M**2
Breathed new life into an old system
It came in a static proof bag with a couple wraps of bubble wrap. Just the back plate and a SATA cable. No instructions. No frills.This board is marked as a X79-Turbo V1.03, it worked well after a bit of nudging the system into booting off the NVMe drive. It saw the drive but it was not bootable. After trying to load Windows onto a SATA SSD, which was a terminated operation, the NVME was recognized for booting. Could be other ways to do this...After watching a Youtube video on the Plex HD motherboard (watch this) I picked up a PCIe NVMe x16 card and put it int he last slot with a 1 TB NVME. The video said they did not get the performance out of the set up on the board; only PCI 2.0. The card also offers a heatsink which was appealing to me. It worked pretty well as the Crystalmark shows.Looks like you can get various Southbridges.I’m happy with the board, it replaces an ASUS Z9PA-U8 with Pike 2008 which has done its duty. For the money this was a very good deal. I may upgrade another older Xeon PC I have with one of these.I picked up these items for the build. Everything else was in the system already.-- A ADWITS PCI Express 3.0 4X 8X 16x to M.2 NVMe and AHCI SSD Adapter Card with Heat Sink, Bracket-Free-- Silicon Power 1TB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 TLC R/W up to 3,400/3,000MB/s SSD (SU001TBP34A80M28AB)
R**.
Works fine, looks good, no extras no box.
The motherboard came in a standard Amazon box, wrapped in plastic. There was no "Motherboard" box. There also was no manual, no drivers and no fan adapter. It did include the IO plate and 1 SATA cable.The motherboard headers for the front panel (power, reset, hdd & the leds) are not labeled, and no diagram is provided, so some trial and error is necessary to figure out what is what.It's not quite full ATX size, being an inch or so too short and an inch or two too narrow, so the bottom two ATX mount points aren't there and the bottom part of the board flexes if you push down too hard. It lacks any voltage, overclocking or frequency settings of any kind.That being said, the board works perfectly and it has more PCIE slots than most cheapo boards, USB3, SATA3 and even an NVME M.2 slot. The board has good VRM Cooling with heatsinks. The sockets on the board for power, IO, etc are logically placed you can get clean cable management and your cables will actually reach. It comes with an indicator for POST codes so you can easily diagnose any error booting up.All in all it's a great board with some premium features and reasonably modern conveniences.
P**E
Good product for entry i7 users.
Decided to give this a try so I can flip it for some money later; lot of tech channels did reviews on these chinese mobos.Very good value for anyone wanting a value I7 system.I paired this with an I7-4930k and 16gb of DDR3 1600.It works very good and benches on cinebench and unigine perfectly fine without crashing.I was a little surprised that the PCIe NVME slot actually detected my Western Digital Black NVME though.The only con for me is the bios are super retro and overclocking support is limited. You can change the ratios on the bus and force it to turbo at its max under load but thats the best I could do. Im also pretty sure the temperature probe on the board is in la-la land because it reads 17C at idle which seems way too low even at idle for an unlocked CPUGreat unit for budget gamers.
K**N
If you are buying this you probably already know what you are doing
I hope this comes back stock. I wish I had bought another.Pros:1. Very cheap Xeon 6 and 8 core CPUS available along with cheap server ddr3 ecc ram2. Everything worked out of the box. The power button on the board is a nice feature to test it on your desk before building.3. Gives you modern usb 3 and nvme support4. No issues with a deepcool gammux cooler (best cheap option I found here)Cons1. Board was wrapped in bubble wrap but not box2. Pins were bent on the front usb header and the front audio header - easy to straighten out but I didn't check before I installed the board which made things harder.3. No manual at all. I printout for the front panel connections would have been nice but it was easy to find as they use a standard intel color coded layout. Just google x79 front header for images. I will attach the one that worked for me here.Overall, I will buy again when it comes back in stock. At this price, you can put together a powerful computer for very little money if you pick up cheap LGA 2011 cpus and ecc memory
D**E
X79 Motherboard with NVME
A good platform to take advantage of inexpensive surplus Xeon LGA 2011 cpu's and ECC ddr3 memory.I ran these CPU's successfully on this model board: E5-2680 , E5-2650L-v2 (10 core) , E5-1650-v2, i7-4930k. My best Cinebench 20 score was 2200 on a e5-1650-v2.All drivers automatically loaded in Windows 10. It keeps rebooting if I try to overclock E5 2680. I forced ram to 1866 Mhz, with no resulting ill consequences. It feels stable in Windows 10. Ran it for 12 hours straight on light load, no issues. It does not go to sleep automatically like my ASUS based Xeon boards. Simple overclock options available if your cpu is unlocked. I found out you can only run Registered ECC memory if your motherboard AND CPU support it, i.e., if you have this motherboard AND a Xeon.A strong budget friendly alternative to an AMD Ryzen combo. Worth it.
M**S
Great Buy. You Can Boot Off Of The m.2
Worked well. Misleading statement. The above specs say you can put in 32GB ECC DDR3 RAM. I have 64GB ECC DDR3 RAM in the system. Yes, you can boot off of the m.2 drive.When I bought the MB. The person selling the product told the buyers nothing. I literally had to take a huge gamble buying this product. They just posted that the MB had an X79 Chipset on it, It had an m.2 m-key drive and was a 2011 v2 socket. Otherwise, the seller didn't tell me jack-sh@@@t. I had an mATX version of this Chinese MB so I knew it took a Xeon E-5 series 2011 v.1 or v.2 socket ECC DDR3 RAM. The mATX MB didn't have the m.2 m-key drive slot. and the 3 PCI-e 16x slots
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