Why You Should Buy An X79 (LGA 2011) Motherboard In 2021

[@finesto3404]

I thought about buying a completely new pc with all the new bleeding edge components but instead settled for the mobo in my server pc, the Asus p9x79 le. I'm now running 32GB octa-channel ddr3, an i7-4820k overclocked to 4.9 GHz with an NH-D15 Noctua cooler, and an MSI SEA HAWK GTX 1080. All this ran me less than 550$ including the 1080! My biggest tip is to hop onto your local used market and constantly update to get the newest components available and look for a really good "Buy out" price. Old really doesn't mean bad, I can now happily say that I can run practically any game at ultra/high settings :D

[@olegb5061]

Where did you find such a good 1080 deal in the market? Very good deal

[@okanmubarek]

what is you cpu vcore? my 4820k is so bad :D

[@МаркБикзов]

Wait a minute. Lga 2011 processors support only 4 channels. That doesn't mean you have only 4 slots for your ram. This will be more correctly if you told, that you have 32 gb of ddr3 in 8 slots

[@jb678901]

Whatever you do with these Chinese x79 boards, highly recommend: 1) the board supports FOUR channel memory 2) A C600 series chipset preferred over all other variants, if possible. 3) decent VRM power delivery specs (look at the board pics!) 4) At least SATA 3 capable 5) At least a 450 W BRONZE or better. I am using 650W Bronze and GOLD from Rosewell, Corsair. Really depends on both the GPU and CPU matched to the motherboard. 6) Last but not least, put some air flow on the VRM heatsink. Even a cheap 60mm to 90mm fan goes a long way here. This is the weakest issue on many of these value priced motherboards. Forced air cooling will greatly extend their life and mitigate said issues. IMO.

[@Luke357]

These are all good. I have a very cheap ASRock Z590 board and Arctic makes an AIO with a little VRM fan on the pump/block I find it to be highly effective. It should work similarly on anything else with lacking VRM cooling.

[@franciscocornelio5776]

So, should I replace heatsink with a 90mm fan?

[@DunderHead.5000]

Depends on your stats. You can get software that will tell you the temp of whatever piece of hardware you're worried about and you can look online to see what the temp it is safe to run at.

[@harounben342]

Where is that vrm thing located?

[@jb678901]

@@harounben342 If you are looking at the motherboard as it is fully mounted in an ATX case, at the top center of the motherboard, just above the the CPU mounting bracket, you will see a heatsink. This heatsink will have a horizontal line of capacitors just below it and a matching horizontal line of square box looking components (chokes and MOSFETS) under the heatsink itself. These components collectively deliver the clean power to the CPU. It is this area where I typically use a small fan to actively cool these components by removing heat at a faster rate than just the typical airflow provided by the case fans. Note that I currently have case fans in the front(3x) and rear(1x) of my case. Should you a have screen/vent and additional fans mounted at the top of the case, this may already be sufficient as this additional airflow is in proximity to the VRM heatsink. Just my 2 cents.

[@MrLittlecat123]

I agree! I am using xeon 2650 V2, just bought it 2 months ago. The reason I pick 2650v2 is it is cheap and it has better single core performance! A good single core performance is more practical in everyday use. Too much core arent ganna be useful unless you do a lot of video rendering.

[@tabology1016]

Hi, need some help. been planning to build a pc using xeons, got this choices 2670v2 and 2640v3 What can you recommend? balance build is what i want soon to get rx580 or 1070

[@tabology1016]

@Goliat eXperience thanks brro, appreciate it!

[@itsfantom3020]

Are you on windows 11 or 10?

[@kinetic1259]

Running an x79 ASRock extreme 9 with 5x16GB ECC ddr3 1600mhz PC12800 registered/buffered with a xeon 2967 be and it's working fine with bios 3.61. You gotta insert one dimm and turn down the ram speed, then put the others in and ramp it up again. Works 100% stable.

[@ReLo_FZR]

You should mention that some X79 board have werd 24 pin and 8 pin location , so i whould highly advise everyone to check for those first , and second watch out for quad channel support because haveing 4 ram stick slots doesn't mean it will run in quad channel ( most of them are dual channel ) Great video ! Keep it up !

