$223 Dual Xeon Chinese X99 Motherboard (with RAM + CPU) | Proxmox + TrueNAS

[@milescarter7803]

Cheap CPU Cooler that fits* is a PCCOOLER Paladin EX400. I tested it and standard height RAM fits in all 8 slots, I can even remove and install the closest RAM sticks with the cooler installed! That right there is a win in my book. * I used the Orange 'AM4' bushings, Only needed to clearance one at the bottom where the CPU levers meet. I used four M4 - 12mm screws, and I did have to use a needle file on the "2011" holes in the brackets because they are actually sized for an M3 or smaller screw. When they go on sale you can get 2x for less than 30 bucks. It might also be possible to add 2 fans per tower cooler for 4 fans total. You will need extra clips, but the Tower itself has provision for fans both sides. I haven't got the overclocking BIOS yet so I haven't looked into that.

[@JustMyFish]

I got one but I installed Linx mint on it all works great. I am using it for some video editing but mostly graphics design that make up animated movies. What was taking me on average 9 hours, now takes me 3 hours, for a 20m short animation. I fitted it with 2x AIOs I had to make my own brackets out of sheet aluminium to fit them but no problems. I have it set up in my old Cooler master X1 Server case from 2012 they are massive I needed that because it already has my 1200w APU fitted and an 8 bay HDD caribe each having 2Tb storage space all holding files from past jobs and uncompleted jobs I'm still working on. I'm happy with it its much faster than my older setup.

[@MichaelDeRusso]

while full load when exporting video, what is the power consumption?

[@JustMyFish]

@@MichaelDeRusso 132/148w temperature 42c

[@MichaelDeRusso]

@@JustMyFish you are telling me a modern pc rigg is worse in specs, temps, consume, and money value? I bought a 7950x3d, 64 gb ddr 5, 850w psu, B650 mothwrboard, case, water cooling, etcetera and yours is still better??? 😲 🤦

[@JustMyFish]

@@MichaelDeRusso Well I'm not even close to the speeds you get it takes me 3 hours to render a 20m video you could probably do it in under 1 hour. This is a server board its built to run slow and cool.

[@BrainSlugs83]

FYI, for anyone considering one of these -- I got one -- and ... it works -- but the motherboard is noticably warped on the edges, like curled up and not at all flat. -- Upon rewatching this video I can see the board in the video is a bit warped too -- @31:53 for example. -- Aso the screw terminals do not really line up well with most of my cases -- and there aren't any screw terminals in the center of the board really -- they just crammed so many components in there, and the CPUs so close together that there wasn't space. -- So the build quality is abysmal, but the performance is good so far. I'll come back and update in a month or two, and let y'all know if it's still working. 😅

[@FluffyAnvil]

So how about an update?

[@GetJesse]

Update?

[@FluffyAnvil]

@@GetJesse I bought one of these myself, no complaints about build quality or anything on my board so far. I expected lots of problems to mount etc, but in fact it was quite simple. Getting the CPU coolers installed required a bit of work- I had bought two Thermalright ASSIN X 90 SE V2 which worked fine with some slight modifications to the brackets and standoffs. The machine seems very stable I installed proxmox, an Radeon RX 580 and a Nvidia Tesla P100, PCI passthrough works perfectly with both cards (With the RX 580 I just do a full passthrough, for the Tesla I use Nvidia GRID). What I did not get working yet though (which is probably a matter of moving some jumpers on the motherboard) is the Gen 2 PCI slot, the Gen 3 slot worked without any problem. Did not try any SATA ports yet.

[@GetJesse]

@@FluffyAnvil that's good info, thank you for providing it!

[@shodan6401]

I've read in some threads that RAM that looks identical from the same brand, but with memory chips made in S. Korea doesn't work on these boards, but if the mem. chips are Chinese, then there is no issue. Fortunately, I found an MSI motherboard for X99 so I didn't have to rely on one of these Chinese boards. I'm using the E5-2696 v3, with the all-core turbo unlock, and unlike the 2699 v3 that has a turbo of 3.6GHz, the 2696 v3, which was an OEM part only, has a turbo of 3.8GHz. Not running dual CPU, because I do play games occasionally, but with 18 cores and 36 threads at 3.8GHz with water cooling, it really chews through anything I do. Edit, render, 3D, it is a workhorse. Quad channel ECC makes up for the 2133MHz speeds. I love it. It uses a lot of power, but any chip with this many cores is going to have a high power draw. Forget the TDP it says on the box. Read the power coming out of the wall. It's a very solid performer, and zero latency when clicking through projects with big files. The CPU has a 45Mb L3 cache, and the RAM timings are tight. Soooo smooth....

[@not_so_native_native]

What's your power usage with the all turbo? Cant be much more than then 14900k that eats nearly 400ws😂

[@cracklingice]

I got lucky and when I got my X99 setup, I got the Asrock Taichi. 256GB registered ECC (with the ecc actually functional - pretty rare on the consumer boards) with the E5-1660 V3 OC to 4.2ghz. I will likely switch to a 16 or 18 core core when I can finally upgrade my desktop and get to move the X99 to NAS/LAB.

