I have a unsued 5820k and want to use it for some basic compute tasks. I am wondering what you fellas/gals think of this brand of chinese boards?
Anyone know of other brands out of china/direct from china that are good? x99 boards are few and far between besides the vast market of chinese rebuilt boards.
How big of a risk is it if I already own chinacom mini pcs and a chinese branded tv?
I can order one for you and bring it down but it’ll be like a month before it arrives
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mqNZwo0
Ill just buy from amazon. seems like the same board. It would save money, but might just spend the extra 30 to get it in two days.
Okay, I’d get ones that I’ve seen reviewed by someone like craft computing so you know all the details
Will look at them. Linus did a video. But also the first one you linked has good reviews. Might just buy the same variant from amazon. I will research further.
i have used a bunch of them in everything from budget gaming builds to home lab builds. they are good and have been reliable. The VERY low end ones sometimes have some less than stellar power delivery, but who buys a 99$ board and plans to run a 300W CPU on it?
the only other caveat is sometimes the BIOS can be pretty bare. but there are tons of modified BIOS floating around if you REALLY need some feature that is not on the particular board you get.
they have some real benefits too. even the very cheap ones i received fully supported ECC REG RAM with ECC enabled.
really the main issue is that the X99 platform is very price inflated at the moment. so if you have all the parts except for a board floating around, yeah go for it. otherwise a used Ryzen combo with board and ram on ebay can be had for 150$.
And some aren’t good about fan control settings.
My erying doesn’t control fans well just runs them at 100%