[@pinkparsnipcomputers]

I have picked up one of these and really impressed. I can’t get the sound to work though. Any idea what drivers you used?

[@kbl34k3d9]

one ofthe best tech channels bro carry on your gunna blow soon

[@pedrohqb]

I made a X99 setup, 32 gb, 2640v3, NVIDIA GTX 1060 5GB, incredible performance for the price.

[@certs743]

Great video. my main system is a second hand Dell T5610 workstation machine with dual E5-2650 V2 and it came with 128GB of RAM, a 1TB HDD and a 256 GB SSD. I popped in a GTX 1070 in my workstation and called it a day. It does everything I could ask of it. So second hand workstations might look kind of boring but they can be a great way to get into the platform on a budget. I think I was $500 CDN all in including the GTX 1070.

[@Trump-The-GREATEST]

My ASUS P9X79-E WS LGA 2011 Intel X79 Workstation Motherboard in 2024 still cost over $400 used and about $800 in excellent condition! 10 yr old mobo and price has not gotten down but only up. I paired it with 64GB Apple ECC DD3 memory, and 800w Be Quiet! PSU and the powerful 10-Core Xenon CPU with XFX Radeon beast GPU into a Alterbeast of a Hackintosh!!! 💪🏼

[@opoxious1592]

I game on the slightly older x58. Fantastic to game on. Also triple A games new releases are no problem at all

[@markgun6527]

X58 was such an amazing platform with so much potential, especially since you can use those (nowadays) cheap to buy Xeon CPU's. And it has tripple channel!

[@opoxious1592]

@@markgun6527 It still is. I am able to play the newest triple a games with all graphic settings on ultra, with resolution of 1440p. Why buy the newest cpu, ram and motherboard, when you can also play the newest games on a x58 platform (or the x79)

[@-_-DatDude]

​@@opoxious1592 Isn't the x58 bottlenecked by its DDR3 ram at 1066 MHz thou?

[@DJ_Dopamine]

I built a super cheap X99 system 3 years ago and it's still running perfectly today. Built it for my nephew. Using the E5-2640 V3 with an Atermiter board that came with 4x8GB of DDR4 memory and CPU as a bundle. It's a really cheap lower end Chinese board, but it still has genuine Quad Channel support, an NVMe drive slot and 6 x USB 3.0 ports with 2 x SATA III ports. Flashed it with another manufacturer's bios and injected some microcode to make it run at 3.4GHz on all 8 cores. Doing that also unlocked memory timing tuning and a bunch of other features. The standard bios was utter garbage. Amazing vfm overall! Only downside is no sleep mode (as usual). The X79 builds are even cheaper but still game okay.

[@Echo3_]

I am in love with these chinese companies giving reuse to the old xeons but building user based boards for them! I love reuse

[@dickblessing8570]

I have two of the Atermiter X79 Ver 1.03 boards with E5-2697. I've been using them for about 2 years for running VMWarer PRO15 and now 16 VMs. The only problem I ever had was getting it to go into stepping and/or turbo mode. I finally got that working when I went into the BIOS and under Advanced>CPU Configuration>CPU Power Management Configuration And set Power Technology to Energy Efficient Energy Performance to Performance Not intuitive to me but I tried it and it worked. Now I can see the clocks going up and down using CPUID HWMonitor. The Intel burn test shows a dramatic difference and the performance seems to track what is supposed to happen when you change the number of CPUs being turboed. I only mentioning this because all I ever see is recommendations to hack or use a different BIOS.

[@carlyle6674]

yeah oddly enough, I also did this and my clocks are reaching constant turbo, compared to just switching the setting to custom and performance which is odd but hey it works

[@marcc5768]

it's July 2024, I've been using x79 build with e5-2650 v2 xeon w/16gb ddr3-1333 iecc n quad channel. Not for gaming, for work. I got it from aliexpress as a bundle with the killisre x79 for around $130 CAD in Oct 2021. I don't overclock since it's extra power consumed.