[@jelliott3604]

I've got 2 of the same CPUs, the E5-2696(v3)s for exactly the same reason 😁 although they are currently sitting in a drawer 🙄 Unfortunately, until next weekend, that drawer is several hundred miles away from the motherboard they are intended for. The drawer also has 4 x V100 SXM2 GPUs in it, but the daughterboard is right beside the motherboard. Hoping that I can introduce them all to each other next weekend

[@adamdurrani1071]

How did you run 18 cores at 3.8 ghz? I have a similar build but a chinese mobo instead but only able to reach 3.8 with 10 cores enabled since it limits by 145w max tdp? Or did you bypass the power limit

[@jelliott3604]

@adamdurrani1071 I haven't got to this stage myself but I think you (may) have to undervolt the CPUs to get there(?)

[@thomaswood8167]

Your videos have become some of my favorites! Keep up the great work!

[@bokami3445]

NIce, 28 Cores, 56 Threads! for $223 and 64GB of RAM is quite the deal

[@milescarter7803]

Shop around. There are better deals (pick up CPU and RAM from a local marketplace). I did the same board from Ali, but it was 65 shipped. CPU 2698v3 16 cores one was 20, one was 7. RAM was 20 ea for 32GB sticks. The 2680v4 shown here are worth 14 each btw.

[@bokami3445]

@@milescarter7803 Actually my plan was to buy just the board, I have 40 x 16GB ECC ram that was thrown out at work and pick up a pair of 2560L's to popular it

[@devilzuser0050]

62$ now is the 2698v4 / 2673V4 almost the same 20core 40threads.

[@SB-qm5wg]

I would prefer a board with more PCIE slots and less focus on NVMEs. Still really cool and good price.

[@mr.iot-tech278]

If someone can port coreboot to this will be amazing :)) very nice video !

[@RussellSenior]

It is identical, there are two chip definitions for the same chip ID, you read it twice. The safe thing is to find the chip on the board and see how it is labelled.

[@aljoshuahell131]

I have this exact mobo with 2x xeon 2760 v3 and its Rock solid so far

[@frustratedalien666]

Can you recommend a case for this? It doesn't fit any of the ones I have

[@jerryknudsen7898]

In ubuntu, the performance mode sets the base clock of the CPUs as the turbo. It may be reporting wrong, but I've noticed a very strong uptick in performance compared to Linux distros that don't allow governor swapping to performance easily and higher than windows which respects the cpu all core limitations more. Whenever I run a benchmark in ubuntu with performance mode geekbench 6 will report the cpu baseclock as whatever the turbo should be. It's odd.

[@jgbelmont]

Right but will it run Crysis?

[@TheRealClutch1010]

I have one of these boards. One of the DIMM slots are dead. Other problems: BIOS has not setting for state after power loss. I have installed 4x2TB SATA drives I had laying around and use ProxMox to assign to a TrueNAS VM. I installed an Intel Arc 300 series GPU for a Plex/Jellyfin install. I have a dual 2.5Gbit card installed. Besides the mentioned issues this runs well. I have a k3s cluster set up across VMs to give me a homelab to play with. I love having 128GB of RAM and 28 cores to play with.

[@vamidicreations]

Nicee homelab setup, I am wondering, are you able to use Plex/Jellyfin with GPU passthrough for transacoding?

[@TheRealClutch1010]

​@@vamidicreations I haven't taken the time to do this yet, I need to get to that soon and report back.

[@MrRakushin]

@TheRealClutch1010 can you help? does this motherboard support ReBAR? I want to put intel arc A750, but I read that it won't work without ReBAR

[@TheRealClutch1010]

@@MrRakushin I believe it does as I'm running an Intel A310 GPU.

[@RoyHess666]

What I dont understand: Why would I need AUDIO on this? I would want a second NIC rather than audio. And yes it is just 1GBit. This board should have like 4x NICs so you can bond them.

[@sc0or]

Because hill billy geeks use those MBs and Xeons for gaming for cheap. They need audio I think. Otherwise you had to use original AsRocks or Gigabytes, or weak Lenovos for x2-3 price. No “machinists” then

[@esra_erimez]

I'm watching this on a HP z640 with an x99 CPU running KDE Neon

[@unablecain]

same here got dual E5-2660's w 64GB DDR4 @ Quad Channel AMD Radeon Pro W5700 WS Card Too bad the X99 board only has PCIe Gen 3.0 It's holding back the W5700's potential

[@not_so_native_native]

You would be surprised how little gen 3 affects a gen 4 card. The only card today that needs gen 4 is 4090 and thats barely needs it. I was running a rx 5700 on gen 3 and gen 4 and saw no difference except maybe a slighlty better(3-5frames) perf in some titles. Your biggest bottlenecks are the cpu's clocks for gaming. And if you doing work station tasks you should have no issues

[@jnchacon]

@esra_erimez Did you installed the chinese motherboard into the HP z640 case?

