Cheap chinese x79 mobos

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Vit K

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Would be cool if they can make a board supporting v1, v2, and v3 cpu....lol
Chinese build boards with h310 that support all 7-9 gens of CPU, what is absolutely impossible according to intel pr department. And Coffemod showed that limiting factor is BIOS support and Intel ME that effectivly blocking any "unsupported" processors (like Xeons or next gen same die CPUs). I would not surprised if motherboard that support all 3 gen of 2011 is actually possible to build and select generation just by swapping BIOS on it.
 

wildpig1234

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Chinese build boards with h310 that support all 7-9 gens of CPU, what is absolutely impossible according to intel pr department. And Coffemod showed that limiting factor is BIOS support and Intel ME that effectivly blocking any "unsupported" processors (like Xeons or next gen same die CPUs). I would not surprised if motherboard that support all 3 gen of 2011 is actually possible to build and select generation just by swapping BIOS on it.
lol. I will also need to check again but i think even the socket might be a little different between v3 and v2/v1 ? maybe not?
 

kagurazakakotori

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Some of them even B85 (haswell) chipset now. Luckily memory support and core support does not relate to north bridge anyhow. Sometimes boards are just faulty, and QA of them is bit lower than from Asus for example.
B85 chipset is mainly used on 2011-3 boards, some sellers might call it X99. And yes, most of the failure was caused by quality issues. Also, in Chinese forums, these boards are believed to use "recycled" chipset desoldered from old boards, this might be the cause.
 

kagurazakakotori

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Chinese build boards with h310 that support all 7-9 gens of CPU, what is absolutely impossible according to intel pr department. And Coffemod showed that limiting factor is BIOS support and Intel ME that effectivly blocking any "unsupported" processors (like Xeons or next gen same die CPUs). I would not surprised if motherboard that support all 3 gen of 2011 is actually possible to build and select generation just by swapping BIOS on it.
It seems impossible because LGA 2011-3 actually got more pins than LGA 2011 while 7-9 gen desktop cores all use LGA 1151 rev2. I think the v1/v2 and v3/v4 E5 cpus are physically incompatible. The only possible thing is to use DDR3 memory with v3 cpus, and there are such products on market like HUANANZHI(华南金牌) X99-TF which provides both DDR3 and DDR4 memory slots for v3 cpus.

 

kthree

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Having an issue with the PlexHD x79 motherboard and a nvme ssd in the M.2 slot.
Windows will become stuttery until re-starting the machine.

Might be due to sharing SATA ports? But doesnt seem to be any details about it.
 

Vit K

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Run benchmark, check the thermals, but it might be as well bad psu, bad pcie or bad capacitor on mb.
 

epicurean

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I cannot figure out the header pins for the x99 motherboard. Can someone share what they have? (eg the pwr, rst, HDD LED, Sys LED)
 

Klee

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I just built a "Machinist" brand M-ATX x79 board. Popped the chipset heat sink off and it has a c602 chipset and Windows 10 activated with a digital license. I never entered a key during or after install. I was a bit surprised since this was a cheap x79 board that was brand new and not an open box or used.
 

wildpig1234

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I just built a "Machinist" brand M-ATX x79 board. Popped the chipset heat sink off and it has a c602 chipset and Windows 10 activated with a digital license. I never entered a key during or after install. I was a bit surprised since this was a cheap x79 board that was brand new and not an open box or used.
what windows ver? home?
 

Vit K

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It is called OEM key that usually installed in BIOS/UEFI on chinese boards from Aliexpress, it is probably Windows 7 or Windows 8 key that automatically activates Windows 10. Microsoft not even try anymore with their activation servers, they happy to fetch you personal data using telemetry more, than sell you another copy of Windows.