Huanan "Dual X79" Motherboard Review

As soon as I heard Huanan was making a dual-socket version of their x79 motherboard, I knew I had to get one. Six weeks later, what exactly did I get myself in to?
So, is this Chinese motherboard worth getting?
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[@Martinpintos13]

I felt like I was gambling when I thought about buying one of these chinese motherboards (not this exact model, but the other x79 you reviewed; the e5 3.5b.) to couple with a E5-2640 without OC, but thanks to you I feel safe in buying it. I want to tell you, I am so grateful with your work, the only reviews that this type of motherboards have are russians and I don't understand a single think about what they say because... surprise! I don't speak russian lol. I live in Uruguay (SouthAmerica) and It's not a bad country, in socio-economic matters we are one of the best country in Latin America but the prices of electronics are really high thanks to customs taxes, and as an avid dealer hunter, I'm always searching for the best quality-price in the market, thing that It's easier with your great work. Anyway, you're doing an incredible job with all your reviews and I just wanted to tell you that. Keep going! Amazing video is this, as always, and greetings from Uruguay, Jeff! Muchas gracias, genio!

[@USSCallister-up]

If you want I will translate russian video)

[@polentusmax6100]

2640 is very cheap, 1620 v1 and 1650 v1 (both unlocked) are another alternative but the are already 130w so it need to spend in a good cooler. DDr3 ecc is cheap too. Im in a dilema if i choose a setup like yours or a ryzen 1600 with a a320 board and 1 stick of ram. Im from Rio grande do Sul, close to Uruguay, by the way, do you pay any taxes to import a motherboard like yours to Uruguay?

[@thelasthallow]

an AMD 2700X is almost as fast so you will just be wasting your money.

[@USSCallister-up]

@@polentusmax6100 1620 v1, 1650 v1, and other e5 16xx processors do not work in the dual setup, only single

[@lonniebeal6032]

I've been running 2 cheap chinese x79 motherboards for over a year with a 1650v2 OC'd using intels xteme overclocking utility and a 2690 for my wife, both with 16 gig ecc ram. They run great for the money.

[@NothingXemnas]

Wew, i didn't know you were so "new" to KZbin. Great to see your channel going so great. But probably what surprised me the most was you referencing a 6-week old comment! Good to see you remember us well. Edit: for real, making the product's box its own retail box was clever.

[@CraftComputing]

I read pretty much every comment :-)

[@mapesdhs597]

@@CraftComputing Even this? ;D Excellent video as always! You got me wondering why the company doesn't improve the BIOS just a bit given some of the things you mentioned, but is it possible they can't really change the BIOS? The lack of fan control is peculiar, and it's a shame about the UEFI issues. I can understand the lack of any oc'ing at all on the board though, that VRM doesn't look like it could handle anything out of spec. One thing, presumably with the E5 v1 installed the PCIe slots run at 2.0; do you know if they would therefore run at 3.0 with an E5 v2 installed? Should do in theory, just a pity the v2s are so much more expensive ( and if only one could get the ASUS WS boards for a decent price). I was also wondering whether the system would let you use one of the x16 slots for something like a 950 Pro (or equivalent Intel), ie. NVMe SSDs that have their own boot ROM and can thus be used as a C-drive. Re the inverted box, I've seen that before with UK refurb dealers, eg. they'll ship out Gigabyte mbds with the original box inverted as they're one of the few that have a plain white inner surface. Was a nice surpise when I bought an X58 UD3R to discover it had come with its original box. Btw, almost 70K subs, woohoo! 8)

[@CraftComputing]

Even this ;-) And I agree about the BIOS. That's really the thing holding these boards back from being sooooo much better. The last couple boards I had did not support booting from PCIe devices (I tried with a couple RAID cards, same theory as NVMe BootROMs). Nope on PCIe. While the PCIe controller is on the CPU, the version is still determined by the motherboard. Installing a v2 chip would run the ports as PCIe 2.0 ports. Thanks for watching!

[@MattiasLundqvistC]

About the PCI-E 2.0/3.0 question, i had a 3930k on a MSI X79A-GD65 wich by default ran all the PCI-E slots at 2.0 but with some fix i found on the web it would run the slots at 3.0 speeds. I wonder if that fix was X79 specific or if it would work on a C602 board as well? (PS, awesome video! Love your channel!)

[@mapesdhs597]

@@CraftComputing Makes me wonder whether there's something about the Megatrends BIOS usage that means they can't modify it much, or at all. Mattias, the fix you're referring to is no doubt the tool NVIDIA released which forces the link to 3.0. Still not entirely sure what that tool is doing given Intel's specs do say the official speed for the 3930K is 2.0. Most odd. I talked to a few people though who said they'd encountere stability issues when forcing the slots to 3.0, so I put them back to 2.0 (didn't matter, was only using a single GTX 980) until I finally upgraded to a 4930K which of course makes them 3.0 anyway.

