Mystery Motherboard from China: Salvage Chipset & BIOS Hacks

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This motherboard is the ultimate combination of weird components, mixing-and-matching salvaged chipset and socket components alongside BIOS hacks from Russia.
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We bought this motherboard -- which has no name, aside from "X79-Turbo v1.01" -- back in March when visiting Shenzhen's SEG E-Market (赛格广场) in China. We were never quite sure what to do with it since it didn't have an obvious manufacturer, but we've traced it back to a set of strange components, a big BIOS modding scene. The motherboard is often branded as PlexHD, but ours technically isn't -- though it's all the same parts, it seems. We also found this LGA2011 "X79" / Q77 motherboard on AliExpress (not an affiliate link): geni.us/7xAn
It's a fun, weird, inexpensive motherboard that was mostly purchased because we were in town (again, in March) and thought it'd be interesting content. We were right. Recommending it for actual use, however, is a different story.
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@GamersNexus
@GamersNexus 4 жыл бұрын
Really wasn't expecting to find out that there's actually a gigantic BIOS modding scene for this motherboard. That was a lot of fun to stumble into and mess around with! Watch our Shenzhen SEG E-Market tour: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pL6HdZx4tdHRY4k.html Support our work via the GN Store: store.gamersnexus.net/ Find Buildzoid here: kzfaq.info/love/rwObTfqv8u1KO7Fgk-FXHQ
@crookim
@crookim 4 жыл бұрын
That motherboard brand "motherboard"!
@deepfriedlettuce851
@deepfriedlettuce851 4 жыл бұрын
I actually have one of these coming to me from ali. A company named Huananzhi is one of the more recognizable brands doing these "x79" and "x99" boards. Huananzhi also has their own 1660s
@StAlchemyst
@StAlchemyst 4 жыл бұрын
1:51 lower right: ... ... ... WAS THAT A DUDE IN AN NAZI SS UNIFORM!?!? You just barely miss what's on the red arm band! If he'a security guard for the plaza somebody should let them in on what a horrible design choice their uniforms are! ROFL! Edit: it wasn't I saw Asian characters on the armband.... but still! rofl!
@crookim
@crookim 4 жыл бұрын
@@AndrewKennethColborn maybe it was one of those rare nazicommunists!
@Delcolux
@Delcolux 4 жыл бұрын
I could use that ddr3 ecc if you don't want it. I have a couple westmere xeon systems that would like some more ram.
@Slay1337pl
@Slay1337pl 4 жыл бұрын
"what's the motherboards form factor?" A4.
@jasongooden917
@jasongooden917 4 жыл бұрын
It takes i9 5700 zen CPUs
@poopipeboy3033
@poopipeboy3033 4 жыл бұрын
Chinese rep: "Yes, there is ram slot"
@wboyd33
@wboyd33 4 жыл бұрын
A4? You sank my battleship...
@namnnamn1911
@namnnamn1911 4 жыл бұрын
@@jasongooden917 no its ryzen 9 9900k zen + 10nm chipset lol
@QuadPowerful
@QuadPowerful 4 жыл бұрын
@@namnnamn1911 It's the Ryzen 9 9900X
@byCDMC
@byCDMC 4 жыл бұрын
So what motherboard do you have in your system? Me: Yes.
@CaveyMoth
@CaveyMoth 4 жыл бұрын
Poorly speaking English: "Yes, motherboard. Gaming."
@artemis2314
@artemis2314 4 жыл бұрын
Да.
@abstractapproach634
@abstractapproach634 3 жыл бұрын
Steve," motherboard" Dude," yes, that's what I said what MOTHERBOARD!" Steve," motherboard" Dude, " YES, WHICH BRAND" Steve," motherboard " Dude *walks away ," he seemes alot more competent on TV, damn "
@FalconX88
@FalconX88 4 жыл бұрын
"today we look at motherboard"...well, ok then!
@shepi9453
@shepi9453 4 жыл бұрын
That made my morning :D hahah
@19971997gt
@19971997gt 4 жыл бұрын
Omfg that was hilarious
@19971997gt
@19971997gt 4 жыл бұрын
At least it's worth a good laugh. Other than that it's a paper weight
@ericdeltoro8484
@ericdeltoro8484 4 жыл бұрын
Its funnier that the video was sponsered by a motherboard
@MrRourk
@MrRourk 4 жыл бұрын
The name is marketing genius
@DaxtonAnderson
@DaxtonAnderson 4 жыл бұрын
What cpus does it support? Chinese Rep: Yes it support CPU
@CaveyMoth
@CaveyMoth 4 жыл бұрын
Lyle: SEE PEE YUU!
@koteignasio98
@koteignasio98 4 жыл бұрын
All 2011 cpus. Except to 2011 v3
@specialedition3585
@specialedition3585 4 жыл бұрын
Cavey Möth That's a wiv stwong bwacelet!
@DaxtonAnderson
@DaxtonAnderson 4 жыл бұрын
@@koteignasio98 You missed the joke. r/woosh.
@CaveyMoth
@CaveyMoth 4 жыл бұрын
@@specialedition3585 It was forged by hand in Chiner by my sister.
@timcarpenter2441
@timcarpenter2441 4 жыл бұрын
“Brought to you by a Manufacturer”
@axelolord
@axelolord 4 жыл бұрын
Not 'a' manufacturer. THE manufacturer.
@Eidolon2003
@Eidolon2003 4 жыл бұрын
@@axelolord OUR manufacturer
@timcarpenter2441
@timcarpenter2441 4 жыл бұрын
@Martin M Comment
@DecibelAlex
@DecibelAlex 4 жыл бұрын
rofl
@Ks-fp8dv
@Ks-fp8dv 4 жыл бұрын
Im deadddd
@CornFlakesPC
@CornFlakesPC 4 жыл бұрын
"Motherboard" definitely an easier naming scheme than "Intel Core i9 10980XE" to be fair
@damasterpiece08
@damasterpiece08 4 жыл бұрын
10980xe KFC !
