Cheap AliExpress Motherboard and 12-Core CPU Bundle 

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Oh Thank God You Still alive

glad to see you still on internet even if you stop making video

I bought two HP Z440 workstations like that, @BudgetBuildsOfficial, for $100 combined (both have 2683v4, 1 32GB RAM and the other 64GB - which I upgraded to 128GB). The v4 CPUs are so cheap now I wouldn't bother with the v3. These dirt cheap v4 systems make great home lab systems, and great JellyFin/Plex server if you have an appropriate GPU. I have a small solar system built out of scrap stuff that I use to power them, though only one stays running 24/7.

@@XTRMXPRTKILR This is literally a new video

Lol 😂

Can't wait for the ZVGA X99

@@MakeYourVision ZSROCK

Yeah, and Zzotac 😂

@@tynewlin and Zaphire az well

Nice :)

really good heater 👍

If its quad channel the speed doesn't really matter. I used 2400 on my X99 setup in 2016. It was still faster than any 4000+ DDR4 dual channel setup and I only paid 40 € for 16 GB of RAM back then. The downside is only the power draw.

@@voyagerdeepspaceexploratio5023 it’s dual channel atm, I’ll grab another set eventually. The power draw on these Xeons is capped at their TDP. So if you hit max TDP, they throttle like crazy. One way I discovered to get around that, which is seldom an issue in gaming, is to disable cores. It keeps the remaining cores at max boost clock.

@@a.bamatraf6054 true 😆

Yeah perfect for anyone wanting something cheap and cheerful

In 2020 for a combo like this, $150 would've been quite the reasonable buy. Zen 4 only came out in November 2020. And that's not even the budget CPUs.

@@b0ne91 The thing was he paid extra for nothing. At that time, Aliexpress had better price for budget combo (like 70-80 bucks). He was angry with me like "WhY yOu DiN't tElL mE i pAid eXtrA???" when I told him to buy an 2nd hand i3 9100f combo with that budget and never consulted me about xeon combos. 150 bucks is expensive for any xeon combo of Aliexpress, at least from my pov.

Thanks :)

Yeah I actually used to watch these 4 years ago when the whole world went down and started reviving around computers, and that’s when I got into computers, and started watching these a lot. I’m 18 now and watching these again to prepare for my career in computer science.

yep these boards are too small to put all the necessary lanes for 4 channel to work

@@leonbishop7404 Size is not the issue, one can route 4 channels even on an ITX board, but that needs more PCB layers and more careful design. Some of the more expensive aliexpress "X99" boards of this size actually do wire up all 4 channels properly.

The quad channel thing is why it bothers me to no end when bundles like these come with 2 sticks. (Or when the motherboards _only_ have 2 slots)

I just picked up an AsRock x99 Fatality board with 4x4gb ddr4 2666Mhz, the E5-1620 V3, and a rx580 4gb for $110. Board supports 8 sticks, unsure of max capacity however.

You beat me to it! I had an MSI X99 Sli with i7 5820k running quad channel a few years ago, so I was curious as to why only two sticks were used.

@@midrezgaming 256gb with your cpu :)

@@outrun4047 i messed up, it's v3 so 768gb max for chip, still 256 for the board. 🤣

Make sure to get quad channel ram, and use a better gpu than a 980. The quad channel ram will overcome the lower clock speeds, and it can absolutely handle a better gpu.

@@dalehammers4425 alrighty thanks for the advice

Yeah those old systems are awesome

Hey what motherboard did you get in back 2020?I have the xeon cpus n an ecc ram

​@@happyvideos7791get a machinist P4 or machinist pr9

How significant of a difference are we speaking?

@@Kraven83 2133 mhz x2 or 2133 x 4 should be visible, it's like ddr 4 vs ddr 5

same as i3 12100 but worse than 5500 (obviously worse as the e5 2650 v4 only costs 1$ on aliexpress while 5500 costs 89$)

Can you provide a link to what you are suggesting, I'm looking to build an emulation pc and this sounds like an option

@@thesexywarden its easy math to calculate what would the speed be since in quad channel do memoryspeed ddr4 2x 2133=4266mhz dual channel ddr4. Since havent looked the bandwoth difference of ddr4 vs ddr5 (for exampe ddr4 3600 vs ddr5 4800mhz)

how do you do that?

