Picked up a H800 yesterday, dual Xeon. Ill keep you updated

I got one but I installed Linx mint on it all works great. I am using it for some video editing but mostly graphics design that make up animated movies. What was taking me on average 9 hours, now takes me 3 hours, for a 20m short animation. I fitted it with 2x AIOs I had to make my own brackets out of sheet aluminium to fit them but no problems. I have it set up in my old Cooler master X1 Server case from 2012 they are massive I needed that because it already has my 1200w APU fitted and an 8 bay HDD caribe each having 2Tb storage space all holding files from past jobs and uncompleted jobs I'm still working on. I'm happy with it its much faster than my older setup.

If someone can port coreboot to this will be amazing :)) very nice video !

I've read in some threads that RAM that looks identical from the same brand, but with memory chips made in S. Korea doesn't work on these boards, but if the mem. chips are Chinese, then there is no issue. Fortunately, I found an MSI motherboard for X99 so I didn't have to rely on one of these Chinese boards. I'm using the E5-2696 v3, with the all-core turbo unlock, and unlike the 2699 v3 that has a turbo of 3.6GHz, the 2696 v3, which was an OEM part only, has a turbo of 3.8GHz. Not running dual CPU, because I do play games occasionally, but with 18 cores and 36 threads at 3.8GHz with water cooling, it really chews through anything I do. Edit, render, 3D, it is a workhorse. Quad channel ECC makes up for the 2133MHz speeds. I love it. It uses a lot of power, but any chip with this many cores is going to have a high power draw. Forget the TDP it says on the box. Read the power coming out of the wall. It's a very solid performer, and zero latency when clicking through projects with big files. The CPU has a 45Mb L3 cache, and the RAM timings are tight. Soooo smooth....

Thermalright xp90 (92mm) cooler might go on sale, or any workstation 2011 tower fan might work too. Swap the cards, could use the airflow. Also put the SATA drives on the desk to the left to avoid the wires being crazy.

Cheap CPU Cooler that fits* is a PCCOOLER Paladin EX400. I tested it and standard height RAM fits in all 8 slots, I can even remove and install the closest RAM sticks with the cooler installed! That right there is a win in my book. * I used the Orange 'AM4' bushings, Only needed to clearance one at the bottom where the CPU levers meet. I used four M4 - 12mm screws, and I did have to use a needle file on the "2011" holes in the brackets because they are actually sized for an M3 or smaller screw. When they go on sale you can get 2x for less than 30 bucks. It might also be possible to add 2 fans per tower cooler for 4 fans total. You will need extra clips, but the Tower itself has provision for fans both sides. I haven't got the overclocking BIOS yet so I haven't looked into that.

I have this exact mobo with 2x xeon 2760 v3 and its Rock solid so far

The power consumption must be crazy

NIce, 28 Cores, 56 Threads! for $223 and 64GB of RAM is quite the deal

I have one of these boards. One of the DIMM slots are dead. Other problems: BIOS has not setting for state after power loss. I have installed 4x2TB SATA drives I had laying around and use ProxMox to assign to a TrueNAS VM. I installed an Intel Arc 300 series GPU for a Plex/Jellyfin install. I have a dual 2.5Gbit card installed. Besides the mentioned issues this runs well. I have a k3s cluster set up across VMs to give me a homelab to play with. I love having 128GB of RAM and 28 cores to play with.

I would go for such a solution when i would live in the USA. But with the high electricity prices in the netherlands, I prefer something more low power. My nas now runs idle at around 50w. That saves around 100 usd in electricty prices per year vs a dual xeon setup.

Would love to see it's Cinebench score

This would maybe be interesting as DAW server/workstation, basically an audio pc to host plug-ins, always need lots of cores and RAM, VERY INTERESTING!

Do these boards have full quad channel support for the sockets?

I'm watching this on a HP z640 with an x99 CPU running KDE Neon

PLEASE tell me you used thermal paste on the CPU before putting on the heatsyncs? The Xeons really do need it to keep them max cool. Artic Brand or Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme (preferred). It's a cheap way to keep it cooler. These old X99 boards are normally very good IFF you find one from a reputable maker which discloses all of the shortcomings. A KZfaq channel from a chap in AU does these a lot. For gaming if you can believe that LOL. But Proxmox and XCP-ng loves these boards.

Great video and a success story. I found this video very helpful. 💯

I learn a LOT from watching this channel. That was impressive.

