Tempted by a cheap AliExpress motherboard

[@AG1k]

I hope more manufacturers make boards like these. It is a great way to reuse old hardware and reduce e-waste in landfills!

[@adamtajhassam9188]

LOVE THIS GUY I ALWAYS GET A GOOD LAUGH ON THIS CHANNEL :) you make my day bro keep kicking it into high gears... on whatever you do PC gaming :)

[@CLOYO]

@@adamtajhassam9188 Who are you talking to brother

[@pingtime]

And getting license revoked by Intel 😂

[@natejennings5884]

I have that exact board! I use it my muh main rig with an i7 3770 (3.4GHz 4c/8t), 2x8GB DDR3 RAM, GTX 1660 6GB, and an M.2 512GB with Linux Mint 21.1. Thing rocks like all get out!

[@CasuallyHuman099]

@Ag1k here so many brand refreshing the old chipset

[@racistpandagod]

Those 2 strips you wished lit up are just ground separation lines to keep to audio crisp. You'll find them on pretty much every board in some capacity with on board Audio.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Ah cool, yeah they looked similar to the light up ones on the gigabyte boards 😂

[@thealien_ali3382]

​@@RandomGaminginHDI love u my friend

[@thealien_ali3382]

My gaming MSI 5 z97 rig I had the audio traces were exactly like this but had a few red LEDs on the back so the lines lit up looked awesome

[@AmaraTheBarbarian]

Ah yes, I remember the bad old days of not having audio isolation on a budget AM3 board paired with a Phenom II... *old man yells at cloud* "Back in my day you could hear the mouse move"

[@Jackpkmn]

@@AmaraTheBarbarian It can still happen on modern devices. It happens real bad on my laptop when using headphones and its a design from 2019.

[@cheng1991]

Here in China , these boards are usually meant to be paired with Xeon E3(V1&V2), some of which do have igpus in them.

[@janwitkowsky8787]

I have been looking at that mobo for the better part of 2 years. I am so glad that one of my favorite tech-tubers is doing a check on it. I will enjoy this video.

[@JoshuaG]

3:04 I believe those little yellow strips are meant to isolate electrical interface from the rest of the board since the chips inside that strip contains the Audio IC's and Capacitors 👍

[@freakklomp]

yoiu are correct. those are ground lines to keep the audio nice and crisp.

[@uglybob7505]

Being ex military I always get the shivers when I see something advertised as "military spec or quality".....if people knew how terrible military grade equipment was they'd run for the hills :-) Always been tempted to a mobo from aliexpress, just never pulled the trigger. Doing a sleeper build soon so may well be tempted to one of their ITX offerings soon.

[@xXDarthBagginsXx]

Military generally bills out to the lowest bidder lol

[@Nalianna]

I have 3 Mini ITX builds. they're awesome. my next will be an aliexpress Mini ITX one.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

You could find full configurations in China based on this exact CPU and similar looking MB for around $250 or even less. GPU is usually Chinese "580", there is some dodgy PSU and SDD inside, 16 GB of used RAM and basic "thin can" case. People buy them to play games released for PS4 without much hassle.

[@tweakz_tech]

This video has a nice point. Currently I have a Chinese X79 motherboard at home. So far I haven't had trouble. Keep in mind: 2nd gen -> PCI-E gen 2 3rd gen i5/i7 -> PCI-E gen 3 For the Workstation/server platforms, Desktop chipsets are often getting used there due to not having enough fitting chipsets being around. Making hardware is really an art.

[@lugiakane470]

USE I7 3770K pci 3.0 should be unlocked

[@dosmastrify]

Wonder if the Chinese news have all your data lol

[@Boogie_the_cat]

M.2 support is a good happy time feature, and less cable vipers is always a good happy time, especially if swapping parts out even semi-regularly. I enjoy interesting budget components. Good find.

