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It's time to take a look at another Chinese x79 motherboard, this time in an ATX size from Beyond (or is it Huanan? I'm really not sure).

But first... What am I drinking???

Bringing back a beer from a live show.  It's Lagunitas Aunt Sally, a Dry-Hopped Sour Mash Ale.  Not every strong at 5.7%, it is a fantastic sour.  Seriously like crewing on SweetTarts as a kid.

Parts list for today's video:

Beyond ATX X79 Motherboard: http://amzn.to/2Didf7K
Arctic Alpine 20 Plus CO: http://amzn.to/2Dm9M8d
Xeon E5-2650 8C/16T 2.0GHz
32GB (4x8GB) Samsung DDR3 ECC 1,333MHz: http://amzn.to/2EV7Kw0
(The Amazon link is for 1,066... and better prices can be had on eBay)

I began researching these Chinese knock-off boards around April of last year.  At the time, building a gaming rig wasn’t my focus… I was actually looking to upgrade my desperately out-of-date home server and NAS.

Most recently it’s been rocking a Xeon X3350 Quad Core running at 2.66GHz.  This bad boy sports 6M of L2 cache, a 95W power draw at full tilt, and was originally launched in Q1 of 2008.

So what’s the plan for today?  I’ve got this Beyang x79 motherboard that I actually purchased from Amazon for $130!  Unlike the previous MicroATX board, this one came in a retail box, reads as a genuine x79 chipset, and it supports quad channel memory as well as PCIe 3.0.

We're pairing it with a Xeon E5-2650 8-Core/16-Thread 2.0GHz CPU and 32GB of DDR3 ECC memory.  This should give me the overhead I need to reinstall all of my virtual machines, run Plex, and have plenty leftover for file server duties.

Music:

"Jazz Brunch " Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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