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so quite a while ago here at Tech yes City we took a look at the x79 Wan and board from Aliexpress and it was cheap it came in with a pretty good price but it wasn't a true x79 motherboard and so I was left a little bit disappointed because it could just barely handle a six core 3930k with out-of-the-box speeds and you couldn't overclock or do anything like that however here right beside me is an upgrade this is the running x79 motherboard now it is a true x79 chipset you've got eight dims of memory also got what looks like a seven phase vrm we'll be taking a closer look at that very soon but you've also got four sixteen speed PCIe slots and support apparently for slight overclock so I'm gonna be running temperature tests on this thing today telling you if it can survive the 3930k at overclocked settings or if it can overclock or how far can overclock because actually haven't tested this board out yet but another thing to you guys have been asking me to take a look at the dual CPU socket at wanan boards and honestly guys I actually have gone through dual socketed CPUs in the past and I'm not a big fan of them they have problems with games and they also have other little problems that you can run into especially when you're using it for desktop usage but besides all that they feel in my opinion a lot larger than single CPU solutions but anyway back to this running motherboard you can currently get it for around 180 Aussie dollars and that's shipped internationally I think that's around 130 US dollars which isn't a bad price for a brand-new x70 9 motherboard also another bonus is the build quality actually feels really solid they've used the stick PCB you've got 10 USB slots at the back to those being USB 3 as well as having a black PCB and eight solder ports and on top of that you get USB 3 front out and MDOT two Wi-Fi connectivity supports so this board looks pretty promising but let's open up the box check what else is inside take this heatsink off and do a little bit of analysis of the vrm for you so taking a closer look at this vrm it's actually looking like they're doubling the phases so you get fourteen phases instead of seven but I've got no idea what these chokes are they have no branding on them the capacitors just say r-la to a twenty and then the MOSFETs say 69 like that looks like that's the actual brand that makes the MOSFETs with the codename of em three zero nine eight em so if you guys know any details about this VRM then please let us know in the comment section below we can help everyone out but in terms of how it performs I guess there's only one more test to do and that's put this heatsink back on and then see what we can get out of the boss in terms of overclock ability as well as heat and give you guys some numbers but also inside the box itself you get the i/o shield as well as a very flimsy manual and the CD driver which you can use as a frisbee but let's say this thing is indeed ultra true I think they've ripped that off from gigabyte I think that's the one that gigabyte uses here you've got very basic options for memory speed we can go up to 1866 or 1600 which isn't too bad I mean having 1866 at your disposal is decent especially if you can make it quad pumped so we can leave that alone it should be automatically on auto should rank the four memory sticks in quad-channel if it doesn't we'll find out in Windows but going back to the CPU settings there should be options to overclock the CPU itself so going over here I think it's in CPU power management and right down here we've got power technology you can disable that if you want custom I do like to have the turbo States on especially when you're idling on the desktop they help save power but we do have overclocking down here and so it's a got a ratio limit of maybe you know on Sandy Bridge you could easily get these CPUs up to 4.6 but just for overclocking sake to test if it works out properly we're gonna overclock this to 4.4 gigahertz just to see if it works in terms of voltage control it does look like it's very limited on this board I will just have a look and see what I can find but again this BIOS is a very simple BIOS I've seen this before when I had the jewel Xeon rig it looks like it's pretty much the exact same bar so there isn't a whole lot of control but you still do have some basic extra features which you can take advantage of and now it's it's staying at sort of 3.9 gigahertz maximum it's sort of fluctuating between that 3.6 to 3.9 definitely not the 4.4 that I try to lock in there so I gotta go back into the bar straight change a few things around because it does look like this wants to max out at pretty much 3.9 gigahertz since it is using the C 600 chipset so it's actually not using I don't think an official x79 chipset because looks like the options are limited and as I said before with that Jules II on Bill dated in the past the BIOS looks exactly the same but let's try to take one more peek back in the boss and see what we can do before we actually start testing this thing so one good thing about this board so far is that it is indeed displaying quad-channel memory with the 1600 megahertz Corsair that we locked in there so we've almost been stressed testing this motherboard for a good 30 minutes now and there's some good and bad news the first of all the good news is is that the V RMS okay we're in a pretty hot ambient temperature here of 28 degrees and it's got to around 94 degrees maximum with the IR sensor and so this is alright at 140 watts the problem is however is that we can't get above 3.9 gigahertz managed to get the 3.9 gigahertz completely stable by changing the power limit settings in the BIOS with the seconds on the limits but besides that we just can't get any higher now I have heard that you can get higher limits and we'll talk about that in the conclusion but for what it is right here and what we're staring at 140 watts delivery through the vrm should ideally be good for around four point two to four point four gigahertz at least since at this 3.9 gigahertz setting we are indeed over vaulting for that 3.9 gigahertz so I would like to see some manual control here because what it's doing at this 3.9 key goes it's just overall ting and essentially that 140 watts is just too much for this set clock speed Bob with all that aside let's put this motherboard back on the test bench and run it through all the tech yes paces test out that onboard audio onboard NIC and also the USB ports and play some video games on it and just see if it's smooth with something like an RT X 2070 for example so finished taking this motherboard now through all the paces here and the good thing is is that it