They are so cheap it's hard to resist :) Mine works well, but there are quirks like only 100 Mbit Ethernet, non working Turbo and the PCIe slot is limited to 8x as well as no fan speed control. They do this to minimise power draw as much as possible.
@@thadszmaciasz8971 Paying 20-30 more than what they cost. So to explain for lacking of brain a motherboard that has no brand is around 70nzd where you can spend 100nzd and get a main brand one. Explained well enough?
Other than Voiceoverpete this is the most wholesome person on youtube, I love your videos and you seem like a genuinely nice person. I don’t know how anyone could not like you. Keep up the good work! :)
calm down, sandy and ivy bridge are basically the same thing little difference. I built a computer with the 3570k when it was new and it was great, then I had a 4670k and then a 6600k and then I had something else cant remember, and now I got a ryzen 7 1700. And will be buying 3rd gen ryzen.
@@sohailbabar47 I got an AFOX GPU and when I used a software GPU Z it says fake gt 730 and Cannot update it to latest version I know you're asking a motherboard just sharing what I have cause it same brand
@@Tetsujou Thanx for the reply mate...It seems they aren't a respectable brand since I haven't found any review on their products.I would go probably with msi or some other brand..
usually these kind of mobo's are made in the "night shift" by chinese OEMs. Basically its the time where they had no orders or it's past working time, but turning off the machine will actually cost more than letting it run and produce more stuff, that's why they still pumping more stuff out and selling them unbranded for cheap. quality wise it's still good, maybe on par with the branded one, although you can't really be sure since they were made unbranded, they have no standard whatsoever and probably got no quality check or any tests either. it's cheap, sure. but buy one at your own risk. if you hit a right one, it will save you a couple of bucks, but getting a bad one will potentially cost you your entire system.
I think is the same kind of the one featured in the Phil's Computer Lab video. The Onboard LAN is only 10/100Mbps, and the CPU Fan conector is aways on 100%, they resell those cheap board in Brazil as ISYNC brand
This is OEM board, it also manufactured under several names, like zebronics on India, Amptron on Indonesia, VenomRX on Indonesia Similarities between those boards are uncanny. Aftersales support is problematic, no manual download, no driver download, no bios update
@@EchoDroll $45.87+ for the posted one. You didn't bother to select the product. www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=+X7-V121%EF%BB%BF&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15 But that is way too much for an unbranded/not-as-high-quality board, and not even the cheapest that was posted. Searching "LGA1155 motherboard" brought this up: www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=LGA1155+motherboard&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15 Since it's LGA1155, getting anything new is pointless unless you get a great deal on it. Completely stupid to waste so much on an outdated socket.
If you're specifically looking for a mini DTX form factor board (essentially ITX with one more slot), these chinese noname affairs are pretty much your *only* choice.
Old video, I know, but I picked up an Intel board, 1155, off of eBay for $40 shipped. Nice, feature rich, two USB3, 2 external SATA, even has DisplayPort out! Great little system for my daughter's 3rd Gen i7 to live on.
i bought one of these for a custom build I was working on, where I was building a PC inside of a shell of a N64. the concept didnt work out that well, however when my old dell optiplex PC died, this board was put to good use with the residual parts of said PC, in a ghetto modded SFF case to allow for usage of full height cards (also using an El-cheapo chinese PCI-E riser ribbon cable). safe to say it all works surprisingly well still
6:38 You can read the part numbers, and to me they do look like extremely good quality capacitors since there was a nichicon capacitor on there. You're giving this board an unnecessarily bad review due to its price, in terms of quality it looks great. This is a lot better then a secondhand board in the fact that it works and works good. If it didn't they couldn't sell it and expect a profit, unlike a used board where you truly have no idea what you're getting.
I built my younger son a computer based on one of the similar boards to this one, a socket 2011 board so I could use an 8 core xeon I picked up for $25. It only supports dual channel memory, however it did work with 16 gig server dims, which are cheap as dirt. And the PEG slot is electrically 16x. Its performance is right in line with what is to be expected. It isn't as fast as a proper server board with quad channel memory and tunable bios, but it's actually not far behind when said server board is running dual channel. It is within 5% which for sub $100 invested all said, (not including spare parts I had for drives and case) seems good to me. It has been running for almost 2 years with a 1060ti. It has been surprisingly stable so long as it isn't fucked with. My son couldn't be happier that it has more than enough power to play FortNight and stream to twitch. As well as be fast at editing and exporting his video's. Yeah the xeon's lower clocks are not ideal as a gaming machine, but I didn't give a shit about the performance, he was only 10 when I built it, and he thinks I built him Megatron. Its single threaded feels like it is half of my 4790K but he doesn't care. And 16 threads it is actually pretty good at exporting video as well, seems every bit as fast as my machine there, if not faster.
You may find it funny, but I've build a few cheap pcs in my life, which consisted of cheap, unbranded chinese hardware, including cpus. But, many of them still works - I built them around 2011-2013. I tend to keep track of my customers, otherwise it is pretty tough to survive nowadays, especially small pc businesses. Last time I checked, as of November '19, those cheap machines still work, only a few of them failed (I believe six or seven failed and I build new ones from better parts). There's one almost unknown brand - I'll edit this commentary when I'll be back at the shop after the quarantine - with name beginning with A, pretty long chinese name written with latin alphabet, they produce motherboards with yellow and brown textolite, which tend to be pretty reliable. It's been more than a year since I've last ordered from them - I had a direct contact, so I don't know if they still exist. If they do, I'd be happy to shoot a video myself.
IMPORTANT NOTE !!!! I have one too, i have been using it for 6 months no problem, beside it does not support turbo boost due to the crappy VRM it has ! I'm paring it with an i5 2400, witch shows a clock of 1.6ghz on idle, and 3.1ghz underload ! While paring the same CPU with an msi branded mobo, shows 3.1ghz on idle and 3.4ghz under load !
Hou Ouss Yes, mine does the same! Also only 100 Mbps Ethernet, PCIe is limited to 8x and no fan speed control as it has a fake 4 pin connector :) The layout is also quite weird on some boards.