[@djhd3670]

almost every p68 z68 etc. board can boot from nvme with an adapter and biosmod even an old q6600 can do it

[@Leonvolt28]

​@@djhd3670would be interesting to have a video on that

[@hostile1ne]

I've worked on these boards for a clients replacement.. a B75 and B85 variant of these boards with an M.2 slots.. swaped the components and upgrading them with an SSD for storage and NGFF for the OS.. clients were happy..

[@arditshehu4578]

I have bought MAXSUN B550M mobo pairing it with ryzen 5 5600 and its working perfectly , 8 months now. People need to consider this boards more often, great price for the quality

[@Beisepimp]

Nice to see, that you can find "new" boards for these older architectures. With frame generation on, the performance looks not bad in Cyberpunk, but which normal person would pair these 2 :D

[@CaptainKenway]

I had a Chinese knock-off X79 board paired with a Xeon E5-1650 v2 as my main setup for eight months or so in 2019. Never had any problems with it, and it even supported overclocking. I did make sure to pick which one I bought carefully though, as there ARE some really terrible ones out there from what I've read (usually on Russian websites via Google Translate).

[@TheSpotify95]

Not bad then - though personally, if the knock off X79 board has less than 4 RAM slots, I wouldn`t even go near it. X79 boards had either native triple channel (6 DIMM) or quad channel (8 DIMM) memory, and the whole point of X-series board (over standard LGA boards) of the time were to have increased RAM and SATA capability, as well as Xeon support.

[@ronangarcia707]

Miyconst is your guy when you want to save a buck on these chinese motherboards, x79, x99, laptop cpu on a desktop board, etc. His channel is a nice way to skip the crappy options on aliexpress.

[@b0ne91]

This is the way. 100% need to spend time doing research. Haswell supported boot from NVMe (some Z97 have a slot too), so it's not that special. But they're doing great work with re-using and recycling what would otherwise be e-waste. You absolutely need to figure out which ones have a half decent BIOS and won't die on you within a few months. A BIOS that can do RAM OC is really important with these older boards imo

[@Inivican]

They like to bundle motherboards similar to these on AliExpress with Xeon CPUs, sometimes with boards with multiple CPU sockets. These CPUs tend to be released between the years 2012-2015 from what I have observed, and most have at least 6 cores, many with 8 or 12 cores, and a lot of threads. Some of these CPUs support literally hundreds of gigabytes of RAM, such as E5-2670 from 2012 that can support over 300GB of RAM. The motherboards in question are usually made out of recycled components, that's why they get to have recent features with haswell, x99 x75, etc architectures. There are others that are much newer that support DDR4 RAM, like the Xeon E5-2660 v3 Processor, 10 cores, 20 threads, released q3 2014 which supports over 700GB of RAM with 64Gb/s memory bandwidth with 4 memory channels. If you take time to read the reviews on some of the popular vendors of these Motherboard + CPU + RAM kits, you will notice a lot of people in countries like Brazil mentioning that they got this for gaming. The vendors usually market it to gamers, but honestly, these kits are phenomenal for home servers. I made myself a TrueNAS Core file server using one of these kits

[@jojomarujo8704]

I used one of these board, if you thinking to get one make sure that the one you're planning to buy support S3 state. Also you may or may not be able to set the fan speed on one of these. Such board should support PCIe gen3 when paired with 3rd gen 1155 processor.

[@marc0488]

I got one of these for my GF's PC: i5 3570, 16gb 1600, GTX 1050 Ti. She's been using it for about 4 months and runs all the games she wants to play: Sims 4, Minecraft... paid about 60 dollars (a shit ton of taxes where I live). The board has been working fine but sometimes when you shutdown the PC the PC won't fully shutdown. The CPU cooler stays on and every light stays on too, so she gotta press and hold the power button to fully shutdown the system. Other than that, has been working great so far.