@moccagringo2311
@moccagringo2311 4 жыл бұрын
But the naming, doesn't reflecting the whole picture... As it doesn't contain any specific naming scheme referring to specific model.. :)
@theunconventionaldeal3879
@theunconventionaldeal3879 4 жыл бұрын
Tendy nine eighty ex eeee!
@jeremyjsutton
@jeremyjsutton 4 жыл бұрын
The people demand an OC challenge using Motherboard and CUTE PET.
@combatwombat594
@combatwombat594 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah it would be cool to see an OC competition on old hardware between like GN and Jay
@imrichandras5708
@imrichandras5708 4 жыл бұрын
deus vult
@CaveyMoth
@CaveyMoth 4 жыл бұрын
I want a CUTE PET motherboard.
@SirNickyT
@SirNickyT 4 жыл бұрын
Yes!!
@phillipmckay8221
@phillipmckay8221 4 жыл бұрын
YESSSSSSSSS!
@Fux704
@Fux704 4 жыл бұрын
That was awesome. An authentic PC hardware fable about the Mysterious Unnamed Motherboard from an alley in Shenzhen, built from the carcasses of old server parts, and featuring a surprisingly large and active underground community in Russia dedicated to modding the hell out of it. Great tale all around.
@AlexanderKalish
@AlexanderKalish 4 жыл бұрын
The community is not actually underground though. I used to spend a lot of time at Overclockers.ru in 2006-2009. Their overclocking database should even have my results for AMD Athlon 64 3700+.
@Fux704
@Fux704 4 жыл бұрын
@@AlexanderKalish But "underground" sounds so cool!
@AlexanderKalish
@AlexanderKalish 4 жыл бұрын
@@unclestreamsarchive7126 absolutely
@thepgo666
@thepgo666 4 жыл бұрын
@@unclestreamsarchive7126 4pda.ru is amazing as well. There's a lot of info and resources on cheap phones, tablets and GPS PDAs that you can't really find anywhere else(including xda)
@Verpal
@Verpal 4 жыл бұрын
@@unclestreamsarchive7126 I believe UNHOLY would be a more correct word for it.
@Fish_Stick_Party
@Fish_Stick_Party 4 жыл бұрын
I absolutely LOVE this video. This is the out of the ordinary type of hardware review I love. This thing is a bizarre monstrosity. Too strange to live. Too rare to die. More please!
@soupwizard
@soupwizard 4 жыл бұрын
These X79 motherboards are a creative way to reuse surplus computers sent to recycle: from old servers come obsolete socket 2011 Xeons (with lots of pci-e lanes) and cheap DDR3 ECC Registered memory (that can't be used on consumer boards). Pair that with older surplus south bridge chips to handle I/O. Add M.2 NVME using the extra pci-e lanes on the Xeons. Add a new manufacture motherboard PCB and you have a cheap computing platform.
@Ty-ri7dy
@Ty-ri7dy 4 жыл бұрын
GN ALWAYS delivers. The absolute best IT/gamer channel in assistance.
@TheRealFobican
@TheRealFobican 4 жыл бұрын
I have a feeling Gamers Nexus is slowly becoming PhilsComputerLab at this point.
@tagltagl4870
@tagltagl4870 4 жыл бұрын
"Too strange to live. Too rare to die." Thank you #Unruly Cactus :-)
@mscheese000
@mscheese000 4 жыл бұрын
I love Hunter S. Thompson quotes.
@kostiantyncherniavskyi4251
@kostiantyncherniavskyi4251 4 жыл бұрын
I have had a chance to play with this exact motherboard. There are a few moments: - The Windows sleep mode does not work. - I was able to change the PCI-E version from 2.0 to 3.0 in the BIOS. The same applies to the M.2 slot. - One of the green SATA ports is actually SATA 2, not SATA 3. - The speaker sound was possible to disable with a jumper on the motherboard, but I don't remember which. Overall I could recommend it for someone who looks for an ultra budget rig, and does not have access to reasonably priced second hand parts. P.S. Since there are multiple revisions of this board, I can't guarantee that the same applies to all boards.
@billkabb
@billkabb 4 жыл бұрын
in my case 1.03 version of motherboard pci-e is version 3.0 on both pci slots and my two rx480 8gb in crossfire running fine with no issues .secon hand xeon 1650 scores 13000 at passmark ,16gb of memory at 1866 quad channel for 35 dollars . so for 300 bucks including a second hand rx480 8gb its a great deal gaming pc .. Shadow of the Tomb Raider 68fps @ high and 58 fps at highest settings .. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atZmgZlo3tLOn3k.html ..
@455vette
@455vette 4 жыл бұрын
I just bought this board awhile back v1.03 and paired it with a e5-2690 sandy bridge. 16gb of Samsung 1600mhz Ecc memory and found a rx Vega 56 on the cheap. I’ve got right under $400 for the whole combo and so far it works great. For gamers on a budget it could be a great option. I did notice the vrm got a little warm but I threw two 140mm fans in the top of my case and now it’s actually cool to the touch. Overall I would recommend
@wilppuse
@wilppuse 4 жыл бұрын
@@billkabb Holy shit thats some next level stuff. Amazing what necromancy can do these days.
@LastSecBloomer
@LastSecBloomer 4 жыл бұрын
The SATA and USB configuration varies depending on actual chipset used on these boards. Older ones have only 1 SATA3 port and no USB3, newer have 2 SATA3 and some USB3 ports...