@@philscomputerlab i would rather go for a cheap used Z68 motherboard for the same price, but these are extremly rare on my country, ane i can't get one from ebay ! So an H61 msi mobo is still a better choice than this crap lol
I have a Chinese LGA 1155 mini-ITX board from AliExpress (the green PCB pictured one, though it arrived in dark blue). I'm using a Xeon E3-1290 and it turbos just fine from 3.6ghz - 4ghz stock. It being able to turbo was the determining factor for me whether I was going to return it or not. So far I'm pretty happy with it.
@@philscomputerlab due to parallel market in my country, a 56$ mobo would cost double the price, that another reason why i'm sticking to the crappy mobo lol ! Africa is like an open air prison for us xD
In my experience, paying a little extra up front for a good warranty on a good product is invariably a good decision. Especially for something like a PC.
They're $55 right now for a h97. Kind of want one they look neat. Although with that large of a cost it'd be mostly to get something that looks better than a Optiplex board since I can get a much newer board cpu combo for cheap that way. Size and colors are really cool on these I also like how simple the boards look. The white h97 looks amazing, would look amazing with a Galaxy or Gigabyte windeforce
I think this is a good idea. It allows you the ability to purchase cheap components to build a cheap pc. I think that a more reliable name brand board and reputable source would be the best way to get when buying used PC parts. Great video, keep the content coming!
I bought one of these a while ago but had a BIOS issue and couldn't boot with any of the chips I had available. I sent back for a full refund, and am trying my luck with another. Good luck!
Your videos are always so good, with fresh ideas, but I really think you should start thinking about buying an entry level DSLR like a Canon T6i, to improve your quality, your actual cameras (including the iPhone) need a refresh ;)
4:50 The USB 3.0 header footprint is there, just unpopulated. I wonder if it would work after soldering in the header. Maybe check if there is a USB 3.0 controller or something in device manager?
Probably not, why would one put a USB 3.0 controller but not the connectors? Chips also cost money. P. S. That's true only if I got it right and the controller looks like a separate chip, not amalgamated with chipset or etc. Sorry for my poor knowledge
If you can, check who makes the capacitors on that board. Quality branded capacitors would probably be a good indicator of quality. Plus they're one of the most common things to go bad on motherboards. They're not the end all be all of it but it's a helpful indicator of the quality of components that make up the board in general as if they wanted to cut corners that'd be one of the 1st things they'd go cheap on. I think Chemichon is pretty standard brand used by more commonly known brands like MSI and Gigabyte.
I have found that some motherboards have problems with 'Gaming' Keyboards and Mice as they usually have memory and controllers of their own. I keep a bunch of old oem keyboards to make it easire.
I went for a Huanan (Zhi) X79 Deluxe board for $138, and purchased an E5-1650 V2 CPU ($134). The board is an improvement over the Huanan that was reviewed on TechYesCity. This board I believe uses the C602 chipset and can support EEC registered memory (server grade). As I have 32GB on my DELL dual socket T5600 (w/ dual E5-2667's), I will take 16GB from that rig to install on the new rig. I also understand this board allows for overclocking up to 4.2Ghz without reflashing/modding the BIOS to get to 4.5Ghz. The E5-2XXX CPU's do not support overclocking, so it appears the best value for money choices on this board are E5 1650 V1, E5-1650 V2 (note E5-1680 V2 is still significantly more expensive). In any event, I haven't received all of the components, so can't say more at this time.
This LGA 1155 motherboard doesn’t overclock because H61 doesn’t support overclocking. You have to get the Chinese P67 motherboard version for the overclocking feature.
i´ve made the experience, that simple board layouts with less and basic features are the most reliables. So i would expect this board will work for a very long time, if the components stay in their specs and cooling is proper.
This is along the same lines as PSUs. Had a friend that needed a new one and wanted as cheap as possible. I recommended not going cheap, but he didn't have a lot of money, so I snagged some unbranded PSU off Newegg for like $25. We plugged it in, turned it on and watched the smoke rise up from his motherboard as it fried it. Later on, after he got money together to get a new computer, we tested some of his old parts and found that the PSU took the motherboard, the RAM and even one fan. I get that not everyone has unlimited funds to build a computer, but he found out that day that it would have been cheaper to buy a more expensive PSU instead of having to replace nearly his entire system.
If you're specifically looking for a mini-DTX form factor board (essentially ITX with one more slot), these chinese noname affairs are pretty much your *only* choice. Yes, you can easily get used 1155 boards cheaper, but these in 99% of the cases are either regular ATX size or microATX. The amount of DTX boards on offer is microscopically small...
I bought one of those unbranded chinese boards for an old xeon not being able to find a close reasonably priced board from 8 years ago... It worked but the chipset ran hotter than the sun
I got one from eBay around a year ago because I needed a modern motherboard with Sandy Bridge-E Xeon support. It's cheap and Chinese and it didn't come with any instructions whatsoever. However, it has USB 3.0 and SATA3, and it just seems to work fine. So I can't really complain. I wouldn't buy one if it weren't for the Xeon though.
I got a motherboard+CPU+Ram combo from Taobao 2 years ago for around 150 pounds E5-2660, 4*4GB 1333mhz ECC DDR3, paired with a GTX1060 6GB ver....so far it is working fine, apart from the broken temp sensors on board ...half of it says the temps were below 0°C while other are above 120°C
I'd love to see more of this content from you mate there is also meant to be a Chinese X86 processor would be great if you can get hold of one of them too I know other people on RUclips do these kind of videos but I prefer your ones
The only good thing about these boards are sometimes manufacturers do make the board for rare sockets and that's it. X79 and X58 boards are insanely hard to find at good prices.
The quality of a motherboard is not judged only by the capacitors, it depends mainly on the other components of the VRM and the short-circuit protections. Just don't cry when your graphics card dies because of the unreliable energy that comes through the pcie slot, I repair motherboards and I've seen this a lot.