[@ClayWheeler]

Just check the power state mode from both BIOS and Windows Power settings in traditional Control Panel. Usually if the two settings mismatch, that could happen

[@camjohnson2004]

Those speeds for the nvne sad are consistent with a gen2 pcie interface, similar to Intel's x99 based boards m.2 slots. The fact that a 2nd gen supporting motherboard has m.2 is a huge bonus and evrn at those speeds in CDM it's better than any sata based SSD. Nice score I might have to get one to try for my spare 3770 CPU

[@markg1689]

Really digging your channel. Keep up the good work. Greetings from Long Island NY

[@ProjectPhysX]

Very cool modern board to extend the life of older CPUs!

[@stormatron6184]

Looks like it might be a Mini DTX form factor. Sometimes fit in ITX cases if there's space below where the PCIEx1 slot is. Can be useful if you need an extra slot and are only going to run 2 RAM sticks anyway. The jumpers you moved seem to be robbing PCIE lanes from SATA connectors for the m.2 Slot. Some of them not be able to work at the same time as the M.2 slot but I'd rather have the choice as you never normally use all of them anyway.

[@gorky_vk]

you loose that one sata 3 connector, still leaving three sata 2 working. If someone use just HDD on them not such a big deal.

[@Ramog1000]

at 3:05 do you mean the strips that show the bare circuit board? Those are "isolation" slots, they have no solder mask and probably also no/minimal copper in them to protect the audio circuitry from interference that the rest of the board might cause.

[@kalark]

I bought one of these a couple months ago to replace a dead motherboard for an older system, it's been working great with a 3770k, a 1tb 970 evo ssd and a zotac 1070ti and I haven't had a single issue yet :)

[@BenitoFan760]

Does it support turbo speed or does it stay on the base frequency?

[@kalark]

@@BenitoFan760 it turbos really well! I haven't timed it to see if there's a difference between say this and a board from a established manufacturer but it does turbo!

[@IshanReisha1]

Got one of these and after booting for the first time, I am getting no signal on the monitor, Any suggestions?

[@FeintMotion]

the mainland finds a way

[@malachkah]

no such thing as "mainland"

[@FeintMotion]

​@@malachkahNATO education moment

[@malachkah]

​@@FeintMotion I mean it's China why do people call it mainland. Just like Taiwan is China. NATO would say otherwise. So no, not NATO education moment :D

[@DJEylisium]

​@@malachkahTaiwan is China?

[@darthwiizius]

@@DJEylisium Technically the Taiwanese government is the legitimate government of China and not the other way round as Winnie the Xi claims.

[@couriersix2443]

I'm always so freaking happy to see Sandy Bridge CPUs even more so a 2600/2600K. Love that generation so much Edit: main comment aside from immediate nostalgia: If it weren't for how cheap it's gotten to get an AM4-based setup with 6-8 decent performance cores & M.2 storage, I'd be looking into one of these for an older Xeon setup for sure

[@nolo1337]

Am4 has got very cheap but nothing wrong with a cheap haswell xeon board for a decent price

[@michaelstanley5215]

Sandy Bridge was an awesome platform, I kept my 2500K when I finally upgraded to an AM4 machine

[@Waleedxbmi]

Lil question bro I have i5 2500 is it worth it to upgrade to an i7 3770 or 2600k ?

[@nolo1337]

@@Waleedxbmi Where do you live ?

[@michaelstanley5215]

@@Waleedxbmi 3770 if it's super cheap

[@soupwizard]

2:16 Jumpers, just like the old days! Ah, reminds of a fine Saturday afternoon, having bought a new Super Socket 7 from the computer show at an arena outside town, figuring out how to set the jumpers to use my new AMD K6-2 450Mhz and 64MB of PC100 memory

[@luisolivera9307]

I came across your video just as I was about to give up on buying an 1155 motherboard. Amazon has the same board for 58 (USD). The first one came beat to hell and I requested a replacement that's still in the box. I'm going to start working on it this weekend with 16 gigs of ddr3 and an i7 3770K just sitting around. If it works, it may become an overpowered NAS or something. Thanks for this great info!

