Huananzhi X99-TF Motherboard Review (Easily the BEST $100 Mobo on Aliexpress!)
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- Finally taking the X99-TF Gaming Huananzhi motherboard for a test drive today, show's that this board is surprisingly efficient, and wowed me over with the numbers it was presenting, the implementation of all the features, and most importantly the abililty to support both DDR3 and DDR4 memory. Great board at a great price, however there are some drawbacks, so make sure if you are serious about this board, that you watch the whole vid.
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Timetable
0:00 What's in the box and initial impressions
2:52 VRM Testing and detail and Heatsink Fan Noise
4:00 Other tests and Onboard Audio
5:10 Bios, it's basic.... but does the job.
5:55 6 Layer PCB is solid, and 3 x 16 slots is surprisingly good. Debug LED, reset and power switch.
6:50 Conclusion, it's good value, solid board supports high core count ring bus CPUs.
8:29 Question of the Day, Will a HP 4th gen board fit in a mini itx case?
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Tech YES Xeon!!!!
200th liker
I've been waited for almost 4 months for this review, keep the x99 goodness coming!
Really like the setup and lighting in this review. Also the format, with a bit of a slower tempo in the info talk over the product shoots. I feel quiet harmonic watching this. Well done Brian! (please more vids in this format)
I love your commitment to “obsolete” platforms (X58/X79/X99, etc) and showing how they honestly still slay even today.
which do you recommend??
@@juniorpirela6885 X79 I think represents the best value, but X99 is the best performance by a wide margin.
@@NextMerckx Is better x79????
@@juniorpirela6885 X99 > X79
Slay what exactly?
Just when I get into a routine you come out with an extra special vid that blows me out of the water. :-) This was one of the most useful and informative reviews I have ever seen. Thanks for all your hard work.
best used parts hunter ever
thanks mang.
@@techyescity I love you for this!
you do realize that the CPU and Mobo even off of aliexpress (Questionable quality) still costs roughly close to a ryzen 3 and b450?
@@lukafireman Except the ryzen is quad core and the old xeon is 12 core.
@@MarcoGPUtuber Yes...but...but...with the Ryzen you have an upgrade path! Besides, the IPC is better....so take that!...and that!
Hey Bryan 🇦🇺🖐 I purchased your nVidia case $50 pc from the end of 2019 w/ gtx770 and x58 mobo. Yes it’s still going great! I’ve also purchased the Atermiter x79 mobo from aliexpress (throne with USB 3 and SATA 3 .....not the NVME version) and got a 4ghz o/c on the Intel 1650V2. Loving the board as my test bench and 3rd pc when friends are over for gaming. The vrm’s do get a lil bit warm but I have a 120mm case fan secured near the vrm’s which keeps them cool 😎. Loving this content about x58/x79/x99 etc more so then all the RTX 3000 content personally 🥰🥰. Looking forward to more this stuff! Keep up the great work. Cheers 🥂 🍻
What is the cheap and best Xeon mobo according to you
you nailed it for me in this video. Just the thing I been looking for !
I've been waiting for you to review this one.
great review m8 , still boggles my mind that you are the only tech tuber that does audio on mobos ( actual real tests)
Noticed that as well. Maybe he's an audiophile as well.
Running one of these in my main rig, and let me say. If you want a dual system virtualization and rendering beast. This is the board for you. If anyone has any questions about the board, please feel free to reply :)
I just want to know what this thing is truly capable of if used for a lot budget secondary system
I ben wanting to do that very thing, i have bord,ram alredy but i want as many cores/threads as i can get for a deal of corse ,i all redy have 2 diffrent dual xeon servers but who cares.right
@@josue5019 , I believe the only difference between the two is the support for DDR3 ECC, I might be wrong, but both boards would be very good for a system now. No matter what task you throw at it since it is x99 and still a very very good platform for today :)
@@lunartigersora4690 For a secondary system no worries, it will do the job just fine. I run two systems off of my single board. ( Have two gpu's and the E5-2678v3 showcased in the video.) The boards are great if you need compatibility questions feel free to reply. :)
@@bigchew3149 Haha, I'm a nerd when it comes to x99, x79, x58. I've got some Dell Enterprise hardware but I'm looking at upgrading it all to their x79, or x99 range of servers. But that's in the long run and with COVID currently affecting Australia's used server hardware market I might be waiting a little bit for a good deal. If you got anymore questions feel free to send a message :)
I've done three Huananzhi boards so far. X99-T8, X99-8M and X99-T8D. Very impressed with all of them. The T8D doesn't support sleep mode properly, which is a bummer, but if you are going to use it for a server that doesn't matter. The 8M and T8 all support turbo unlock and I made awesome gaming machines out of them. I've got a TF on order. I was excited to get it and try it out. After watching this, I'm more excited!! :D
Did you got it?