@XDbored1
@XDbored1 4 жыл бұрын
the Windows sleep mode doesn't work with most FX boards either so its not exactly a unique problem
@MunkeyChips
@MunkeyChips 4 жыл бұрын
"What's its name?" "It's just 'motherboard'"
@Oozaru85
@Oozaru85 4 жыл бұрын
This name is meant to show its superiority to other mainboards.
@maziu438
@maziu438 4 жыл бұрын
Huanan
@LordLab
@LordLab 4 жыл бұрын
@@maziu438 this one is not Huanan , made in other factory , but it almost same as Huanan also Huanan is not a factory , this is just a OEM brand .
@TheRealFobican
@TheRealFobican 4 жыл бұрын
Should have read it as it says on the package to easily be differed from anything else.
@elksalmon84
@elksalmon84 4 жыл бұрын
If it was Apple they would patent "motherboard" name.
@samfedorka5629
@samfedorka5629 4 жыл бұрын
15:36 "...and then buildzoid gave us some instructions on how we could probably blow the board up if we wanted to." That man is a national treasure. Can confirm on cheap old xeons. I recently scored an e5-2698 v3 to turbo mod as a room heater for the winter. v4 and newer is still expensive though.
@urishima
@urishima 4 жыл бұрын
"So, what kind of motherboard do you have in your system?" "You do not understand, mortal. IT IS MOTHERBOARD!"
@alexmikhylov
@alexmikhylov 4 жыл бұрын
great motherboard, the mother of all boards, ruler of chipsets, king of vrms
@CaveyMoth
@CaveyMoth 4 жыл бұрын
@@alexmikhylov It's a MOAB!
@Ty-ri7dy
@Ty-ri7dy 4 жыл бұрын
"So, what kind of motherboard do you have in your system?" Oh, you know, a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
@urishima
@urishima 4 жыл бұрын
​@@Ty-ri7dy Some may call this junk. Me, I call it Motherboard.
@BlackShadowLegion
@BlackShadowLegion 4 жыл бұрын
It is THE Motherboard
@BryceAC
@BryceAC 4 жыл бұрын
*Translating beep code* Result: "My existence is pain. Booting now."
@coleslaw1107
@coleslaw1107 4 жыл бұрын
Mr Meeseeks, can you boot this?
@drackar
@drackar 4 жыл бұрын
That's my daily boot sequence.
@CaveyMoth
@CaveyMoth 4 жыл бұрын
It reminds me of booting a miniquad. So annoying!
@Lim_Campos
@Lim_Campos 4 жыл бұрын
That's why russians liked it so much. Is like one of them!
@mdspence11
@mdspence11 4 жыл бұрын
this comment made me e sad
@Hardwareunboxed
@Hardwareunboxed 4 жыл бұрын
"Xeon, so cheap!" you have to read that as Lyle ;)
@Jolinator
@Jolinator 4 жыл бұрын
Lol.
@sparkyenergia
@sparkyenergia 4 жыл бұрын
Do they 'love you long time'?
@simonmcneilly55
@simonmcneilly55 4 жыл бұрын
This is totally the board you get from lyles friends brothers cousin.... berry scheep 4 u
@jangelelcangry
@jangelelcangry 4 жыл бұрын
Now if only I could get one of those Chinese motherboards...
@ksneia
@ksneia 4 жыл бұрын
I thought it was zion
@eurocrusader1724
@eurocrusader1724 4 жыл бұрын
Gamers Nexus : It's a motherboard Russians: it's OUR motherboard
@gohyujie1050
@gohyujie1050 4 жыл бұрын
FOR MOTHERBOARD!
@My_Old_YT_Account
@My_Old_YT_Account 4 жыл бұрын
Chinese: It’s motherboard
@quantumbubbles2106
@quantumbubbles2106 4 жыл бұрын
It's the "MOTHER OF All BOARDS™"!
@LyrixTheDj
@LyrixTheDj 4 жыл бұрын
​@Richard Griffiths , hail to the Russian oligarchs! :) It is reason why we "love" bizarre Chinese devices here in Mozzer Raashaa! :-D Heh, 30 years ago we "loved" to clone the ZX, but times changes...
@tealc6218
@tealc6218 4 жыл бұрын
It's a motherboard for the motherland.
@timcarpenter2441
@timcarpenter2441 4 жыл бұрын
This should tell everyone that “the chipset” forced upgrade game needs looking into
@TiagoMorbusSa
@TiagoMorbusSa 4 жыл бұрын
Intel's greediness and the market dynamics that allow them to get away with their greediness need looking into, you mean.
@megan_alnico
@megan_alnico 4 жыл бұрын
It's a redicoulous waste. We could, possibly, have *generations* of compatible chips and motherboards instead we have mountains of e-waste. It's an environmental nightmare created by artificial market segmentation and planned obsolescence. It's a chilling reminder of the dangers of having a huge unchecked force dominating a market for so long. AMD has done better with Ryzen and supporting mutiple motherboard chipsets per CPU but it could probably even be better if it were a priority to customers. Unfortunately we are talking about the "Enterprise" market which is very rarely controlled by tech savvy people. It's controlled by business people.
@TiagoMorbusSa
@TiagoMorbusSa 4 жыл бұрын
@@megan_alnico Ah, capitalism... amirite
@TiagoMorbusSa
@TiagoMorbusSa 4 жыл бұрын
@Fellow accelerationist Capitalism is meant to serve those with money. And it absolutely is the thing responsible for the pollution of Earth and the destruction of our habitat. Make no mistake. Capitalism is predatory by definition.