[@mattivirta]

if buy amazon you pay 3-7X more same parts what can buy aliexpress lot cheapen and have same parts same board, same factory made, and amazon have very expensive, many stuff have "cheap" but true have not cheap thief lot more money than aliexpress sell same parts, and amazon scam lot shipping, aliexpress have shipping FREE and amazon take many parts shipping more than parts cost, etc, buy 50$ part and shipping have 70$ this is totally scam and thief at amazon.

[@paulwilliams4274]

@RandomGamingHD What were the potential legal issues you were referring to? 0:34

[@RandomGaminginHD]

You will find out haha

[@josejuanandrade4439]

@@RandomGaminginHD But you said you'd explain them shortly and you didn't! I even saw the video again because i thought i missed that part LOL

[@Channel-Simon-Talks]

I am still using a 4th-gen i5 and be honest it still very capable! Paring a decent GPU (eg. 1650, 1660), gaming on 1080p still very much enjoyable. Having M.2 support definitely a treat and nice upgrade.

[@JohnVance]

I still use some Haswell laptops, paired even with just SATA SSDs and Ubuntu the things are lightning fast and rock solid.

[@waldojim42]

I got to hand it to those Aliexpress folks... sometimes they come up with really interesting gear. This is pretty darned cool.

[@Rob.Chapman]

Thanks for this review - I've literally stumbled across this video, and it has helped me make a decision on getting a board like this to fix a broken PC

[@andrewbirch1348]

My favorite KZbin hands down. Always look forward to your vids

[@llamokk]

i bought this to build a PC for my daughter from leftovers after i upgraded my own computer. this was super easy to set up the only thing i needed was a 4 pin splitter for some case fans which i also got from ali and then it was good to go. No problems, no hassle, its just working as it should. It comes well packed with almost everything you need. Great and my old hardware got a new life now. (reused my i5 2500k, MSI GTX 560 TI and some regular hardware work just fine) also bought a PCI-E WIFI Card from Ali (FENVI AXE3000) which added bluetooth 5.3 and strong WIFI to her setup and also a CPU Cooler (Jonsbo CR-1400). What i needed to get from somewhere else than ALI was a Case and Power-Supply so the overall cost was about 120 USD. Glad this MOBO exists because i can put the old hardware to use like this - still think that CPU + GPU were pretty nice for how old they are.

[@djavi90]

Does it still run?

[@llamokk]

Yes for about a year now and shes just playing "my time at sandrock" never had any problems.

[@llamokk]

​@@djavi90also upgraded it with a NVME and that too runs without problems.

[@nicholasvaness6241]

If you have a third generation i5 or i7 you should test it to see if it's going to have pcie gen3. From my understanding it was the ivybridge that introduced pcie gen3.

[@Kevangelo14]

Wow, I didn't expect the pairing to be so good for 1080p. This is quite a steal for budget gamers!

[@ianmcass]

The main problem with these Chinese motherboards is that they don't often support any power saving modes

[@KeksimusMaximus]

Lol 😂

[@DerrickRG91]

Eh, nobody really uses those anyway.

[@leonbishop7404]

what power saving modes do you mean? is this true?

[@trainmaster0217]

There is no sleep mode even with the latest video driver.@@leonbishop7404

[@mattivirta]

ll, who need power saving, no matter how lot power pc use, no important. hahaha

[@joemiller947]

I've been a long time viewer of this channel and I always enjoy watching even if it has nothing to do with my personal computing needs, you have a good personality and a good voice for content creation

[@raulsouza71]

Recently I bought a 6th generation xeon e3-1230 v5($30) and with a little bios modification I was able to use it on a b150 motherboard. These processors are well priced, I hope the 7th generation V6 series will also be cheaper in the future.

[@jonnyc429]

That's cool you were able to mod the bios. I tried putting an e3 1270 v5 in an hp, but that was h270, not sure if there is a bios mod for them.