@@alaricace8118 I did. It’s true it doesn’t support Sleep, but apart from that it’s great. I use it for my work workstation everyday. 😁
Did you got it ?
I was just looking at the Xeons last night thanks for the video
Been waiting for this build
I really like these kind of videos. Thanks!
daammmnnn that motherboard is actually insane. i thought it would just be alright but i was very surprised. nice vid
Keep up the quality vids man
That's awesome. Keep up the good work.
I love when youtubers do a fan noise test. Like i have EVER actually heard the fan.
It’s to calculate how loud it is and it’s decibels. Wdym?
There's another UA-camr, Miyconst, who reviews Ali Express X99 boards and he also agrees this is a great board.
After watching his videos, I ordered an Atermiter X99 D4 and flashed it with a modified BIOS for Turbo unlock. It's running a 2.6GHz (3.4GHz Turbo) E5-2640v3 with a GTX 1070. It's been a great gaming machine while stuck inside during COVID and wildfires.
Might build same system for my wife.
Thank you, best review
Another awesome LGA 2011 platform video, nice
Dude, I own quite recent parts but this is actually amazing- if I build another secondary and let my mom keep my current then I'll likely go with this
I understand your feeling. I would give my PC away or sell it just to buy another one. PC building is so much fun. The only problem is the cost.
@@AliShaikh_744 cost is exactly why I only have two desktops, but if I save for a bit then I should be able to do a project.
My brother, you really have a special relationship with XEON processors lol
But i have to say you always bring some serious value on the table :)
I’m super keen on this board. Will certainly go 64gb ddr3 at this price and with a 12 core Xeon will be great. I also want to run 7 instances of LDplayer in the background(nox emu) and multitask at the same time so this will be good
Tech yes back with the xeons🤩
This looks like a fair competitor for ryzen
Lmao not even close dreamer boy
@@wtf847 haha this comment cracked me up i have x99 but know full well ryzen is smashing it at the moment and have been since they started trying
The surplus server cpus are no comparison to modern Ryzen cpus. The price per performance is where the value is. Raw performance, Ryzen will beat even most modern Intel server cpus.
Very, very, interesting! Thnx for sharing
Love the Xeon goodness!
Welcome back the almighty King Xeon!!!
Interesting Thanks for this. Was looking for xeon build.
I did a xeon build based on ur vid and it works well. Parts from AliExpress. I got a klisre x79 with e5 2630v2 and 16gb ddr3 ecc for only $95. I can now open facebook with 200fps
Man I bought this exactly kit last month, waiting mail service deliver my package. Hugs from Brazil
rockin a huananzhi x99 tf (paired with a e5 2660 v3) for almost a year now, have unlocked turbo boost and does an exceptional job ,,,i strongly recommend it for value/performance... both for gaming and editing
These boards are getting more and more interesting...
If my 4790K wasn't enough for me I'd definitely check one of these out.
I've been using the huananzhi x79 v2.49p motherboards for going on 3 years now and everything is good. Bought 3 of them, using 2 as always on servers and one for my desktop. No issues and they just keep going. Highly recommend these AliExpress boards.
We have one HuanaZhi Deluxe X79 running fine at home for about 1.5 years, without issue. Solid quality. Paired with an E5-4627v2 (8C/8T, 3.5Ghz all core). I do have one cheap 60mm RGB fan blowing on the VRM because I run this rig at 3.5Ghz across all 8 cores. Just for safe measure.
Nice to see that there are legitimately great boards like this from China. I'd like to see companies like this make boards for more modern platforms. Could be quite competitive
the vendors and the factorys are seeing alot of western custom and feedback , and making way better quality products , china FTW
I was actually looking at that board. It looks like a very good board.