[@mattsmechanicalssi5833]

Love the LCARS in the background!

[@84Actionjack]

I like that board! I will probably run a pair of 140 AIO coolers with the rads venting out the top since there's no space for air coolers in that configuration. This will be the third time one of your videos has me purchasing one of these Chinese X79 boards. Good job.

[@EposVox]

Bahahaha good stuff, was excited about this from Twitter.

[@lordmeme9965]

Hey dude bahahaha isn't good laughing... Use Aowkwkwkwkw its better...

[@pixlplague]

Love your content. I used to be really into this tech "deep end" but stopped for many years, and I'm not woefully outdated. As I'm trying to get back into it, I find these vids really interesting and compelling. Cheers!

[@winfieldk6692]

This channel always pumps out great content, especially on stuff that alot of other people dont cover! I'd love to see you cover more custom water cooling stuff as well, if possible!

[@hamzaabbadi7371]

Thx for this gift motherboard I have been searching through all KZbin...THx

[@MFG9000]

B4 is a USB initialization error code. It probably is your keyboard, if it has an option for changing modes, switch it to legacy/BIOS. Encountered something similar with a BIOSTAR motherboard and a Corsair K70.

[@jared4670]

I bought myself 3 x x79 2.49 HUANANZHI motherboards. The green ones. They've worked pretty good. Two of the boards are being used as vm servers and the third as my desktop running with a gigabyte RX580 8GB. Performance wise with games at 1440p running with a e5 2630 v1. They get pretty close to what most benchmarks on the rx580 8gb get on KZbin. I am glad you did this review on this board. I had been eyeing it out on AliExpress for quite a few months. I think you have helped put my mind to rest and will wait for the next revision of this board. I contacted Wuson store on AliExpress(official reseller for HUANANZHI) and he mentioned that the next revision will have more ram slots, pcie slots as well as a nvme port built into the board. Though an eta on this revision is completely unknown. Hopefully they will have also resolved the quirks that you have found running this board.

[@spacy9571]

Are all 3 of em alive?

[@华人在美国-q5b]

@@spacy9571 in China, these motherboard have 3 year warranty. so I think it will work for at least 3 year of heavy use with bad environment control. otherwise the factory will no longer exist. I heard they have very good customer service in China. better than some big brand motherboard company.

[@baronreaper27889]

Gotta love that star trek command panel at the back too :D

[@covieyun6738]

I bought same thing for my E5-2678WV0 *2 and it works perfectly. This video helps me a lot. Thank you very much guys.

[@danij3l794]

VT-x is extension that enables hardware acceleration when using virtualization. You were describing VT-d - Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)

[@CraftComputing]

You are correct. And I know that. Now I'm mad at myself for confusing them...

[@danij3l794]

@@CraftComputing i'm part of the internet ... We can find a corner case where water isn't wet :p love your channel

[@JivanPal]

@@CraftComputing, is VT-d present on this board?

[@rdsii64]

@@JivanPal No its not.

[@JivanPal]

@@rdsii64, thanks! Do you have a source for this info?

[@longnamedude3947]

Awesome, been waiting for this video, will update my comment once I've finished watching :) Edit: Minus the buggy EFI issues this motherboard seems like great overall value for someone who needs lots of Cores for VMs and does light gaming occasionally but is GPU limited (Triple 1080p, currently using a GTX1060), the fact it's a genuine C602 chipset is really surprising, I am now heavily considering getting one of these and two E5 V2 processors to keep me ticking over for a year or two, I'll just wait to see where gaming performance is at (I'm not expecting much but as I've recently been running my Dual 95W X5650s at 65W with a custom BIOS mod at stock speeds anything is a welcome boost in performance) Thanks for reviewing this motherboard, and for going over all the details :)

[@hitmandahl]

Where the hell have you been hiding? Just stumbled onto your channel after looking for reviews for parts and I love your content! You sir earned a sub!

[@whiteburr]

That is a badass board. I am glad I found this channel! Plus craft beer 🍻

[@whiteburr]

That's very power hungry for a home server. I will check whether you have a video on low power home servers, but that is my next project I will be brainstorming. 64gb ECC ddr3 is a beast, I think i have found a good place to start.

[@TunsaMcHaggis]

my Dell Precision T5610 Dual 2011 workstation which uses the c602 chipset reported as being X79 in CPU-Z

[@mattv6262]

I've got a new project in the plans after seeing this. Awesome content!!