[@esra_erimez]

@@jnchacon No, stock motherboard but upgraded CPU to E5-2699

[@chainenondisponible6009]

9p​@@unablecain

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

The X99 chipset only has 8 PCIe lanes at gen2. That x4 NVME slot is most likely from it. Each E5-2680 v4 has 40 PCIe Gen3 lanes, but it's hard to say how many are lost for interconnect between CPUs and how many are available at the board that you can use. As per the x1 PCIe slots, they should be plenty for 10GbE if they're Gen3 (2 GB/s. 10GbE is 1.12 GB/s).

[@not_so_native_native]

Pcie 3.0 x1 is 1GBs not 2GBs. That's pcie gen 4. But either way it should be enough for 8gbe

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

@@not_so_native_native Even if you assume half duplex speeds, it's still enough for 10GbE, as you're not gonna hit that full 1.12 GBs because of overheads in the network stack.

[@milescarter7803]

The interconnect doesn't count toward the lanes. And yes the board is missing connect. But its available routinely for $60-70. Cheap.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

@@milescarter7803 My main curiosity is if the PCIe x1 and x16 is duplicated because each of those two is for each CPU.

[@stuffinfinland]

When doing GPU passtrough, remember to passtrough all devices with the same ID, meaning the .1 and .2 etc (HDMI audio etc).

[@TerenceKearns]

I learn a LOT from watching this channel. That was impressive.

[@kimberlyjacobsen4148]

Activating the 4x4x4x4 bifurcation Disables Ethernet . On either pci 16 socket ☹️

[@kimberlyjacobsen4148]

The address assignment on Ethernet is pushed when the PCI’s with 4 nvme drives were added. So needed to edit the interface file

[@blazehunter09]

@@kimberlyjacobsen4148 I've been trying to make my 10G NIC work with my Tesla P40 could the issue you are referring too solve my problem?

[@milescarter7803]

Thermalright xp90 (92mm) cooler might go on sale, or any workstation 2011 tower fan might work too. Swap the cards, could use the airflow. Also put the SATA drives on the desk to the left to avoid the wires being crazy.

[@ahmetkipkip]

Got same setup for ceiling home server. Couldn't bare the electricity bills. Consider I'll be on 24x7, Not worth it if you really don't need the processing power to do things as fast. Now I'm using i7 notebook motherboard and much more efficient.

[@sc0or]

An annual bill can be exchanged with one working day. That’s fine. But here we have physical cores with their caches and quad RAM channels, not vCPU like when you have no cores for all your VMs.

[@Xanza]

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).

[@taxa1569]

If you do this. This board in the vid is practically a no name knock off. Huananzhi x99 f8d plus. It has six x16 pcie slots. Half are x8 but they're all full size, three m.2 slots too. One is gen 2 and activated with a jumper, takes away from one of the SATA controllers which I think leaves 6 SATA 3 ports after switching the jumper. That's a LOT of potential storage. It uses every available pcie 3 lane on the CPU's, 80 before you touch the SATA ports. It also has two 2.5g ethernet ports.

[@sc0or]

I’d prefer to have a 12TB RAID5 TrueNAS cache and 96TB RAID5 in HDDs. ;) PS 1TB for €5/mo as a cloud storage.. €5760/year( - €520 electricity bill ) for goodies. Not bad

[@taxa1569]

@@sc0or why not both? XD Use the mobo I listed, not the garbage one. 3x pcie to 4x nvme m.2 card, 20x nvme 4tb drives for 80tb of whatever configuration of raid and cache, 10 SATA hdd's of... 16tb each let's say. Basic ass GPU plus two 10G x2 NIC's for a combined total of 45Gb/s throughput. Put TrueNAS on there and presumably be set for the next 30 years minus upkeep. With a pair of 2699v3's like I have that's 36 cores/72 threads to throw at whatever you'd like. You couldn't saturate the bandwidth hard enough. If that's a worry then just replace a few pcie nvme cards with SATA expansion cards instead and put in another 20, 40 hdd's I dunno :P good luck finding a chassis for it though

[@sc0or]

@ Exactly. A good chassis can cost twice more than an entire setup (but drives). Here I think it’s time to bring some metal sheets to a local workshop.

[@phillee2814]

@@sc0or Do you mean 96TB SATA ZFS RAIDZ cached by a 12TB NVMe RAIDZ?

[@ernestoditerribile]

3.3 isn't wrong, if Performance mode is enabled, it will always run on Full turbo mode. I use the same processors for Monero mining in Proxmox on a Lenovo x3550 M5 Server, so you definitely want performance mode then, I've installed 512GB of ram, because I also run Xpenology, Kali, Ghost Spectre, Home Assistant, Frigate, and Odoo on that server. I also use NetApp FAS and Disk Shells for the storage on the Xpenology. To get 9.2Pb as total storage for my NAS. Off Course run a few more servers in the cluster for networking operations, and Local LLM.

[@arthurwintersight7868]

PCIE 3.0 x1 slots can be used for 5GB ethernet, which is fast enough to saturate a SATA SSD or 2-3 traditional HDDs at the same time. You can get the full bandwidth of a SATA SSD over ethernet with this board, though there WILL be some added network latency, so I would use network storage for things where 50 milliseconds of added latency isn't a problem (so we're basically excluding video games, and not much else).