Hello sir i just got one of those motherboards but my motherboard is a b75 chipset and the motherbord came in a very pro looking box made with hard card board and i was scared after i saw your video so i did some research and i found out that the motherboard is made by a company call'd wivio or some thing like that and turns out it was a good motherboard company in china so thanks for your video if i didn't saw youre video i was going to buy another motherboard love youre videos 😁 and its been 2 years and i didnt had any problems
I have an ECS H81 board in my system. It was under $40 USD iirc. Works great other than the ethernet port stopped working, so I stuck a NIC in there on top of my 1070 lmao. It's not terrible for a cheapy board, it even allows me to pseudo overclock my non K series CPU by permanently holding the maximum 4 core boost frequency, at lower than stock voltage, resulting in decent temps with the stock cooler.
@@maltheIDM, Linux is not designed for gaming and there are no gaming video drivers for it. Most people prefer Windows to Linux as it's pretty much user-friendlier than the second one, so there's no reason for driver developers to spend their time on developing Linux drivers. All adequate Linux-gamers have Windows installed on a separate partition/HDD so they can play occasionally.
I recently bought a huananzhi rx 3.0 for 55$ and so far so good,i paired it with rx 580 and xean x5670,the performance is good,shadow of the tomb raider is above 60 fps in high settings and no stuttering at all
I'm pleased with my £60 Chinese H61 m/board it was branded and boxed with all accessories including a drivers (not that I needed those) but I've never heard of the actual brand. Mine was sold as new and packaged in very good condition. The only negative was the badley translated manual. I think caveats still apply if something is too good to be true
If Im correct , there is some new motherboard ( for intel 4th , 3rd , 2nd gen ) with old chips ( nice way to recycle ) sale in China market ( for budget build )
Took your advice too late and picked up a used ASROCK Extreme 3 X79 for $200. About the same price as what I spent on the failed HuananZhi Deluxe (plus import duties). Happy now that the build is OK and my other components were not damaged by that Chinese board. The Huanan purchase...a complete loss.
Problem with a secondhand board is that it has old capacitors which can fail. At least with a new Chinese board, it has new capacitors which are less likely to fail.
saw unbranded x99 on ebay was a bit tempted but the board seemed odd it required 8 pin and 4 pin power and the 4 pin power was almost next to the first pcie slot
Great content mate, love your channel. I think when you got enough money you can invest on a better camera, the video quality and colors can be improved ven more.
People in the USA and UK are obsessed with brands. This is just how they grew up. If you want a good product you looked at the brand and asked your friends how that brand works. The reality in 2018 is brands are just decals put on the product and have no indication of who actually made the product. He said you should buy from a "reliable manufacturer" but who? Do you think ASUS and EVGA are manufacturers? They order their products from the same factory in China where this board was made. They add their profit margin and perhaps a cool decal or two. The only positive to a brand is the company has a reputation and possibly some warranty service. The latter depends on who it is because quite a few big names don't stand behind their products.
there needs to be more manufacturers like this in the UK and US its kinda sad actually cuz even if these things have a failure rate of 50% they would be very worth it if u could just RMA easy
it's just not financially viable. China has so many advantages in this regard in terms of keeping costs down one such thing they excel in to an absurd degree is their shipping costs. I think their government keeps shipping costs artificially low. And this carries over into shipping outside the country. There is some world agreement where countries carry on shipping items once they reach their borders and it's based on the seller countries own shipping rates plus their country tier rank. China somehow, ignoring them being the worlds 2nd largest economy, gets to stay in a lower tier, which effectively means other countries have to essentially play into China subsidized shipping costs. This gives China a massive advantage. Hence why they small Chinese companies or individual sellers can ship things to the rest of the world for so damn cheap, and anyone in the US or UK would probably bankrupt themselves trying to sell things to china.
@@stevesmith1383 doesnt matter if its cheap or not 25 days in customs both ways makes it a really crappy choice with such a high failure rate it doesnt make sense to buy things like this as a consumer in the UK and US his USB are basically gonna stop working soon and the board is a paper weight
@@cidsapient7154 I didn't say you should buy it, I said US and UK manufacturers can't compete with the price of making these off brand boards for obsolete socket types
@@stevesmith1383 and im saying it doesnt matter how cheap they are they will never be cheap enough for what the end user needs, no one can be without a PC for 2 months based on high failure rate this is why we need manufacturers like them here, even at $5-10 more its worth it these facilities are mostly automated with the majority of human interaction going to QA no matter what the global economy is failing and no country will be able to stand on its own without producing what it needs in semiconductors fractional reserve banking was a system designed to fail
I'm thinking of buying one myself which is suppose to be a P55 LGA 1156 Motherboard that looks similar to that. Its funny though cause BIOSTAR and MicroStar International (MSI) used to be bad makers of boards themselves. I mean that can be still bad sometimes, but not as bad as they were before.
Wow my h61 board just died and i was planning on buying one of those cause in South Africa we don't really have a good second market for computer parts And what luck u made a vid😁
Actually I had a i5 4460, didn’t feel like spending 100$+ on eBay for an h81 board, so I found a generic Chinese h81 chipset board on Amazon for 30, with prime. What a steal that was, it had the same layout as the one in the video expect it has USB 3.0.. also the ad says pci-e 3.0 16x but it’s a 8x slot. Also said 1gb lan port. It’s actually 500mb lan port
I have had an X58 (1336) Chinese board, running a X5650 for over 1 year with no problems . (It can't take anything much higher specced than that). Anyway -it's only used for browsing the net . Apart from being a bit sparse,( it has an msata port-however), it always boots twice before windows starts up.
looks like "Runing" motherboard brand ( yes 1 n there ) they are ok , this is OEM factory making boards for many other brands . never tested this low end model , normally I use high end models and server xeon models from them never got any failed part so far . Other big OEM factory in china is FoxConn and most of users have no idea who they are .
Is this a mini mini ATX board? It looks like it would fit in an old eMachines system I have. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if these are old stock from after Acer bought eMachines and integrated the case design into their Aspire desktop lines.