Bios tweak en Windows registry edit only possible for max turbo on all cores with V3 chips

This motherboard CANNOT handle these without SEVERE modding. Had one of these fry itself after 3 days of running a turbo-unlocked 2670v3.

Good luck doing that on a board with a VRM that would've been considered weak even a decade ago.

yeah like idk what this maniac is talking about, you can visually see VRMs on this board that obviously can't handle going crazy like that.@@jimtekkit

Does it run current games well?

rubbish

That's really pants considering the cpu tdp is around 110w

@@TheExcellentVideoChannel I know that was the fustrationpoint when i got it home.

so, cards like the gtx 750 or gtx 1650 can work through the pcie?

@@EkuEdu nothing with pcie mate. İt cannot deliver sufficient power to the cpu to let it use its full power

new intel nucs are unbeatable for that purpose

socket LGA 2011-3 i have been using a basic cheap tower cooler or you can use aio aswell. Just make sure if you are using aio to have sufficient cooling for vram they run pretty hot(small fan should be plenty)

They are certainly sketchy but couod be worth the gamble

12 cores means nothing. These CPUs are slower than new 6 cores CPUs. If each core is slow, you can have a ton of cores, and it will still be slow. Like, a 8 cores Ryzen 9 7940HS is as fast a i5-13500 14 cores, because the i5 have fast cores and slow cores, but even on CPUs with all core having the same speed you need to have fast cores to become more powerful than the lower core count cpu.

@@YannBOYERDev Due to 75gbps quad channels mem bandwidth, these CPU can brute force through a lot of games that stutter in DDR4. In 1440p, you can build a build like this with quad channels ($60) and spend all on GPU.

@@YannBOYERDev Quad core RAM can sometimes overcome the core speed with these things. Quite often actually. There are some very good videos out there of this very cpu crushing games with a better gpu.

Who cares, you can bypass that. Otherwise this looks like it's great on linux, pair it with an amd gpu like a rx580 or 5700 from alix too and you've got an awesome combo for 250 euros.

@@vali69 Yeah, i'm only still have one problem with Valorant & Vanguard, if you have Win11 with an unsupported CPU , the game will not start. :'D

@@Beisepimp as someone who supports not having malware on your computer I do not support having kernel level malware in the form of anti cheat on your system. Now if only valorant was actually fun to play, in that matter the only fun multiplayer fps game I've played recently is battlebit and I think that runs on linux, haven't had any time to try it out tho, I barely even play as is on my windows install.

I have an i7 8700k and a GTX 1060 6GB. What would be a good GPU to upgrade to?

​@@vali69Bypass what?

I’ll take a look soon!

They used to be dirt cheap a few years ago, around 80-120 bucks depending on cpu specs, and back then they were a great price/performance combo. Nowadays tho, they’re twice as expensive, and pretty much not worth it since they can barely compete with a 12400f while being more expensive and less efficient. Also, the boards that they solder those i9s and i7s to are the most basic bare bones motherboards they could make, VRMs get crazy hot if you don’t cool them down with heat sinks.

1) If you want to run 5960x, you definitely need a better mobo than this one. I mean it might run it, but it won't be able(or allow at all) to handle an OC and it doesn't make senes not to use the full capabilities of the 5960x 2) The max RAM speeds should be what the CPU support. 5960x supports 2133, so I doubt you can go higher than 2400 on these motherboards. Can't really say much on this topic since I haven't used one of these boards. Also this board supports only dual channel, so that's another reason to pick a better motherboard. Quad channel is quite a difference. 3)I don't think any(including the expensive ones) of these chinese motherboards have ARGB connectivity. Considering that even newer chinese motherboards like B550, B760 don't have ARGB I'm not surprised. That said you can just get a controller. Not as good as having a proper ARGB, but does the job :) There are quite a few channels that have done a lot of in-depth reviews on different versions of these motherboards, but all the really good ones are in Russian or Portuguese. Still even if you don't understand those you can get a rough idea on important stuff, so if you are really seriously considering these motherboards you definitely want to check them out. English channels I can think of right now are Miyconst and Craft Computing. You will have to search around, but they have quite a few videos with Miyconst going quite in-depth.

Way better than a mini PC, Mini's don't last long.

did u try it on this motherboard?

@@khalyl7282 yes, the build video is on my channel.

@@JordosTechShack i thought the vrms can't handle a 140W Cpu

you could get a upgrade for cheap, any 1660v3/v4, 2667v3/v4 are great for gaming.