[@JohnJohn83UK]

I've been using my P9X79 pro motherboard since it was new. Still working and just put a 6 core CPU in it.

[@harounben342]

Mine got broken long time ago

[@jakkuchan22]

Great video man. Been lurking in aliexpress for these. Haven't pulled the trigger yet

[@lonniebeal6032]

Be advised, the unbranded mobos don't, won't, can't support WIn11. I tried on a 1680V2 unbranded using the trick of adding registry keys, which did work on an old I7-2600. On the unbranded mobo, it couldn't find any drivers, then on a reboot, it wouldn't. So I moved everything over to another unbranded mobo, using a new psu and different case, and everything came up fine with a different ssd and win10 install. Pretty sure Win11 killed my mobo, I had tried another psu, still no life, got a pwr supply tester coming and if that psu is good, the mobo is dead. Glad I had a back up.

[@marcc5768]

the e5-2630 v2 has a tdp of 80W. the downside is newer games are looking for the avx2 instruction set. x79 + xeon is still good for budget entry workstation or an powerhosue work/office/hometheatre build. Maybe a home server also

[@sirFlukie]

I’ve been using a HP z420 workstation recently for everything, upgraded the cpu to a 10 core 20 threaded Xeon e5-2690v2 which I picked up for roughly 20 and my lord the FPS on every game I play is over 60 (maxed out settings) and with most other games I play over 100fps. I just need to upgrade my gpu from an rx590 to something a bit more powerful as my cpu doesn’t even go passed 20% usage under load lol

[@pascalfust1035]

Nice video. In my opinion, another benefit of many x79/C600 boards is their number of RAM slots and (often, though not always) increased number of RAM channels, allowing up to octa-channel operation. As such, slower RAM frequency of DDR3 is making less effect in operation

[@KH_1]

Even it have 8 ram slots, it's quad-channel only.

[@pascalfust1035]

@@KH_1 That is indeed often the case, but not always. As the AIDA64 list indicates, some of the high memory read speeds were achieved using motherboards with octa-channel, such as the (x79) Supermicro X9DR6-F with "lame" DDR3-1333 reaching a high transfer rate of almost 77GB/s.

[@khanscombe619]

Pats burg X79 / C602-A is indeed quad channel but C602 uses 2 sets of quad-chan per each CPU. The benefits come from a quality board from likes of ASUS & select Xeon E5- 1600 series for RAM OC of 2400-2800-3000 entering DDR4 territory.

[@MADBONE0]

Yeah DDR3 in 2023 is pushing the Great Grandpa speeds 1333mhz vs DDR4 3200mhz It’s a massive problem of x79 platform and would Highly recommended x99

[@dynasty76088]

Still using an x79MA-GD45 and i7 3960x in 2022. Picked them both up dirt cheap a few years ago.

[@Zestyclose]

I found a deal with a complete pc with : rampage iv black edition + i7 4.2 ghz + 32 gb ram ddr3 + power supply 750w + monitor 24 hp 25 mx 144hz with gsync at only 400 euros 😅

[@christopherfarrell-artist3557]

I have a system with an Asus p9x79 pro and an i7 3820 3.6Ghz and 32gb Ram.....it's still going strong

[@jforce321]

only thing I was gonna say is that most of those chinese boards don't even use x79 or c620 (server x79) chipsets. They use something like B85 and other low end chipsets. Theres alot of lanes on the CPU so they use those for the more lane intensive slots.

[@jb678901]

Not so for the HuananZhi X79 (Gaming or Deluxe versions). Mine uses a C600 series chipset. However, you are correct insofar as being careful with many of these boards. Often they do not guarantee the type of chipset used...it is a crap game for some of these manufacturers...B75 to Q75, C204-C206, etc. The HuananZhi X79 motherboards are about 20 to 30% more expensive than the cheaper brands (Altimeter, Machinst, etc.). That being said, our HZ X79 Deluxe has been running well for going on 3 years. Of course, I always recommend putting forced air on the VRM heatsink...been using an 80mm RGB fan mounted to the underside of the case top for this purpose. Also, I paired it with an E5-4627V2, eight cores, eight threads. This was a specialized XEON and not very popular or known at the time of purchase (I got it for $85 three years ago), but with a whopping 3.5Ghz turbo across all cores. Cores trump threads...so having 8 cores/8 threads makes for a very capable CPU with a power consumption that keeps the VRM's happy. Not to say the X79 Deluxe doesn't have decent power delivery...it does. I just wanted to be careful.