You should use it to build an ITX gaming PC with a low profile GPU in an Xbox 360 case. I know this has been done before but if you use an HDplex 400 watt DC-ATX PSU and pair it with a 330 watt Dell laptop charger you could power an i5 and gtx 1060 or even 1070 and the Gigabyte 1060/1070 mini might actually fit in the case along side an ITX motherboard and m.2 ssd for storage. You could use the Noctua NHL9i for a CPU cooler and just leave the case as is or cut holes for ventilation.
@@cruzmatt22 Either a low profile or half size GPU would fit definitely and the motherboard easily fits though you'd have to take out the internals themselves.
@@cruzmatt22 It depends on the size but I would say that most ITX graphics cards can fit. You would need a riser cable to lay the gpu flat. The HDplex PSU is kind of expensive and requires an external laptop power supply. There are a few videos on RUclips about how to do this. I would highly recommend looking it up. You will have to modify the xbox 360 case to install the PC such as cutting a hole for the I/O shield and drilling some holes for standoffs for the motherboard. Once again, definitely look online but an ITX GPU should fit no problem.
Bro I bought this one too. I'm worry cause I saw some people's that bought it also, talking that the chip7 isn't a real Chip7. Can you say me if yours is a authentic chip7? I bought to do a hackintosh cheap. Thanks for your video bro. God bless you...
We can’t forget the IO shield requires a blood sacrifice.
Those things are way too sharp, you could maybe cut vegetables with that
@@user-jt1tp1jh9o why
@@mxzaiw2744 Because they're sharp
My IO never looks fully in :(
@@user-qv9ho1lj3z Hammer it in
They are so cheap it's hard to resist :) Mine works well, but there are quirks like only 100 Mbit Ethernet, non working Turbo and the PCIe slot is limited to 8x as well as no fan speed control. They do this to minimise power draw as much as possible.
Mine's pci-e x16 slot wouldnt work at first until I fiddled an odd BIOS setting that disabled it by default.
Not that running at x8 makes any difference.
Well the value is not the best when you can spend another 20-30 to get a main brand mobo
@@ScrapTechTips But where are you getting a mini itx 1ga 155 mobo for 23 bucks that is name brand
@@thadszmaciasz8971
Paying 20-30 more than what they cost.
So to explain for lacking of brain a motherboard that has no brand is around 70nzd where you can spend 100nzd and get a main brand one.
Explained well enough?
Hey look! It’s the motherboard from Walmart’s OP computer line!
No, it's not. The overpowered PC's use an H310.
nottacop /r/Whoosh
@@justanotheryoutubechannel it's not funny, it's not a joke, it's not sarcasm, and it's not true so what did I miss?
@@justanotheryoutubechannel btw, nice job of liking your own comment, tool... lmfao
@@twizz420 Then why the fuck did you like your own?
Other than Voiceoverpete this is the most wholesome person on youtube, I love your videos and you seem like a genuinely nice person. I don’t know how anyone could not like you. Keep up the good work! :)
I feel the same way. This guy feels like he genuinely loves to make videos and his channel is great glad I found it.
yeah because he doesn't make 10:01 videos
Razor Yeah same here found him about 3 months ago :)
The worms What XD
@@Gint._ huh what who said that
3:54 he claims he is going to use a 2nd gen i5
uses an i5 3330
YOU LIED TO ME
calm down, sandy and ivy bridge are basically the same thing little difference. I built a computer with the 3570k when it was new and it was great, then I had a 4670k and then a 6600k and then I had something else cant remember, and now I got a ryzen 7 1700. And will be buying 3rd gen ryzen.
I agree! So sad
@@pilsplease7561 ivy bridge is less oc friendly because of the non soldered heatspreader. i would allways prefere a 2xxxk over a 3xxxk
@@Schlomomo I owned basically every Sandy and ivy processor.
@Richard Griffiths no I did
1:43 Demonetized for violent content. Sincerely, Susan Wojcicki, CEO of RUclips.
Any one heard about afox brand and used their motherboards?I want to buy their h61 ma3 board,.
@@sohailbabar47 I got an AFOX GPU and when I used a software GPU Z it says fake gt 730 and Cannot update it to latest version I know you're asking a motherboard just sharing what I have cause it same brand
@@Tetsujou Thanx for the reply mate...It seems they aren't a respectable brand since I haven't found any review on their products.I would go probably with msi or some other brand..
Ecs or Foxconn are safer bets.
@@scottdpugnificent I agree mate
usually these kind of mobo's are made in the "night shift" by chinese OEMs. Basically its the time where they had no orders or it's past working time, but turning off the machine will actually cost more than letting it run and produce more stuff, that's why they still pumping more stuff out and selling them unbranded for cheap. quality wise it's still good, maybe on par with the branded one, although you can't really be sure since they were made unbranded, they have no standard whatsoever and probably got no quality check or any tests either. it's cheap, sure. but buy one at your own risk. if you hit a right one, it will save you a couple of bucks, but getting a bad one will potentially cost you your entire system.
Obviously gonna overheat when you try to use MS Paint
M8 your are everywhere on the tech comment areas
And set the pc on fire in mine sweeper
@@RandomGaminginHD don't leave the best program in XPs arsenal out of this.
Xp pinball.
@@RandomGaminginHD Blown capacitors in Crysis.
Ryan L every thing will go to hell if it runs crysis
That metal plate you got there is not called a back plate! accoring to the verge, it's official name is a brace.
Review studio 🤣🤣🤣 don’t even het me started on the insulating pads for the power supply
@@nobrickzkickz2747 I bet he didn't even apply enough thermal paste on the cpu, thats why the performance is so bad smh😑😂
Review studio “exclusive hexa-core cpu” 😂
@@bootlegscarce0844 They aren't used for insulating tho, they are used to reduce vibrations and therefore noise production from then psu fan.
Lots of people call them backplates--way more than people who say brace in fact. It's the accepted term
I have a x58 version of these cheap motherboard, only downside so far is no overclocking capability 🤷♂️
Pretty big downside if you're using X58!