@mapesdhs597
@mapesdhs597 4 жыл бұрын
@Fellow accelerationist That isn't capitalism; to function properly it needs a free market (which we don't have), honest trade (which is flouted constantly) and property rights (which China doesn't have). Capitalism died when the Fed was setup. Modern Western economies are grossly meddled with by their states, with vast amounts of printed/made-up money, borrowed cash, unfunded liabilities, bloated welfare states, etc.; if anything it's more communist than capitalist. China meanwhile definitely isn't capitalist, though some insist on saying it has absorbed elements of it - that's wrong, what China has done is go mad for unregulated free enterprise which is very different. Check out the videos by Winston and Cmilk on serpentza, laowhy86 and ADVChina channels. Megan A is right about the waste though, which is why I applaud these Chinese mbds, I have several. And btw, the reason why Intel never updated X79 back in the day as it should have done was because if they had, nobody would have bought X99. If X79 had native USB3, full Intel SATA3 (no crappy Marvell or ASMedia controllers) and native NVMe boot, and had been given the 8-core CPU it can definitely support (XEONs go up to at least 10 cores on S2011, and infact the 3930K is actually an 8 core but with 2 cores disabled), then again the incentive to upgrade would have been much weaker. Worse, Intel kicked off X99 with its ridiculous PCIe lane segmentation, the 5820K literally unable to do things the lowly 3820 and 4820K can do. It was years before one could finally buy an HEDT from Intel that didn't have crippled PCIe lanes, and that only happened because Ryzen came along. It's hillarious that I can put together a 4-core 4820K X79 system with four GPUs for CUDA/compute whereas that is not possible with an 8-core 7820X. :D Thankfully, enthusiasts have rectified the lack of NVMe boot support on many older mbds, so for ASUS boards check this ROG thread for numerous modded BIOS files to support native NVMe boot (and other enhancements): rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?48001-R4E-BIOS-4804-MODDED-EFI-Intel-13-1-0-2126-Download Note that one can still boot from NVMe on older mbds by using an SSD that has its own boot ROM. I have such a system with a 512GB 950 Pro. Also note that spare PCIe slots can still be used for general NVMe storage, but one does need IB-generation CPUs to enable Gen3 PCIe.
@Qardo
@Qardo 4 жыл бұрын
Take a drink every time "Motherboard" is said.
@ellagreen9166
@ellagreen9166 4 жыл бұрын
A SHOT
@Lionheart1188
@Lionheart1188 4 жыл бұрын
I'm drunk
@cruntnugget3902
@cruntnugget3902 4 жыл бұрын
No thanks i like my liver
@criznittle968
@criznittle968 4 жыл бұрын
challenge accedpfjftdre
@shinokami007
@shinokami007 4 жыл бұрын
nasdrovia :3
@lrmcatspaw1
@lrmcatspaw1 4 жыл бұрын
GN: We dont know anythign about this motherboard. Russians (in russian accent): We have 800 pages on it.
@user_imyarek
@user_imyarek 4 жыл бұрын
Sooqa, eto zhe klon huanana, plexhd, Petrovich, nesee flashqoo, mod biosa stavit' boodem. To be fair, gn are kinda late, because there are haswell-e motherboards available already.
@thetrashman5252
@thetrashman5252 4 жыл бұрын
@@user_imyarek You ever heard of a Russian keyboard?
@excitedbox5705
@excitedbox5705 4 жыл бұрын
They wrote the book on it.
@tarfeef_4268
@tarfeef_4268 4 жыл бұрын
@@thetrashman5252 dude... His fucking name was in Russian.
@thetrashman5252
@thetrashman5252 4 жыл бұрын
@@tarfeef_4268 I understand, I mean it's annoying to read his Russian typed up on an English keyboard.
@pec1739
@pec1739 4 жыл бұрын
this is the true definition of e-waste recycling
@TheRealFobican
@TheRealFobican 4 жыл бұрын
Where the west majorily fails at, the Chinese found another market to capitalize on.
@SiriusXification
@SiriusXification 4 жыл бұрын
To be fair these were absolutely the systems to buy for value before ryzen was a thing. Ever since the core wars started these have been getting less and less relevant.
@GGigabiteM
@GGigabiteM 3 жыл бұрын
@@SiriusXification And a year later, they're still the systems to buy. Getting a Ryzen anything at MSRP is neigh impossible. And GPUs? lol.
@SiriusXification
@SiriusXification 3 жыл бұрын
@@GGigabiteM Dunno about that. New ryzens are way too good. Depends on what you want but the mainstream play right now is laptops. I would've laughed if you told me a year ago laptops would be a good bang for the buck, yet here we are. At least in europe, since you get regular sales, a Ryzen 5000 system with a 3000 series GPU is in the 1000€ to 1500€ range which is pretty reasonable for what you get and widely available unlike desktop GPUs.
@JordosTechShack
@JordosTechShack 4 жыл бұрын
I have sold three systems with that board. the trick to make a low-cost profitable bills with these is to buy the CPU and RAM in bulk auctions. The math worked out to about $20 per 32GB kit (registered ECC), and $25 per CPU. I warranty the build for two years and keep a few extra boards and ram kits for any potential RMA issues, the rest of the parts in the builds are New. The customers knows going in, and are happy to Spend under $600 for a complete PC with 8C/16t CPU, 32GB Ram, 512GB NVME SSD + 3TB HSGT enterprises grade drive, And RX570/580 or GTX 1060 (if they want to spend the extra). Genuine True OEM Windows 10 pro license and 2 year warranty with support. A few sellers on Amazon have the board too, although the US stock sells out fast, but the seller I have been using seems to restock reasonably quickly. Most listing says it maxes at 32GB but all mine did test fine with 64GB kit.
@JustTechGuyThings
@JustTechGuyThings 4 жыл бұрын
Love the world of warships on the box...
@GamersNexus
@GamersNexus 4 жыл бұрын
I LIKE BOATS
@K-Anator
@K-Anator 4 жыл бұрын
@@GamersNexus I dunno, I think Jay might like them more.
