At some point, I must have signed up for emails from AliExpress and they send emails to me regularly.
Well, the latest one got my attention. X79 motherboards from a manufacturer I had never heard of. They look new, and by that I mean they have features I would not expect on an X79 like an M.2 slot for instance. So these have been designed more recently.
If you are going to buy get it from the ‘WUSON store’, they test before shipping and have humans who actually do support in english.
I used the m-atx version for an upgrade of my vmware lab.
The only issue is the m-atx is the dual channel ONLY memory. Which so far hasn’t been an issue but could be for others. With 32gb of ecc ddr3 registered DIMMS being so cheap. It’s almost rude not to.
At the time the total cost of a e2660 V2 (10core ivy bridge) build with 32gb of ram was ~£300 (~$380). That’s an ALL in cost for a USB bootable ESXI box.
While not same, I’ve been using the huanan dual socket motherboard for half a year, both with Windows 10 and Ubuntu. So fare I have not experienced any driver issues.
I am planning on getting one of the green single socket ones (primarily because there is one seller in Frankfurt) and an E5-2660/2670 or something, whatever is 8-core and cheap-ish.
A friend of mine plays around with video stuff and wanted something more potent than the (free) AMD Phenom Based PC I gave him. I wanted to test the setup first and not sell it to him if I like it enough.
There is a seller that claims that the article is located in Frankfurt (so same country). At least shipping should be fast.
Yes very dependent. Some Chinese boards can be top notch though… Remember they do have gamers… Their exports have gotten better in recent years … They have made decent strides on power delivery but little is known about the innards…