Question any one try one of the chinese g34 boards?

[JWade]

from ebay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-OEM-MA...=item25fbe0b6b8:g:qHUAAOSwjRFbakD0:rk:14:pf:0

two memory slots, says takes ecc, non ecc, unbuffered, etc memory. any one try one of these? any experience with them? would like to get one since g34 8 cores are super cheap

 

[aigomorla]

i honestly wouldnt.

6000 series opteron was not that great.

If you want a cheap system i would look for one of them chinese x79's and pair it with a retired out Xeon since they too are super cheap, and will spank the opty left and right.

like this combo for example:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/X58-X79-P55-LGA-2011-1366-1156-Motherboard-Mainboard-DDR3-Memory-PCI-E-X16-USB/123511534553?_trkparms=aid=555018&algo=PL.SIM&ao=1&asc=20131003132420&meid=a54a6696f67b41efbaf4927350423ec6&pid=100005&rk=1&rkt=12&sd=163413600432&itm=123511534553&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

(omg that board has NVMe slot on a x79... 😵)

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon...=item48bb230bf4:g:QIgAAOSwA25afg~~:rk:11:pf:0

You want to look for basically E5 V1 or V2 Xeon's... The X79 is basically Intel's C600 series chipset. So any Xeon processor which supports the C600 chipset will work.

Pre Ryzen AMD was not a real competition for Intel.

 

[JWade]

wondering if anyone has tried them, like the x58 board in the link you posted has four memory slots, not 6, wondering how reliable they are is all. that x79 is very tempted to do also!

 

[aigomorla]

why do x58 when you can do x79?

😱

As for running dual channel vs tri on the X58... i have no clue.
I know the x79 is quad channel i think. It has a NVMe slot even!