[@chrisholmes5097]

Appreciate the video; am running a Huanan Zhi x79 Deluxe with 32GB ECC Registered ram...for about 6 weeks now; no issues with configuration or booting. Did have early probs with it not going to sleep....hibernation was good, just wouldn't sleep. As you're probably aware, they ship these with no CMOS battery...so all settings are default and it needs to be properly configured. Once I worked that out...enabled S1 & S3 sleep modes...and problem solved. Am very happy with the purchase and results...however there is absolutely no support available...online or email....NOTHING! But still...excellent value and I will be buying again, in fact ordered another motherboard last night....this time a PlexHD x79; has more PCI-E slots than the Huanan Zhi, and claims to support SLI...maybe you should look at it too. I'm only planning to run an E5-2680 v2 in mine with 64 GB this time. So was it worth it? YEP!! BUT....I do so wish you would lessen the 'Bass' impact on your backing tracks...really - almost overpowering 'Boom Boom' shit is all I can relate it to...

[@rdsii64]

I know this is an old video, but is the M.2 slot bootable on this board.

[@tarekmahmudbhuiyan7368]

Your reviews are much appreciated. Thanks to you.

[@SGTredman545]

Love the Gran Turismo 2-like Main Menu music during assembly. I like your videos too Jeff! Cheers!

[@julianfiacconi709]

Excellent, so very informative and somewhat reassuring with regards to off brand Chinese motherboards. I was wanting to build a video editing machine in the very near future and have been looking at Asus Z10PE-D8 WS and older Z9PE motherboards. But, oh the price is outrageous just for the motherboard. i'm not a professional video editor by or with any means, just a hobbyist. This makes it so affordable now for fun. Cheers

[@andibiront2316]

I have 3 Huanan boards, single socket. Two of them are C602 and one is X79 (which is the same as a C602 but for desktop, as you know). They look scratched on the die surface. I'd say that Huanan is desoldering the chips from old server boards and making this new ones.

[@Lostcm]

In China, HuaNan is known as a factory using refurbished chipsets.

[@miliondrmz]

Is that a good or bad?

[@SianaGearz]

@@miliondrmz Well it's not very good but about as good as it's gonna get. These are old platforms. You're not gonna find a good big NOS (new old stock) warehouse full of chipsets. It'll be a little batch of NOS here, a batch of desoldered salvage there, all different steppings. Best hope they test it well afterwards, and don't expect the thing to last for the next 10 or 20 years.

[@miliondrmz]

@@SianaGearz I would be happy if the board lasts 2-3 years, but looks like I can't have it as my main workstation.

[@blevenzon]

This was awesome video (as always) thank you for taking your time and efforts with these. Top notch content always. Can’t wait to see more

[@katerhamnorris3936]

That LCARS screen in the background

[@teddygoboom1]

First video of yours I've seen, and I have to say you're already one of my favorite tech youtubers. I love these kind of oddities, and you explained everything in a way that was simple enough to understand, yet informative enough to satisfy my curiosity. Earned my sub

[@these.are.my.things]

Haha I have one of these in an unraid build. Running two gaming VM's vr capable :) works great very simple bios. Dual E2640 32GB ECC ram. GTX1070 and Vega56 for the two VMS. 12gb Ram each. Left a little ram for unraid to use. I was impressed with the board it has been very solid for me.

[@CraftComputing]

Nice!

[@bigironenthusiast9343]

Why would you have such beefy gpus in a older system? Seems more expensive than just have 2 separate computers

[@these.are.my.things]

Both used from eBay mate got them cheap. The whole system cost about 1k Australian pretty cheap really had psu and case already. Was originally just going to be one system with the 1070. But decided it would be fun to play with unraid so got another. And vr is fairly high resolution so it's more GPU bound the CPU from my experience anyway.

[@TheDarkToes]

@@bigironenthusiast9343 no way... ??? You're not serious right

[@bigironenthusiast9343]

@@TheDarkToes if you're dropping that much money on other components, why skimp out on a motherboard?

[@baronreaper27889]

Hands down my favourite tech youtuber. Straight to the point and very helpful. Plus craft beers are always a win. Keep up the great work!

[@themorawaboy]

Cool building music, dude! Practical too. You can choose whether you wanna make a PC to this sexy music, or a child.

[@ismadd1990]

You were right about this thing is worth @ price valued using for personal video & 3d rendering.Great review and worth to watch.