3.3 isn't wrong, if Performance mode is enabled, it will always run on Full turbo mode. I use the same processors for Monero mining in Proxmox on a Lenovo x3550 M5 Server, so you definitely want performance mode then, I've installed 512GB of ram, because I also run Xpenology, Kali, Ghost Spectre, Home Assistant, Frigate, and Odoo on that server. I also use NetApp FAS and Disk Shells for the storage on the Xpenology. To get 9.2Pb as total storage for my NAS. Off Course run a few more servers in the cluster for networking operations, and Local LLM.

Do you have any recommendations for a dual socket x99 motherboard?

Hi there! May I ask what cooler would you recommend for this rig? I cannot seem to find a proper LGA2011-3 cooler online.

That was a ballsy move bro!! this is a weird kind of e-sports

Buy them separately. These processors and RAM are not good value. You are paying more than what dual 16 core and 32GB DIMMs go for. You don't need to unload their stock for them.

please include in the future videos also a test for Plex transcoding test without the nvidia gpu + power consumption

I can tell a Persian accent from a mile away. Nice board.

Right but will it run Crysis?

What I dont understand: Why would I need AUDIO on this? I would want a second NIC rather than audio. And yes it is just 1GBit. This board should have like 4x NICs so you can bond them.

At this price it is better to buy a used Supermicro board even though you'll likely have to pay a little more. These Chinese boards also tend to be a fire hazard with the higher spec SKUs. I used an e5-2640 for my NAS on a Jginuye board. Could fit a USB card or a NVMe adapter with an inexpensive but large NVMe drive in the top PCIe slot. Could run it in raid with an identical drive in the 2.0x4 NVMe slot. PCIe 3.0x1 will limit transfer speeds to 1 GBps so something like a Teamgroup MP33 would be perfect for this solution and you would have redundant NVMe storage for not a lot of money. Still twice as fast as a SATA SSD. Would suggest getting a couple of Thermalright Assassin X 120 R SE coolers for this board. Will fit better and cool better for not much money.

Good price question ist the Motherboard AMD Crossfire Support have two AMD 580 Radeon 8gb

Great video. Sorry, English is not my mother language. The two nvme drives doesn't work at same time?

i wish these boards didnt have so few pcie lanes. these CPUs are capable of so many more, which seriously reduces the usefulness of boards like this to me

I have one of these boards with 2 x 2699v3 in it. I used Thermalright low profile coolers (AXP120-X67). It required a bit of futzing around, but they fit without interfering with each other. They keep the CPUs running around 30C, though I haven't stressed them at all.

When doing GPU passtrough, remember to passtrough all devices with the same ID, meaning the .1 and .2 etc (HDMI audio etc).

I just looked it up. The processors are 14 each, motherboard is 75. So that is 103 dollars. The ram is not worth 120. Get LRDIMM 32GB for 30 each and its 128GB for same price. But you can also get 32GB DIMM for 20-25 if you shop. Not sure to recommend this bundle.

There's a different version of this board that has more PCIe slots, wonder how the allocations are on the lanes with that because it would be a decent upgrade for core counts and power savings (using a PowerEdge T610 ATM so yes, it would be less power) and I got a ton of parts laying around to build out an entire system.

Could you provide the actual link on Aliexpress to buy this motherboard combo? Thanks

Just built a dual E5 2699 with SuperMicro server. for $250. The shiny is nice Was there a model number? E5 2680 max ram 1.5T , nice.

How many total PCI-E lanes are there on your system??

Your BIOS is newer than Mine, Can you share your BIOS dump with us , im doing some bugfixes in my Github repo jwagnervaz, your BIOS looks like be 2024 version. Thanks since now

I literally was just looking at this combo like 20 minutes before the video came across my feed

Careful with this board .. very easy to brick it when performing bios updates. Also doesn’t play nice with unraid 😂

The X99 chipset only has 8 PCIe lanes at gen2. That x4 NVME slot is most likely from it. Each E5-2680 v4 has 40 PCIe Gen3 lanes, but it's hard to say how many are lost for interconnect between CPUs and how many are available at the board that you can use. As per the x1 PCIe slots, they should be plenty for 10GbE if they're Gen3 (2 GB/s. 10GbE is 1.12 GB/s).

