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im running a z8 g5 hp workstation i got it in a trade as it had some issues and would have cost the company more to service . i fixed the issues and its my main rig . destroys everything on the market lol
its a great board and I would be very interested but this power supply is a mega bummer, why no atx, why no mini itx form factor. almost good. but Ill keep on my list for now
Hey@Technically Unsure there,about thee one that dint work,i got one my self,you need a bious battery it dosent start with out one,wierd but true,and some wierd ram compabity some work some dosent for me it worked some simple uddim but not kingston it just dosent post with the kingstone i hope it wilt help.
How is the Power draw for this build with all HDDs in sleep mode? Any C-States available with this board. A N305 Board draws 19W in idle for comparison. As this units run 24/7 Power draw is an important factor for countries with High Power costs (Europe)
With bifurcation support you can get this thing to be a BEAST of a NAS with just the two x16 slots. You could do 4x4x4x4x and 4x4x4x4x with adapters to bring you 16TB of NVMe storage (because 2TB drives are pretty cheap).
It'd be good to see this maxed out as a game server. When I done a x99 nas for work, I chucked a 10gig NIC in it, a old gpu & a sas raid card and broke it out to sata. I dont have it any more but Id like to see how they go as a game server
For us poor people from 3rd world countries, we actually buy these chinese X99, they are a huge deal for us because they are cheap, I myself have a 2680 v4.
Yea got same card from zsus x99-p4 everything powers on tho but no video what ever i tried, machinist card on its way. Nice presentation and keep up the good work.
Zsus board had no CMOS battery... They do not come with one because of China Customs... And you need one to Power on... No battery it will not give any live signal!
Playing RU-vid videos with H4+ with a bit rate of 20-30MBps via the browser works relatively well, but the playback of native e.g. DJI videos (mp4 h.264, h.265, 50-100Mbps, 25fps directly from the onboard NVME 980 SSD + Crucial 48GB 5600 @ 4800MHz) unfortunately hacks enormously. An h.265 UHD video with 25fps and ~30Mbps with 2481 frames dropped 148 frames. 15Mbps dropped 32 frames, but I'm glad to have one H4+.
As for Windows drivers - that part was just half-assed to be honest. Even if there is no package on Topton page (can't verify as I don't know the MB model) you can easily find the drivers by yourself. Ubuntu is just better at this than Windows :) Intel 226-V isn't recognized by default even in name brands, because Windows does not have the drivers for it in the installation media. Also Windows just sucks ass with auto installing drivers, especially for AMD. I would also not agree with statement, that if there is no manufacturers (of the board) drivers, then there is no drivers. Even name brands just give you the compilation of chip manufacturer's drivers on their pages, so you don't have to visit 5 different sites to download them. But it really isn't hard to find drivers for this board. Topton uses drivers made by chip manufacturers: - Intel 226-V - the is an official driver on Intel's page with support for Win10-11 and servers - AMD chipset - go to AMD page and download chipset drivers for X670 - this will install all the USB, bridges, power control profiles etc. (AMD uses the same chipset driver package for all chipsets, so you can pick whatever) - audio - probably some Realtek audio chip, not a problem to find a driver - GPU - download the latest Adrenaline drivers for mobile GPUs from AMD I don't know the rest because I don't have the board myself, but I would just use HWinfo for identifying based on VEN and DEV strings (or just Windows Device Manager). That's it - fully functional driver package, all official and signed by their respective chip's manufacturer so you can have a nice Windows installation on bare metal if you want.
"V1" and V2 Xeons (so-called X79 platform), unfortunately, lack AVX2 support, which raises some compatibility issues. However, it might work just fine for a headless system without modern software, say, for DVR or simple file-server. More fun features like ZFS with compression might work noticeably slower than on X99, just because X79 does not support AVX2.
So using the USBC port on the back you get a faster bandwidth than you would if you used a GPU with a riser table on the PCIe 16x slot which is actually only 8x speed??
I always take the CPU and RAM and put them into Ebay. Then subtract that from the price. Decide if you want to pay them for the CPU and RAM they are including. If the processor is going for $4 and the RAM for $5, then figure they got it for 1/10th that to offer it with a $50 motherboard for free. Also please do a video if you know why the USB 3 will not boot with a HDD plugged in. I did see a workaround, but my Dual X99 seems to suffer from this.
My difficulty is I just won a B660 D4 for $28 and made an offer on a 12400f (which was countered), but got that for $85. You are going to have to work very hard to convince me any of the China special boards can beat that, choose any metric you like. Full disclosure, I have a $60 Dual X99 with a $7 Xeon 16 core, and a $20 Xeon 16 core (2698v3 I believe) and the turbo unlock BIOS, in CPUz benchmarks it is right between the 3950x and 5950x. 32GB LRDIMMs for $20 is compelling if you need lots of RAM I will say.
Perfect main boards only we need coreboot for them :)) Perfect video by the way i`m your big fan! I did manage to compile coreboot and disable ME for Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2! Just i not trust much this proprietary UEFI that comes from china :)
Thanks for taking the time (and expense) to test these super bargain basement motherboard/cpu combo's. Plus 2 out of 3 ain't bad, especially getting one with ECC ram support and ram to match.
I have just ordered a Jingsha B85 M+K motherboard combo with an i7 4790 and 16 gigabytes of RAM. 93.96 Also found a GTX 1080 for $100. I can't wait for them to arrive.
It all depends, you can (and I have) get a 12-14th gen platform for $40 more (example:B660 $30 Z690 $60, 12100f $70, add RAM $20-40). Or for the same budget I got a 2600x and an A320 motherboard with RAM included. The 4790 is in a weird place because the Xeon twin of it is usually only $15-20 (E3 1240v3, 1241v3,1245v3,1275v3 etc). I'm getting name brand Z87 boards for ~15-40. So it's up in the air. And at those prices I'd almost rather be in an X99 with a 6 or 8 core. I do build the Xeons, have 3x E5 V2 dual socket SuperMicro and an X99 Dual 2698v3 right now.
If you don’t mind me asking, what is the actual chipset? Chinese motherboards are famous for using a wide range of desktop chips for these X-99 boards.