstation use? Thinking about buying a x79 board with something like a e5 2667 but just stumbled up this video and now I am rethinking it. Currently running a Xeon x3440 with a gtx 980. Just looking for something a little bit different. Thanks!
I'd definitely recommend this over the X79 platform. Haswell CPUs (2011-3) have quite a bit better single threaded performance over Sandy and Ivy chips on X79. You can pick up a 6-core E5-1650 V3 for less than $85, and they're unlocked and overclockable even on these boards. Or for more cores, you can grab a 2678 V3 or 2680 V3 like I have in this video for around the same price.
Craft Computing thanks a bunch! I’m going to definitely set some money aside and start piecing it together. I’ve been a long time fan and I’m happy for your big change in your life. Enjoy it and keep making such amazing content.
Hella classsy build paired with a drink that's cooled with a ice ball
great work, one thing if you could show benchmarks numbers graph on screen would be great
I went with the 2660 V4 since it runs cooler with a TDP of 105.
it should be possible to modify the bios to run the cpu always at turbo boost all cores with this cpu-motherboard combo if i'm not mistaken. It could improve some cpu related results.