And the fact it's only dual channel, not the common triple channel
I'am actuakky using a x79 with a xeon 2640 on for the past year
@@reyzafany1992 Nehalem does not scale with triple channel except dual xeon. That's why intel abandoned the tech for consumer.
@@boingkster HOW DARE YOU
I think is the same kind of the one featured in the Phil's Computer Lab video.
The Onboard LAN is only 10/100Mbps, and the CPU Fan conector is aways on 100%, they resell those cheap board in Brazil as ISYNC brand
This is OEM board, it also manufactured under several names, like zebronics on India, Amptron on Indonesia, VenomRX on Indonesia
Similarities between those boards are uncanny. Aftersales support is problematic, no manual download, no driver download, no bios update
At least the back plate is a weapon.
*brace
io shield is the technical name, coming from someone who has been working on electronics and computers since the age of 5.
@@dcfuksurmom r/woosh
Backplate
EchoicSurge (:
40$ is not cheap
You can easily find used gigabyte or Asus B75s for little as 20$
It's $2.61 from eBay shipped from China and Hongkong someone in the comments put a link
@@EchoDroll
$45.87+ for the posted one. You didn't bother to select the product.
www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=+X7-V121%EF%BB%BF&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15
But that is way too much for an unbranded/not-as-high-quality board, and not even the cheapest that was posted. Searching "LGA1155 motherboard" brought this up:
www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=LGA1155+motherboard&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15
Since it's LGA1155, getting anything new is pointless unless you get a great deal on it. Completely stupid to waste so much on an outdated socket.
considering the average computer part cost, it is very cheap
If you're specifically looking for a mini DTX form factor board (essentially ITX with one more slot), these chinese noname affairs are pretty much your *only* choice.
New though
Had this board since 2018 in my multimedia PC still working good in 2021, Paired it with an i3 and gtx 650!
Did you think these board h61m can run an rx 480 gb??
@@moutouhome8232 Yes it can I run an RX 570
@@AsmodeusVRC thanks bro. Is this board durable?
@@moutouhome8232 yeah I havent had any big issues with it in 9 years
@@AsmodeusVRC good bro. So it's a chenese board
Old video, I know, but I picked up an Intel board, 1155, off of eBay for $40 shipped. Nice, feature rich, two USB3, 2 external SATA, even has DisplayPort out! Great little system for my daughter's 3rd Gen i7 to live on.
i bought one of these for a custom build I was working on, where I was building a PC inside of a shell of a N64. the concept didnt work out that well, however when my old dell optiplex PC died, this board was put to good use with the residual parts of said PC, in a ghetto modded SFF case to allow for usage of full height cards (also using an El-cheapo chinese PCI-E riser ribbon cable). safe to say it all works surprisingly well still
From my experience with x79 Chinese boards always put a fan on the vrm
all boards are build in China..Some are thaianees...
My x79 Extreme 9 Boards needs a fan on the VRM or it sits at 80c+
@@lucasrem thaianees 😂😂😂
How much did you pay?
Sure
No u
Only half a kidney the other is still fully functional
www.ebay.com/itm/For-Intel-H61-LGA-1155X-4-DDR3-Motherboard-core-Fr-generation-2-3-CPU-USB3-0-Lot/172821599467?hash=item283cf854eb:m:mk9noHxgJU36UeW0aCRCXvA:rk:1:pf:0
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6:38 You can read the part numbers, and to me they do look like extremely good quality capacitors since there was a nichicon capacitor on there.
You're giving this board an unnecessarily bad review due to its price, in terms of quality it looks great. This is a lot better then a secondhand board in the fact that it works and works good. If it didn't they couldn't sell it and expect a profit, unlike a used board where you truly have no idea what you're getting.
I built my younger son a computer based on one of the similar boards to this one, a socket 2011 board so I could use an 8 core xeon I picked up for $25. It only supports dual channel memory, however it did work with 16 gig server dims, which are cheap as dirt. And the PEG slot is electrically 16x. Its performance is right in line with what is to be expected. It isn't as fast as a proper server board with quad channel memory and tunable bios, but it's actually not far behind when said server board is running dual channel. It is within 5% which for sub $100 invested all said, (not including spare parts I had for drives and case) seems good to me. It has been running for almost 2 years with a 1060ti. It has been surprisingly stable so long as it isn't fucked with. My son couldn't be happier that it has more than enough power to play FortNight and stream to twitch. As well as be fast at editing and exporting his video's.
Yeah the xeon's lower clocks are not ideal as a gaming machine, but I didn't give a shit about the performance, he was only 10 when I built it, and he thinks I built him Megatron. Its single threaded feels like it is half of my 4790K but he doesn't care. And 16 threads it is actually pretty good at exporting video as well, seems every bit as fast as my machine there, if not faster.
You may find it funny, but I've build a few cheap pcs in my life, which consisted of cheap, unbranded chinese hardware, including cpus. But, many of them still works - I built them around 2011-2013. I tend to keep track of my customers, otherwise it is pretty tough to survive nowadays, especially small pc businesses. Last time I checked, as of November '19, those cheap machines still work, only a few of them failed (I believe six or seven failed and I build new ones from better parts). There's one almost unknown brand - I'll edit this commentary when I'll be back at the shop after the quarantine - with name beginning with A, pretty long chinese name written with latin alphabet, they produce motherboards with yellow and brown textolite, which tend to be pretty reliable. It's been more than a year since I've last ordered from them - I had a direct contact, so I don't know if they still exist. If they do, I'd be happy to shoot a video myself.
IMPORTANT NOTE !!!!
I have one too, i have been using it for 6 months no problem, beside it does not support turbo boost due to the crappy VRM it has !
I'm paring it with an i5 2400, witch shows a clock of 1.6ghz on idle, and 3.1ghz underload !
While paring the same CPU with an msi branded mobo, shows 3.1ghz on idle and 3.4ghz under load !
Hou Ouss
Yes, mine does the same! Also only 100 Mbps Ethernet, PCIe is limited to 8x and no fan speed control as it has a fake 4 pin connector :) The layout is also quite weird on some boards.
