Really wasn't expecting to find out that there's actually a gigantic BIOS modding scene for this motherboard. That was a lot of fun to stumble into and mess around with! Watch our Shenzhen SEG E-Market tour: th-cam.com/video/nXWB9GPkm3U/w-d-xo.html Support our work via the GN Store: store.gamersnexus.net/ Find Buildzoid here: th-cam.com/channels/rwObTfqv8u1KO7Fgk-FXHQ.html
I actually have one of these coming to me from ali. A company named Huananzhi is one of the more recognizable brands doing these "x79" and "x99" boards. Huananzhi also has their own 1660s
1:51 lower right: ... ... ... WAS THAT A DUDE IN AN NAZI SS UNIFORM!?!? You just barely miss what's on the red arm band! If he'a security guard for the plaza somebody should let them in on what a horrible design choice their uniforms are! ROFL! Edit: it wasn't I saw Asian characters on the armband.... but still! rofl!
Steve," motherboard" Dude," yes, that's what I said what MOTHERBOARD!" Steve," motherboard" Dude, " YES, WHICH BRAND" Steve," motherboard " Dude *walks away ," he seemes alot more competent on TV, damn "
I absolutely LOVE this video. This is the out of the ordinary type of hardware review I love. This thing is a bizarre monstrosity. Too strange to live. Too rare to die. More please!
These X79 motherboards are a creative way to reuse surplus computers sent to recycle: from old servers come obsolete socket 2011 Xeons (with lots of pci-e lanes) and cheap DDR3 ECC Registered memory (that can't be used on consumer boards). Pair that with older surplus south bridge chips to handle I/O. Add M.2 NVME using the extra pci-e lanes on the Xeons. Add a new manufacture motherboard PCB and you have a cheap computing platform.
That was awesome. An authentic PC hardware fable about the Mysterious Unnamed Motherboard from an alley in Shenzhen, built from the carcasses of old server parts, and featuring a surprisingly large and active underground community in Russia dedicated to modding the hell out of it. Great tale all around.
The community is not actually underground though. I used to spend a lot of time at Overclockers.ru in 2006-2009. Their overclocking database should even have my results for AMD Athlon 64 3700+.
@@unclestreamsarchive7126 4pda.ru is amazing as well. There's a lot of info and resources on cheap phones, tablets and GPS PDAs that you can't really find anywhere else(including xda)
I have had a chance to play with this exact motherboard. There are a few moments: - The Windows sleep mode does not work. - I was able to change the PCI-E version from 2.0 to 3.0 in the BIOS. The same applies to the M.2 slot. - One of the green SATA ports is actually SATA 2, not SATA 3. - The speaker sound was possible to disable with a jumper on the motherboard, but I don't remember which. Overall I could recommend it for someone who looks for an ultra budget rig, and does not have access to reasonably priced second hand parts. P.S. Since there are multiple revisions of this board, I can't guarantee that the same applies to all boards.
in my case 1.03 version of motherboard pci-e is version 3.0 on both pci slots and my two rx480 8gb in crossfire running fine with no issues .secon hand xeon 1650 scores 13000 at passmark ,16gb of memory at 1866 quad channel for 35 dollars . so for 300 bucks including a second hand rx480 8gb its a great deal gaming pc .. Shadow of the Tomb Raider 68fps @ high and 58 fps at highest settings .. th-cam.com/video/4p6N67yljoE/w-d-xo.html ..
I just bought this board awhile back v1.03 and paired it with a e5-2690 sandy bridge. 16gb of Samsung 1600mhz Ecc memory and found a rx Vega 56 on the cheap. I’ve got right under $400 for the whole combo and so far it works great. For gamers on a budget it could be a great option. I did notice the vrm got a little warm but I threw two 140mm fans in the top of my case and now it’s actually cool to the touch. Overall I would recommend
The SATA and USB configuration varies depending on actual chipset used on these boards. Older ones have only 1 SATA3 port and no USB3, newer have 2 SATA3 and some USB3 ports...
15:36 "...and then buildzoid gave us some instructions on how we could probably blow the board up if we wanted to." That man is a national treasure. Can confirm on cheap old xeons. I recently scored an e5-2698 v3 to turbo mod as a room heater for the winter. v4 and newer is still expensive though.
@Richard Griffiths , hail to the Russian oligarchs! :) It is reason why we "love" bizarre Chinese devices here in Mozzer Raashaa! :-D Heh, 30 years ago we "loved" to clone the ZX, but times changes...
It's a redicoulous waste. We could, possibly, have *generations* of compatible chips and motherboards instead we have mountains of e-waste. It's an environmental nightmare created by artificial market segmentation and planned obsolescence. It's a chilling reminder of the dangers of having a huge unchecked force dominating a market for so long. AMD has done better with Ryzen and supporting mutiple motherboard chipsets per CPU but it could probably even be better if it were a priority to customers. Unfortunately we are talking about the "Enterprise" market which is very rarely controlled by tech savvy people. It's controlled by business people.
@Fellow accelerationist Capitalism is meant to serve those with money. And it absolutely is the thing responsible for the pollution of Earth and the destruction of our habitat. Make no mistake. Capitalism is predatory by definition.
@Fellow accelerationist That isn't capitalism; to function properly it needs a free market (which we don't have), honest trade (which is flouted constantly) and property rights (which China doesn't have). Capitalism died when the Fed was setup. Modern Western economies are grossly meddled with by their states, with vast amounts of printed/made-up money, borrowed cash, unfunded liabilities, bloated welfare states, etc.; if anything it's more communist than capitalist. China meanwhile definitely isn't capitalist, though some insist on saying it has absorbed elements of it - that's wrong, what China has done is go mad for unregulated free enterprise which is very different. Check out the videos by Winston and Cmilk on serpentza, laowhy86 and ADVChina channels. Megan A is right about the waste though, which is why I applaud these Chinese mbds, I have several. And btw, the reason why Intel never updated X79 back in the day as it should have done was because if they had, nobody would have bought X99. If X79 had native USB3, full Intel SATA3 (no crappy Marvell or ASMedia controllers) and native NVMe boot, and had been given the 8-core CPU it can definitely support (XEONs go up to at least 10 cores on S2011, and infact the 3930K is actually an 8 core but with 2 cores disabled), then again the incentive to upgrade would have been much weaker. Worse, Intel kicked off X99 with its ridiculous PCIe lane segmentation, the 5820K literally unable to do things the lowly 3820 and 4820K can do. It was years before one could finally buy an HEDT from Intel that didn't have crippled PCIe lanes, and that only happened because Ryzen came along. It's hillarious that I can put together a 4-core 4820K X79 system with four GPUs for CUDA/compute whereas that is not possible with an 8-core 7820X. :D Thankfully, enthusiasts have rectified the lack of NVMe boot support on many older mbds, so for ASUS boards check this ROG thread for numerous modded BIOS files to support native NVMe boot (and other enhancements): rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?48001-R4E-BIOS-4804-MODDED-EFI-Intel-13-1-0-2126-Download Note that one can still boot from NVMe on older mbds by using an SSD that has its own boot ROM. I have such a system with a 512GB 950 Pro. Also note that spare PCIe slots can still be used for general NVMe storage, but one does need IB-generation CPUs to enable Gen3 PCIe.