@thetigerii9506
@thetigerii9506 4 жыл бұрын
SEA server gang rise up
@CaveyMoth
@CaveyMoth 4 жыл бұрын
Before that, this video is brought to you by World of Warships. Oh, and it has updated RGB illumination.
@KokoroKatsura
@KokoroKatsura 4 жыл бұрын
@@GamersNexus kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ja-FhJqf3KnQYaM.html
@hanbohong9544
@hanbohong9544 4 жыл бұрын
Hi Steve. I've watched your videos for about 1yr and really like your work. Since I can read Chinese, I would like to share some interesting info based on what's shown in the video: While no explicit brand name is written in English on the box, the badge on MB and the Chinese context on box cover indicate the brand is called 'Hong Shuo', which I feel like is a merge of ‘Acer’ and 'Asus' based on how their name is written in Chinese(even though Acer doesn't make MB). However, of course this is just a copy cat of these brand names, not really implying it is a product from either of them.
@sergiotl7378
@sergiotl7378 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@rogehmarbi
@rogehmarbi 4 жыл бұрын
You know that motherboard is old when it says "ATI CROSS F I R E" on the PCB.. When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was a Maxsun board, thanks to the the green coloring.
@JMUDoc
@JMUDoc 4 жыл бұрын
0:44: Buyer - "what's this motherboard called?" Seller - "yes."
@OsmosisHD
@OsmosisHD 4 жыл бұрын
"And the board did not... Catch fire" Impressive... Very impressive! I mean what else do you need from a motherboard! I'd buy this dubious board
@user_imyarek
@user_imyarek 4 жыл бұрын
Xeon e5-2689 X79t 4x4gb ECC REG ram or how to get the power of a ryzen 1700 with 3200mhz ram for about $150, the price of a used r1700 on AliExpress.
@tillbot1651
@tillbot1651 4 жыл бұрын
Setting the bar low to avoid disappointment. Smart.
@HunterGolem
@HunterGolem 4 жыл бұрын
it has 10 phases!
@themer333
@themer333 4 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact- In your try to write "HACKED" in cyrillic letters, you wrote "NDSKED"!
@supra107
@supra107 4 жыл бұрын
Also fun fact, there is no letter in Cyrilic like D! The closest counterpart is Д. Reading Cyrilic repurposed as Latin alphabet is pain.
@supra107
@supra107 4 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, and Э is inverted in the title.
@AlexanderKalish
@AlexanderKalish 4 жыл бұрын
@@supra107 No it's not, there is a letter 'Є' in Cyrillic alphabet and is used in Ukrainian language.
@randomsomeguy156
@randomsomeguy156 4 жыл бұрын
@@supra107 well if you're going to go talk about letters not working in Russian Cyrillic then 90+% of the alphabet isn't compatible with the "English" alphabet because they're all more or less written completely differently with different sounds
@SianaGearz
@SianaGearz 4 жыл бұрын
Let me try: ХАЦКЕД. Yeah well no, i don't have a real Russian keyboard, i use phonetic layout.
@dylansands2627
@dylansands2627 4 жыл бұрын
My boy buildzoid with the fire hot takes
@CaveyMoth
@CaveyMoth 4 жыл бұрын
Why didn't he show Buildzoid's footage? I already have the video at 1.5x speed, smh.
@mattfischer5794
@mattfischer5794 4 жыл бұрын
@@CaveyMoth cuz he probably didnt make any for it why make a video for 15 to 30 sec of talking just wouldnt be worth the time of setting up camera mic and everything which we all know how much buildzoid loves doing that lmao
@lickkittysplit3871
@lickkittysplit3871 4 жыл бұрын
I liked how it said, "MIND PLEASE DON'T BUY". lmfao!!
@KYSMO
@KYSMO Жыл бұрын
would love more content like this from you guys! You guys dissect and explain weird hardware in a way most channels do not. Amazing research work here.
@alexmikhylov
@alexmikhylov 4 жыл бұрын
"this is technology common sense" I'm gonna use this one
@eric4946
@eric4946 4 жыл бұрын
“Mind please don’t buy!” Effectively the broken English version of puts sunglasses on and says deal with it.
@pigdad
@pigdad 4 жыл бұрын
I have several of a newer revision of this board. It's a fun oddball board. They all had different sounding beep jingles and different chipsets. Even got a z77 board that was weirdly good OCer, managing to max an E5-1620 to 4.3ghz. I ran it with PC3L Reg RAM at 1866mhz, but then my newer boards didn't like my mismatched single and dual-rank RAM and refused to run in quad-channel. I've had a lot of fun with these weird, weird boards and that little beep jingle still makes me smile.
@pcbuilderlover4271
@pcbuilderlover4271 4 жыл бұрын
Love the box it came in, and the fun watching you find all the info on the board. That motherboard is probably the craziest thing I have seen in PCs. Good job Steve!
@bugzptr
@bugzptr 4 жыл бұрын
This was an epic review. Love this type of content.
@CocytusFrost
@CocytusFrost 4 жыл бұрын
I assume the russian breakdowns are so detailed because their economy isnt great and pc parts are expensive af, so if they buy something cheap from china they want to make sure they arent wasting money
@roman_pokora
@roman_pokora 4 жыл бұрын
absolutely true
@SianaGearz
@SianaGearz 4 жыл бұрын
Well there is no money to waste for sure, but the real reason is that Russian economy has been overall on the recovery path for two decades, with at most minor setbacks, after being an absolute shithole in the 90s. An increasing number of people can JUST ABOUT afford and want computers, they need to be careful about bang for the buck, but the used computer and component market is undersaturated unlike in more developed countries, where computer usership is stagnant or declining, and where power users churn through newest high-end hardware quite rapidly. Thus a high degree of reliance on these China Specials.