@@philscomputerlab i would rather go for a cheap used Z68 motherboard for the same price, but these are extremly rare on my country, ane i can't get one from ebay !
So an H61 msi mobo is still a better choice than this crap lol
@Hou Ouss
Agreed! Not sure if you have access to AliExpress, but they sell a TON of used boards and CPUs.
I have a Chinese LGA 1155 mini-ITX board from AliExpress (the green PCB pictured one, though it arrived in dark blue). I'm using a Xeon E3-1290 and it turbos just fine from 3.6ghz - 4ghz stock. It being able to turbo was the determining factor for me whether I was going to return it or not. So far I'm pretty happy with it.
@@philscomputerlab due to parallel market in my country, a 56$ mobo would cost double the price, that another reason why i'm sticking to the crappy mobo lol ! Africa is like an open air prison for us xD
You are the best tech youtuber i know... LP low power, low profile viewers vouch for you... keep it up
In my experience, paying a little extra up front for a good warranty on a good product is invariably a good decision. Especially for something like a PC.
Oh wow, I bought this motherboard building a secondary pc for a friend and it’s still going strong paired with a i5 2400
They're $55 right now for a h97. Kind of want one they look neat. Although with that large of a cost it'd be mostly to get something that looks better than a Optiplex board since I can get a much newer board cpu combo for cheap that way. Size and colors are really cool on these I also like how simple the boards look. The white h97 looks amazing, would look amazing with a Galaxy or Gigabyte windeforce
I think this is a good idea. It allows you the ability to purchase cheap components to build a cheap pc. I think that a more reliable name brand board and reputable source would be the best way to get when buying used PC parts. Great video, keep the content coming!
I bought mine for $45 and it has an NVMe slot. Using it now and so far so good for the past 3 months. No sleep mode.
I bought one of these a while ago but had a BIOS issue and couldn't boot with any of the chips I had available. I sent back for a full refund, and am trying my luck with another. Good luck!
"Length is always a bonus"
Your videos are always so good, with fresh ideas, but I really think you should start thinking about buying an entry level DSLR like a Canon T6i, to improve your quality, your actual cameras (including the iPhone) need a refresh ;)
4:50 The USB 3.0 header footprint is there, just unpopulated. I wonder if it would work after soldering in the header. Maybe check if there is a USB 3.0 controller or something in device manager?
Probably not, why would one put a USB 3.0 controller but not the connectors? Chips also cost money.
P. S. That's true only if I got it right and the controller looks like a separate chip, not amalgamated with chipset or etc. Sorry for my poor knowledge
If you can, check who makes the capacitors on that board. Quality branded capacitors would probably be a good indicator of quality. Plus they're one of the most common things to go bad on motherboards. They're not the end all be all of it but it's a helpful indicator of the quality of components that make up the board in general as if they wanted to cut corners that'd be one of the 1st things they'd go cheap on. I think Chemichon is pretty standard brand used by more commonly known brands like MSI and Gigabyte.
I have found that some motherboards have problems with 'Gaming' Keyboards and Mice as they usually have memory and controllers of their own. I keep a bunch of old oem keyboards to make it easire.
The Jimmini Show true, my mobo randomly worked after reinstalling it because i thought it fried
I went for a Huanan (Zhi) X79 Deluxe board for $138, and purchased an E5-1650 V2 CPU ($134). The board is an improvement over the Huanan that was reviewed on TechYesCity. This board I believe uses the C602 chipset and can support EEC registered memory (server grade). As I have 32GB on my DELL dual socket T5600 (w/ dual E5-2667's), I will take 16GB from that rig to install on the new rig. I also understand this board allows for overclocking up to 4.2Ghz without reflashing/modding the BIOS to get to 4.5Ghz. The E5-2XXX CPU's do not support overclocking, so it appears the best value for money choices on this board are E5 1650 V1, E5-1650 V2 (note E5-1680 V2 is still significantly more expensive). In any event, I haven't received all of the components, so can't say more at this time.
This LGA 1155 motherboard doesn’t overclock because H61 doesn’t support overclocking. You have to get the Chinese P67 motherboard version for the overclocking feature.
Well, it isn't a lot of times I see a backplate remind someone about it takes some blood before it's fitted into a case.
some of these have name brand counter parts, cause some of the factory's compete for contracts but don't get them so they sell no names.
1:47 “ahhh silly thing” don’t know why but this made me laugh ahah
Glad you bought it first so i know what to expect as i need some lga 1366 boards and maybe 2011
i´ve made the experience, that simple board layouts with less and basic features are the most reliables. So i would expect this board will work for a very long time, if the components stay in their specs and cooling is proper.
This is along the same lines as PSUs. Had a friend that needed a new one and wanted as cheap as possible. I recommended not going cheap, but he didn't have a lot of money, so I snagged some unbranded PSU off Newegg for like $25. We plugged it in, turned it on and watched the smoke rise up from his motherboard as it fried it. Later on, after he got money together to get a new computer, we tested some of his old parts and found that the PSU took the motherboard, the RAM and even one fan. I get that not everyone has unlimited funds to build a computer, but he found out that day that it would have been cheaper to buy a more expensive PSU instead of having to replace nearly his entire system.
If you're specifically looking for a mini-DTX form factor board (essentially ITX with one more slot), these chinese noname affairs are pretty much your *only* choice. Yes, you can easily get used 1155 boards cheaper, but these in 99% of the cases are either regular ATX size or microATX. The amount of DTX boards on offer is microscopically small...
I bought one of those unbranded chinese boards for an old xeon not being able to find a close reasonably priced board from 8 years ago... It worked but the chipset ran hotter than the sun
I got one from eBay around a year ago because I needed a modern motherboard with Sandy Bridge-E Xeon support. It's cheap and Chinese and it didn't come with any instructions whatsoever. However, it has USB 3.0 and SATA3, and it just seems to work fine. So I can't really complain. I wouldn't buy one if it weren't for the Xeon though.