Hi Steve. I've watched your videos for about 1yr and really like your work. Since I can read Chinese, I would like to share some interesting info based on what's shown in the video: While no explicit brand name is written in English on the box, the badge on MB and the Chinese context on box cover indicate the brand is called 'Hong Shuo', which I feel like is a merge of ‘Acer’ and 'Asus' based on how their name is written in Chinese(even though Acer doesn't make MB). However, of course this is just a copy cat of these brand names, not really implying it is a product from either of them.
To be fair these were absolutely the systems to buy for value before ryzen was a thing. Ever since the core wars started these have been getting less and less relevant.
@@GGigabiteM Dunno about that. New ryzens are way too good. Depends on what you want but the mainstream play right now is laptops. I would've laughed if you told me a year ago laptops would be a good bang for the buck, yet here we are. At least in europe, since you get regular sales, a Ryzen 5000 system with a 3000 series GPU is in the 1000€ to 1500€ range which is pretty reasonable for what you get and widely available unlike desktop GPUs.
I have sold three systems with that board. the trick to make a low-cost profitable bills with these is to buy the CPU and RAM in bulk auctions. The math worked out to about $20 per 32GB kit (registered ECC), and $25 per CPU. I warranty the build for two years and keep a few extra boards and ram kits for any potential RMA issues, the rest of the parts in the builds are New. The customers knows going in, and are happy to Spend under $600 for a complete PC with 8C/16t CPU, 32GB Ram, 512GB NVME SSD + 3TB HSGT enterprises grade drive, And RX570/580 or GTX 1060 (if they want to spend the extra). Genuine True OEM Windows 10 pro license and 2 year warranty with support. A few sellers on Amazon have the board too, although the US stock sells out fast, but the seller I have been using seems to restock reasonably quickly. Most listing says it maxes at 32GB but all mine did test fine with 64GB kit.
Sooqa, eto zhe klon huanana, plexhd, Petrovich, nesee flashqoo, mod biosa stavit' boodem. To be fair, gn are kinda late, because there are haswell-e motherboards available already.
@@supra107 well if you're going to go talk about letters not working in Russian Cyrillic then 90+% of the alphabet isn't compatible with the "English" alphabet because they're all more or less written completely differently with different sounds
Wow, you sure are late to the party. Chinese boards were a HUGE thing for quite some time in Russia but it is now a declining trend. Yeah, the hardware is very Frankenstein-style but these boards are a good performance per dollar choice. You can find them bundled with a cpu and ram on Aliexpress for a great price and Russians love that kind of thing, a lot of people here don't have a huge budget for a new PC. In fact, dirty cheap gaming builds with aliexpress hardware based on xeon CPUs was (and mostly still is) a big trend on the Russian speaking TH-cam space.
Thanks for establishing that you knew something cool before we did! If only we had you here earlier, we wouldn't have needed to waste all our time with this having fun nonsense.
You know that motherboard is old when it says "ATI CROSS F I R E" on the PCB.. When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was a Maxsun board, thanks to the the green coloring.
@@CaveyMoth cuz he probably didnt make any for it why make a video for 15 to 30 sec of talking just wouldnt be worth the time of setting up camera mic and everything which we all know how much buildzoid loves doing that lmao
I assume the russian breakdowns are so detailed because their economy isnt great and pc parts are expensive af, so if they buy something cheap from china they want to make sure they arent wasting money
Well there is no money to waste for sure, but the real reason is that Russian economy has been overall on the recovery path for two decades, with at most minor setbacks, after being an absolute shithole in the 90s. An increasing number of people can JUST ABOUT afford and want computers, they need to be careful about bang for the buck, but the used computer and component market is undersaturated unlike in more developed countries, where computer usership is stagnant or declining, and where power users churn through newest high-end hardware quite rapidly. Thus a high degree of reliance on these China Specials.
Tbh even for russians systems with 2nd ryzen and something like rx570 is not that expensive. There is really no reason to dig into noname chinese motherboard market unless you're very into it.
no we like to experiment, build stuff and shit. i can assure you most younger people or older people wich are invested in computers have pretty high end rigs. economy is fine issiues like in most countrys exist but normal people dont live worse then lets say in germany / as i have familiy in germany.
I have several of a newer revision of this board. It's a fun oddball board. They all had different sounding beep jingles and different chipsets. Even got a z77 board that was weirdly good OCer, managing to max an E5-1620 to 4.3ghz. I ran it with PC3L Reg RAM at 1866mhz, but then my newer boards didn't like my mismatched single and dual-rank RAM and refused to run in quad-channel. I've had a lot of fun with these weird, weird boards and that little beep jingle still makes me smile.
Quite interesting. The sticker on the IO, naming "宏碩" is a mix of the chinese names of Acer "宏基" and Asus "華碩" dunno if its a real company name, but is convincing enough to confuse someone into thinking the thing is legit. (Chinese speaking Japanese here, always gets confused by the chinese names of the legit companies when in Taiwan)
There's a bunch of those mobos with LGA2011 socket on Aliexpress for $60-80, which are basically Ivy/Sandy Bridge chipsets with 2011 sockets and NVMe slot attached, as well as modified BIOS. The funny thing is - it works. These boards and Xeon E5 CPUs are very popular combo in Russia, given that "legit" X99 boards are very expensive (unlike the Xeons) and Russians have easy access to Aliexpress stuff (and they're crazy enough to mess with it). There's a number of channels on TH-cam where you can see these in action and more detail, mostly Russian ones but some english speaking too. If you already have DDR3 RAM and you can get Xeons cheaply, which is easy, you can get one of these boards for 2-3x less than actual X99 board, use that DDR3 RAM and have very cheap 6+ core systems comparable to modern 6-8 core Ryzen 1000-2000 series rigs without needing to pay for modern CPUs, latest chipsets and DDR4 RAM. And the NVMe actually works. Plus, if you get unlocked Xeons (E5-16xx/26xx chips), you can even overclock for even more added value. There are also similar "frankenstein" X299 boards with LGA2011-3 sockets on them...
would love more content like this from you guys! You guys dissect and explain weird hardware in a way most channels do not. Amazing research work here.