@NextazxzNoExuse
@NextazxzNoExuse 4 жыл бұрын
Tbh even for russians systems with 2nd ryzen and something like rx570 is not that expensive. There is really no reason to dig into noname chinese motherboard market unless you're very into it.
@user-qz2sw7pq8y
@user-qz2sw7pq8y 4 жыл бұрын
no we like to experiment, build stuff and shit. i can assure you most younger people or older people wich are invested in computers have pretty high end rigs. economy is fine issiues like in most countrys exist but normal people dont live worse then lets say in germany / as i have familiy in germany.
@imeryakwut6437
@imeryakwut6437 4 жыл бұрын
@@NextazxzNoExuse not if your salary is around 200$ for month.
@SirNickyT
@SirNickyT 4 жыл бұрын
Man... I found this episode extremely interesting and fun. Kudos to y'all!
@Cebrilung
@Cebrilung 4 жыл бұрын
I really like those green connectors on a black motherboard, reminds me of old Gigabyte boards. Very interesting review, GJ GN!
@RCAndroidFreakCz
@RCAndroidFreakCz 4 жыл бұрын
this is probably only nexus video i havent fell asleep while watching
@LastSecBloomer
@LastSecBloomer 4 жыл бұрын
There's a bunch of those mobos with LGA2011 socket on Aliexpress for $60-80, which are basically Ivy/Sandy Bridge chipsets with 2011 sockets and NVMe slot attached, as well as modified BIOS. The funny thing is - it works. These boards and Xeon E5 CPUs are very popular combo in Russia, given that "legit" X99 boards are very expensive (unlike the Xeons) and Russians have easy access to Aliexpress stuff (and they're crazy enough to mess with it). There's a number of channels on KZfaq where you can see these in action and more detail, mostly Russian ones but some english speaking too. If you already have DDR3 RAM and you can get Xeons cheaply, which is easy, you can get one of these boards for 2-3x less than actual X99 board, use that DDR3 RAM and have very cheap 6+ core systems comparable to modern 6-8 core Ryzen 1000-2000 series rigs without needing to pay for modern CPUs, latest chipsets and DDR4 RAM. And the NVMe actually works. Plus, if you get unlocked Xeons (E5-16xx/26xx chips), you can even overclock for even more added value. There are also similar "frankenstein" X299 boards with LGA2011-3 sockets on them...
@kristiansims
@kristiansims 4 жыл бұрын
It’s the videos like this that show how much you love what you do. Awesome video!
@panacotaru
@panacotaru 4 жыл бұрын
This was fun to watch.Wow,Steve!Keep them coming.
@GhostOdyssey
@GhostOdyssey 4 жыл бұрын
Silicon lottery on a whole other level!
@wedgoku
@wedgoku 4 жыл бұрын
Acer used to sell pre-built OEM PC's that used that same "Mini-ATX" standard, also during the older intel core 2 duo e8400 days, Asus & MSI made a few cheaper bare-bones motherboards that were "Mini-ATX" ...... So I I guess it was an official standard @ some point.
@Voidsworn
@Voidsworn 4 жыл бұрын
That post beep tune reminds me of the old Tiger handheld electronic LCD games I used to collect when I was a kid.
@tempurasupplyco
@tempurasupplyco 4 жыл бұрын
Please do more of these. You have to have more.
@GainingDespair
@GainingDespair 4 жыл бұрын
Does it need a name when it's clearly "The best motherboard series" I mean that tells you everything you need to know since it's reputation precedes it.
@user-ex6sh5fo1q
@user-ex6sh5fo1q 4 жыл бұрын
Quite interesting. The sticker on the IO, naming "宏碩" is a mix of the chinese names of Acer "宏基" and Asus "華碩" dunno if its a real company name, but is convincing enough to confuse someone into thinking the thing is legit. (Chinese speaking Japanese here, always gets confused by the chinese names of the legit companies when in Taiwan)
@My_Old_YT_Account
@My_Old_YT_Account 4 жыл бұрын
Fellow accelerationist if Japan would invade China, pretty sure they would be in support of the protestors
@My_Old_YT_Account
@My_Old_YT_Account 4 жыл бұрын
@Fellow accelerationist Are you really against people wanting to keep their freedom ?
@Lim_Campos
@Lim_Campos 4 жыл бұрын
It would be like calling the board "Aczoos".
@bskull3232
@bskull3232 4 жыл бұрын
@@My_Old_YT_Account Are you really against Chinese government's sovereignty in their own boarder?
@DerrickRG
@DerrickRG 4 жыл бұрын
@Fellow accelerationist Piss off commie.
@SasukeUchiha-le4jf
@SasukeUchiha-le4jf 3 жыл бұрын
Great video. Right on spot as usual.
@elpepito957
@elpepito957 4 жыл бұрын
Love it. OC challenge next !!
@artyomexplains
@artyomexplains 4 жыл бұрын
Wow, you sure are late to the party. Chinese boards were a HUGE thing for quite some time in Russia but it is now a declining trend. Yeah, the hardware is very Frankenstein-style but these boards are a good performance per dollar choice. You can find them bundled with a cpu and ram on Aliexpress for a great price and Russians love that kind of thing, a lot of people here don't have a huge budget for a new PC. In fact, dirty cheap gaming builds with aliexpress hardware based on xeon CPUs was (and mostly still is) a big trend on the Russian speaking KZfaq space.
@soupwizard
@soupwizard 4 жыл бұрын
What's the new choice for hardware that is replacing these X79 type boards now?
@kruxdt6307
@kruxdt6307 4 жыл бұрын
@@soupwizard ryzen maybe
@thepcenthusiastchannel2300
@thepcenthusiastchannel2300 4 жыл бұрын
@@kruxdt6307 yes the 1600 and 1700's are now pretty cheap in the used parts markets. They also have motherboards for those too.
