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trade shows like computex can be a complete sea of random companies you've

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never heard of but every once in a while the random gets so random that i sit up

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and pay attention so this is ght

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um i don't know exactly what they do but

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they've got weird geforce graphics cards with sort of uh looks like they

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kind of came up with their own way of doing the nvidia logo and they're kind

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of older ones like they've got a gtx 650

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ti on display here and then they've got a poster back there let's go have a look

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at this one of the biggest selling points in their booth is apparently this

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x79 motherboard but that's weird because intel

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hasn't made any chips for the x-79 platform

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in quite literally years so what's the deal behind this

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i would like to find out so what can you tell me about this

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motherboard yes this motherboard can work for the game

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yeah yeah and there's the memory stock yep yes is

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it dual or quad channel yeah four channel four channel okay

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um so where do you get x79 chipsets uh yes

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chipsets chipsets and their cpu yeah

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yeah but where do you get them does intel still make these two yes they

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still make them yeah yeah really and then so where do you sell a

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motherboard like this uh certifier yeah always sell to the

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south america south america yeah

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anywhere else aisha also south america and asia

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so how do they buy a cpu for it because intel doesn't make these cpus anymore uh

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we we collected the used cpu you know

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signal hand yeah interesting

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so if i'm in north america can i buy this

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if you want you can buy it oh but like i can buy this one yeah you can you if you

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want you can buy yeah so how much is it this one is about the 35

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okay what currency is that currency yeah

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us dollars us dollars okay i don't have any us dollars i have i have ntd

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so how much how much ntd uh

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i literally calculate okay all right thank you so according to the rep here

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they're getting genuine x79 chipsets from intel but as for the cpus well we

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know intel doesn't make those anymore so apparently they collect the used ones

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and then they bundle them together for customers in south america and asia now

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they don't currently have any sales channel in north america where i could

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obtain something like this but they said the pricing is about 95 us dollars and

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apparently if i can cough up the money right now i can buy it and take it home

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with me to test oh i even get an i o shield

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hey deluxe nice

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sata cable all right not bad okay

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there you go i am the proud owner of this random

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motherboard so i don't have any of the parts that i would need to test it here

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with me but that's okay i'm gonna throw this in my bag take it home and see how

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this whole thing shakes out all right it's been a while we're back

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in the studio i've got my uh test bench prepared here and we're ready

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to find out if our weird x79 motherboard

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made the trip back to the studio in one piece but

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before we even do that i've got a couple more interesting things to share with

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you so i did reach out to intel about the current availability of x79 legacy

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chipsets and their reply was we have no idea what they're talking

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about no we don't still make those so

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that's cool and then number two

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is that i did notice that this motherboard had an m.2 slot

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and that felt a little weird to me at the time but it wasn't until i googled

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it and i found this link to our forum that says

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nvme support is not included in the bios of x79 boards blah blah blah et cetera

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et cetera basically not a thing so naturally

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in addition to ram

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cpu graphics card all this good stuff let's see if it works with this thing

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first order of business for me naturally has to be to pop this chipset heatsink

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off and have a look at what's down

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interesting so

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they've got a couple of custom plastic shims on here to keep the heatsink from

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wobbling and accidentally cracking the dye and then they've actually got some

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writing in pencil on the chip that also

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appears to be fairly scuffed up so it

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looks like my first theory that they're pulling these chips off of

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dead and or recycled boards and repurposing them

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does appear to hold some water especially in light of that information

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from intel so i don't know why they wouldn't just be

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upfront about that but hey one thing that is potentially new is

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the socket i can't think of a reason why

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foxconn wouldn't still be able to provide lga 2011 sockets

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with that said i also don't know for certain that it's new

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that's not something we'll be able to evaluate though because we do know that

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this is a demo unit board i went with a

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4960x so that's the top end chip for this platform it's a

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six core processor i think it peaks at uh four gigahertz boost

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so not too impressive by today's standards but

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certainly still a very capable machine which is exactly where the use case for

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a motherboard like this really comes from because there's still all these very usable chips but because the

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motherboards die faster than the cpus do there's no boards to put them in

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know i don't get it i'm just so weirded out right now all