Onboard power normally reserved for '$150 motherboards or more...'. As someone who sadly invested in an Asus Z390 Strix board prior to catching the GN coverage on Asus boards this generation, I feel even more sad. When board like that has features a once-decent brand does not, it's time to change
Acer used to sell pre-built OEM PC's that used that same "Mini-ATX" standard, also during the older intel core 2 duo e8400 days, Asus & MSI made a few cheaper bare-bones motherboards that were "Mini-ATX" ...... So I I guess it was an official standard @ some point.
You have no idea how popular it is in Russia. This mobo has a dozen of variations and there are communities here where people discuss tweaking. These can be bought for $70mobo and $80xeon 2689(8/16) and 16gb of ECC REG DDR3 quad channel for another $50. This gives us 50k in read/write and about 55ns RAM Latency - not bad. Another option is to pair it with 1650v2 - it is more expensive but goes well with these boards. Aliexpress delivery time for Russians is 14 days and since we don't have Amazon here and average salary is $500 and prices in local shops for modern hardware are overpriced - this xeon combo is a good budget option.
still have my socket 754 lanparty UT NF3 250Gb just for that specific reason.. it's so damn ugly that it's actually cool to look at and remember the days when performance mattered more than the look of the board.
Does it need a name when it's clearly "The best motherboard series" I mean that tells you everything you need to know since it's reputation precedes it.
@@Asdayasman Не совсем, есть конечно пара моментов, в духе teenager это я хватанул, можно было schoolboy, ну и тут своеобразная игра слов - разогнать в русском языке можно использовать и для автомеханики и для компьютерной техники, но при переводе игра слов теряется. Кстати говоря гугл транслейт в последнее время хорошо переводит, алгоритмы обучения приносят свои плоды.
Just FYI: if you need a quick non-automated translation of some (not exactly) obscure Russian hardware resources, ping me. Because why not. Could be fun :)
19:50 - "and this is our review of Motherboard.. the motherboard." I've seen some budget boards, but this one takes the cake, can't even afford a name! LOL!
Love the box it came in, and the fun watching you find all the info on the board. That motherboard is probably the craziest thing I have seen in PCs. Good job Steve!
Actually I have been running one of these 'Motherboards' as my main 3D Rendering workstation for the last 6 months. One of the more quirky setups you will come across. 6 Core Xeon (V2) with 5 GPUs, via 2 x Radeon Pro Duos (Fiji) and a Radeon VII. All cooled via a Custom water loop. It is an Open CL compute monster. How does a Blender BMW render at 31 seconds sound, or Luxmark Luxball hitting 150K score. I built this for the purpose of running Blender with the odd bit of gaming. It games pretty well. The only major flaw with these cheap 'X79' boards is they won't go into Sleep mode properly. However I am very happy with it having bought most components second hand. It would have cost more than twice what I put into it if I bought new, currently available hardware...ala a couple of Titan RTX cards.
Ok Steve, I absolutely love this kind of weird sh*t. I gotta buy a mod Matt now even if I can't get it in red. Great vid bro lolz.. And thanks for the great vidz over the years ✌️🇨🇦
That motherboard sort of reminds me of the old Megatrends HX83 board back in the later part of the original Pentium days, around the time the original MMX chips were released. It was a one off board by a company that was not related to American Megatrends the BIOS company and now is somewhat difficult to find information about it. That board had support for a 83 mhz FSB (hence its name) and some other weird stuff back before other board makers (except for Abit) we willing to let you play with a FSB above 75 mhz. It was almost legendary in how some people modded the bios and did things with the Intel BX chipset that you normally couldn't do on other boards. Almost as quickly as people caught on to what the board could do you suddenly couldn't buy it anymore and the company seeming vanished. I think they may have also released a Pentium Pro based board with some funky stuff done to it around the same time but those CPUs were so expensive that board was even less well known about.
This is most likely lots of leftover components that someone buy and is piecing together for some profit. No brand so they cant be found and can "cheap" out on certifications.
PCIe 2.0 instead of 3.0 is because Sandy Brdige didn't support 3.0. On the B75 Chipset mobos it was common to see "PCIe 3.0" advertised, but if you put a 2000-series (I'm talking about mainline, not HEDT) CPU in it, it will only work in compatibility mode.
I own two of these! Of course, I purchased three to have two that worked... But, in the end, I'm running a system on "motherboard" watching a video on "motherboard" and I'm enjoying this.
Man i remember that whole shitshow. In germany and switzerland the 1231v3 was super popular, i built 3 PCs for friends with that cpu. When the skylake xeons came out and didn't work on consumer chipsets anymore there was massive outrage
I picked one of these up, slapped a Xeon e5-1650v2 in there, changed the multiplier to x42 and this thing games like a beast and performs in between a R5 1600 and a R7 1700!
I used one of these to build my son's computer. I had an I7-3820 CPU sitting around with a couple of 16gb DDR3 sticks. It was very strange building with it because things are in some very unusual places when you are installing them (I did buy a fan controller to run more fans). Fired it up and worked solid as a rock. From the PCIE power connector, I suspect these were possibly manufactured for mining PCs. With Xeon/DDR3 ECC (much cheaper than DDR4 ECC) support, they would also make great/cheap NAS server boards.
I second the notion of motherboard makers releasing limited runs of old overclocking boards. I'd love to get a new EVGA/XFX nForce 790i SLI mobo to play with my QX9650. :3
I think this one is less known because the Huanan boards are a bit more popular. Still, they are similar to the point where they may come from the same factory, so it shouldn't be too different
I’m very glad you made this video because I have one of these motherboards with a i7-3930k and a GTX 1660 super and was trying to find a bios that worked so I could overclock my cpu, thank you.
9:35 - that Plextor M8PeG SSD is Special. It has a legacy boot ROM, so you can boot it almost on all motherboards, without the NVMe boot support. You only need to use the legacy boot rom, like in samsung 950 pro.