I got a motherboard+CPU+Ram combo from Taobao 2 years ago for around 150 pounds
E5-2660, 4*4GB 1333mhz ECC DDR3, paired with a GTX1060 6GB ver....so far it is working fine, apart from the broken temp sensors on board ...half of it says the temps were below 0°C while other are above 120°C
What does it say in AIDA64 when looking at the manufacturer?
i believe cpu-z also has a manufacturer tab..
It's either all blank or bogus, same for serial numbers etc. (one of my noname boards has "01234567890123456789" for the serial)
In SEA, we have quite a few obscure brand H61/B75 motherboard with pcie 3.0 and m.2 slot for nvme ssd. Eg: imperion, x-star, vurrion prime, etc
I love your shirt , I love it when shirts react to being filmed. Am i the only one that loves when a shirt does that?
I'd love to see more of this content from you mate there is also meant to be a Chinese X86 processor would be great if you can get hold of one of them too I know other people on RUclips do these kind of videos but I prefer your ones
10/10 just enough back plates
"0/10 - I don't know how to use the product I purchased, so I will leave a bad review every time."
The only good thing about these boards are sometimes manufacturers do make the board for rare sockets and that's it. X79 and X58 boards are insanely hard to find at good prices.
The quality of a motherboard is not judged only by the capacitors, it depends mainly on the other components of the VRM and the short-circuit protections. Just don't cry when your graphics card dies because of the unreliable energy that comes through the pcie slot, I repair motherboards and I've seen this a lot.
RayTracing ON - quite an interesting effect on your T-shirt.
Hello sir i just got one of those motherboards but my motherboard is a b75 chipset and the motherbord came in a very pro looking box made with hard card board and i was scared after i saw your video so i did some research and i found out that the motherboard is made by a company call'd wivio or some thing like that and turns out it was a good motherboard company in china so thanks for your video if i didn't saw youre video i was going to buy another motherboard love youre videos 😁 and its been 2 years and i didnt had any problems
I’m so glad I found your channel it’s so cool!!!
I have an ECS H81 board in my system. It was under $40 USD iirc. Works great other than the ethernet port stopped working, so I stuck a NIC in there on top of my 1070 lmao. It's not terrible for a cheapy board, it even allows me to pseudo overclock my non K series CPU by permanently holding the maximum 4 core boost frequency, at lower than stock voltage, resulting in decent temps with the stock cooler.
jesus christ, that thing is going to catch on fire just trying to browse the steam store
Carnyzzle:
Steam store?! It's gonna burn on the Windows logo at boot!
who said anything about windows lol. Be root, not reboot. #linux
@@dcfuksurmomWho the fuck uses linux for gaming and editing
@@lamort223able I think linux users do
@@maltheIDM, Linux is not designed for gaming and there are no gaming video drivers for it. Most people prefer Windows to Linux as it's pretty much user-friendlier than the second one, so there's no reason for driver developers to spend their time on developing Linux drivers. All adequate Linux-gamers have Windows installed on a separate partition/HDD so they can play occasionally.
I recently bought a huananzhi rx 3.0 for 55$ and so far so good,i paired it with rx 580 and xean x5670,the performance is good,shadow of the tomb raider is above 60 fps in high settings and no stuttering at all
I'm pleased with my £60 Chinese H61 m/board it was branded and boxed with all accessories including a drivers (not that I needed those) but I've never heard of the actual brand. Mine was sold as new and packaged in very good condition. The only negative was the badley translated manual. I think caveats still apply if something is too good to be true
too expensive.more used h61 below 15£ in china
I paid a premium buying new but I avoided any upset with a used m/board
Did you think a can buy this board h61m to run rx 480 gb??
The X7-V121 marking on the board is actually the real model number. Seems it's made by these guys: www.xlzmotherboard.com/en/product/html/?129.html
Will you do a budget build with this board? Hope to see the follow up video with this board
What's your opinion on the huanan boards?
Such as the x58 and x79 ones
Always put a fan on the vrm if you try to overclock
Im using a x79 one for the last year and it work great but dont try to overclock with it and it hase only one sata 6Gbits port
That's weird in my board all ports are SATA 3 6gbps
The new Orange x79 board has good vrm cooling.
Check out Craft Computing, he's done a fair bit with such boards.
If Im correct , there is some new motherboard ( for intel 4th , 3rd , 2nd gen ) with old chips ( nice way to recycle ) sale in China market ( for budget build )
Great review mate i was wondering what these boards were like
Another great video . Keep them coming 😊
1 year after this video was posted, My pc is using this motherboard xD
Took your advice too late and picked up a used ASROCK Extreme 3 X79 for $200. About the same price as what I spent on the failed HuananZhi Deluxe (plus import duties). Happy now that the build is OK and my other components were not damaged by that Chinese board. The Huanan purchase...a complete loss.
Problem with a secondhand board is that it has old capacitors which can fail. At least with a new Chinese board, it has new capacitors which are less likely to fail.
Still better than the 16 year old motherboard I’m running in my old laptop.
We call it an IO shield because that's what it is, a backplate is what's on the back of some GPUs.
saw unbranded x99 on ebay was a bit tempted but the board seemed odd it required 8 pin and 4 pin power and the 4 pin power was almost next to the first pcie slot
What if you need to update the BIOS? Get it from AMI I guess like the old days lol. Great video. Hope the thumbs all better now, Cheers 👍
Great content mate, love your channel.
I think when you got enough money you can invest on a better camera, the video quality and colors can be improved ven more.
I had one as well for LGA 1155. It was as barebones as possible but my i7 2600k ran pretty well on it
People in the USA and UK are obsessed with brands. This is just how they grew up. If you want a good product you looked at the brand and asked your friends how that brand works. The reality in 2018 is brands are just decals put on the product and have no indication of who actually made the product. He said you should buy from a "reliable manufacturer" but who? Do you think ASUS and EVGA are manufacturers? They order their products from the same factory in China where this board was made. They add their profit margin and perhaps a cool decal or two. The only positive to a brand is the company has a reputation and possibly some warranty service. The latter depends on who it is because quite a few big names don't stand behind their products.
Isn't the back plate is the plate on the other side of the mobo, the one just behind the processor? Some people call I/O shield as back panel.