[@Movingfrag]

As for the $200 dual LGA 2011 boards - right now on Newegg you can find the Gigabyte GA-7PESH2 for $199.99 before the tax with free shipping. I ordered two of them, one was DOA but they agreed to replace it, and the one that works - that is a BEAST! Installed 16 DIMMs of 16GB each and got a 256GB memory. It has LSI 2008 SAS controller on board - so you can connect up to 14 HDDs without external controllers (but you will need a splitter cable and 4 of them are 3Gb/s ports, rest are 6Gb/s). If you have EATX capable cases - i highly recommend this board.

[@anirudhtammireddy464]

Would the one in the video work with a single CPU?

[@ReQuiem_2099]

Nice! I'm running a Z9PE-D16 I picked up for $250ish and other than a boot issue with one of the two E5-2667v2's, it's been awesome.

[@puneetbhagat4537]

Does they ship to India?

[@anirudhtammireddy464]

Aliexpress does

[@rnegoro1]

It supports that high of a memory? Amazing.

[@noleftturnunstoned]

Glad to see your channel has grown!

[@KitKater]

Shhh don't say bad things about my i7 2600. I like thinking it's still a good cpu. Not that it doesn't run everything I need perfectly fine.

[@izaaka70]

currently running one at 4.2ghz because im lucky enough to have a z68 motherboard :)

[@KitKater]

@@izaaka70 it would be nice to get higher clock speed, but mine isn't unlocked so I don't think even with a z68 or z77 mobo that mine can go past 3.8GHz. Idk

[@mikeymaiku]

P67 maximus lga 1155 with a 3770 (non k). 1080p 60fps... its over enough

[@izaaka70]

@@KitKater ahhh see Mine's a non K chip also, I'm only able to raise the base clock

[@f.a.i9638]

I got a good i5 2500k But my cooling is shit. ): Won't do more than 1.33V and that at 90c. So I clocked down to 4.2 with nearly stock voltage. Will clock it up to that sweet 5Ghz. Once I got better cooling.. And a mini fan for my vrm

[@janmark7458]

Im glad this video came in my recommended. Nice quality video man. cheers!

[@asandberg6]

Checks wallet....Guess not. Guess I'll have to stick to my X58 Sabertooth/X5680 Xeon and Olympia lager. Awesome content, subbed because I like older hardware and Chinesium (seriously.)

[@TwoDollarGararge]

Honestly you're better off that sabertooth board is a beast

[@antikz3731]

5680 oc is a beast dude...compared to 7700 in gaming performance

[@krazyfiend]

same setup here-- aside from the lager ;-) glad I held onto my old Sabertooth since purchasing it 9 years ago. Now serves as a dedicated Plex server for relatives and myself.

[@SYNEED]

I just build this thinh for fun with 2 2690

[@nathanhamman418]

A good working x58 board fetches a nice price on ebay

[@internziko]

This is the 3rd time I've watched this video and it was just as enjoyable.. Thanks for posting it.

[@tacticalcenter8658]

They cannot pay Intel for Licensing there chips. thats why they dont advertise it.

[@USSCallister-up]

sounds realistically

[@mitchell3876]

Also, most consumers probably don’t know what the heck C602 is.

[@nadirjofas3140]

their

[@tacticalcenter8658]

@@nadirjofas3140 grammar nazi you're not welcome. Like how I spelled your correctly. KZbin comments are trash no matter what, it's best you don't correct them.

[@nadirjofas3140]

@@tacticalcenter8658 ok

[@hammersti3n540]

Been waiting for this great as always x79 guy

[@iliovecaRS]

Mine took a week to get to me , seller used DHL thank God

[@mitchell3876]

Was it ShenZhen CPU store? That seller shipped super fast with DHL for me too.

[@iliovecaRS]

@@mitchell3876 I don't remember

[@rush21hit]

Been curious about this board hovering around online shop. Thank you for doing the review. Subscribed. And now I want one...

[@HendricP]

Would be lovely if it had 8 DIMMs, but like this it's only 32GB RAM with 8GB sticks. :(

[@joshuascholar3220]

I got a used Dell T5600 - think of it as getting the same board, with power supply, case, dvd, drive and RAID support, fans, a working fan controller, and all 8 ram slots. The bad news is that you can't install windows until you download the RAID drivers and side load them during install because the Windows installer won't recognize the RAID controller, even in non RAID mode. And among the drivers on Dells site, there are a bunch of drivers and you just have to try them till you find the right one.