Warning! The 6.0 version of these boards (which lacks onboard LCD indicator, power switches and buzzer) uses a B85 chipset. Do NOT flash any bios from the 1.01~1.03 revisions. It will very likely brick the board. The 4.0~6.0 revisions also don't support quad-channel anymore ._.) Partially modded BIOSes can be found here: www.win-raid.com/t6984f16-X-Turbo-Rev-PLEXHD-Cheap-Chinese-X-board-that-can-freely-change-Vcore-after-simple-BIOS-modifications.html
The Q77 Chipset supports PCIE 3.0 i believe nvidia lock it out on Ivy Bridge-E and it has to be enabled via a registry key, one of my pc's runs an intel DQ77MK(Q77) with an I7 3770k and a Sapphire Vega 64 Nitro at 3.0 just fine
To old timers, this shows how much more reliable motherboards are these days. So many brand name super 7 boards were unstable at their advertised 100fsb, using AGP etc. So many Athlon boards with bad caps - sold as mid range overclocking boards, i'd stretched a budget build to "go for reliability", only to have them die, not overclocked, while running a Duron.
Really wasn't expecting to find out that there's actually a gigantic BIOS modding scene for this motherboard. That was a lot of fun to stumble into and mess around with!
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That motherboard brand "motherboard"!
I actually have one of these coming to me from ali. A company named Huananzhi is one of the more recognizable brands doing these "x79" and "x99" boards. Huananzhi also has their own 1660s
1:51 lower right: ... ... ... WAS THAT A DUDE IN AN NAZI SS UNIFORM!?!? You just barely miss what's on the red arm band! If he'a security guard for the plaza somebody should let them in on what a horrible design choice their uniforms are! ROFL!
Edit: it wasn't I saw Asian characters on the armband.... but still! rofl!
@@AndrewKennethColborn maybe it was one of those rare nazicommunists!
I could use that ddr3 ecc if you don't want it. I have a couple westmere xeon systems that would like some more ram.
"what's the motherboards form factor?"
A4.
It takes i9 5700 zen CPUs
Chinese rep: "Yes, there is ram slot"
A4? You sank my battleship...
@@jasongooden917 no its ryzen 9 9900k zen + 10nm chipset lol
@@namnnamn1911 It's the Ryzen 9 9900X
So what motherboard do you have in your system?
Me: Yes.
Poorly speaking English: "Yes, motherboard. Gaming."
Да.
Steve," motherboard"
Dude," yes, that's what I said what MOTHERBOARD!"
Steve," motherboard"
Dude, " YES, WHICH BRAND"
Steve," motherboard "
Dude *walks away ," he seemes alot more competent on TV, damn "
"today we look at motherboard"...well, ok then!
That made my morning :D hahah
Omfg that was hilarious
At least it's worth a good laugh. Other than that it's a paper weight
Its funnier that the video was sponsered by a motherboard
The name is marketing genius
What cpus does it support?
Chinese Rep: Yes it support CPU
Lyle: SEE PEE YUU!
All 2011 cpus. Except to 2011 v3
Cavey Möth That's a wiv stwong bwacelet!
@@koteignasio98 You missed the joke. r/woosh.
@@specialedition3585 It was forged by hand in Chiner by my sister.
“Brought to you by a Manufacturer”
Not 'a' manufacturer. THE manufacturer.
@@axelolord OUR manufacturer
@Martin M Comment
rofl
Im deadddd
I absolutely LOVE this video. This is the out of the ordinary type of hardware review I love. This thing is a bizarre monstrosity. Too strange to live. Too rare to die. More please!
These X79 motherboards are a creative way to reuse surplus computers sent to recycle: from old servers come obsolete socket 2011 Xeons (with lots of pci-e lanes) and cheap DDR3 ECC Registered memory (that can't be used on consumer boards). Pair that with older surplus south bridge chips to handle I/O. Add M.2 NVME using the extra pci-e lanes on the Xeons. Add a new manufacture motherboard PCB and you have a cheap computing platform.
GN ALWAYS delivers. The absolute best IT/gamer channel in assistance.
I have a feeling Gamers Nexus is slowly becoming PhilsComputerLab at this point.
"Too strange to live. Too rare to die." Thank you #Unruly Cactus :-)
I love Hunter S. Thompson quotes.
That was awesome. An authentic PC hardware fable about the Mysterious Unnamed Motherboard from an alley in Shenzhen, built from the carcasses of old server parts, and featuring a surprisingly large and active underground community in Russia dedicated to modding the hell out of it. Great tale all around.
The community is not actually underground though. I used to spend a lot of time at Overclockers.ru in 2006-2009. Their overclocking database should even have my results for AMD Athlon 64 3700+.
@@AlexanderKalish But "underground" sounds so cool!
@@unclestreamsarchive7126 absolutely
@@unclestreamsarchive7126 4pda.ru is amazing as well. There's a lot of info and resources on cheap phones, tablets and GPS PDAs that you can't really find anywhere else(including xda)
@@unclestreamsarchive7126 I believe UNHOLY would be a more correct word for it.
I have had a chance to play with this exact motherboard. There are a few moments:
- The Windows sleep mode does not work.
- I was able to change the PCI-E version from 2.0 to 3.0 in the BIOS. The same applies to the M.2 slot.
- One of the green SATA ports is actually SATA 2, not SATA 3.
- The speaker sound was possible to disable with a jumper on the motherboard, but I don't remember which.
Overall I could recommend it for someone who looks for an ultra budget rig, and does not have access to reasonably priced second hand parts.
P.S. Since there are multiple revisions of this board, I can't guarantee that the same applies to all boards.
in my case 1.03 version of motherboard pci-e is version 3.0 on both pci slots and my two rx480 8gb in crossfire running fine with no issues .secon hand xeon 1650 scores 13000 at passmark ,16gb of memory at 1866 quad channel for 35 dollars . so for 300 bucks including a second hand rx480 8gb its a great deal gaming pc .. Shadow of the Tomb Raider 68fps @ high and 58 fps at highest settings .. th-cam.com/video/4p6N67yljoE/w-d-xo.html ..
I just bought this board awhile back v1.03 and paired it with a e5-2690 sandy bridge. 16gb of Samsung 1600mhz Ecc memory and found a rx Vega 56 on the cheap. I’ve got right under $400 for the whole combo and so far it works great. For gamers on a budget it could be a great option. I did notice the vrm got a little warm but I threw two 140mm fans in the top of my case and now it’s actually cool to the touch. Overall I would recommend
@@billkabb Holy shit thats some next level stuff. Amazing what necromancy can do these days.