[@phillee2814]

There are two PCIe x1 slots though, so a pair of 5G network interfaces could be trunked as long as the equipment at the other end is amenable. It isn't the speed of 2-3 HDDs, it is a RAIDZ2 of 8 (or more, if you use the PCIe x16 slots wisely), with potentially an M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe caching it all. I'd add a 4x M.2 card into one x16 slot, and use one of the M.2 slots on that to give 6 more SATA ports, with NVMe drives in the other three, for even more caching or a very fast RAIDZ 2+1 (which could even be the very fast cache). With the memory up to its potential given a huge ARC level 1, you'd often be serving files at network speed from RAM, and writing them to the level 2 ARC on the NVMe array - also probably only limited by network speed. As for latency, I get sub-1ms times on my LAN, so I doubt if you'd be able to tell if the files were local or remote. I know someone who edits large video files on a slower setup and can't tell the difference from local. With 14 SATA ports and using RAIDZ3 plus a hot spare, that would give 10x the capacity of whatever drives you choose. 240TB, anyone? And alongside that, a buttload of VMs and out-of-band management through the built-in 1GBe! It only looks power-hungry if you don't take full advantage of its capabilities.

[@arthurwintersight7868]

@@phillee2814 - Bro, I just want a single SATA SSD to feel like it's running at native speed. 5GB ethernet does that.

[@phillee2814]

@@arthurwintersight7868 Then this type of board is serious overkill for you.

[@craigdawson7632]

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

[@ErikS-]

I would go for such a solution when i would live in the USA. But with the high electricity prices in the netherlands, I prefer something more low power. My nas now runs idle at around 50w. That saves around 100 usd in electricty prices per year vs a dual xeon setup.

[@WagnerVaz]

This runs around 50w and 70w. Have it for more than 1 year.

[@outrageousotis454]

I have this exact configuration with proxmox for my home server. It runs plex w/tautilli, seedbox, samba, and some experimental containers. All around a very good configuration, and the temperatures are VERY low, even during stresstest. I mined with it a few days around the clock, and CPU's never went over 55 degrees. That was impressive to me. Ps. You can use a disk in the other NVME slot if you really need to, but not with all the other disks plugged in. Only one or the other. I forget which disk port it is.

[@goaliedude32]

What do you use a home server for? I'm pretty tech savy but I never felt the need to have a server for what I do. Just the pc I have is good enough. I'm looking for some projects so maybe I could make use of a server and it could be a new path for a hobby I enjoy

[@outrageousotis454]

@@goaliedude32 To be completely honest, i dont use it _that_ much anymore, it was more a project to learn about the proxmox hypervisor system. I learned a lot and now it serves some music and movies with plex. And i have a seedbox on it. When it is idle, it only draws 130 watt so i think it is well worth it.

[@memphisartguy2]

Just built a dual E5 2699 with SuperMicro server. for $250. The shiny is nice Was there a model number? E5 2680 max ram 1.5T , nice.

[@om1d3]

more details on this build would be really appreciated.

[@cracklingice]

This board won't support that much RAM. It only has half the memory channels per socket that it should.

[@fajarnurrahman1741]

Does the power supply you are using have 1 CPU power socket or 2 CPU power sockets? If it has 1 CPU power socket, how do you combine the sockets? I plan to build a dual-processor X99 motherboard.

[@icmann4296]

I have one of these boards with 2 x 2699v3 in it. I used Thermalright low profile coolers (AXP120-X67). It required a bit of futzing around, but they fit without interfering with each other. They keep the CPUs running around 30C, though I haven't stressed them at all.

[@zeroturn7091]

What adapter kit did you buy to make it fit LGA 2011?

[@icmann4296]

It fit out of the box. No adapter kit required.

[@zeroturn7091]

@@icmann4296 did you buy it recently? I’m looking into purchasing it, but it only notes LGA 1200/1700.

[@icmann4296]

Also, you can orient them so that the fans blow over the VRM mosfets as well as the CPU. I think this helps too. I think for them to fit you HAVE to orient them this way. It's been 4 months since I did the setup and it's at my ex's house, so I'm working from memory.

[@CoMmAnDrX]

Would love to see it's Cinebench score

[@mrstanlez]

Your motherboard is bended ? Anyway for this price very nice powerfull setup. Thank you.

[@succuvamp_anna]

There's a different version of this board that has more PCIe slots, wonder how the allocations are on the lanes with that because it would be a decent upgrade for core counts and power savings (using a PowerEdge T610 ATM so yes, it would be less power) and I got a ton of parts laying around to build out an entire system.

[@icmann4296]

Is it the same board, or are you thinking of the Huananzhi F8D or F8D Plus? They have the same colour scheme, which is why I'm asking. The F8D is double the price of this board.

[@succuvamp_anna]

@@icmann4296 I think it's the F8D Plus.