[@lemons3738]

if you google jingsha dual x79 it brings up pretty much the same motherboard... (from what I can see jingsha, huanan and one that starts with a Q? i think... their all the same) The jingsha dual x79 has 8 slots for ram though. it also cost more, or atleast it does on newegg. www.newegg.com/jingsha-x79-dual-dual-intel-xeon/p/296-003N-00001

[@lemons3738]

www.aliexpress.com/item/33046468806.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.74da53c8Q0NWYn&algo_pvid=197a7604-27c2-40ed-afee-5b2222a4d1a0&algo_expid=197a7604-27c2-40ed-afee-5b2222a4d1a0-2&btsid=e8677dda-0df1-4b40-be2b-a1d0e32300be&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_8,searchweb201603_55 On aliexpress its a bit cheaper, ive heard they take longer to ship though

[@incandescentwithrage]

Also worth mentioning is that the older CPUs won't be supported by modern Hypervisors for much longer. For example, I got a "CPU support ending" warning when installing vSphere 6.7 on a HP Ivy Bridge based system.

[@Bidimus1]

He is the Ian McCollum of Pc's ?

[@C3rb3ru5]

100% I was trying to figure out where I knew him from

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Great video showing a wonderful build. I like the cost to value for these kinds of builds. I still dream of making a X79 system one day. (:

[@threebigfsfakenewsfakefood575]

Can you tell me were you got that star trek background

[@CraftComputing]

www.lcars47.com

[@gsrcrxsi]

I love the E5-2600v2 Xeons. Incredible value, and I’ve built several systems with them in dual CPU setups. You can get up to 12c/24t with the E5-2697v2 (but still pricey), and if you want a bit more core speed, go with the E5-2667v2, 8c/16t, 4.0GHz single core turbo, 3.6GHz all-core turbo. The best thing about using these CPUs is being able to use DDR3 registered ECC memory, which is crazy cheap. I built a dual 2680v2 setup for a home server running FreeNAS, Plex, OpenVPN, and PiHole. I’ve built 2 more servers around the 2680v2, 2690v1, and 2697v2 for SETI@home Systems, and even convinced a friend to go with a dual 2667v2 setup for his Plex server and streambox.

[@im_Roket]

Hi gsrcrxsi, everything using this kind of mb in the video? Cheers

[@gsrcrxsi]

Sebastiano Pagani I used a chinese motherboard once but didn’t really have a great experience. It “worked” fine more or less but the turbo speeds didn’t work correctly. And it seems to have died in a few months. But this was several years ago and not the same brand used in the video. I prefer Supermicro boards though. They are much better quality.

[@SuperOompy]

You remind me of ian from forgotten weapons

[@jamesnelson1867]

Those air coolers and that case are so fresh. Good looking build

[@Jdjsksjdhdj]

Idk I think r7 2700 would be a better investment.

[@wushu1017]

Ok, So I bought the Huananzhi x79(lol, really an c606 chipset, as I guess i said) dual cpu and put 2637v2's into it and it runs like an champ I will say. Everything works except you can only use 6 of the 8 dimms onboard. The bios was from april 2019, and the m.2 slot works a charm, with 4x16gb ecc samsungs, an rx 5700xt 8gig, sabrent rocket q m.2 3100reads/2600writes, not overclockable at all, as well, only 6dimms are possible to install(not 8 like it says) Dual Intel fans(I had to sand down one side to get them to fit), USB 3.0 is non usable(crashes constantly)with and OLD old VIA usb chipset. Thank you for the video, I wanted to see if these boards were viable still as well, and thank you for the video. Dude, love your channel, always have great comment, cheers. Oh yea my cinebench was 2622pts with dual 2637v2s'.

[@rikimaru749]

Wish they do the same with the new amd 16 core ^^

[@KadiusFTW]

or, better yet, allow core unlocking on the lower end amd cpus

[@-.2..]

@@KadiusFTW some Motherboards support Athlon Overclock

[@KadiusFTW]

@@-.2.. Yes, they do. I was talking about Unlocking, or getting more cores out of the cpu with bios changes. Think of it as getting the athlon 200ge up to a potential 4 core 8 thread cpu

[@KadiusFTW]

@@-.2.. Sim, eles fazem. Eu estava falando sobre Desbloqueio, ou obtendo mais núcleos fora do cpu com as alterações do BIOS. Pense nisso como fazer com que o athlon 200ge atinja um potencial processador central de 8 threads (translated from Eng to Portuguese)

[@-.2..]

@@KadiusFTW Is that even possible??

[@sptlght9548]

Love that LCARS in background!