The SATA and USB configuration varies depending on actual chipset used on these boards. Older ones have only 1 SATA3 port and no USB3, newer have 2 SATA3 and some USB3 ports...
the Windows sleep mode doesn't work with most FX boards either so its not exactly a unique problem
The people demand an OC challenge using Motherboard and CUTE PET.
Yeah it would be cool to see an OC competition on old hardware between like GN and Jay
deus vult
I want a CUTE PET motherboard.
Yes!!
YESSSSSSSSS!
"Motherboard" definitely an easier naming scheme than "Intel Core i9 10980XE" to be fair
10980xe KFC !
But the naming, doesn't reflecting the whole picture... As it doesn't contain any specific naming scheme referring to specific model.. :)
Tendy nine eighty ex eeee!
15:36 "...and then buildzoid gave us some instructions on how we could probably blow the board up if we wanted to."
That man is a national treasure.
Can confirm on cheap old xeons. I recently scored an e5-2698 v3 to turbo mod as a room heater for the winter. v4 and newer is still expensive though.
"Xeon, so cheap!" you have to read that as Lyle ;)
Lol.
Do they 'love you long time'?
This is totally the board you get from lyles friends brothers cousin.... berry scheep 4 u
Now if only I could get one of those Chinese motherboards...
I thought it was zion
"So, what kind of motherboard do you have in your system?"
"You do not understand, mortal. IT IS MOTHERBOARD!"
great motherboard, the mother of all boards, ruler of chipsets, king of vrms
@@alexmikhylov It's a MOAB!
"So, what kind of motherboard do you have in your system?"
Oh, you know, a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
@@Ty-ri7dy Some may call this junk. Me, I call it Motherboard.
It is THE Motherboard
"What's its name?"
"It's just 'motherboard'"
This name is meant to show its superiority to other mainboards.
Huanan
@@maziu438 this one is not Huanan , made in other factory , but it almost same as Huanan
also Huanan is not a factory , this is just a OEM brand .
Should have read it as it says on the package to easily be differed from anything else.
If it was Apple they would patent "motherboard" name.
*Translating beep code*
Result: "My existence is pain. Booting now."
Mr Meeseeks, can you boot this?
That's my daily boot sequence.
It reminds me of booting a miniquad. So annoying!
That's why russians liked it so much. Is like one of them!
this comment made me e sad
Gamers Nexus : It's a motherboard
Russians: it's OUR motherboard
FOR MOTHERBOARD!
Chinese: It’s motherboard
It's the "MOTHER OF All BOARDS™"!
@Richard Griffiths , hail to the Russian oligarchs! :) It is reason why we "love" bizarre Chinese devices here in Mozzer Raashaa! :-D Heh, 30 years ago we "loved" to clone the ZX, but times changes...
It's a motherboard for the motherland.
This should tell everyone that “the chipset” forced upgrade game needs looking into
Intel's greediness and the market dynamics that allow them to get away with their greediness need looking into, you mean.
It's a redicoulous waste. We could, possibly, have *generations* of compatible chips and motherboards instead we have mountains of e-waste. It's an environmental nightmare created by artificial market segmentation and planned obsolescence. It's a chilling reminder of the dangers of having a huge unchecked force dominating a market for so long. AMD has done better with Ryzen and supporting mutiple motherboard chipsets per CPU but it could probably even be better if it were a priority to customers. Unfortunately we are talking about the "Enterprise" market which is very rarely controlled by tech savvy people. It's controlled by business people.
@@megan_alnico Ah, capitalism...
amirite
@Fellow accelerationist Capitalism is meant to serve those with money. And it absolutely is the thing responsible for the pollution of Earth and the destruction of our habitat. Make no mistake. Capitalism is predatory by definition.
@Fellow accelerationist That isn't capitalism; to function properly it needs a free market (which we don't have), honest trade (which is flouted constantly) and property rights (which China doesn't have). Capitalism died when the Fed was setup. Modern Western economies are grossly meddled with by their states, with vast amounts of printed/made-up money, borrowed cash, unfunded liabilities, bloated welfare states, etc.; if anything it's more communist than capitalist. China meanwhile definitely isn't capitalist, though some insist on saying it has absorbed elements of it - that's wrong, what China has done is go mad for unregulated free enterprise which is very different. Check out the videos by Winston and Cmilk on serpentza, laowhy86 and ADVChina channels.
Megan A is right about the waste though, which is why I applaud these Chinese mbds, I have several. And btw, the reason why Intel never updated X79 back in the day as it should have done was because if they had, nobody would have bought X99. If X79 had native USB3, full Intel SATA3 (no crappy Marvell or ASMedia controllers) and native NVMe boot, and had been given the 8-core CPU it can definitely support (XEONs go up to at least 10 cores on S2011, and infact the 3930K is actually an 8 core but with 2 cores disabled), then again the incentive to upgrade would have been much weaker. Worse, Intel kicked off X99 with its ridiculous PCIe lane segmentation, the 5820K literally unable to do things the lowly 3820 and 4820K can do. It was years before one could finally buy an HEDT from Intel that didn't have crippled PCIe lanes, and that only happened because Ryzen came along. It's hillarious that I can put together a 4-core 4820K X79 system with four GPUs for CUDA/compute whereas that is not possible with an 8-core 7820X. :D
Thankfully, enthusiasts have rectified the lack of NVMe boot support on many older mbds, so for ASUS boards check this ROG thread for numerous modded BIOS files to support native NVMe boot (and other enhancements):
rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?48001-R4E-BIOS-4804-MODDED-EFI-Intel-13-1-0-2126-Download
Note that one can still boot from NVMe on older mbds by using an SSD that has its own boot ROM. I have such a system with a 512GB 950 Pro.
Also note that spare PCIe slots can still be used for general NVMe storage, but one does need IB-generation CPUs to enable Gen3 PCIe.
Hi Steve. I've watched your videos for about 1yr and really like your work. Since I can read Chinese, I would like to share some interesting info based on what's shown in the video:
While no explicit brand name is written in English on the box, the badge on MB and the Chinese context on box cover indicate the brand is called 'Hong Shuo', which I feel like is a merge of ‘Acer’ and 'Asus' based on how their name is written in Chinese(even though Acer doesn't make MB). However, of course this is just a copy cat of these brand names, not really implying it is a product from either of them.
Thanks!
this is the true definition of e-waste recycling
Where the west majorily fails at, the Chinese found another market to capitalize on.
To be fair these were absolutely the systems to buy for value before ryzen was a thing.