[@sc0or]

I’m planning to use some server CPU(s) for a Proxmox machine, but I’m still not sure should I choose faster duo 2x14-18 cores Xeon or a slower single Epyc 32 cores. A hard choice because of a server motherboard for AMD… When you’ll assign a GPU to some VM, pls make sure a GPU is installed into a slot from a same CPU which cores you give to that VM

[@murraywebster1228]

This would maybe be interesting as DAW server/workstation, basically an audio pc to host plug-ins, always need lots of cores and RAM, VERY INTERESTING!

[@Adam130694]

That x2 NVMe slot does work with SSDs but you have to set jumpers correctly.

[@nastya0391]

hi can you palce a diagram or a picture on what jumpers to move and how to set them to have both nvme working ???

[@Adam130694]

@@nastya0391There are 4 pin sets by M2 slot. Just switch them from 2&3 to 1&2 position (all of them).

[@TheDimanoid999]

A question: is PCI passthrough the only way to achieve max performance from nVME drives? I experienced slow read/write speeds when Guest OSes were running on virtual disks of nVME drives. I've used SCSI VirtIO controller for this and the speeds were like 1000MB/sec. On bare metal, the speeds however could go up to 5000MB/sec. Passing through the NVME drivers to the Guest OS seems for me the only solution to achieve full disk performance.

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Possibly, most likely VirtIO driver in Windows can't be fast as interacting with it directly when you connect it via disk passthrough.

[@seetcas]

Does it support Above 4g decoding ? Witch is required for tesla p40

[@WagnerVaz]

Yes

[@milescarter7803]

Buy them separately. These processors and RAM are not good value. You are paying more than what dual 16 core and 32GB DIMMs go for. You don't need to unload their stock for them.

[@Чумак-щ8и]

Can you provide some examples where I should buy ddr4 recc for good price?

[@milescarter7803]

I just looked it up. The processors are 14 each, motherboard is 75. So that is 103 dollars. The ram is not worth 120. Get LRDIMM 32GB for 30 each and its 128GB for same price. But you can also get 32GB DIMM for 20-25 if you shop. Not sure to recommend this bundle.

[@sc0or]

Samsung ECC 8GB DDR4 is for €22 on Ali. MB prices depend on a chipset they use, unlocked BIOS, a quality of sockets, a presence of an additional SATA controller, and a power schema (max TDP supported). I’m very sceptical about 75 for a good duo MB. But everything is possible when we talk about occasional discounts.

[@Mashwishi]

can that two XEON handle and run smoothly with ollama 7B/8B models without a help power of GPU

[@bpyt621]

Hello, I have two Intel Xeon E5-2643 v4 CPUs, but only one is being detected. Both CPUs have been tested and are working individually. However, when both are connected, I get error 79. Do you know what the problem might be?

[@Mateus7453]

Did u found an answer?

[@WagnerVaz]

Your BIOS is newer than Mine, Can you share your BIOS dump with us , im doing some bugfixes in my Github repo jwagnervaz, your BIOS looks like be 2024 version. Thanks since now

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Unfortunately I did the dump + patch + flashing in a live Linux, didn't save the original copy. I will see what I can do, but no promises

[@WagnerVaz]

@@TechnicallyUnsure No problem, send me the dump u did in the video, with or without the patch. Please, it also can be in linux. This way we can help a lot of others who did buy this model.

[@contateste5348]

@@TechnicallyUnsure Now i have theses bios for the same board, they can change somethimes just BIOS CHIP. (03/21/2023)ZX-DU99D4 V1.3 DU994301 (05/06/2023)ZX-DU99D4 V1.3 DU994304 (10/30/2023) ZX-DU99D4 V1.3 DU994305 your is (03/06/2024)ZX-DU99D4 V1.3 DU994306 @TechnicallyUnsure Please help the comunity!

[@contateste5348]

@@WagnerVaz Thanks for your port, im using this now!

[@WagnerVaz]

@@contateste5348 thank you for providing the dump, now older board versions can user lastest bios !

[@RS-sd4cr]

Idle/full load Power consumption? Cpu z scores single/all core?

[@prudernan]

Are the coolers you used for the 2011-v3 socket? Or did you adapt the ones for commercial processors?

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

I'm using these www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MVLMDCZ

[@Doesntcompute2k]

PLEASE tell me you used thermal paste on the CPU before putting on the heatsyncs? The Xeons really do need it to keep them max cool. Artic Brand or Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme (preferred). It's a cheap way to keep it cooler. These old X99 boards are normally very good IFF you find one from a reputable maker which discloses all of the shortcomings. A KZbin channel from a chap in AU does these a lot. For gaming if you can believe that LOL. But Proxmox and XCP-ng loves these boards.

[@asifkaka5052]

I am pretty sure that there was thermal already applied on the fans when he installed them.

[@nathanlamarr7276]

Hopefully those stock Intel coolers had pre applied paste or thermal pads... He definitely didn't add any... 😮😢

[@mytester6208]

yeah when i checked the cpu spec, it has 86C Max, test showed 88 and max 96... something is not right, not working or faulty... otherwise there should have been thermal shutdown or massive throttling before it!