@artyomexplains
@artyomexplains 4 жыл бұрын
@@soupwizard Ryzen 1st gen is now available on ali and is quite cheap.
@GamersNexus
@GamersNexus 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for establishing that you knew something cool before we did! If only we had you here earlier, we wouldn't have needed to waste all our time with this having fun nonsense.
@draggonhedd
@draggonhedd 4 жыл бұрын
I love this kind of weirdness. I believe Philscomputerlab covered this board in a semiserious manner.
@Disobeyedtoast
@Disobeyedtoast 4 жыл бұрын
You seem so excited presenting this. You should do weird reviews more often.
@WyomingGuy876
@WyomingGuy876 4 жыл бұрын
".... and the motherboard did NOT catch on fire....good performance" - Love it!
@19971997gt
@19971997gt 4 жыл бұрын
Ok Steve, I absolutely love this kind of weird sh*t. I gotta buy a mod Matt now even if I can't get it in red. Great vid bro lolz.. And thanks for the great vidz over the years ✌️🇨🇦
@opaldix
@opaldix 4 жыл бұрын
DFI needs to return to the consumer market and bring LANPARTY motherboards back with it.
@adm3991
@adm3991 4 жыл бұрын
I loved my socket 939 Dfi lanparty board last amd build I did until now
@ObviousCough
@ObviousCough 4 жыл бұрын
@@adm3991 Same!
@sirmonkey1985
@sirmonkey1985 4 жыл бұрын
still have my socket 754 lanparty UT NF3 250Gb just for that specific reason.. it's so damn ugly that it's actually cool to look at and remember the days when performance mattered more than the look of the board.
@spudsmckenzie4123
@spudsmckenzie4123 4 жыл бұрын
I popped my PC building cherry with a LANPARTY board. Fond memories. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Pun intended. 😂
@MJ-uk6lu
@MJ-uk6lu 4 жыл бұрын
@@sirmonkey1985 Now those boards are very rare, you could make a profit from selling one.
@whiskeylinux
@whiskeylinux 4 жыл бұрын
Love the ending! "And that's our review of 'motherboard' the motherboard..." I am seriously considering buying one, just for the surprise factor of what it may support.
@AdmV0rl0n
@AdmV0rl0n 4 жыл бұрын
You had fun making this - I had fun watching this. 100% win
@claytonclarkk
@claytonclarkk 4 жыл бұрын
Hello from Russia! Love overclockers точка ru :D
@Fregatte86
@Fregatte86 4 жыл бұрын
Хуананжи
@sdnative9648
@sdnative9648 3 жыл бұрын
Do you know how to make all ram dimms work? I can’t seem to make it work
@weskerend507
@weskerend507 4 жыл бұрын
"didn't catch fire, really good" hahahaha
@nipa5961
@nipa5961 4 жыл бұрын
This was amazing! Thank you for cheering me up after a terrible morning.
@giovannip.1433
@giovannip.1433 4 жыл бұрын
It's cool to know that enthusiasts can get hold of 'real' enthusiast boards. Tinkering with 'cheap' hardware replacing and soldering different VRMs/ capacitors etc...
@mortmortmort8908
@mortmortmort8908 4 жыл бұрын
This thing is insane. I love it.
@hainds26842
@hainds26842 4 жыл бұрын
Каждый второй школьник на наших ранчо может разогнать не только трактор с горы, но и любой ксеон с памятью.)
@Asdayasman
@Asdayasman 4 жыл бұрын
WHAT
@TheVirimos
@TheVirimos 4 жыл бұрын
@@Asdayasman "Every second teenager on our ranco's can overclock not only tractor from hill, but every xeon with memory.)"
@Asdayasman
@Asdayasman 4 жыл бұрын
@@TheVirimos I feel like you just google translated my dude.
@TheVirimos
@TheVirimos 4 жыл бұрын
@@Asdayasman Не совсем, есть конечно пара моментов, в духе teenager это я хватанул, можно было schoolboy, ну и тут своеобразная игра слов - разогнать в русском языке можно использовать и для автомеханики и для компьютерной техники, но при переводе игра слов теряется. Кстати говоря гугл транслейт в последнее время хорошо переводит, алгоритмы обучения приносят свои плоды.
@Asdayasman
@Asdayasman 4 жыл бұрын
@@TheVirimos WHAT
@mateofantasma
@mateofantasma 4 жыл бұрын
this was awesome, great find!
@williammurphy1674
@williammurphy1674 4 жыл бұрын
19:50 - "and this is our review of Motherboard.. the motherboard." I've seen some budget boards, but this one takes the cake, can't even afford a name! LOL!
@TreyWait
@TreyWait 4 жыл бұрын
I love hearing about Chinese mystery hardware.
@IvanOoze1990
@IvanOoze1990 2 жыл бұрын
It's never a good idea outside of tinkering.
@AsmodeusDeviluke
@AsmodeusDeviluke 4 жыл бұрын
PhilsComputerLab has been playing around with one of these boards.
@cdom502
@cdom502 4 жыл бұрын
Nice review about the motherboard motherboard V1. 01
@ElijahPerrin80
@ElijahPerrin80 4 жыл бұрын
This has been fun, frustrating and insane but fun lol, love your shows
@TheAnon03
@TheAnon03 4 жыл бұрын
"Supports Intel Core2 Duo". Oh that made me laugh.
@kirbycube
@kirbycube 4 жыл бұрын
*cries in early intel iMac*
@m9a1gernsback
@m9a1gernsback 4 жыл бұрын
Just FYI: if you need a quick non-automated translation of some (not exactly) obscure Russian hardware resources, ping me. Because why not. Could be fun :)
@w4stedspace
@w4stedspace 4 жыл бұрын
Onboard power normally reserved for '$150 motherboards or more...'. As someone who sadly invested in an Asus Z390 Strix board prior to catching the GN coverage on Asus boards this generation, I feel even more sad. When board like that has features a once-decent brand does not, it's time to change
@SrSilverstars
@SrSilverstars 4 жыл бұрын
Great content... More of this!
