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some of them are actually quite good. I also run one ( HUANANZHI X79 16D - which I payed 105$ for in 2019 I think. Either end of 2018 or early 2019 ) for my dual 2690sV1 no issues at all. Fan-settings only works on the two 4-pin headers (the three-pin run at 100% all the time, no matter what you set) but that's about all the issues I had with it.You'll want an actual server board. Not these Chinese boards that are salvaged together.
If only your budget was higher, I'd sell you my board and ram.![]()
Check out Miycost - or his youtube. He tests them quite a lot for gaming and other uses and lists all pro's and con's of them as well as which chipset is actually on the board (not all x79s and x99s are actually X79/X99 or the C610 chipset on Aliexpress) - but if you can find some very decent dual boards with X99 chipset on Aliexpress which get the job done. In general Miycost has some decent reviews and info's on most of the x79/x99 stuff on aliexpress - he started his channel for those who can't order regular stuff (some areas of russia for instance) as well as for those who don't have the money to go "all the new shiny stuff" - and does a great job at that (very detailed reviews in english and his native languate) .
Right now the prices are artificially inflated thanks to the HDD-Mining-Boom which profits from dual-cpu-setups but in general.
I got JGINYUE X99 Dual 2011-3 for a friend in January for 99€ on a sale. He's running two 2678W v3's on it and is super happy. We used a Y-Adapter to connect both CPU-Coolers to one of the 4-pin headers and a cheap 4-pin Fan hub to connect his case-fans to the 2nd cpu-4-pin-fan-header and this way he could set them all up to use PWM and everything runs smooth, quiet and nice
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Of course you can't use "all core unlock" on the dual-motherboards which you could do on regular 2011-3 with xeon-v3's but whatever.... they run well enough like they are
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