[@mytester6208]

i have another theory, those old intel cpu coolers came with thermals applied but had protective plastic (peels) covers on them, you had to remove them before applying them... did he miss them? something doesnt add up otherwise

[@WagnerVaz]

He disabled ME region of the bios. This way bios lost vrm and thermal management. It will get hot and burn cpu and board. Don't disable ME region into a x99 system.

[@FelMaBo]

please tell us what is the power source to be recommend for this machine

[@gokyuzugokturk4946]

How about cpu mining hashrates ? VRSC

[@cynch86]

Do you have any recommendations for a dual socket x99 motherboard?

[@wilsontanlk]

I experienced alot of China X79/X99 motherboard don't have fan speed controls. Does this board have fan speed control based on the temps?

[@onurhancakmakoglu175]

Hello I have the same system running both cpus are visible in BIOS however when I check from task manager and CPUz I can see only 1 socket running. Any way to fix this issue. Much appreciated

[@FelMaBo]

hi great video. I have the same motherboard. But on win11 using the USB port 3.0 the speed i have only 6mbs, yes only 6 megas. Do u have any idea about this low speed. My usb memory is not the problem.

[@cowboype]

Could you put this bios file for download? I have the same board and version 1.31, but with 2 CPU debug led show 79 error (with 1 CPU start without errors) and It could be bios problem. Thank you.

[@ironhead2008]

Do these boards have full quad channel support for the sockets?

[@ByeWorld]

yes

[@WilliamSheehy-h6y]

How would this exact set up work for encodeing

[@gozlemci-qn6fe]

Biraz tuhaf buldum. Ama ise yarar gibi görünüyor. Bios biraz eski gibi geldi. Soğutma yetersiz kaldı. Tam bir kasa kurulumu yapıp oyun testlerinde render testlerinde görmek isterdim. Başarılar diliyorum ❤🎉😂😊

[@iWrinformatica]

Can you send to me a copy of that bios? to unbrick my motherboard?

[@blazehunter09]

I've been trying to connect a Nvidia Tesla P40 with a 10G network card but I the machine keeps unable to boot and only boots when I put a spare Quadro GPU I have with display output, any one has any ideas why is this happening?

[@oieieio741]

Great video and a success story. I found this video very helpful. 💯

[@James-ld2fv]

Dude I’m watching this video thinking, watching this guy busting his moves is like ASMR therapy. Seeing you can modify the bios. can you modify this board for max performance for gaming any more? PS I Just want more asmr videos lol

[@AaronRczheski]

these processors are super slow! wouldnt wanna game with them

[@righteousone8454]

Had same board, it was somethig, borked BIOS trying to flash unlocked version, bought like 120 dollar programmer trying to fix it, fixed eventually, decided to reflash the unlocked BIOS of another revision and klled the board completely, it was a journey, but I had 2 18 core cpus running on it. It was great, but not meant for gaming

[@Issa_eth]

I don’t understand what kind psu do I need for this kind of x99 boards

[@bokami3445]

Why did you remove the Intel ME? Is there some benefit for doing so?

[@tommsla123]

I'm wondering too

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Well, when I did the first Xeon Chinese motherboard review on this channel, some viewers complained that these boards come with "Chinese malware" in Intel ME etc, and viewers asked if I can remove Intel ME, so I did that in follow up video for that motherboard among other things. So since then, all Chinese motherboards I review, I also try to show if Intel ME is removable on that board

[@bokami3445]

OH! Thank you for the heads up. I wasn't aware of this, but it makes total sense. 👍

[@WagnerVaz]

Remove Intel ME Will make the board lose thermal control and get really hot VRM, test by me. I have mod this bios at my github.

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

@WagnerVaz Can you please share the github repo link?

[@TriCorp109VA]

Hi there! May I ask what cooler would you recommend for this rig? I cannot seem to find a proper LGA2011-3 cooler online.

[@animeman64]

Thermalright AK90 is a great choice. I used this one for 2 of my different builds for 2011-3. It's great.

[@angelo4445]

Hi is it true octochannel? or is it just quad channel? (2 channels of memory per cpu)

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

As far as I know, it's 2 channels per CPU.

[@nikniki4277]

Why no termal paste?

[@nikniki4277]

CPU is 63 celsius in BIOS without load - thats insane!

[@WagnerVaz]

Problem is: disabled intel ME lost VRM driver at bios level, gets really hot and will kill board with time.

[@yeetisthefetus7214]

Could you run sli on this? Or would having the two cpus mess with the code or something?

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

You should be able to, don't think dual CPU would interfere

[@thomasheckwolf9247]

Good price question ist the Motherboard AMD Crossfire Support have two AMD 580 Radeon 8gb

[@ZidanRoks]

Does it have Restore AC Power Loss on bios ?

[@Eden-rg2ul]

i wish these boards didnt have so few pcie lanes. these CPUs are capable of so many more, which seriously reduces the usefulness of boards like this to me

[@milescarter7803]

Get a SuperMicro board. Even with 1 dead memory channel it's still got more than these boards.

[@swapnilmashere9200]

Which cpu fans are these? Also please confirm if any motherboard compatible tpm chip is available.

