I Bought The Cheapest Unbranded Chinese Motherboard I Could Find
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- Опубликовано: 19 ноя 2018
- Unbranded motherboards are a common occurrence on some selling sites, with some costing significantly less than name brand models. So how good is the cheapest one I could find, and does it actually work?
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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?
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
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
@@slowmowgoldsachs1585 I owned basically every Sandy and ivy processor.
@Richard Griffiths no I did
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Another great video . Keep them coming 😊
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.
Oh wow, I bought this motherboard building a secondary pc for a friend and it’s still going strong paired with a i5 2400
I’m so glad I found your channel it’s so cool!!!
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.
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
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
ikr
"Length is always a bonus"
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
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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.
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 (:
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 😂😂😂
I can't get mine to post is there a button I have to press to get it to boot or do I need to jumper it?
The color pinout for the power switch and led lights, i cannot figure it out, can you please tell me how the layout for the switches are setup, not even getting a bios post.
1:47 “ahhh silly thing” don’t know why but this made me laugh ahah
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 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!
Any latest bios of this?
I love your vids!
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
Do they have more? If so do you have a link? Ive been looking for a cheapo board like this with only 2 expansions slots for a specific case I had.
where to buy the motherboard and what model if could searching for
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
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.
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.
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!
i have also heard they don't have cpu clock boost. just base speed. is that true?
Been a while been this early to........another great content.
I bought some part in bulk and got an H81-BTC-KING motherboard with it. I've just put together a gaming rig with it. It took a bit to get it to boot properly, but it seems to be going well.
What camera do you use
Glad you bought it first so i know what to expect as i need some lga 1366 boards and maybe 2011
Great review mate i was wondering what these boards were like
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
Hey could anybody tell me the order of the front panel connector
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 ;)
Great reviews, greetings from Mexico
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
Will you do a budget build with this board? Hope to see the follow up video with this board
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)
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.
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.
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."
1 year after this video was posted, My pc is using this motherboard xD
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.
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
Lol as soon as you presented the I/O shield I thought to myself "ooh that looks like it could cut you good"
Does it have anything related to overclocking???
what game was the game play from?
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.
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.
Could you tell me anything about the delivery time? Thanks for the video
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.
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.
Hello!
Could you provide us with the BIOS of this X7-V124 motherboard?
How many fan port does it have?
Where did you order it and how much did you pay for it?
How much is the ram memory for MSI G41-P26
You and LGR best on RUclips mate
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
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😁
Can you overclock with the motherboard?
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
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.
Is there cheap unbranded LGA 2011 v3 motherboard around?
My x58 I think (it's a 1gen icore board with a 4core xeon has issues if I try to overclock a GPU in it
I had one as well for LGA 1155. It was as barebones as possible but my i7 2600k ran pretty well on it
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 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 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.
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 do a test with the ryzen apus for black ops 4 like you did with battlefield 5
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
Did we have an overall consensus on the price?
what keyboard is that???
what does cpu-z say about the mainboard
Have you tried putting your mic gain like 3 db higher?
How much did it cost? I didnt catch it
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.
I just bought it yesterday but isn't accepting one of the two 4gig stick of ram anyone got any idea what to do?
Zykerfox ! Hilarious
you can try different slots, like the A stick at the 1st slot and the B stick at the 2nd slot and then the other way
or just rub one of those school erasers at the contact pins on the stick
@@3GLUISINHO thanks
Sometimes you have to boot with one stick, go into the bios, change to default the options about memory, then try to boot with both ram sticks.
Alt + f4
I need a mobo for an pentium g860 thats small has usb2.0 and atleast 4slots of ram bcs i got an hp sff of kinds and i will get the cpu out and use another mobo in another case for the cpu and ram bcs it proprietery mobo and cant use it in different cases
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 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 )
Seeing the location of the PCIe x16 slot... it's probaby wired through the chipset and in x4 or x1 mode.
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
just got this same board a few weeks ago. now playing apex legends on it. freezes on low cpu load. performs normally on heavy use. i actually have to open up a game. just to use browser. because if i didnt open a high cpu usage app. it always freezes
Can you try a budget mini itx build?
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.