April 3, 20206 yr Anyone use one of these dual X79 CPU, motherboard, and ram combo kits? total junk? Looks like a promising upgrade to my unraid server for $3-600 General search: https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20200403152500&isPremium=y&SearchText=dual+x79 One option: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000844780157.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.72df5e6d786wuO&algo_pvid=64dad1b8-d13d-4647-ac3e-d1531638bf1f&algo_expid=64dad1b8-d13d-4647-ac3e-d1531638bf1f-5&btsid=0ab50f4915859554287178935ed792&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_,searchweb201603_
April 4, 20206 yr These boards are not the bargain they seem. The 'one option' board is only dual channel not quad channel. Only 6 SATA and who knows what on the PCI-E. Dual CPU boards don't scale all that well. Far better to buy a single 2011v3 ~ $250 or dual for $300 from supermicro or similar. E5-2660 V3 , 2680 V3 , 2690 V3 are now $100-200 for 10 -12 cores and DDR4 EEC can be had for $50 per 16GB. A decent 2011 v3 single CPU with 10-12 cores should give you the performance of that board with dual 8 core well using half the power
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