[@The93Momo93]

even if the m2 is roughly half the speed it can do due to being in the older tech, it's still faster than the classic 2,5" sata ssd, so definitely a nice addition for budget gamers

[@mintagenart]

I saw this board online a while ago. Thought I could use it as I have a 2nd gen i5 doing nothing on the floor. Nice to know this board actually works as advertised... Well as well as a socket this old can muster.

[@KomradeMikhail]

Does the M.2 slot use PCIe lanes directly off the CPU, or off the chipset ? Is there a tertiary controller chip involved ? Does the GPU still work at 16x lanes with the M.2 slot enabled, or does it back down to 8x ? Does it disable any of the SATA ports or other I/O ? How does the speed of the native slot compare to that of an expansion M.2 to PCIe adapter ? What are all the other settings of those jumpers ???

[@DJxD]

those strips are for shielding. it prevents the audio hardware from picking up feedback from the other components of the board.

[@tubes9181]

What legal issues? Did I miss that?

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Nah all will be revealed soon haha

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The drive is obviously slower since it runs on PCIe2.0, for PCIe3.0 you'd need a 3rd gen CPU. And the strips are most likely to isolate the audio parts to reduce noise.

[@remixislandmusic510]

I wonder if this motherboard would run an NVME SSD at pcie 3.0 with an ivy bridge CPU. The 2600 here doesn't support pcie 3.0, however say a 3770 does.

[@trainmaster0217]

I have the same exact board. I like it but it doesn't support sleep mode even with the latest video driver. My board was made by Jingsha and that's where I got my drivers from. Good luck figuring out the jumper settings to add a second storage drive. The SATA settings in the BIOS don't match my board for some reason.

[@frosthoe]

this combo you have is like what i did in 2010 I used a cheap motherboard, an intel dual core , and 2 Gtx 295's dual Gpu vidcards . It actually worked! Quad Sli on a pentium lolz, soon after added i7 and Evga Ftw Mobo and a Gtx 275 for physx scores. That rig had 2 Psus , and pulled 1150+ watts when gaming! It would heat the room to sweltering!

[@sephrus7784]

When my Asus Gene X79 board died I switched to an ali express one with quad mem and m.2 support. Loved it despite the locked multiplier.

[@finnbianga4189]

Socket 1155 lives 🔥 I'm even using that same cpu

[@user-asswecan]

thanks for testing this “军工品质” 's “豪华主板”, I also the first time heard of the“佳华宇”motherboard, is saleing on china with 14pound, now I know it's available

[@ahmedibrahim2512]

Look like gigabytes b75 boards 🤔 thanks for your build advice 👍

[@jonbondMPG]

I didn't know you were a comedian, but you got me with ... "Sufficient Stock Cooler".

[@Santiago526d]

I like the flowers of your backyard

[@BlackFoxInc]

I have two X99 machines I have build with boards from Aliexpress. Paired with GTX 1060 at max and you have a nice little rig for pocket change.

[@KuntalGhosh]

these boards are good for giving new life to old computers. i am using two such board one for 1st gen and one for 4th gen intel builds and they are working perfectly fine. i had two perfectly fine i7's that lost their motherboard in a linting strike that hit my home. under 50bucks these boards saved those computers from ewaste pile, and it has been 4 years . no failure yet.,

[@sgdude1337]

I’d imagine the m.2 slot would greatly benefit from using a 3rd gen i7 3770 rather than the 2600. You would gain pci-e 3.0. Most people don’t think about this since the bandwidth isn’t going to make a difference with any video card you’d pair with one of these CPUs, but I think it would help SSDs.

[@Krux3]

Those strips are to isolate your audio card from interference from the rest of the compnents.