Ever since the core wars started these have been getting less and less relevant.
@@SiriusXification And a year later, they're still the systems to buy. Getting a Ryzen anything at MSRP is neigh impossible. And GPUs? lol.
@@GGigabiteM Dunno about that. New ryzens are way too good. Depends on what you want but the mainstream play right now is laptops.
I would've laughed if you told me a year ago laptops would be a good bang for the buck, yet here we are.
At least in europe, since you get regular sales, a Ryzen 5000 system with a 3000 series GPU is in the 1000€ to 1500€ range which is pretty reasonable for what you get and widely available unlike desktop GPUs.
I have sold three systems with that board. the trick to make a low-cost profitable bills with these is to buy the CPU and RAM in bulk auctions. The math worked out to about $20 per 32GB kit (registered ECC), and $25 per CPU. I warranty the build for two years and keep a few extra boards and ram kits for any potential RMA issues, the rest of the parts in the builds are New. The customers knows going in, and are happy to Spend under $600 for a complete PC with 8C/16t CPU, 32GB Ram, 512GB NVME SSD + 3TB HSGT enterprises grade drive, And RX570/580 or GTX 1060 (if they want to spend the extra). Genuine True OEM Windows 10 pro license and 2 year warranty with support. A few sellers on Amazon have the board too, although the US stock sells out fast, but the seller I have been using seems to restock reasonably quickly. Most listing says it maxes at 32GB but all mine did test fine with 64GB kit.
GN: We dont know anythign about this motherboard.
Russians (in russian accent): We have 800 pages on it.
Sooqa, eto zhe klon huanana, plexhd, Petrovich, nesee flashqoo, mod biosa stavit' boodem.
To be fair, gn are kinda late, because there are haswell-e motherboards available already.
@@user_imyarek You ever heard of a Russian keyboard?
They wrote the book on it.
@@thetrashman5252 dude... His fucking name was in Russian.
@@tarfeef_4268 I understand, I mean it's annoying to read his Russian typed up on an English keyboard.
Take a drink every time "Motherboard" is said.
A SHOT
I'm drunk
No thanks i like my liver
challenge accedpfjftdre
nasdrovia :3
Love the world of warships on the box...
I LIKE BOATS
@@GamersNexus I dunno, I think Jay might like them more.
SEA server gang rise up
Before that, this video is brought to you by World of Warships. Oh, and it has updated RGB illumination.
@@GamersNexus th-cam.com/video/WIUQ7nwCl1o/w-d-xo.html
Fun Fact- In your try to write "HACKED" in cyrillic letters, you wrote "NDSKED"!
Also fun fact, there is no letter in Cyrilic like D! The closest counterpart is Д.
Reading Cyrilic repurposed as Latin alphabet is pain.
Oh yeah, and Э is inverted in the title.
@@supra107 No it's not, there is a letter 'Є' in Cyrillic alphabet and is used in Ukrainian language.
@@supra107 well if you're going to go talk about letters not working in Russian Cyrillic then 90+% of the alphabet isn't compatible with the "English" alphabet because they're all more or less written completely differently with different sounds
Let me try:
ХАЦКЕД.
Yeah well no, i don't have a real Russian keyboard, i use phonetic layout.
Wow, you sure are late to the party. Chinese boards were a HUGE thing for quite some time in Russia but it is now a declining trend. Yeah, the hardware is very Frankenstein-style but these boards are a good performance per dollar choice. You can find them bundled with a cpu and ram on Aliexpress for a great price and Russians love that kind of thing, a lot of people here don't have a huge budget for a new PC.
In fact, dirty cheap gaming builds with aliexpress hardware based on xeon CPUs was (and mostly still is) a big trend on the Russian speaking TH-cam space.
What's the new choice for hardware that is replacing these X79 type boards now?
@@soupwizard ryzen maybe
@@kruxdt6307 yes the 1600 and 1700's are now pretty cheap in the used parts markets. They also have motherboards for those too.
@@soupwizard Ryzen 1st gen is now available on ali and is quite cheap.
Thanks for establishing that you knew something cool before we did! If only we had you here earlier, we wouldn't have needed to waste all our time with this having fun nonsense.
You know that motherboard is old when it says "ATI CROSS F I R E" on the PCB..
When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was a Maxsun board, thanks to the the green coloring.
My boy buildzoid with the fire hot takes
Why didn't he show Buildzoid's footage? I already have the video at 1.5x speed, smh.
@@CaveyMoth cuz he probably didnt make any for it why make a video for 15 to 30 sec of talking just wouldnt be worth the time of setting up camera mic and everything which we all know how much buildzoid loves doing that lmao
I assume the russian breakdowns are so detailed because their economy isnt great and pc parts are expensive af, so if they buy something cheap from china they want to make sure they arent wasting money
absolutely true
Well there is no money to waste for sure, but the real reason is that Russian economy has been overall on the recovery path for two decades, with at most minor setbacks, after being an absolute shithole in the 90s. An increasing number of people can JUST ABOUT afford and want computers, they need to be careful about bang for the buck, but the used computer and component market is undersaturated unlike in more developed countries, where computer usership is stagnant or declining, and where power users churn through newest high-end hardware quite rapidly. Thus a high degree of reliance on these China Specials.
Tbh even for russians systems with 2nd ryzen and something like rx570 is not that expensive. There is really no reason to dig into noname chinese motherboard market unless you're very into it.
no we like to experiment, build stuff and shit. i can assure you most younger people or older people wich are invested in computers have pretty high end rigs. economy is fine issiues like in most countrys exist but normal people dont live worse then lets say in germany / as i have familiy in germany.
@@NextazxzNoExuse not if your salary is around 200$ for month.
"And the board did not... Catch fire"
Impressive... Very impressive! I mean what else do you need from a motherboard! I'd buy this dubious board
Xeon e5-2689
X79t
4x4gb ECC REG ram
or how to get the power of a ryzen 1700 with 3200mhz ram for about $150, the price of a used r1700 on AliExpress.
Setting the bar low to avoid disappointment. Smart.
it has 10 phases!
I liked how it said, "MIND PLEASE DON'T BUY". lmfao!!
0:44:
Buyer - "what's this motherboard called?"
Seller - "yes."
“Mind please don’t buy!” Effectively the broken English version of puts sunglasses on and says deal with it.