includes a one gigabit per second NIC and now you might be stopping and laughing they're like does that stand it on all motherboards that you get right gigabyte our RK m SI su some motherboards but the thing is some chinese motherboard manufacturers will actually only put even in 2018 and 2019 a 100 megabits per second / 10 megabits per second nic solution and a lot of people wouldn't even notice because their internet isn't that fast or they're not transferring files over the network at those speeds but this motherboard does include one gigabit solution 2 USB 3 speeds as well I checked them out they were working fine but an odd thing about that was seemed to cap my Kingston Drive at a little over 200 megabytes when this drive is easily capable of going into like 300 and 350 megabytes so that was a little bit odd on the USB 3 also as we saw with the vrm temperatures as before when we're testing that out they got a little bit hot but it was capable of running the 3930k to its max advertised turbo multiplier I would like to put in a 1650 v2 as a lot of people are buying the running combos with that CPU in particular perhaps it has a higher native multiplier and because it's on 22 nanometer as opposed to 32 nanometer it can utilize that max power limit and clock higher I believe some people have got that CPU to 4.2 gigahertz on all caused on this particular motherboard but here today we only got 3.9 and in Cinebench it got close to a thousand points we had quad-channel memory support and also another bonus on top of that is I decided to test out the onboard audio and it's pretty bad I mean there's no noise filters which is okay but anything over plus 20 DB 100 noise level starts to really bring some noise into the mic so you want to keep this on plus 20 DB volume level or 50 if you decide to get this board but also the audio out that's going to your headphones I did a frequency response and there was a massive amount of bass roll-off 20 Hertz and under so if you like sub bass you're going to missing out with this motherboard but not only mentioned that the actual frequency response curve itself was very shaky which is indicating of cheap components used throughout the audio process there so I wouldn't be buying this if you're an audiophile or if you are an audiophile definitely have a separate piece of DAC amp solution ready for your headphones but then the last thing I tested with audio was the crosstalk levels and they were actually very good about minus 80 dB and the funny thing is on this motherboard even at a volume level of 100 there was no leaking like we've seen with practically all the major motherboard manufacturers with Z 370 z 390 and stuff in 2018 where their left channel was leaking over to the right channel past the volume level of 90 this problem doesn't exist on this motherboard so it can be fixed and I would like to see that fixed on those high-end motherboards in 2019 but all that aside let's move on now to the verdict with the running motherboard is it worth your money and I mean at 130 u.s. it is a step up over the WAN and board I would definitely buy this over that one on board even though it cost a little bit more it's got more memory support it's got a quad channel memory it's also got native features that work properly and it just actually is an ex 79 well not really it's a C 600 chipset which does have better support than I think they were using like the H 77 in the one and from if I remember correctly so this is good that they're using a proper chipset and the vrm does seem to do a better job than the one and did when it came to supporting the six core it's just if you're into overclocking and you're looking to get say for instance a 4.6 gigahertz or 4.8 gigahertz overclock on a 3930k then you're going to unfortunately be out of luck with the running board as well but it did have good build quality and it was a step up over the one and it is kind of recommended if you want to get or if you say for instance you come in to cheap ddr3 memory or a cheap 3930k or a cheap Xeon 1650 v2 for example which you can pick them up for very cheap I believe I picked these 3930k is up for I think it was $60 or something this is very cheap so if you can get the six cause for super cheap and you're looking for a motherboard and you just can't find one or they're overpriced the x79 boards out there then this one will do the job but just know it does have some limitations I'd say the audio and also the overclocking do kind of let this down and the vrm temps they weren't that bad considering the ambient temperatures and considering that we were pushing 140 watts through it so not all that bad for the running board and of course the last benefit of this board is if you do get the Xeon chips then you can run registered ddr3 memory on this board too so there is that option and when it came to gaming it was very smooth quad channel memory is a good thing 3.9 gigahertz even on Sandy Bridge over 6 cores 12 threads will do a fine job in 2019 even with the latest and greatest titles up until maybe in RTX 2060 or in RTX 2070 but after that you may come into some problems depending on the title and depending on whether it's CPU hungry or not hey guys hope you enjoyed today's video about the running motherboard I pick this one up off the actual same way that I showed it in the video today I got it on eBay with 5 or 10% off I think I got it with 10% off because there was like a sale going on at the time and this was actually a while ago so I had to go to America for 3 weeks so didn't get a chance to do it do anything with it until now and so I hope you enjoyed this random look at a random unknown motherboard maker if you did then be sure to hit that like button also let us know in the comments section below if you like this board you liked the aesthetic or you just liked it in general you think it's maybe a decent option I do definitely think it's a decent option just I did want a little bit more especially in terms of flexibility in the BIOS and overclocking but if you guys want me to take a look at that dual socket one and board a can but I'm going to tell you straight up I already know the conclusion with it I'm not going to be recommending it to pretty much the majority of people just for those who need cores and threads for specific application on a specific budget anyway guys I'll catch you in another tech video very soon if you enjoy the content as always and you want to see it the moment it's uploaded be sure to hit that sub button with the notification belt and also if you want to catch a sneak preview of the content before it hits YouTube be sure to check us out on Instagram Tech yes City and I'll catch you in the next one peace out for now BAE you