[@humayunadeel4043]

B75 chipset supports both 2nd Gen Sandy Bridge & 3rd Gen Ivy Bridge processors. 3rd Gen Ivy Bridge processors required 8 pin CPU power so it is not strange here

[@kokodin5895]

since i worked with reworking one laptop to work with m.2 drive i familiiarized myself with m.2 pinout and i would presume 4 jumpers could be used to switch between pcie and sata mode operation for the m.2 slot so you could have m.2 sata ssd or m.2 pcie nvme. with how little pcie slots the board have i would say the jumpers don't do anything else like taking lines from gpu slot, because there is probably enough unutilized pcie lanes left, but i would check if ssd work in pcie 4x mode or 1x because you just need one pcie line to operate an ssd but the performance is the same as sata if you do

[@Simon-ui6db]

3:06 thats seperation of the audio circuit for better signal to noise ratio. Thats a good thing.

[@jollegrat6590]

i bought one of this board and nvme from the same factory. h61 and 256 gb nvme cost only $40. it came with 3 year waranty of nvme. its work perfectly with my i5 3470... im stilll amaze with this board. its like old stock but with better features

[@mikes78]

I bought a colorful brand 1155 ITX motherboard a good 8 years ago for a friends pc and it's been a rock solid performer ever since. The only change I've done with it since is to install a SSD boot drive. Otherwise it's exactly the same as when I installed it.

[@sbeyer17]

What I'd like to know is if there's an nvme ssd connected is the pciex16 slot still x16?

[@AutodidactEngineer]

You should start doing some ultra cheap builds like you did in the old days!

[@darthwiizius]

Can't knock it for the money, if you've got the parts and just need a board it's a no brainer. I would definitely want one with an NVMe slot, even at the speed it's going it's still a lot faster than a SATA SSD. I might not put a 40 series card in it though, something like a 570 8GB in this for an uber cheap gaming and general purpose computer and Bob's your mother's brother.

[@slckb0y65]

built 2 computer with ali express parts, both my NAS and my son's first gaming pc, and guess what ... both have been running for years without missing a single beat.

[@teaspoon966]

I love this kind of content. Obscure chinese mobos with repurposed chipsets.

[@pete8475]

1:50 - what happened to this orange sata connector?

[@MixedVictor]

I had one of these chinese boards, LGA 1155, it broke somehow with less than a month of use, not giving display output. I heard other people that also said that it also broke and gave no display output too...

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Uh oh…

[@MixedVictor]

@@RandomGaminginHD I remember trying it some months later after it broke, it showed the american megatrends startup, but it got stuck and after restart didn't want to display out again.

[@magoid]

I also got one but for AMD's FM2+ CPU. Not only the maximum memory speed (DDR3) it would boot was 1333MT/s (out of 2400 the kit supported), but it also broke after a month. No more nameless Chinese boards for me. Now is only from one of Taiwan's big 5.

[@bitelaserkhalif]

​@@MixedVictorbios problem? Problem is that chinesium mobo bios are hard to find

[@TheSpotify95]

Interesting. Can't wait to see what the system performs like with this new board in it! I personally don't see why manufacturers would make new boards for 2nd/3rd gen Intel, because most people have probably stopped using those systems as primary systems now. I like how it has a single M.2 slot, but as I said in my other comment, 2 RAM slots only is a big disappointment. There's also only 4 SATA slots, which is on par with the cheap H61 boards from that era, too - not much when you want a boot SSD, a games SSD (or HDD), a data SSD/HDD, and an optical drive (as PCs from back in the day had an optical drive in them). Oh yes, and PCIe 2.0 mode, which is not good for certain modern cards that run in x8 or even x4 mode and have limited bandwidth. I can't see a card like the 6500XT performing well in here compared to even an older 7xx or 9xx series card from Nvidia. My preferred choice for an older PC like that would be X58/X79/X99/X299, because these boards have 6-8 RAM slots and multiple SATA slots. The bext X58 boards have 10 SATA ports, an IDE slot (for older HDDs), and 6 RAM slots for 48GB RAM.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

They are also making new X58 boards. Often by salvaging the chipset from a different board. Some even doctor more recent interfaces onto them. So you could pair the good old i7-920 with M.2 and USB3 And I guess the board falls into the lower midrange area, so 2 RAM slots and 4x SATA isn't uncommon.