Hmm... so requires a pcie 10 gb network card to really take advantage of it for proxmox.

can you post the link where you found this awesome deal, I can buy the board, a single cpu and like 32 gb ram, but I can't find the exact thing you did, I'd be very happy building a triple proxmox cluster for HA home labs or something equally similar. To the OP that mentioned the Huananzhi x99 motherboard, do you know if it will support a V4 xeon ??? it does have more pci slots...but lacks onboard nvme from the look of it, although that could probably be overcome with a PCI addon card adapter.

Why did you remove the Intel ME? Is there some benefit for doing so?

The PCIe slot count is an absolute joke that should be funny to no one. This platform has considerable PCIe connectivity that's being utterly wasted. Find a used Supermicro or other server board and get the connectivity you're due.

got this MB, excepted the 1Gb network , I'm happy with it.

Can anyone recommend a cooler for this board. I'm toying with the idea of getting one but I'm stuck on what cooler(s) to get? Thanks

Why exactly are you removing Intel ME from the bios? Is it for security reasons?

Neither that mobo nor that Xeon can support DDR4 3200. Maybe you could reach 2666 by overclocking if you are lucky. Also you didn't made any memory settings in BIOS so I seriously doubt it even operates at 2400 right now. Probably it's at 2133 by default.

Missing AliExpress in India 😅

Anyone know if you can enable Secureboot or Tpm on this thing?

i hate these boards because bo quad channel support

Here in Europe those build are DONE! I build a 2670 single one in 2018 and thankfully could sell it early 2019! One can buy an AMD xyz, depending on budget, up to threadripper with unlimited cores and it will be faster in all belongings. + faster RAM of course. Here we pay 40 Euro ct per KWh + 12€/month. Do the math.

You didnt forget the thermal paste right?

just but DELL T7910 PC you will get more for less

Does the ECC memory recognized by the motherboard?

I have one of these!

I really dont trust those chinese boards... I just bought Dell T5810 with 1620v3 no ram and hdds for 120$ with warranty . I swapped the cpu with 2698v3 and bought 128gigs of ddr4 for another 200.

If you look on Intel Ark you'll see those CPUs go up to 3.3 GHz -- it's their turbo frequency. If you can keep them cool, you can run at that speed all day long. -- Honestly for a 28-core/56-thread system @ 3.3 GHz with 64 GB of RAM, that's a really good deal. -- You could build a good emulation and gaming machine out of that. -- Obviously you need a GPU, Xeons don't have a GPU built-in. -- Also, if you're not going to use the on board ethernet, you should disable it in the BIOS. -- Also, some systems have the BIOS image twice as a safety precation, in case a flash of the BIOS fails, it will restore the backup from the second chip.

Please provide the purchase link on Ali Express

man, E5-2680v4 are super cheap right now.. like $15-20!

Link

Very nice video about me cleaner))

2x 120w tdp cpus? lets watch... so far big NO for emo IT dudes 137w idle? this is basicly trash

all of these X99 boards are Broadwell, aren't they? that's a *lot* of power consumption for not a whole lot of performance!

ebay has the supermicro 2011v3 cheap as hell these chinese motherboard now will last forever like a supermicro will do.

the problem is you will have zero warranty

Not a good option.

I bought an single Socket chinese MoBo with real X99 Server chipset and real Quad Channel ( 8 Memory slots ) for ~ 230 Euro with 128 GB DDR42133 ECC RAM ( 4 x 32 GB ) + 2680 v4 and i use it as a NAS . I wanted the 40 PCIe Lanes of the Xeon because i wanted to use a 4xNVME PCIe Card and Bifurcation works , i have now 6 NVME in my NAS together with a 40 GBIT QSFP+ NIC and 7 SATA HDDS . Sadly it seems that the Xeon E5 is only able to use ECC if there is only 1 Dimm/ Channel thats why i opted for 4 x 32 GB Dimms , more Memory = faster TrueNAS kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fah-rJqkrs-Uc4E.html NVME ( 4 x 2 TB ) Backup Performance SATA SSDs (write) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gLByg7CEvLCxXX0.html Besides , there are better Chinese Dual Socket MoBos , the HUANANZHI X99 F8D PLUS with 6 PCIe Slots 3 x 16 Lanes , 3 x 8 Lanes + 2 NVME and Quad Channel for each CPU , but i am not sure if it runs with V4 Xeons , its mostly bundeled with the E5 2696 V3