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right let's go ahead and install this on my test bench and as you guys might recall corsair sponsored our trip to

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computex 2019 where we got this board so

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we felt it was appropriate to use their hydrox series water cooling

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to make sure that we are getting the utmost out of our weird motherboard you

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know we wouldn't want to have any cooling issues holding us back so we're going to be

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going with their xc9 rgb cpu block which

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has their pre-applied thermal compound their rgb lighting and of course their

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skived micro fin base really really tight base on that one i haven't

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actually installed one of these yet but it looks like the mounting mechanism is

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about as simple as it can be so this is the one that's designed for the high end

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sockets so your thread ripper and your intel atdt all right next we're going to

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try out their compression fittings these were made in partnership with bits

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power so i'm expecting them to be freaking well bits power awesome

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so this is my first look at the accessory package for the xd5 rgb this

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is their pump reservoir combo that i really approve

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of their approach with so they've gone with like a really really durable material for

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every part of it and then they've gone with a genuine laying d5 pump uh just

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rebranding it sometimes you're better off building something new from scratch

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but sometimes you're better off just going with something that you know is

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awesome and the d5 is a really good choice there it's really well regarded

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not just for its performance but also for its reliability

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360 degree

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peel oh my god for their radiators corsair partnered with hardware labs

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a long time industry veteran fun fact

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hardware labs was actually one of the first vendors that i ever placed an

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order with when i was working as a product manager at ncix

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so so technically i ordered with them before i was

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actually a product manager i was still working in like the customer care area

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and answering support tickets about computer systems so that's neat

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i still remember when bitspower came onto the scene i was like oh so your

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entire company is making water cooling fittings good luck with that

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and here we are partnerships with corsair now my test

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bench gpu is decidedly last gen so i'm not going to be water cooling my card

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but i did want to address some of the comments i made about this thing in my

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video where i upgraded my personal rig where i criticized

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some things as cost saving measures when it turns out they were actually very

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expensive to do like the molding for this piece up here it feels like kind of

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a cheap plastic but as it turns out it's made out of like this super rugged stuff

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that was really really expensive to do the work for so

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there you have it i also called their backplate flimsy if i recall correctly

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and they were like okay fair point but um linus it's pci

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certified so you can actually install it slot to slot with another card that's

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something that you can't do with the thicker ones and i was like

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now this is one key thing that i would have done differently from corsair on

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this product line i wouldn't have gone with a thin wall tubing i like me a 3 8

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inch id 5 8 inch od tubing but

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the reason that they did it this way is that if you use their dies you end up

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with less of that kind of transparent

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um you know border effect and it ends up

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looking more like that color just kind of flowing around

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your system so that's their justification

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this stuff does tend to be a little bit harder to keep from kinking but because

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it's nice and pliable it's also not too bad either fun fact

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i pioneered the concept of selling tubing as pre-cut 10 foot lengths

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as far as i'm aware i forced our suppliers back when i was at ncix to

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stop selling by the foot to us because we had no way of tracking it as a single

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sku and made them create part numbers for me

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of 10-foot rolls which i had determined were

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the right amount to plumb a basic system and not too much overkill for a much

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bigger one i do have to give corsair credit for a

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first attempt this really is very simple to do like

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there's not much to screw up other than getting the inlet and outlet wrong on

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the cpu block or the pump and as long as you consult the manual you shouldn't

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have trouble with that anyway i bet the makers of this motherboard were never

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expecting a titan x to be installed on it

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see if it handles it okay i'm sure corsair has a better way for me

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to fill this but um wait wait wait

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gotta get that better product placement in there blindness tech tips water bottle

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ltdstore.com this board does not have a lot of fan

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headers on it so yeah we're getting two fans here kids

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what have i gotten us into

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you know what i'm gonna use the sata cable that they provided me nice

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sata cable all right not bad okay so this motherboard actually has like

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jumpers for what would normally be bios settings on

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it this one is jpower one to two

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one and two is always power two and three is s o power there it is why is

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classic start menu installed on this whose drive is this so i plugged in my

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sata drive thinking i'll deal with that first

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and then i'll try the nvme one later and check this out it booted up right to my