[@internziko]

Very underappreciated channel

[@joedoran6994]

i just got a asus board and i7 3930k for 60 pounds cant wait to use it when it arrives

[@ashleymcgovern5120]

I'm done with the platform now as my main driver. Flakey, buggy, unsupported BIOS, endless problems developing from new products the BIOS doesn't get along with, mainly GFX now. This Asus board's been a pain in the long run. You'll get more luck out of the platform with the China boards (which are technically LGA 2011 but not X79 chipset, they use a server chipset to the same effect. They still brand as X79). Than the popular branded ones. From experience. Probably 1 because the BIOS is more updated & 2 they have newer technologies anyway like NVME & newer PCI Ex. & 3 a server chipset has to be stable in a business environment. Shame, because it has a lot of power to offer still for little cost. I can sell this X79 Asus board for £150, I just bought 2x modern Gigabyte gaming Ryzen boards for under that brand new (£95). Maybe, I'll also get another China board for the CPU & Ram & buy myself a takeaway with the rest. 😂

[@potthegreen]

just got a xeon 2420 +mobo +ram for 1/3 of a rpi4 price! best home server upgrade ever ;) (from a pi3 lol)

[@v3teran75]

Rampage 4 Black Edition with the monoblock is the best motherboard for X79.

[@aceantoniosiquijor5194]

I have 3 Pc builds with motherboards from Huananzhi (not an endorser*) x79s for the win. They perform well and cheap.

[@DJ_Dopamine]

Also the Huananzhi bios often work well on other boards that have a garbage limited bios

[@AIC_onyt]

a year ago i got a rampage IV gene with a 3930k for 150€. now i bought a rx 6700xt (future proof)(btw, that gpu is insane) wich xeon should i upgrade to?

[@khanscombe619]

Brilliant! You got what you pay for if you find a deal And especially an amazing upgrade path coming from Tylersburg X58 / i5500 where you migrate RAM & coolers w/ you. I moved mine into the dual Xeon ASUS Z9PE-D8 w/ E5-2667 x2. But I’m waiting for the so desirable workstation, ASUS P9X79-£ WS but it’s a good £450+. Blimey, that’s a tad high. But that mobo was the last of the best X79 had to offer. Or the Rampage IV Extreme. Paired w/ an E5-1660 can get you 4.2ghz on air. Quad chan DDR-2400 I run ASUS Strix GTX-1080-Ti nicely on X58 & C602

[@lonekid9286]

I think it's better off as a workstation (e.g. virtual machine server) rather than a gaming device.

[@pedrohqb]

The best manufacturer of these boards in my opinion is Huananzhi.

[@TheTrekGuy97]

TL:DR Gaming? no. Homelab yes. I got one with a xeon 2650L v2 no problems with server '12. the network adapter doesn't support the network card out of the box on the Difcuy model with a realtek.

[@CorentineContent]

Great video! Keep grinding.

[@manistechshack]

Thanks man!

[@keblin86]

So this is a total longshot but you don't happen to have the manual for this board do you? or any idea if nit has a jumper for the CMOS/Battery? I managed to get this board from someone today, giving it away!!! but the Bios has a password and I can't get in! The PC is overheating, hence why they gave me it. So now I want to see if I can fix it lol but the bios locking me out isn't helping. I can't for the life of me see an obvious jumper on the board lol.

[@RuruFIN]

Been thinking about upgrading my 2nd rig, though I'd need a "real" board as it has currently a X5675 @4.5GHz, so running a newer CPU at stock would be slower in games. Paired with 24GB & R9 290X.

[@toke7560]

Which coolers fit this motherboard.