I have this with a 2378 v3 and 32GB DDR ECC RAM with turbo unlock and a GTX 1080 and it's a workstation machine and can even game on a rather high level, especially with games utilizing all them cores. 800$ all in all including full RGB FANs, 512GB NVMe, 4TB Raid1 and BT5&WiFi ax card. The power of XEONs baby!
Big thanks for putting up the power draw numbers, that was always a question I had about these unlocked Xeons. Follow-up: would an upgraded air cooler be necessary for extended CPU bound workflow?
Easily the best tech channel for consumers on a budget 🔥
That actually looks fantastic and prolongs the x99 as well, fair play they've upped their game!!! Shame that CPU can't overclock as such though, but yeah, for games not too sure but just for a beast, yeah man 12 cores 24 threads macxing out... fantastic
Hey man you okay? You sound more down than usual, Love your vids.
Loved ur vdo.... Subscribed and thumbs up
Can you do a review on AOC CU34G2X? Great content! Youre so detailed and accurate I want to see you benchmark this budget ultrawide panel
Thanks for the interesting review. I've myself used X89 F8 with XEON E5 2620 v3 (sold as a bundle in Aliexpress) for a month in a homelab server / virtualization use 24x7. Running some VM's on Windows and Linux plus Pfsense firewall. The quality is awesome compared to those "cheap" boards available. In my use case the CPU temperatures remain really low, not even hitting 30 celcius (using Noctua NH-L12S which was already lying around). Power consumption is around 100W in total with hard disks, graphics, additional network cards etc. Due to my use case I'm using just cheapest and easiest graphics card which was lying around. That might explain something about power consumption though. I'm positively surprised and the brand motherboard manufacturers should be looking at what's going on in China and get to the next level in order to stay in the game. The only thing where I had a surprise on top of the Chinese manual, was that the M.2 slots supported only NVME in my case.
Would love to see you get that costom bios on that thing !!!
I had a 2670v3 in the past, coupled with 32gb of DDR4 it was a freaking beast in encoding movies videos, and montage
I prefer the x99 F8 version of this board. And they DO have an OC section on the stock bios at least on my board, you just have to dig for it. It has memory timings, and cpu and cache multi OC options, I have an E5 1650v3 ES OC to 4.5ghz on the x99 f8.
Interesting. I have a couple E5-2699 v4 ES (Engineering Sample QHUP) that I wonder if I could get overclocked over 4GHz. Theoretically, that would nearly double my performance. Only thing is what would I do with my existing Registered ECC RAM and SuperMicro X10DAX?
@@BandanazX those have a locked multi. You would need to use FSB overclocking, and these boards have usb tied to fsb. Youll only be able to get it to around 13% oc before instability hits on a really good board.
And this board has memory tuning, so you can lower the mhz frequency to compensate for the fsb increase and reuse the ecc reg, as this board supports it
Is it stable ? I'm planning to do the same build (but with an E5 1680-v3 instead), but I'm worried about the poor 6-phases VRMs 😕🧐. Do you have overheating issues on the VRMs ?
Who else bothers to test the audio like that? I'll save you the trouble: nobody. I appreciate the thoroughness there.
this is BEAST
Keep it up bro
Yessss xeons are back !!!
That's a bloody good, thorough review, you embarrass channels with 10's of millions of subs
IM deffo going to get this
Thanks. Like aliexpress stuffs since they are pretty interesting compared to usual high end stuffs on the market right now
Thats AMAZING value damn..
I tried an ali express x79 turbo made by plexhd and it had nvme and worked amazing with a 1650v2 ans 32gb 1866 quad channel ram and a gtx 1070. Worked amazing for modern warfare.
Glad to hear that!
The mark rober music is a bop
Been using the killisre d4 with the xeon 2620 v3 for a few months now... absolutely perfect. Also the board came with an updated bios with turboboost unlock enabled. Tbh if my other build,, i7 3770k set up, starts having issues, I'll probably build another with a similar board and a more powerful xeon.
I got the Atermiter D4, looks just like the Kllsire D4, with a E5-2620v3 too and I've been really happy with it. It also has the Turbo unlock BIOS. I upgraded from a 2620 to a 2640 though to get a little bit more power.
UNREAL!!
It looks really nice too
Great content, always look forward to your posts, finally scribed. still looking through the older channel posts P/O
Much appreciated!
Have one x79 currently, ordered cheap x99 too. First is good for any retro(WinXP) up to 2018 gamewise for sure!