[@austinlo1424]

I can get this board with 140bucks on taobo And i am using hua nan x9d board with E5 2420v2

[@sukyb]

Just got the Jingsha version of this board which supports M2 NVME and 256GB with 8 memory slots. I am using it for a home virtualization lab so my need was max cores and memory. I had pulled a 1TB NVME stick from another system that had Windows 10 running and after putting together this system it booted up first time and Windows 10 recognized the new CPUs with 24 Cores and 48 Threads with 256GB of RAM. Decided to use E5-2651 V2s to minimize power consumption as they only require 105W. Onto ESX - did not install initially as this board has Realtek NICs - built a custom ESX installation ISO with the Realtek vib installed and worked like a charm. Running the latest build of ESX. The only downside for me is no fan control - plan to get Noctua low noise adaptor cable to slow down the fans.

[@ВалерийАльбертович-н1д]

Чувак шарит. Топ за свои деньги, хули

[@stas_da_killer]

Хуанан так то топ за свои деньги

[@USSCallister-up]

Надо брать

[@stylendr]

Папа пьяный Мать хуанан

[@stylendr]

Тоже взял такой корпус, вот хотел IH-4800 ставить, но понял что считанных миллиметров всё-таки не хватит

[@stylendr]

И тоже хочу по красоте сделать, но ргб вентиля доогие вот эти дипкуловские, нада думать как из лент сколхозить.. Еще блин из проблем, хочу сделать его по охуевшему пылезашишённым, в мыслях, заизололировать все аккуратно каким нибудь чёрным латексом, кроме основных входов-выходов, их же прокачать какими-нибудь плотно-теплыми чулками, короче чтобы микропыль оставалась, надо еще изучить эту тему, сколько ден там.. И короче вот проблема, выходит 120-ки как-то мало, не эпично будет и неэффективно, а 140 вухи уже наоборот, на сторону морды как бы излишне, а до перехода в морду - нужно спиливать и обтачивать раму-держатель + вентиля вроде не будут тремя кругами, по сути там идеально бы сели 130-тки, но как жаль что их толком нет в природе

[@이주현-z8c]

im pretty sure its H-WA-NAN, not H-YU-NAN

[@nightwolf1966]

Killermusic on the vid it makes everything cometogether I think

[@feynman9959]

I am a viewer posting a comment.

[@CraftComputing]

Don't ever doubt me again

[@zeroandplanb4life]

Really nice server board for companies that have server issues etc that's awesome replacement from price to performance standpoint... and if you think about it they kind of made dual x79 exist

[@zeroandplanb4life]

Overclocking isn't big deal when your using system for mission critical things

[@SpencerBaum]

Who else liked the video before they watched it?

[@lucasrem]

Spencer Baum i hate all the promoted shows, specially when they promote Ebay old China junk! Who needs this crap? It's not X79! we know the chipset, meant for China levels!!!!

[@BillLambert]

B4 is indeed USB related, and it seems to be a firmware bug with those chipsets. I have a similar issue with my Supermicro X9DRE-TF+ where W10 will occasionally freeze during a soft reboot. A hard power cycle usually clears it up. BIOS updates are supposed to resolve it, but not all boards have been patched.

[@johnlafratta1298]

I’ve got an unused ASUS Rampage IV Black Ed. mobo with AC:BF included. Anyone know how much I could sell it for on eBay, OfferUp, etc.?

[@CoilingSliver]

200-250

[@tacticalcenter8658]

I've got the standard iv extreme. Great overclocker.

[@mapesdhs597]

John LaFratta, all R4Es are excellent boards. If you have the original box & extras I would say 250 to 300+.

[@jvccr7533]

ah it's worthless, I'll give you my address in a dm if you're interested in getting rid of it

[@johnlafratta1298]

mapesdhs That’s good news. All of the cables and accessories are still in their original packaging, and the plastic wrap on some parts of the board is still untouched. JVCCR, I’d have to kindly rescind that offer but I can get you a Barnes and Noble giftcard with about 15 cents on it

[@aljaboartahsasta9535]

Many thank for your video review. All that I need is ......

[@MrSamadolfo]

😏 are we still messing around with these shady boards? the only reason they sell is because namebrand boards are stupid ripoff expensive 😋

[@SpeedyGoneFroglegs]

Sometimes people like to take chances. Who knows, in 10 years Huanan could be the next Asus. I remember when Asus was the gambler's choice. I had a K7V, which was a buggy, unstable mess of a motherboard, but when it was in its happy place there wasn't anything faster.

[@MrSamadolfo]

@@SpeedyGoneFroglegs 🙂 sure thats fine, its just a shame we have so many decent yummy old school xeon cpus and we dont have cheap namebrand boards 😎

[@joejane9977]

Recycling old cpu's is great. Easy on wallet.

[@SpeedyGoneFroglegs]

Oh, sorry, I think I see what you're getting at. Definitely, I can agree with that. Also it seems like often there is a huge disparity between top of the line, which are often ridiculously expensive, and affordable, which often aren't even that affordable considering the meager features.