Lol as soon as you presented the I/O shield I thought to myself "ooh that looks like it could cut you good"
Would have liked to see you stress test the board using something like AIDA 64 to see if the board could handle it.
My girlfriend wants to build her computer with one of these. I was skeptical at first, but now I think it might be worth it.
Hychus 232 Dont buy it pain in as s take me 6h and still not works...
there needs to be more manufacturers like this in the UK and US
its kinda sad actually cuz even if these things have a failure rate of 50% they would be very worth it if u could just RMA easy
it's just not financially viable. China has so many advantages in this regard in terms of keeping costs down
one such thing they excel in to an absurd degree is their shipping costs. I think their government keeps shipping costs artificially low. And this carries over into shipping outside the country. There is some world agreement where countries carry on shipping items once they reach their borders and it's based on the seller countries own shipping rates plus their country tier rank. China somehow, ignoring them being the worlds 2nd largest economy, gets to stay in a lower tier, which effectively means other countries have to essentially play into China subsidized shipping costs.
This gives China a massive advantage. Hence why they small Chinese companies or individual sellers can ship things to the rest of the world for so damn cheap, and anyone in the US or UK would probably bankrupt themselves trying to sell things to china.
@@stevesmith1383 doesnt matter if its cheap or not
25 days in customs both ways makes it a really crappy choice with such a high failure rate
it doesnt make sense to buy things like this as a consumer in the UK and US
his USB are basically gonna stop working soon and the board is a paper weight
@@cidsapient7154 I didn't say you should buy it, I said US and UK manufacturers can't compete with the price of making these off brand boards for obsolete socket types
@@stevesmith1383 and im saying it doesnt matter how cheap they are
they will never be cheap enough for what the end user needs, no one can be without a PC for 2 months based on high failure rate
this is why we need manufacturers like them here, even at $5-10 more its worth it
these facilities are mostly automated with the majority of human interaction going to QA
no matter what the global economy is failing and no country will be able to stand on its own without producing what it needs in semiconductors
fractional reserve banking was a system designed to fail
I'm thinking of buying one myself which is suppose to be a P55 LGA 1156 Motherboard that looks similar to that. Its funny though cause BIOSTAR and MicroStar International (MSI) used to be bad makers of boards themselves. I mean that can be still bad sometimes, but not as bad as they were before.
You and LGR best on RUclips mate
The H61 board is most popular board in my country and also the most one that stopped working in a matter of months
Not a good sign when the component immediately attacks you xD
Wow my h61 board just died and i was planning on buying one of those cause in South Africa we don't really have a good second market for computer parts
And what luck u made a vid😁
Actually I had a i5 4460, didn’t feel like spending 100$+ on eBay for an h81 board, so I found a generic Chinese h81 chipset board on Amazon for 30, with prime. What a steal that was, it had the same layout as the one in the video expect it has USB 3.0.. also the ad says pci-e 3.0 16x but it’s a 8x slot. Also said 1gb lan port. It’s actually 500mb lan port
Great reviews, greetings from Mexico
The drivers are unbranded too, and that's why this motherboards cost less, because you can find those drivers after this has melted your house.
I'd love to see a video for a cheap board like this but for the 1366 socket.
I have had an X58 (1336) Chinese board, running a X5650 for over 1 year with no problems . (It can't take anything much higher specced than that). Anyway -it's only used for browsing the net .
Apart from being a bit sparse,( it has an msata port-however), it always boots twice before windows starts up.
looks like "Runing" motherboard brand ( yes 1 n there )
they are ok , this is OEM factory making boards for many other brands .
never tested this low end model , normally I use high end models and server xeon models from them never got any failed part so far .
Other big OEM factory in china is FoxConn and most of users have no idea who they are .
If I remember correctly, h61 did not natively support USB3.0 so kinda not surprising it doesn't have USB 3.0?
The backplate is a ground plane RF shield.
Nobody:
RandomGamingHD:`it is what it is`
Is this a mini mini ATX board? It looks like it would fit in an old eMachines system I have. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if these are old stock from after Acer bought eMachines and integrated the case design into their Aspire desktop lines.
the killer for me is three things. 1. no usb3.0 2. no nvme slot 3. no m.2 slot
You should use it to build an ITX gaming PC with a low profile GPU in an Xbox 360 case. I know this has been done before but if you use an HDplex 400 watt DC-ATX PSU and pair it with a 330 watt Dell laptop charger you could power an i5 and gtx 1060 or even 1070 and the Gigabyte 1060/1070 mini might actually fit in the case along side an ITX motherboard and m.2 ssd for storage. You could use the Noctua NHL9i for a CPU cooler and just leave the case as is or cut holes for ventilation.
Would the gpu and both fit inside?
@@cruzmatt22 Either a low profile or half size GPU would fit definitely and the motherboard easily fits though you'd have to take out the internals themselves.
@@DoomWalker42 do you think an itx gpu'd fit?
@@cruzmatt22 It depends on the size but I would say that most ITX graphics cards can fit. You would need a riser cable to lay the gpu flat. The HDplex PSU is kind of expensive and requires an external laptop power supply. There are a few videos on RUclips about how to do this. I would highly recommend looking it up. You will have to modify the xbox 360 case to install the PC such as cutting a hole for the I/O shield and drilling some holes for standoffs for the motherboard. Once again, definitely look online but an ITX GPU should fit no problem.
@@DoomWalker42 alright, I'll check stuff like this out since putting a pc inside a 360 seems interestinh
Bro I bought this one too. I'm worry cause I saw some people's that bought it also, talking that the chip7 isn't a real Chip7. Can you say me if yours is a authentic chip7? I bought to do a hackintosh cheap. Thanks for your video bro. God bless you...
The PCIe lock (or whatever the thing at the end of the 16x slot is called) looks a lot like those used my MSI...
lol its the same off plenty of boards
Same on my Asus board, Whats your point?
@@Shrek-iv8gu IIRC MSI did start it, others adapted it later.
Sharp backplate is either a coincidence or a reference to Bryan from TYC.....?