I cry when I see things like this and I was happy with my Ryzen (and I'm still am)...
I just built my wife a workstation using the machinist x99z with an e5-2660v3, works like a dream 👍
That Snowman cooler is so good!
Yes, but you have to be sure to go for the 6 pipe version with dual 120mm fans. STAY AWAY from the sellers who use the name "Snowman" but sell 90mm fan versions. Two completely different products. The true Snowman is a great deal. They now also come with RGB fans as well as RGB top plates. I think the 6 pipe version with dual 120mm RGB fans and top plate comes to, max price, $34 delivered. Without RGB top plate it runs under $28.
@@jb678901 Thanks. This is helpful!
Integrated io shield, active vrm cooling, 2 m.2 slot,
Support for ecc memory, ddr3 and ddr4 support, damn this board screams quality, you'd think the price would be at least twice of what it is.
Good find!
Too bad the custom import fee would be too much to ship here plus the varus would delay the shipping even more
It is an excellent board. No complaints after using it for almost 4 months.
I asked the Chinese to write small price and mine skipped customs
@@kur352 mine too!
Skipped customs, using it since more than one year, with an E5 2678 v3, turbo unlock and an RX 6600 XT, working great !
3DMark : Graphics Score 9577 - CPU Score 9139
My 2678v3 CPU tests 14,500, why is yours so slow?
3 PCIe x16 slots are extremely useful for high throughput data servers. Can add RAID card or more than one 10Gbe NIC. 2 NVMe are essential for highspeed read and write cache.
My favourite tech man
I'm running this exact board with a 2678 V3 and 64GB (4x 16GB) 1866 DDR3 ECC as my ESXi server for all of 2020 now. Paired with two cheap recycled Dell H310 controllers and really cheap recycled Intel 4-port LAN controller. I'm very impressed with this setup. Running 15 VM's non-stop it barely ever hits 160W and is stable as can be.
That's awesome to hear. I've been tempted to get one of these with the 2678 to replace my dual X5675 Mac Pro that runs Proxmox.
the 2678 will run ddr3 will the 2690?
12 power stages, 6 phases. Phases need to be out of phase of each other (independent timing)
thanks, I will fix that for the next time.
I think Buildzoid in one of his video talked about a similar design, by having doubled VRMs the board splits the current across more VRMs which helps to spread out the heat load, vs a design with the same number of phases but only 1 VRM per phase?
@@soupwizard Makes sense as it is budget. So the components will be also. Pretty nice board though...
@@soupwizard The VRM is the whole power delivery system, made up of multiple phases. Each phase is split between one or more power stages, depending on the motherboard.
Can you please explain what 12 stages are? I thought that this is 6 phases with dual low side mosfets that reduce the voltage drop during Toff? I thought this is in essence just 6 buck converters really?
That mobo is phenomenal value for money!
Huanan X79 new version. Green with a integrated I/O shield, better audio and same VRM fans as their X99 board. That and the machinist X79 you recommended have been good systems. DDR3 was cheaper when I built them. Maybe I will do this X99 as well.
I bought an Atermiter X99 bundle with 16G of DDR4 and the poor E5 2620V3 and god! That works pretty well for a 200$ kit! I paired it with a Hyper 212 EVO and the temps are from ambiant 22°C to 25°C at idle and doesn't ramp over 45-48°C under load! Haven't done the 3.2Ghz hack yet but looking for it pretty soon 😁. Also, I like the Ausie Dollar because it's almost the same as Canadian Dollar!
I'm using this exact motherboard and CPU. I'm very satisfied with it. The only problem I had that one of the small VRM fans got noisy so I just unplugged it, since I have decent airflow anyway.
I am thinking that when this happens, I will simply buy an extruded Aluminum heatsink on AliExpress ($15 max), roughly to the proper dimensions. Cut it to size with a hacksaw, sand the edges, drill and tap for the mounting, and sandwhich some thermal padding in between. It will take about 0.5 hrs with the proper tools.
1:50 _"And in the box you get the manual that's all in Chinese"_
Not a problem for me. I can read it!
Multilingual baby!
@@wisdoom9153 haha. I learned it as an adult.
WisDooM If you ever get to Taiwan, sightsee there but have a hard time with Chinese, Mandarin and Cantonese, i guess Sir Marco is your main man there😆
@@ORBPHIL Hahah. We dont have Cantonese here. We have Taiwanese and Hakka in addition to Chinese and many First Nations languages.