I have several of a newer revision of this board. It's a fun oddball board. They all had different sounding beep jingles and different chipsets. Even got a z77 board that was weirdly good OCer, managing to max an E5-1620 to 4.3ghz. I ran it with PC3L Reg RAM at 1866mhz, but then my newer boards didn't like my mismatched single and dual-rank RAM and refused to run in quad-channel. I've had a lot of fun with these weird, weird boards and that little beep jingle still makes me smile.
"this is technology common sense"
I'm gonna use this one
Quite interesting. The sticker on the IO, naming "宏碩" is a mix of the chinese names of Acer "宏基" and Asus "華碩" dunno if its a real company name, but is convincing enough to confuse someone into thinking the thing is legit.
(Chinese speaking Japanese here, always gets confused by the chinese names of the legit companies when in Taiwan)
Fellow accelerationist if Japan would invade China, pretty sure they would be in support of the protestors
@Fellow accelerationist Are you really against people wanting to keep their freedom ?
It would be like calling the board "Aczoos".
@@My_Old_YT_Account Are you really against Chinese government's sovereignty in their own boarder?
@Fellow accelerationist Piss off commie.
There's a bunch of those mobos with LGA2011 socket on Aliexpress for $60-80, which are basically Ivy/Sandy Bridge chipsets with 2011 sockets and NVMe slot attached, as well as modified BIOS. The funny thing is - it works. These boards and Xeon E5 CPUs are very popular combo in Russia, given that "legit" X99 boards are very expensive (unlike the Xeons) and Russians have easy access to Aliexpress stuff (and they're crazy enough to mess with it). There's a number of channels on TH-cam where you can see these in action and more detail, mostly Russian ones but some english speaking too.
If you already have DDR3 RAM and you can get Xeons cheaply, which is easy, you can get one of these boards for 2-3x less than actual X99 board, use that DDR3 RAM and have very cheap 6+ core systems comparable to modern 6-8 core Ryzen 1000-2000 series rigs without needing to pay for modern CPUs, latest chipsets and DDR4 RAM. And the NVMe actually works. Plus, if you get unlocked Xeons (E5-16xx/26xx chips), you can even overclock for even more added value.
There are also similar "frankenstein" X299 boards with LGA2011-3 sockets on them...
would love more content like this from you guys! You guys dissect and explain weird hardware in a way most channels do not. Amazing research work here.
Silicon lottery on a whole other level!
Onboard power normally reserved for '$150 motherboards or more...'. As someone who sadly invested in an Asus Z390 Strix board prior to catching the GN coverage on Asus boards this generation, I feel even more sad. When board like that has features a once-decent brand does not, it's time to change
Acer used to sell pre-built OEM PC's that used that same "Mini-ATX" standard, also during the older intel core 2 duo e8400 days, Asus & MSI made a few cheaper bare-bones motherboards that were "Mini-ATX" ...... So I I guess it was an official standard @ some point.
You have no idea how popular it is in Russia. This mobo has a dozen of variations and there are communities here where people discuss tweaking. These can be bought for $70mobo and $80xeon 2689(8/16) and 16gb of ECC REG DDR3 quad channel for another $50. This gives us 50k in read/write and about 55ns RAM Latency - not bad. Another option is to pair it with 1650v2 - it is more expensive but goes well with these boards. Aliexpress delivery time for Russians is 14 days and since we don't have Amazon here and average salary is $500 and prices in local shops for modern hardware are overpriced - this xeon combo is a good budget option.
"didn't catch fire, really good" hahahaha
DFI needs to return to the consumer market and bring LANPARTY motherboards back with it.
I loved my socket 939 Dfi lanparty board last amd build I did until now
@@adm3991 Same!
still have my socket 754 lanparty UT NF3 250Gb just for that specific reason.. it's so damn ugly that it's actually cool to look at and remember the days when performance mattered more than the look of the board.
I popped my PC building cherry with a LANPARTY board. Fond memories. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Pun intended. 😂
@@sirmonkey1985 Now those boards are very rare, you could make a profit from selling one.
Does it need a name when it's clearly "The best motherboard series" I mean that tells you everything you need to know since it's reputation precedes it.
this is probably only nexus video i havent fell asleep while watching
Каждый второй школьник на наших ранчо может разогнать не только трактор с горы, но и любой ксеон с памятью.)
WHAT
@@Asdayasman "Every second teenager on our ranco's can overclock not only tractor from hill, but every xeon with memory.)"
@@TheVirimos I feel like you just google translated my dude.
@@Asdayasman Не совсем, есть конечно пара моментов, в духе teenager это я хватанул, можно было schoolboy, ну и тут своеобразная игра слов - разогнать в русском языке можно использовать и для автомеханики и для компьютерной техники, но при переводе игра слов теряется. Кстати говоря гугл транслейт в последнее время хорошо переводит, алгоритмы обучения приносят свои плоды.
@@TheVirimos WHAT
Hello from Russia! Love overclockers точка ru :D
Хуананжи
Do you know how to make all ram dimms work? I can’t seem to make it work
Just FYI: if you need a quick non-automated translation of some (not exactly) obscure Russian hardware resources, ping me.
Because why not. Could be fun :)
I love this kind of weirdness. I believe Philscomputerlab covered this board in a semiserious manner.
This was an epic review. Love this type of content.
I love hearing about Chinese mystery hardware.
It's never a good idea outside of tinkering.
19:50 - "and this is our review of Motherboard.. the motherboard."
I've seen some budget boards, but this one takes the cake, can't even afford a name! LOL!
"Supports Intel Core2 Duo".
Oh that made me laugh.
*cries in early intel iMac*
That post beep tune reminds me of the old Tiger handheld electronic LCD games I used to collect when I was a kid.
PhilsComputerLab has been playing around with one of these boards.
Love the box it came in, and the fun watching you find all the info on the board. That motherboard is probably the craziest thing I have seen in PCs. Good job Steve!
Mobo: Say My Name!
Gamersnexus: Motherboard
Mobo: You're god damn right
Man... I found this episode extremely interesting and fun. Kudos to y'all!
I would want to see the motherboard explode 😂
Same, I was so excited when Steve said BZ gave him instructions on how to blow it up, then didn't.
Actually I have been running one of these 'Motherboards' as my main 3D Rendering workstation for the last 6 months. One of the more quirky setups you will come across. 6 Core Xeon (V2) with 5 GPUs, via 2 x Radeon Pro Duos (Fiji) and a Radeon VII. All cooled via a Custom water loop. It is an Open CL compute monster. How does a Blender BMW render at 31 seconds sound, or Luxmark Luxball hitting 150K score. I built this for the purpose of running Blender with the odd bit of gaming. It games pretty well. The only major flaw with these cheap 'X79' boards is they won't go into Sleep mode properly. However I am very happy with it having bought most components second hand. It would have cost more than twice what I put into it if I bought new, currently available hardware...ala a couple of Titan RTX cards.
