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The whole video feels like a vehicle to talk about the salvage-chipset motherboard market in China, which is genuinely very fascinating. They’re all over AliExpress, usually sold as a platform kit with a 6-10 core Xeon and 16-32GB of quad-channel RAM (DDR3 or 4 depending on the CPU gen) for around $150-200. This can legitimately be a fairly powerful setup once paired with a modern GPU.
Also, the fact that Russian enthusiast forums have thousands of pages of research and custom software for these boards is somehow not surprising whatsoever. Russia is full of competent technicians, but they also don’t have a lot of money, so extracting every possible drop of value out of cheap hardware only makes sense.
But do be aware that by building your NAS / homelab around x99 instead of OEM desktop Skylake, you are spending quite a lot of electricity to buy experience with high-port-count platforms.
I’m still runnign a 5820k although overclocked. I had thought about upgrading to a i7-6950X just for fun, they are cheap now but I woudl think almost any modern CPU is going to be better. A 7800X3D isn’t much more expensive then a second hand one anyway.
Yeah I used to have a Xeon build similar to what you described and I could get some fairly modern games running fine on ddr3 (though I was limited to a gt730 as a gpu because I didn’t have the cash to buy a gpu)
The whole video feels like a vehicle to talk about the salvage-chipset motherboard market in China, which is genuinely very fascinating. They’re all over AliExpress, usually sold as a platform kit with a 6-10 core Xeon and 16-32GB of quad-channel RAM (DDR3 or 4 depending on the CPU gen) for around $150-200. This can legitimately be a fairly powerful setup once paired with a modern GPU.
Also, the fact that Russian enthusiast forums have thousands of pages of research and custom software for these boards is somehow not surprising whatsoever. Russia is full of competent technicians, but they also don’t have a lot of money, so extracting every possible drop of value out of cheap hardware only makes sense.
That’s a bad deal. You can get a Ryzen 5 5500 and a 450 or 520 motherboard for $160-170
It includes RAM.
X99 is good step up for anyone looking to make a step up from consumer hardware for building out the next level of Homelab/NAS/VM/Media server.
But do be aware that by building your NAS / homelab around x99 instead of OEM desktop Skylake, you are spending quite a lot of electricity to buy experience with high-port-count platforms.
I’m still runnign a 5820k although overclocked. I had thought about upgrading to a i7-6950X just for fun, they are cheap now but I woudl think almost any modern CPU is going to be better. A 7800X3D isn’t much more expensive then a second hand one anyway.
Phils Computer Lab has a much more extensive series of videos about all the topics.
Yeah I used to have a Xeon build similar to what you described and I could get some fairly modern games running fine on ddr3 (though I was limited to a gt730 as a gpu because I didn’t have the cash to buy a gpu)