Marco My bad Sir Marco. I think Cantonese is mostly used in Hong Kong especially in Chinese cinema.☺️
ive got a 2678 v3 +16Gb ecc ddr3 running on an atermiter board, its an absolute beast, turbo unlock to 3.3GHz. whole combo cost 189 euro but took 2 months to get to Ireland.
Bruh that looks aesthetic compared to their previous green and orange themed boards.
I literally ordered one of these last week!
Super curious to get my hands on it, it being white will also make it an aesthetic build :)
I'm personally feeling both boards, the tf and the f8. Besides colour the only other difference is one (I think f8) only supports ddr4
@@ArtisChronicles The TF has an extra 4-pin fan connector.
@@ArtisChronicles Theres also a T8 which only supports DDR3, shame its green :/
i buy the machinist x79 whit xeon and 16gb ddr3 ram is working very nice.stay safe
Hey Brian, can you say anything or make a video about the "X79A Transcend 1356" motherboard, that thing costs 40US$ shipped, I never see a video about that mobo, but, lots of buyers are getting them...
This is board definitely gives you the most bang for your buck if you are starting out on server builds. Huananzhi makes decent stuff (including Nvidia gpus and SSDs)
I prefer the F8 variant myself, but that's because I have a crap ton of DDR4
I couldn't say for certain but I THINK you can swap those VRM fans out for Noctua A4's and knock down the DB's a bit (if it matters).
I haven't built mine yet, because getting parts from China to the US is ridiculous right now, but I know a few folks who have and they swear by them, their X79's too.
You pretty much convinced me to go with a Xeon for my next build, excellent bang for buck. Been looking at the x99-tf motherboard for a while looks to be the best motherboard, specifically the 32gb ddr3 2678 v3 combo (around €230). I’m thinking of pairing it up with a 2080ti calibre GPU for 1440p 144hz gaming. If you can, could you do some 1440p benchmarks with the 2678 v3, when you do your build. I really want to see how closely they stack up when compared to something modern like r5 3600/1600af (similar CPUs) at 1440p.
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No no the b450 ds3h from gigabyte holds a special place in my heart
Will my 5680 Xeon work OK on this mobo? Thanks for a fantastic review Bryan!
wow NICE
Awesome video, like always. Man, how can I change the boot mode do UEFI?
I can only get it show "windows boot manager" in the boot options and then boot one time if I load defaults. The next reboot "windows boot manager" is gone and it doesn't recognize my windows HDD as bootable and I have to reload defaults for it to boot again one time.
Wiah cars took this safe aspect of making new variants of classic models.
My board has been having some difficulties, and I just flashed your unlock BIOS to maybe help it ♥️✌️
Fresh install of Manjaro Linux, running stable so far
Brian, do you mind trying Unraid on this? It looks like a perfect board to make a bunch of VM boxes for the entire home/office. :O
Checking back in Jan ‘22 and feeling like I need to try one of these with a now-cheap 6950X to see if it holds up!
An integrated i/o shield is honestly the best quality of life change in the history of computing.
There are a few ITX desktop boards on eBay. usually bundled here in the UK at least.
damn i wanna use this a streaming/editing build
Got some updates
I have a Runing X99 (black and red) on my TV computer. The initial setup and driver installations are always tricky. During windows updates I sometimes have to shut it off at 30% and it will the continue as normal. That being said, when it’s running it runs great. Have it with a 2690 (v1) and 64 GB of ECC ddr3 ram.
Hi, great video! is vt-x and vt-d enabled by default? thks, did you test in virtual env like proxmox?
Lower PCI is 4x, one of m.2 slots is pci-2.0 (half the speed)
You don't need another bios to overclock memory (its a bug or something, just press F9 on memory configuration page, and You can set memory speed, 2133 is the limit of 2678-CPU, there is voltage controll in bios for memory, but don't work)
There are custom bios's for all core turbo boost (yes, without installing efi drivers etc, some with lowering voltage, for less concumption, and heat, if Your CPU can handle it)
ive found LGA1700 and am5 motherboards for around 100$ aswell i recommend going for those as the motherboard is the hardest component to upgrade down the line
Hi,
Thanks for sharing. Do you know if the DDR3 is organized on quad channel on this board ?
I got the for the lg1150 socks..really good board