[@shaneeslick]

G'day, the PCIe Gen2 for the GPU via the X16 slot is because of the i7-2600 being limited not the Mobo, While the B75/Z77 Chipsets do not support PCIe Gen3 for storage & USB, intel 3000 CPUs do support PCIe Gen3 PCIe X16 Slot direct to the CPU

[@OldPoi77]

Those channels that you thought were LEDs are isolation for the audio chip to help stop noisy audio when using 3.5 jacks ;)

[@rhobson]

From the print in the board (02:21) maybe the jumpers are to switch the M.2 slot between NVME and SATA?

[@bitelaserkhalif]

Yes.

[@dexsters5643]

Honestly the boards that make more sence are the X99 chinise ones costing 45€ cheapest and 60~ for a decent one paird with a E5-2643v3 or any other fast xeon with or with out turbo boost unlock to the bios its still decent stuff

[@ricardosebastiao6636]

In this case PCI-E 2.0 mode is not because of the old socket. You can put a 1155 socket 3770 or Xeon equivalent wich along with that motherboard will support PCI-E 3.0

[@haydn-db8z]

Indeed.. As someone who has three old socket 1155 motherboards and four old LGA1155 CPUs, I did a double-take when I heard that. 😀

[@poljackph]

Keeps us posted. I still have a i5 2400 and 2pc 4gb ddr3 1333mhz ram 😊

[@RetroBerner]

I wonder if setting those jumpers splits the PCIE lanes between the GPU and SSD

[@realzoomer_]

Could you please share the link to where you bought this from?

[@kiker0909]

Bought a dual x99 MOBO from ali express and popped 2 xeons in there with ddr4 ram. Makes for a dope ass server on the cheap.

[@matsui90]

I'm looking at putting together some of my old components in to a retro / ultra-budget gaming PC, either for fun or to sell on, and this mobo might be perfect for an issue I have. Parts are i5 2500, GTX 970, 16GB DDR3 1600mhz RAM. The case I have available is a Thermaltake micro ATX. My old 1155 mobo is standard ATX and wont fit the case. Finding a branded mATX 1155 mobo is difficult. Not many exist and they are either way too expensive or have a weird limitation like low RAM speed compatibility. Wasn't sure what to do but I think I'll give this board a go. The M2 support is cool and I'll make use of it.

[@shaneeslick]

G'day Random, nice review & it will be interesting to see how it goes long term, for LGA1155 I usually go for a GIGABYTE Mobo as I have had good reliability & they still have all the Support for Driver downloads + Specs/Compatability available on their Website. The only thing I am interested in that you missed is how the M.2 is wired, Does it go through the Chipset or take lanes from the X16 PCIe Gen3 Slot?

[@OutlawNix]

I prefer my budget gaming rig that I built my self bought 2nd hand hardware bought locally. Intel Core i7-8700 , Asus ROG Strix Z390-E , 32GB of Vengeance RGB Pro, EVGA GTX 1080 SC 8GB Cost: $50 US dollars for both CPU & Motherboard , $50 US Dollars for GPU , $75 Dollars for the DDR4 RAM. Total Price: $175 US Dollars. Which don't included storage & Computer Case, PSU. Since I all ready owned that from another PC I had at the time. Also just recently got a 2nd hand HP Laptop for $50 dollars model: 14-dk1025wm which has a Ryzen 3 3300U processor. HP created that model of laptop with two CPU's one being Ryzen 3 3250U and other being Ryzen 3 3300U which is not listed any where on HP's website. The 3300U having 4 cores 2 threads while the 3250U having 2 cores 2 threads.