Ok Steve, I absolutely love this kind of weird sh*t. I gotta buy a mod Matt now even if I can't get it in red. Great vid bro lolz.. And thanks for the great vidz over the years ✌️🇨🇦
That motherboard sort of reminds me of the old Megatrends HX83 board back in the later part of the original Pentium days, around the time the original MMX chips were released. It was a one off board by a company that was not related to American Megatrends the BIOS company and now is somewhat difficult to find information about it. That board had support for a 83 mhz FSB (hence its name) and some other weird stuff back before other board makers (except for Abit) we willing to let you play with a FSB above 75 mhz. It was almost legendary in how some people modded the bios and did things with the Intel BX chipset that you normally couldn't do on other boards. Almost as quickly as people caught on to what the board could do you suddenly couldn't buy it anymore and the company seeming vanished. I think they may have also released a Pentium Pro based board with some funky stuff done to it around the same time but those CPUs were so expensive that board was even less well known about.
This is most likely lots of leftover components that someone buy and is piecing together for some profit. No brand so they cant be found and can "cheap" out on certifications.
"haggle! c'mon! haggle!" xD i love haggling culture in bazaars/shopping arcades
Ah, yes. The complex tale of "motherboard" finally gives me a use for my college minors of Russian and Chinese!
That is one well-trained kitty! I don't think it moved once the entire time.
This thing is insane. I love it.
PCIe 2.0 instead of 3.0 is because Sandy Brdige didn't support 3.0. On the B75 Chipset mobos it was common to see "PCIe 3.0" advertised, but if you put a 2000-series (I'm talking about mainline, not HEDT) CPU in it, it will only work in compatibility mode.
Wjat he thinks the title says : "hacked"
What it actually says "ndske?"
?= diesnt even exist
cyrillic symbols, even .ru web site was shown with the info about bios version and etc.
translate Russian web site is easier then Chinese one
It says ndsked
"Today, we'll look at motherboard"
This made me giggle way more than it should have.
Intel should take a hint of branding from the "motherboard".
I own two of these! Of course, I purchased three to have two that worked...
But, in the end, I'm running a system on "motherboard" watching a video on "motherboard" and I'm enjoying this.
Overclockers.ru was where I went for a modified Gigabyte bios allowing Skylake ES CPU use on my Z170. Awesome forum.
Man i remember that whole shitshow. In germany and switzerland the 1231v3 was super popular, i built 3 PCs for friends with that cpu. When the skylake xeons came out and didn't work on consumer chipsets anymore there was massive outrage
I picked one of these up, slapped a Xeon e5-1650v2 in there, changed the multiplier to x42 and this thing games like a beast and performs in between a R5 1600 and a R7 1700!
MOTHERBOARD: the Mother of all Boards!
I used one of these to build my son's computer. I had an I7-3820 CPU sitting around with a couple of 16gb DDR3 sticks. It was very strange building with it because things are in some very unusual places when you are installing them (I did buy a fan controller to run more fans). Fired it up and worked solid as a rock.
From the PCIE power connector, I suspect these were possibly manufactured for mining PCs. With Xeon/DDR3 ECC (much cheaper than DDR4 ECC) support, they would also make great/cheap NAS server boards.
"It's just roulette."
No wonder it has a Russian scene.
You had fun making this - I had fun watching this. 100% win
Proud for russians who dig into this hardwares
11:30 "....and the board did not catch on fire, a very good performance from motherboard"
that should be the gold standard in all reviews! ;)
NDSKE...D?
хакэд, there we go.
хакнуто
я думал Нэкед типа голая
"And the board did NOT catch fire... Very good performance from a motherboard" 😂😂
Chinese components + Rusian system builders = PROG (the People Republic of Gamer)
"What brand is your motherboard?"
Me: "Motherboard."
😂😂
I wonder how you'd say "Clusterfuck" in Chinese.
We call it "群P"，pronounced like "chiwin p"
@@mmh6717 free Hong Kong
If only Gigabyte put same amount of work in their motherboards' BIOS as in the advertising..
You said "Zed." Good man. You should speak to Linus about his "Zee" nonsense.
The X79 can run PCIe 3 if you change a registry value. Google it.
Free Hong Kong
I second the notion of motherboard makers releasing limited runs of old overclocking boards. I'd love to get a new EVGA/XFX nForce 790i SLI mobo to play with my QX9650. :3
I think this one is less known because the Huanan boards are a bit more popular. Still, they are similar to the point where they may come from the same factory, so it shouldn't be too different
You can clearly see how much steve is enjoying this lol
I’m very glad you made this video because I have one of these motherboards with a i7-3930k and a GTX 1660 super and was trying to find a bios that worked so I could overclock my cpu, thank you.
9:35 - that Plextor M8PeG SSD is Special. It has a legacy boot ROM, so you can boot it almost on all motherboards, without the NVMe boot support. You only need to use the legacy boot rom, like in samsung 950 pro.
Warning! The 6.0 version of these boards (which lacks onboard LCD indicator, power switches and buzzer) uses a B85 chipset. Do NOT flash any bios from the 1.01~1.03 revisions. It will very likely brick the board.
The 4.0~6.0 revisions also don't support quad-channel anymore ._.)
Partially modded BIOSes can be found here:
www.win-raid.com/t6984f16-X-Turbo-Rev-PLEXHD-Cheap-Chinese-X-board-that-can-freely-change-Vcore-after-simple-BIOS-modifications.html
I really like those green connectors on a black motherboard, reminds me of old Gigabyte boards. Very interesting review, GJ GN!
The Q77 Chipset supports PCIE 3.0 i believe nvidia lock it out on Ivy Bridge-E and it has to be enabled via a registry key, one of my pc's runs an intel DQ77MK(Q77)
with an I7 3770k and a Sapphire Vega 64 Nitro at 3.0 just fine
"The board did not catch fire.. Very good performance from Motherboard" 😂
To old timers, this shows how much more reliable motherboards are these days. So many brand name super 7 boards were unstable at their advertised 100fsb, using AGP etc. So many Athlon boards with bad caps - sold as mid range overclocking boards, i'd stretched a budget build to "go for reliability", only to have them die, not overclocked, while running a Duron.