April 27, 20188 yr I have been seeing these Chinese X79 motherboards listed on Ebay and now Amazon for around 80 to 100 quid (GBP) and was wondering if anyone has had any experience with them? There are a few threads on other sites discussing them, as well as a few youtube videos, but I don't lurk on those so I'm less inclined to trust what is said. It would be an ideal easy step into VMs with a cheap E5 6/8 core chip and some DDR3 memory. If it worked well.... M0zz
May 16, 20188 yr I am running into this exact problem. I bought an E5-2650v2 processor and then went looking for motherboards to be surprised by the price they are going for. The only "reasonably" priced X79 boards are these Chinese knockoffs which I am being told to stay away from.
May 18, 20188 yr Author I eventually decided to go a different path and picked up a bargain Ryzen 5 1600 bundle. Hope to be putting it all together over the next couple of weeks. Work and wife permitting.
May 18, 20188 yr Ive been looking at the bundles that have been coming up but the bundle plus buying DDR4 memory would push me over buying a used $200 LGA2011 motherboard and using the $55 E5-2650v2 I purchased along with my existing DDR3...
May 18, 20188 yr Author I got an Asus prime B350 motherboard, ryzen 5 1600 cpu with stock cooler and 4gb of ram (shame it wasnt more) for under £200. i will get things running as a nas with this and then go buy more ram when i ready to start dockers and VMs
May 20, 20188 yr I ended up buying a supermicro server working pull off of ebay for $165 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-X9SRH-7F-LGA2011-C602J-DDR3-i350-IPMI-Motherboard-Fast-Free-Ship/153024719263?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649
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