[@BalancedSpirit79]

Decades ago I bought a very cheap mobo which, after rebate, was only $10 USD. It had a Cyrix CPU permanently bonded to the board, which was not even as powerful as my Pentium II 333. Still, at that time I had a bunch of spare parts lying around and all I needed was a mobo and CPU to make another PC, so it served for a while as a backup rig.

[@BusAlexey]

looks like those jupers are 4 PCIe lanes that can be switched with 4 SATA lanes also present on the board. So it has multiple configurations: 4 SATA and no NVMe 3 SATA and 1 x1 NVMe 2 SATA and 1 x2 NVMe no SATA and 1 x4 NVMe

[@enigmence]

I’m really concerned about the black box below the PCIe slot. I’m guessing it’s some sort of heatsink or maybe the BIOS? It seems like it will obstruct some graphics cards.

[@adambailey1993]

I’ve just recently ordered a Mini ITX form factor one of these, It arrived Today. Hopefully it all works out. 😁

[@OrlandoPaco]

Jumpers give you lots of power! Bring back jumpers on motherboards.

[@binkaram6577]

i had core i5 3470 laying around with 4x 4gb ddr3 i pulled from the dead dell SFF and i came across that similar board only with 4x ram slot and damn is that board really a blessing with M.2 and ngff, it really made the great built for modern gaming with the 970gtx on 1080p i planned to try with 3770k i7 with 1080gtx

[@snakeplissken1754]

Honestly those cheap a*s chinese boards are actually great, specially when you consider that you can buy brand new boards for "de*d" sockets. Have seen plenty of them you could buy for some cheap high core count xeon builds. This is quite great given how mainboard prices have gone nuts to a certain degree.

[@capsulate8642]

Really nice that Chinese manufacturers keep making these boards with recycled/b-stock chipsets. On old platforms and especially server platforms it's practically impossible to get a $20 motherboard in a normal form factor with dual PCIe slots, 4x SATA, NVMe, etc;

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Had an idea about a such board,but,got a free 1155 one. Of course, nothing beats free

[@ffh2303]

So you can boot NVME drives just like that without messing with the bootloader at all?

[@xmaniac99]

You cannot ship or import CMOS batteries without paperwork, there is a story somewhere there.

[@bitelaserkhalif]

China post issues i guess They can sense cr2032 battery IIRC

[@mattivirta]

@@bitelaserkhalif cr2032 battery can buy cheap ewery shop ewery city, just i buy 2piece bag cost 2,5$

[@vucadao]

here in brazil due to the hardware being very expensive, the lga 1155 is the flagship in sales of cheap computers and whether or not these chinese boards with m2 inputs revive the lga.

[@michaelthompson9798]

A-friggin-mazing motherboard for £20 my good sir! NVME support, a second or third Gen i7,and a gtx series GPU soy.drake for an awesome ultra budget pc build imo!

[@chrisleyleonlewisiii9644]

I got a board in my pre built that I have no clue who made it it says cervvo on it. It shows up as a b450 but how do I update the bios on this board without knowing who made it

[@Kyleplier]

Not very often you see PS/2 slots for older mice and keyboards. That’s what those connections are on the left side of the I/O.

[@smarttseluvka]

I bought a similar board and the little SSD slots don’t work I’m sick of it how can I get them to work seems to be nothing in the bios and my jumper pins are fake

[@baraka629]

The CMOS battery isn't included because the cheap shipping carriers refuse to transport batteries and products containing batteries. I remember my cheapo X99 still came with a battery before the shipping terms changed.

[@Two49]

It's actually kinda nuts how well modern games run on old Intel chips like this - assuming you're not allergic to bad 1% lows.

[@deadpain2483]

Wow. This with rx570 8gb And a 19.5 inch monitor. Games like far cry 6, Forza horizon 5 Red dead redemption 2 GR Wildlands and The division 2 is perfect.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah should be :)

[@galimirnund6543]

How did it work with the stock cooler? I got a cooler master for my i7. The stock cooler just didn't do the job.