[@ginovaffanculo2527]

say I have a question I bought new ram - oh btw since I have install this new ram I no longer get the dreaded blue screen. Patriot PV316G160C0K 16GB *(2x8GB)* Viper III DDR3 1600MHz (PC3 12800) CL10 Desktop Memory with Black Mamba Heatsink Now these are each 8Gig each so 16G but when I run CPu-Z it shows 24G How does that work haha Buy 16G get 24G How/why/ Whatttttttttttttttttttttttttttt?

[@shaneharris2497]

Xeon E5- 2690 bought on Ali Express Dec 2021 $39.00 AU. delivered base speed 2.90mhz turbo to 3.80mhz 8 core 16 threads with 20mb cache is a bit better than the E5 -2670 I had 2.6mhz with 3.3 mhz turbo prerviously

[@RafitoOoO]

is it x79 or x99?

[@lonniebeal6032]

1650 V2 for $30 including tax, base clock 3.5, turbo 3.9.

[@aah134-K]

I have a 79x motherboard, i wish i can turn it to a server but not sure what good cpu, currently it have i7-4930k

[@ginovaffanculo2527]

I *still* use my Sabretooth x79 MB with the i7 3820 3.6Ghz Goin to swap out the CP/U for the Intel Xeon E5-1680 for a whopping cost of 30.00US

[@ahmedbarakat2007]

But how much does the motherboard wattage use

[@moose2706]

Currently playing around with an old Dell t3600 with an e5 1620 ,. Just about keeps up with my i7 9700 and just an absolute blast to tinker with along with with my i5 650 and fx 6300 rigs.

[@jb678901]

Three years ago I was using a hand-me-down T5600 (former developer station) at work and we shifted to laptops with docking station. The T5600 was overkill for MSFT 365 work, but I offered to buy it instead of decommission it for disposal to a scrap buyer. The company gave it to me...2xE52667, 32GB REEC RAM, 825W DELL PSU. I upgraded to dual E5-2689's, an SSD, a single use retail license, and a GTX970. To turn it into a family gamer/general use PC, I did dress up the case with a vinyl 3D carbon wrap (sheets of this are on AliEx) on the side panel. It is a BEAST.

[@lukeskyvader5673]

i bought the same board, first 1 came in with bent pins, 2nd one fired up well, but after transferring to a new pc case it just wont start, replaced everything except the board, to no avail, very bad experience for me.

[@charlesalejandro6405]

I have e5-1680 v2 and I currently using for my daily gaming😅😂

[@ssplayer]

And quad channel ddr3 2133 just about equals the bandwidth of dual channel ddr4 3200.

[@ahhyeah16]

I've had this motherboard and I couldn't find an option to OC. I'm not sure if it's even possible with this one. I got an i7 4930k specifically to OC it, and I literally can't find ANY board for it besides this specific one

[@darkphotographer]

i buy a x99 when they came out with i7 recenty got a xeon for it , and want to buy a cheap bord to use that i7 but i have to give up some things like 8 ram slots , 10 sata , and the 5 pcie slots ,

[@nathancabestaing6557]

Just bought my x79 board , buildmy pc, turnt it on and damn black screen Can somenone help me ? Do we need ecc ram or non ecc will work ? I cant find my mistake I got x79 atermiter 2x4 ddr3 corsair 1333 E5-2690 HD7970 Please help a lost soul

[@Fed-jz1eg]

Is your ram ecc?

[@nathancabestaing6557]

@@Fed-jz1eg its 2x4 ddr3 corsair value select I don't know if it's ECC

[@Fed-jz1eg]

@@nathancabestaing6557 well, if it's from Corsair I think it's not ecc ram

[@Fed-jz1eg]

@@nathancabestaing6557 contact the shop where you bought the motherboard, they will tell you if the ram is the problem (99% it is)

[@nathancabestaing6557]

@@Fed-jz1eg I fixed the problem, I press the ram so hard and it worked, sorryto bother you and thanks for the attentio'

[@arceoemmanuel840]

this is so profesional keep it up

[@manistechshack]

Thank you bro, means a lot!

[@Shelby_350]

Bro the Antec Symphony 360 Argb Cpu cooler master can work on this motherboard?