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nvme ssd no configuration no hassle

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nothing we're running nvme on x79 to put this in

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perspective not only does a fully featured x79 board

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like this x79 deluxe from asus

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not have an m.2 slot on it

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see that you can't even just like put a pci

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express to m.2 riser card in it because

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to my knowledge none of the motherboard manufacturers like the mainstream ones

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implemented the support for booting from it not necessarily because the chipset

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couldn't do it it's just pci express just because they were legacy products

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and not supported so the fact that this thing exists kind of

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blows my mind before we go any further priorities

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got to get our rgb lighting hooked up

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now obviously i'm not doing the greatest job of cable management here right now

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but i think you guys get the point so we can

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daisy chain this one here okay and

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hey now it's time for the moment you've been

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waiting for we're going to do a quick cinebench r15 run and see if this

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thing's actually even freaking stable if it turbos up correctly

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now our score is a little on the low side but something i noticed when i was

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checking out our turbo speeds is that our memory is only running at 13 33

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megahertz so maybe we can go into the bios do a little bit of tuning

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well that is a retro looking bios right there if i've ever seen one northbridge

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configuration modern motherboards and by modern i even mean this one do not have

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north bridges but i see what they mean here the north bridge used to be the

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link between the memory and the cpu so

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this has all the memory settings in it i see where they're going with it all

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right so we can load up an xmp profile so that's cool

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well okay then so there are a lot of settings in here but

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whether or not they do anything appears to be a different story

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there's no way that's accurate so wherever their probe is is somewhere in

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the middle of nowhere all right it's starting to show its weakness a little bit our xmp profile does not appear to

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have in fact done anything i mean this is an extreme edition processor

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overclocking it should be as simple as changing the multiplier but now that i think about it i didn't see any voltage

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adjustments in there you know we take for granted that an x79 motherboard

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should be very expensive but the part of the reason that they're so expensive is

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because they have this much more robust vrm solution that's designed to

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deliver tons and tons of current within

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like a very very narrow margin if anyone was crazy enough to build a super basic

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hundred dollar board for you know cpus that starred at four or five hundred

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dollars for the lineup i guess this is kind of what it would look like no

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memory overclock i'll give it this it has really good failed boot condition

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recovery all these buttons you can tweak and then when they don't work it's like

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hey didn't work it's fine we didn't expect

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that to work anyway put it back to default it turbo's up to 3.9 in a

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lighter load so yeah we're getting close to that max 4 gigahertz turbo okay

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honestly though that's everything i needed to know

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that's a pretty smooth gaming experience okay so with some quick craigslisting

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we've got uh 20 bucks for four gigs so that you could

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do 16 gigs times four sticks for 80 bucks so somewhere between 60 and 80

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bucks gets you either quad channel 16 gigs or

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dual channel 16 gigs all right so you can get a 3960x for

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100 us dollars and then this board is like 100 bucks so we're talking

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less than the price of a brand new cpu potentially for a

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board ram and cpu if you're willing to do some bargain hunting okay so we've

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got ourselves a pretty cool budget little gaming platform here but

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i can't take credit for this idea it was actually david my cameraman today who

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came up with this there's one more thing that we can try out

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could it possibly support sli

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yeah no okay

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well that answers that question david you know what it was a good idea

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so there it is guys yeah it wasn't a perfect experience but i mean that's

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deus ex mankind divided running on very high 2560 by 1440 and looking

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pretty freaking on point so as far as

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budget gaming systems go if you can get your hands on one of these my

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understanding is you can find listings for it on sites like aliexpress under

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different brands presumably they are re-badging it then

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hey it looks like honestly not a terrible option we didn't have any

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compatibility issues it boots up fast and the nvme m.2 drive worked exactly as

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expected on another note massive thanks to

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corsair for sponsoring this video as well as our coverage of computex 2019 in

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general their hydrox lineup of water cooling is super simple to use looks

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absolutely fantastic and we had no performance complaints about it during

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this video whatsoever so you can check that out at the link in the video

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description also down there is our merch store which has cool shirts like this

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one and oh yeah soon to be this one

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this one's really cool as well as our community forum which you guys should

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totally join