[@MrSamadolfo]

🙂 yup

[@marcosoliveira8731]

I wish seen this video sooner. Yes. After saw you putting all together and making it work, I do will build one system like this for using as a virtualization lab.

[@marcosoliveira8731]

I did it!

[@PoradnikiYakuza]

nice to see you reviewing ;) might be a future upgrade of my huanan x79 green

[@wilsontanlk]

Their brand is pronounced as "Huah Nun" meaning Chinese South. I'm very inspired by your videos and build quite a few Chinese X99 and some Xeon Systems. Great work!

[@TotoGeenen]

Can't wait to see the gaming results, must be interesting

[@Shuruii]

Insane, I found those cups today for 8 dollars a piece on eBay and they're still decent for gaming, insanity.

[@rdsii64]

I have just ordered a pair of E5-2697 V2 cpu's as an upgrade. Can't wait until they arrive. So now my machine will have a grand total of 24 cores. This should prove interesting.

[@damwaterthomas1980]

Thank you for explaining the motherboard and already subscribe to your Channel because of your great content.

[@ReQuiem_2099]

Cool. I'm running a pair of E5-2667v2's on a Z9PE-D16 right now (also a Z9PA-D8) and loving it.

[@HardwareNZ]

I remember seeing these on Ali about 2-3 months ago thinking to myself, Christmas has come early! I definitely am going to make a server build for when I move out of home. I plan to have10gb networking and a healthy dose of hard drives and SSD's. When you can get an almost a whole package (without the case, PSU and drives) for about 1200NZD it makes for a very compelling system. I'm glad to see you posting a review. You should try some NVME drive on it to see what you can get out of that. Thanks for the video and ill see you for part 2!

[@mak_ev]

Great job, Jeff! It's really cool to see you make this reviews for chinese boards! They're kinda popular in Russia, but our tech-tubers sucks when it comes to make a good review. It would be really nice to see, how this system performs in Adobe programs (such as Premiere Pro and After Effects). Anyway, as I sad before, you did a great job! Keep on making such cool videos!

[@DearSuley]

HuanNan was a very small computer gear factory. But they used all resources to build cheap X79 boards, by that way they grew up quickly.

[@jessesoronen363]

Awesome video again. Keep doing great work.

[@samwisekoi7574]

I just ordered a couple of component sets for Linux workstations. Threads and memory are the key for VMs. They were $500+ for Ryzen CPU , mobo and memory. Minimum GPU needed. For real VM work, we repurpose old Supermicro dual-Xeon servers with 24 cores/48 threads and 72GB of ECC RAM. The "dual X79" approach would let me deliver server-class vitualization on every desktop. Hopefully you will benchmark KVM or an equivalent tech in the next video. Thanks for doing this! Subscribed.

[@rdsii64]

My board will be here on Monday. It got here surprisingly quick for coming from China.

[@XtremeConditions]

Currently running a dual X5675 rig I upgraded from a stock Dell T7500. Added some cool stuff like USB 3 (through a PCIe card) and also a good wifi card. Getting ~1450 cb on R15. That's basically just above a stock Ryzen 7 1700. Sure, power consumption is a good deal more, but the whole thing costed me $250 max. Limited to SATA II and also not great single core performance isn't awesome, but overall, this thing is maxed out performance per dollar-wise. At 1440p, bottlenecks on my RX 480 are very minimal, I basically never dip below 90% CPU usage. But for games that are REALLY bad and pretty much use a single core, it can get pretty bad, as low as 60-70 usage. It depends what you're playing and what your expectations are. Other than that, I'd do it all over again 100x over! And when Sandy/Ivy start getting even cheaper, I may go at it again!

[@MemeDumpworld87]

I just built a dual xeon 2695 v2 with 512 gigs of ram. 24 cores 48 threads!! With a gtx 1079ti.

[@miliondrmz]

Robert Abshear wow! Hows the mobo performing? Is it still worth buying?

[@tinyfossil]

ps love your channel love the info you give in your content man keep em comming

[@dualmode1]

Hey , i was useing a core 2 quad to this day, and i am more that happy with this thing. To my opinion it is fantastic. I mean i got the motherboard plus cpus plus 16 gig ram with it and it was 140 euros. So it is amazing for what it is , plus seeing dual cpus on your motherboard is awsome 😁😁👍

[@gaatjeniksan3068]

Gotta love the dual cpu tower coolers in that tempered glass case. It looks like a baller setup even though it isn't that powerfull. If the rumours of AMD Zen2 are true you can get multicore performance scores like this (maybe even higher) on the AM4 platform next year.