[@youhannasmousa7344]

Thank you for Video , i have the same motherboard with e5 1620v2, rx 5600 xt and 16 gb ram. I have often like Frame Drops in fortnite and in warzone on 1080 and performence mode (low settings) however the cpu usage under 50% and gpu under 30%. Can u help me? Thanks

[@BangThoyib2]

I've read in forums that the chipset is very hot even on normal workload (some reaches 90c, measured using thermogun). Can anyone confirm this?

[@bjre.wa.8681]

What I didn't hear was whether or not the board supported a NVMe M.2 drive?

[@pascalfust1035]

Some of them do.

[@manistechshack]

This one should, but I can't say for sure since I dont have an M.2 drive to test it with.

[@MWaqas-kt9dk]

The problem with this this platform is its rare to find and maybe i will be stuck if the board fails and i wouldnt be able to find another board or even if i find it will be too much expensive

[@DJ_Dopamine]

AliExpress is full of X79 boards. Overflowing!

[@speemasjsjaks2792]

hello! does this motherboard support pcie 3.0 ssd cards?

[@marcc5768]

Depends on the mobo in question. Also don't pair a chinese x79 or x99 with a chinese branded sata ssd or nvme ssd. It won't work. Go known brand for the ssd to go with a chinese x79/x99 mobo

[@reubenmitchell5269]

I need a X79 board that supports 32GB ECC Reg DIMMS, I have 4 of them and a E5-2680 v2 but cannot find a board that will definitely work with Quad rank 32Gb DIMMS, anyone know? ( I Know Supermicro boards work of course but I cant get one)

[@kinetic1259]

See my comment. Quad channel +1 in single channel

[@v3teran75]

Rampage 4 Black Edition 128GB Ram

[@kojie6844]

can you use a RTX graphic cards on x79 mobo?

[@manistechshack]

You can, but it doesn't mean you should. Depending on the card, the most powerful RTX card i would use with an x79 CPU would be the RTX 2070, anything above that would likely be completely bottlenecked by the CPU and ram.

[@kojie6844]

@@manistechshack thank you! :)

[@ouyardbird5172]

I love my x79

[@Dakhanavar99]

Me using as my main pc a i7 3820 with a x79 Asrock Extreme 7

[@noelvermillia]

x79 doesn't make any sense in 2021, cause you can buy x99 for the same price

[@JR-zw2vb]

X79 is for those who have spare parts laying around. esp. ddr3 memory. Switching a platform requires huge budget. And usually more expensive than the X79.

[@amdintelxsniperx]

most also dont have quad channel ram

[@marcc5768]

the mobos I've seen on aliexpress support quad channel, not all mind you. Just make sure the CPU being used also supports quad channel.

[@DJ_Dopamine]

Just ask the seller. Most support Quad Channel DDR3 and only a few have Dual Channel. Also, there are X79 boards that support USB 3.0 and have more than one SATA III port. Ditto for NVMe and full-length PCIe slots. Some have 2 of each. Just do your homework and if in doubt, ask the seller.

[@marcc5768]

@@DJ_Dopamine Kinda irking that some of the mobo makers have put only 2 RAM slots on some of the x79/x99 mobos. Hard to operate quad channel with only 2 slots. Also, be wary, don't use Chinese branded nvme ssd on Chinese branded mobo high chance of the nvme ssd not being recognized. For me if I'm planning another x79/x99 Xeon build gonna make sure I have 4 ram slots for quad channel operation.

[@racejay]

You know your can correct the title of you video, right..?

[@manistechshack]

Thanks man! didnt even realize the mistake.

[@GeekMick]

Thank you. But cpu is not a bottleneck for graphic card. Had a 1660 switched to a 2060 and gained a fair amount of fps on this cpu dépend of games

[@hoangbuddy841]

oh shoot...

[@bradleyroe6801]

Nope, buy new shit.

[@PoetofHateSpeech]

You're going to buy everyone a stuff?

[@lukeskyvader5673]

i bought the same board, first 1 came in with bent pins, 2nd one fired up well, but after transferring to a new pc case it just wont start, replaced everything except the board, to no avail, very bad experience for me.