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

The fans: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MVLMDCZ I haven't found any TPM chip for this

[@gagarin777]

Neither that mobo nor that Xeon can support DDR4 3200. Maybe you could reach 2666 by overclocking if you are lucky. Also you didn't made any memory settings in BIOS so I seriously doubt it even operates at 2400 right now. Probably it's at 2133 by default.

[@nordine.7572]

del consumo nos olvidamos o cómo va la cosa?

[@AlexanderDeWolf-v7q]

Does this work with usb keyboard and mouse?

[@marine1718]

Any good rack case to have that board on it ?

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Don't know any to be honest, but I think 2 or 3U cases should work for this. I would go for 3U just to be safe considering the CPU coolers.

[@marine1718]

@@CoruscationsOfIneptitude I want Lowe consumption possible

[@Videocursuri]

please include in the future videos also a test for Plex transcoding test without the nvidia gpu + power consumption

[@seanburke997]

I did this mobo, but man, it's going to kill your electricity bill with those dual x99

[@zielscheibchen7773]

the one cpu that hot probably means that cpu cooler is not making correct contact to the IHS.

[@phillee2814]

Probably because the two heatsinks are touching - it doesn't take much to lift one side of the heatsink just enough to lose contact or even just pressure. For minimum footprint, I might even consider a pair of 240mm AIOs.

[@JazzTechie]

Hmm... so requires a pcie 10 gb network card to really take advantage of it for proxmox.

[@Ojref1]

The PCIe slot count is an absolute joke that should be funny to no one. This platform has considerable PCIe connectivity that's being utterly wasted. Find a used Supermicro or other server board and get the connectivity you're due.

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

I agree with you, stay tuned for the upcoming video. I'll be covering a similar board from Supermicro that I bought from eBay

[@craigharris9591]

How many total PCI-E lanes are there on your system??

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

2xPCI-E X16 2xPCI-E X1

[@craigharris9591]

@@TechnicallyUnsure Not PCI-E slots but Lanes.

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Well, no idea, there is no info from motherboard manufacturer, no manual. But based on some math: 16 (first x16 slot) + 8 (second x16 slot) + 2 (two x1 slots) + 8 (two NVMe SSDs) = 34 lanes in total?

[@Lurch-Bot]

At this price it is better to buy a used Supermicro board even though you'll likely have to pay a little more. These Chinese boards also tend to be a fire hazard with the higher spec SKUs. I used an e5-2640 for my NAS on a Jginuye board. Could fit a USB card or a NVMe adapter with an inexpensive but large NVMe drive in the top PCIe slot. Could run it in raid with an identical drive in the 2.0x4 NVMe slot. PCIe 3.0x1 will limit transfer speeds to 1 GBps so something like a Teamgroup MP33 would be perfect for this solution and you would have redundant NVMe storage for not a lot of money. Still twice as fast as a SATA SSD. Would suggest getting a couple of Thermalright Assassin X 120 R SE coolers for this board. Will fit better and cool better for not much money.

[@seatangel7834]

我跟你說 這些主板前生本來就是美國伺服器公司的 他們被中國廣東省的公司大量收購 然後分解加工重製 他們的工廠設備同員工技術員都是專業的 因為老闆都是從1線大廠出來的例如華碩 微星 索泰 技嘉 索泰 等等

[@What_r_u_looking_at7]

Anyone know if you can enable Secureboot or Tpm on this thing?

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

You will need an external TPM, the board doesn't have one.

[@What_r_u_looking_at7]

@@TechnicallyUnsure Thank you for answering man, this thing suck. Do you happen to know of any sort of method to bypass both of these?

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

@@What_r_u_looking_at7 Unfortunately, no. There are no X99 compatible CPUs that are supported by Windows 11. Oldest is 8th gen Intel, or 2nd gen Ryzen. So you have TPM and CPU issues to install Windows 11 on these motherboards. You have to either go with Linux, FreeBSD or with Windows 10

[@panjak323]

Wait so are u technically unsure or unsure technically?

[@ericasante8545]

Careful with this board .. very easy to brick it when performing bios updates. Also doesn’t play nice with unraid 😂

[@derJackistweg]

Here in Europe those build are DONE! I build a 2670 single one in 2018 and thankfully could sell it early 2019! One can buy an AMD xyz, depending on budget, up to threadripper with unlimited cores and it will be faster in all belongings. + faster RAM of course. Here we pay 40 Euro ct per KWh + 12€/month. Do the math.

[@bagrus8065]

I don’t know if I read your comment incorrectly however I wonder that in the rest of the Central/West Europe you would pay such an abysmal price for a Kilowatt per hour.

[@derJackistweg]

@@bagrus8065 Yes. Between 28 and 48Ct/Kw, plus a monthly feed of roughly 10€/ month. The US ist just extremely cheap in global comparison! It is not that Europe is expensive. Same on fuel - as we all know.

[@_macrophage]

Is that board bent?

[@TerenceKearns]

That was a ballsy move bro!! this is a weird kind of e-sports

[@dacianherbei]

thank you thank you thank you.