[@Darknamja]

Excellent video. Thanks. :D

[@farsidesc4044]

At about the 10 minute mark, you mention the board supports VT-x, which you describe as “pass through”. This may be a gaffe, but to explain to those who may get confused: Virtualization passthrough is VT-d. This allows devices to be handled by other virtual machines, rather than the host OS. The most common use is GPU passthrough via VFIO. VT-x is a compatibility technology for virtualization, allowing multiple operating systems to run on the same hardware, and enforce better CPU and RAM management. Great video btw :)

[@twizz420]

You can get a Huanan board with 16GB of ECC DDR3, an X5650, and a sheisty CPU cooler for $140US on AliExpress.

[@CraftComputing]

Which is an order of magnitude slower than this setup. 6-Core Nehalem vs 16-Core Sandy Bridge is not even close.

[@CcCcarbonnixXxX]

I also got me one a couple of months ago, and i am Really Imrpessed. I did not have those Booting Issues at all, runs perfectly fine. I got two 2660v2 10 Core Xeons. I Water Cooled the System and it is running on 28-35 Degrees in Idle, and never over 55 in at 100%.

[@Movingfrag]

Making UEFI USB bootable on this system is a little bit tricky. You need to first enable the UEFI for storage controllers and boot options set to UEFI and Legacy, then reset with the USB stick in the port, then in the BIOS you need to go into the HDD boot priority and move the USB stick up the list - then you will be able to select the UEFI bootloader from the list.

[@green.holden]

best video on this topic other than Gamers Nexus. I'm looking forward to getting one of these systems around 2024 when OLED prices drop down for my workloads which include programming and design and in the future more rendering. Now in 2022 the prices are lower than this.

[@TheNefastor]

Folding the box inside out is genius.

[@GigaVids]

finally someone braved to buy one ! test the single cpu one socket why not !

[@lukefilewalker9454]

This is awesome! Thank you Jeff!

[@rdsii64]

My dual x79 system is a dedicated media server now. My daily driver is a 1950x threadripper system.

[@TouqeerJamil]

Loved your video! Very informative and I am planning to build something like this for 3D Rendering with Quadro.

[@kennethjakobsen7295]

Leaving gaming aside, this looks like a cool hypervisor LAB server.

[@RasDoesBushcraftBackcountry]

i have replayed this video for 2 hours today, this real world test gives me excitement for my future build hopefully this year, i have made my mind and will see to it that i get this, they have a deal on alixpress for 1072 NZD which is bloody cheap for two e5 2670, 4 16gb ddr3 and the motherboard or NZD 796.07 for 2 e5 2660, 4 8gb dddrs and mobo. i dont intend to play games on the new build, just render super fast ( then my current beast ) dci & UHD 4k footage

[@Dee-tc7lo]

Still beats my single core cinebench score of 99 with my stock x5670 lol! I game with it too.

[@hammersti3n540]

Was browsing through alibab and found a random desktop motherboard with a mobile CPU soldered to it and remembered your love of strange Chinese motherboards . Must have watched this video as few times now 😀

[@CraftComputing]

DO you have a link? I might take a look.

[@hammersti3n540]

@@CraftComputing Is a strange one seen them with a mobile socket fitted but not soldered to board was temped to do a sample order just to see what was going on with these www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Intel-Motherboard-HM55-With-I3-I5_60425508240.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.normalList.330.6682493eIDxzbo

[@CraftComputing]

I just reached out about a sample. I'll see if I'm able to get one. Thanks for the link!

[@mooklaathegreat3662]

This Board would be a Perfect choice for me ! Or, anyone else currently running an older Dell Precision Workstation, As they already have most of these required components inside them. I Run a T7500 workstation with Dual x5680's now, So I already have both Cpu's as well as coolers for them. I also Have a decent Gpu Video board installed, Along w a modular power supply with plenty of head room. ** Here is the big Bonus.** This new board has; * native Sata 3 * Native usb 3.0 * Native support for booting and running off M.2 Nvme drives. ( Pcie card required ) * Faster Mgz Ram speed ( 1600 up from 1333 ) * Updated Bios So a new MB, a new case ( which I already have ) and some new ram are all I have to purchase, Which can all be bought inexpensive on the used market. This will Squeeze another 2 - 4 years out of my currant aging system with only native usb 2.0 and Sata 2 and no bios support fro Nvme. And be a fun little project. ** Thank You Craft Computing so much for the Great Video !!!!! U just saved me a fortune, Lol MooK

[@ReikazeRambles]

Amazing build, interesting board! Should do 1080p regardless to give the full picture of the performance of this setup, maybe not a lot of games though.