There's a new ultra budget 2011 board now, the Huanan X79-4M. $60 AUD ish. 华南金牌X79-4M电脑主板CPU游戏套装RECC服务器内存E5 2670 i7 X-淘宝网
Cheap chinese x79 mobos
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I mean, it IS $60 after all. Still has enough connectivity for a basic gaming/workstation PC.
i just bought another lenovo s30 v2 WS the other day for $124 shipping included. good price but don't know why i did it ;(...... i think i have an addiction ;(
I got my x79z-vb10 the other day and sat it up yesterday.
It seems to be working, but I can't figure out how to get all four pcie x16 to work at the same time. I've hooked up an E5-2650v2 CPU, 64gb ddr3-ecc and a basic gpu. When I add a 10Gbps nic and two m1015 cards I can only get two cards to work, either the cards in the grey slots or the cards in the black slots.
When I set the pcie mode to 16x in bios the black slots work, if I set 8x8 (or any other mode, 8x4x4, 4x4x8 or 4x4x4) the cards in the grey slots work.
The option for 4G decode is active and I have tried alot of different settings for pcie.
Anyone else have had this problem?
For me, even 4x4x4x4 would be enough, even if 8x8x8x8 would be nicer.
It seems to be working, but I can't figure out how to get all four pcie x16 to work at the same time. I've hooked up an E5-2650v2 CPU, 64gb ddr3-ecc and a basic gpu. When I add a 10Gbps nic and two m1015 cards I can only get two cards to work, either the cards in the grey slots or the cards in the black slots.
When I set the pcie mode to 16x in bios the black slots work, if I set 8x8 (or any other mode, 8x4x4, 4x4x8 or 4x4x4) the cards in the grey slots work.
The option for 4G decode is active and I have tried alot of different settings for pcie.
Anyone else have had this problem?
For me, even 4x4x4x4 would be enough, even if 8x8x8x8 would be nicer.
finally got around to grabbing a a couple GPUs. There doesn't seem to be a way to get all the PCI-E x16 slots working.
Either 2 black, or 1 grey 1 black or 2 grey will work - so they are all connected.
Mfg says 2 x PCI-E x16 and 3x PCI-E x1 will work so 5 PCI-E slots in total simultaneously.
Here's the block diagram:
I also tried disabling the South Bridge (PCH) pci-e to see if I could get at least x1 on the other two pcie-x16 slots but no dice.
Since all the slots are connected x8/x8/x8/x8 should be possible.. I'm going to try manual resource allocation next.
edit: unless the hardware routing only switches the first 8 lanes to each slot then we might be out of luck.. I'm starting to think this is the case
edit^2: Wonder if the russian overclockers know anything: China x79/c602 разгон
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i ordered one of those x79 with the 2 pcie 16 and 2 pcie 8 and 3 pcie 1. still waiting for it. the status of shipping hasn't changed. i am wondering if it will even make it here. might have to ask for refund. wondering if it's even worth getting it if you can't even get the pcie slots properly working.....
How come it is only X79 though? Did some factory end up buying way too many of these chips back in the day? All these boards are recently manufactured. I know why they make them (to cash in on the influx of 2nd hand LGA2011 CPUs) but to have seemingly endless supply of EOL chipsets.
Also I understand for some it is just a hobby, but all considering I think it would be a waste of money and time to jump on this. For about $300 (which was thrown around here as a avg. total system cost) there are many alternatives if all you want is a basic computer. To keep costs down you would have to pair these with low clock Xeons or even ones with low core count.
Also I understand for some it is just a hobby, but all considering I think it would be a waste of money and time to jump on this. For about $300 (which was thrown around here as a avg. total system cost) there are many alternatives if all you want is a basic computer. To keep costs down you would have to pair these with low clock Xeons or even ones with low core count.
AFAIK these boards use ES chipsets from a lower tier than X79. considering the lack of demand for chipsets it probably would have been easy to just scoop up a ton of them for next to nothing
Found this post from another user in Argentina from a few weeks ago: Китайский LGA2011 (Huanan X79 2.XX, X79Z 2.Xx, YW-X79-E, G218a, x79-m, ms-7777, 3.2x, 3.3A, 3.5a-c) • Конференция Overclockers.ru
So pinged the mfg - they said they are looking into a firmware update to see if they can get this to work.
If anyone else has the X79Z VB10 / X79Z B10 motherboard and want this fixed, I encourage you to email the mfg, the rep's name is Sophia:
Email: sophiagiga [at] xlzmotherboard.com
The more folks that write in about this issue, the more likely it is prioritized to be fixed!
As a backup plan, I'm also sourcing boards from a tier 1 mfg so everything will definitely work but will be pricey, as they say: you get what you pay for.
So pinged the mfg - they said they are looking into a firmware update to see if they can get this to work.
If anyone else has the X79Z VB10 / X79Z B10 motherboard and want this fixed, I encourage you to email the mfg, the rep's name is Sophia:
Email: sophiagiga [at] xlzmotherboard.com
The more folks that write in about this issue, the more likely it is prioritized to be fixed!
As a backup plan, I'm also sourcing boards from a tier 1 mfg so everything will definitely work but will be pricey, as they say: you get what you pay for.
So basically only 2 of the 4 long pci e slots works simultaneously? if you have cards in all of the four x1 slots, would any of the long slots work? that is really screwy....
From what I've found out is that you can get a maximum of five slots to work at the same time. But never more than two of the x16 slots.
Sophia from xlzmotherboard replied to my mail with:I dropped her an email too, hopefully more people do the same
"For this model , about the graphic card, the 4 slots PEI ex16 can't use at the same time, and only 2 slots could use the same time, and others PCI ex1 slots could use the same time, and 5 slots could use at the same time"
I asked if the issue could be addressed by an bios upgrade but the above was her answer to that.
I also got a reply from the seller of the board and it was "problem is design problem".
This problem seems to not be fixable. So I went along and bought a Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard instead.
I think i will ask for a refund...... This is no better than the rest of the other boards with less slots..... I guess the only positive of this board is the 8 ram slots? that's not good enough....
I thought this would have been a better solution than the lenovo s30. guess not.
Well, if anyone else looking for a good X79 platform, should try the lenovo S30.
The HP Z420 is a also great platform. It has a proprietary PSU but the adapter cable to a standard one is like $15 from amazon. The advantage over the S30 is more HDD/ODD expansion; 3 5.25 bays vs 2 so you can put in a 5x3.5 hotswap in it.
You just have to make sure you get ones that work with the V2 CPU's on both machines.
Its so funny how a lot of professional review sites gave Dell a higher rating than HP or Lenovo when these 2011 WS first came out. They are all like wow, dell is so neat inside with no cable mess, etc.... and never talk much about the non-oem parts.... fast forward to now.... Guess which WS most of us are after: lenovo s30 with the most compatibility with regular parts and all of its messy cable glory ....lol.... honestly, imo, i have no idea what messy cable they are talking about anyway....lol...
i finally figured out this MB i think... The problem is called: "bait and switch".....lol... use the same old MB before and just add a couple more long x16 slots without proper wiring and call it a day .....
I finally got mine in today. i guess there is no update or change? Anyone test out using up to 128GB ram with 16 GB modules?