@kjm015
@kjm015 4 жыл бұрын
Ah, yes. The complex tale of "motherboard" finally gives me a use for my college minors of Russian and Chinese!
@scarletspidernz
@scarletspidernz 4 жыл бұрын
MOTHERBOARD: the Mother of all Boards!
@garethfairclough8715
@garethfairclough8715 4 жыл бұрын
This thing would be fun for a scrapyard wars run, I think.Competitors are each given one of these boards, a budget and told "go".
@alinzelnan
@alinzelnan 4 жыл бұрын
very interestig video, I'd like to see more of these strange pc components :)
@TheBoltcranck
@TheBoltcranck 4 жыл бұрын
Mobo: Say My Name! Gamersnexus: Motherboard Mobo: You're god damn right
@melvinhans1844
@melvinhans1844 4 жыл бұрын
I would want to see the motherboard explode 😂
@K-Anator
@K-Anator 4 жыл бұрын
Same, I was so excited when Steve said BZ gave him instructions on how to blow it up, then didn't.
@cspaceinfinity0116
@cspaceinfinity0116 4 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see more videos on these weird products
@SWC230
@SWC230 Жыл бұрын
I’m very glad you made this video because I have one of these motherboards with a i7-3930k and a GTX 1660 super and was trying to find a bios that worked so I could overclock my cpu, thank you.
@vitor900000
@vitor900000 4 жыл бұрын
This is most likely lots of leftover components that someone buy and is piecing together for some profit. No brand so they cant be found and can "cheap" out on certifications.
@AceStrife
@AceStrife 4 жыл бұрын
"It's just roulette." No wonder it has a Russian scene.
@ShroudedWolf51
@ShroudedWolf51 4 жыл бұрын
"Today, we'll look at motherboard" This made me giggle way more than it should have.
@jasonpollock9259
@jasonpollock9259 4 жыл бұрын
I own two of these! Of course, I purchased three to have two that worked... But, in the end, I'm running a system on "motherboard" watching a video on "motherboard" and I'm enjoying this.
@emlyndewar
@emlyndewar 4 жыл бұрын
Overclockers.ru was where I went for a modified Gigabyte bios allowing Skylake ES CPU use on my Z170. Awesome forum.
@givemeajackson
@givemeajackson 4 жыл бұрын
Man i remember that whole shitshow. In germany and switzerland the 1231v3 was super popular, i built 3 PCs for friends with that cpu. When the skylake xeons came out and didn't work on consumer chipsets anymore there was massive outrage
@keubis2132
@keubis2132 4 жыл бұрын
Wjat he thinks the title says : "hacked" What it actually says "ndske?" ?= diesnt even exist
@s4d429
@s4d429 4 жыл бұрын
cyrillic symbols, even .ru web site was shown with the info about bios version and etc. translate Russian web site is easier then Chinese one
@TheXlen
@TheXlen 4 жыл бұрын
It says ndsked
@Choralone422
@Choralone422 4 жыл бұрын
That motherboard sort of reminds me of the old Megatrends HX83 board back in the later part of the original Pentium days, around the time the original MMX chips were released. It was a one off board by a company that was not related to American Megatrends the BIOS company and now is somewhat difficult to find information about it. That board had support for a 83 mhz FSB (hence its name) and some other weird stuff back before other board makers (except for Abit) we willing to let you play with a FSB above 75 mhz. It was almost legendary in how some people modded the bios and did things with the Intel BX chipset that you normally couldn't do on other boards. Almost as quickly as people caught on to what the board could do you suddenly couldn't buy it anymore and the company seeming vanished. I think they may have also released a Pentium Pro based board with some funky stuff done to it around the same time but those CPUs were so expensive that board was even less well known about.
@jowarnis
@jowarnis 4 жыл бұрын
If only Gigabyte put same amount of work in their motherboards' BIOS as in the advertising..
@esdrasflores4231
@esdrasflores4231 4 жыл бұрын
Intel should take a hint of branding from the "motherboard".
@Moi_Gospodin1337
@Moi_Gospodin1337 4 жыл бұрын
Proud for russians who dig into this hardwares
@conza1989
@conza1989 4 жыл бұрын
The sponsor was perfect because it's a good reference for 'here, this is a modern mainstream platform'
@nerdedkyle3515
@nerdedkyle3515 4 жыл бұрын
Love how diffrent this content is compared to all the usual tech channels
@supra107
@supra107 4 жыл бұрын
NDSKE...D? хакэд, there we go.
@AlexanderKalish
@AlexanderKalish 4 жыл бұрын
хакнуто
@roman_pokora
@roman_pokora 4 жыл бұрын
я думал Нэкед типа голая
@sidewinder666666
@sidewinder666666 4 жыл бұрын
I wonder how you'd say "Clusterfuck" in Chinese.
@mmh6717
@mmh6717 4 жыл бұрын
We call it "群P",pronounced like "chiwin p"
@octane613
@octane613 4 жыл бұрын
@@mmh6717 free Hong Kong
@thevortexATM
@thevortexATM 4 жыл бұрын
as much as a pain in the ass this would be to try to deploy on any scale, you have to admire the ingenuity in the design of these frankensteined boards, good vid!
@jimsinnovations2737
@jimsinnovations2737 4 жыл бұрын
This is really cool stuff, just shows how smart of people there are out there, hence open source communities
@hungnguyenthien3123
@hungnguyenthien3123 4 жыл бұрын
Chinese components + Rusian system builders = PROG (the People Republic of Gamer)
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