[@bokami3445]

Can anyone recommend a cooler for this board. I'm toying with the idea of getting one but I'm stuck on what cooler(s) to get? Thanks

[@milescarter7803]

Any cooler that lists socket 2011 compatibility. Like Thermalright 120mm. If you are willing to work a little PCCooler has one that needs an M5 screw but regularly goes on sale for less than 15$ and has a coupon if you buy 2 at a time.

[@bokami3445]

@@milescarter7803 My concern was as noted in the video that because the CPU's were so close together it was necessary to cut the edge off one to get them to fit. Thank you for clarifying for me

[@jakex5569]

The cooler that would suit this PC is called Be quiet Pure Rock 2 Black CPU Cooler includes heat sink with cooler fan all brackets to mount to MB for 2011-V3 and others for different CPU’s. The rating is 150 watt TDP for this fan. A 2011-3. 2680-V4 is rated at 120 watts, so more than enough. If you overclock you will probably need a liquid cooler. You need to check what CPU you are using and look up the TDP on Google and installation was a breeze, easy.

[@bokami3445]

@@jakex5569 Thanks for the response and information. I ended up pulling the trigger on a BKHD-1264-NAS Intel N100 mini-ITX for my project.

[@alptraum360]

can you post the link where you found this awesome deal, I can buy the board, a single cpu and like 32 gb ram, but I can't find the exact thing you did, I'd be very happy building a triple proxmox cluster for HA home labs or something equally similar. To the OP that mentioned the Huananzhi x99 motherboard, do you know if it will support a V4 xeon ??? it does have more pci slots...but lacks onboard nvme from the look of it, although that could probably be overcome with a PCI addon card adapter.

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

(Not affiliated): www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804883464369.html

[@milescarter7803]

You can save like 80 picking up the parts yourself. They are unloading the RAM and processors this way.

[@alptraum360]

@@TechnicallyUnsure THANK you sooooo much thats awesome. I think several of these need to join my homelab.

[@alptraum360]

@@milescarter7803 do you know what the max ram is for this motherboard? I'm guessing its higher then 64 gig

[@BrainSlugs83]

If you look on Intel Ark you'll see those CPUs go up to 3.3 GHz -- it's their turbo frequency. If you can keep them cool, you can run at that speed all day long. -- Honestly for a 28-core/56-thread system @ 3.3 GHz with 64 GB of RAM, that's a really good deal. -- You could build a good emulation and gaming machine out of that. -- Obviously you need a GPU, Xeons don't have a GPU built-in. -- Also, if you're not going to use the on board ethernet, you should disable it in the BIOS. -- Also, some systems have the BIOS image twice as a safety precation, in case a flash of the BIOS fails, it will restore the backup from the second chip.

[@zeeventuresph]

You didnt forget the thermal paste right?

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

No, the cooler comes with thermal paste

[@Txurrispo_]

Great video. Sorry, English is not my mother language. The two nvme drives doesn't work at same time?

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Yes, correct. One slot worked without issues. The other one is pcie gen2 and couldn't make it to work with my nvme SSD, but honestly didn't research this much and didn't tweak with bios settings etc

[@WagnerVaz]

@@TechnicallyUnsure You Just need to adjust a jumper and both nvme Will work . 😀

[@ormviana]

E5-2680 V4 (14c/28t) | 2.4GHz-3.3GHz

[@Benzin0]

Why exactly are you removing Intel ME from the bios? Is it for security reasons?

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Well... when I did the first Xeon Chinese motherboard review on this channel, some viewers complained that these boards come with "Chinese malware" in Intel ME etc, and viewers asked if I can remove Intel ME, so I did that in follow up video for that motherboard among other things. So since then, all Chinese motherboards I review, I also try to show if Intel ME is removable on that board

[@TahmeedKhan-t6h]

how much RAM can one processor handle

[@phillee2814]

128 GB each, totalling 256 GB. That adds up to one hell of a ZFS ARC, even with a bunch of VMs running.

[@aricroy4258]

why wouldnt you want to game on something like that?

[@bluesquadron593]

Does the ECC memory recognized by the motherboard?

[@MP-ul]

it is but is only dual channel. if you want a good mbo get the Huananzi F8D Plus.

[@jelliott3604]

It does, am running one of these with 2x64Gb EEC DIMMs (think is max RAM it supports) on each CPU

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

@@jelliott3604 Each Xeon supports a theoretical max RAM of 1.5 TB and they have 4 memory channels. If this board was designed correctly, each slot should be 1 channel.

[@jelliott3604]

@@BrunodeSouzaLino that's the most I could get the board to POST with

[@milescarter7803]

I used LRDIMM because it was cheaper. ~$20-25 per 32GB stick.

[@SURYADIKARA5]

Bro how threds ? 1000 threds

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

88 threads

[@SURYADIKARA5]

@TechnicallyUnsure max 88 threads ?

[@TechnicallyUnsure]

Not max, that's the max I'm getting with the CPU I'm using

[@SURYADIKARA5]

@TechnicallyUnsure how to get 1000 threads