Has Aliexpress Motherboard Science Gone Too Far?

This Aliexpress motherboard comes with laptop CPU soldered straight to the PCB and its surprisingly powerful for the price.

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[thcriticalthinker]

Two things I'd like to note before I hit the benchmarks,
1- CMOS batteries are not included because Chinese customs can get super anal about it for no reason. Same reason amazon packages for battery powered things have the lithium warning label.
2- the bios setting for memory is under chipset, you have to manually set the maximum speed (auto is 2133) and then set XMP. It will run 3600c17 no issues though settings are rather confusing
Bonus- don't enable sleep mode, it's very broken

[luluwu]

These motherboards with soldered mobile cpus are actually really popular in developing countries. Here in Brazil, basically all tech channels were testing and reviewing them past month

[matheuschagas]

Gonna say, Aliexpress xeon kits are kind of impressive, would be very nice to see one featured here.

[DanielGT_]

Enable overclock on advance tab, on pch chipset tab find the only option with TRUE or FALSE configurations and set to FALSE and then you set XMP and ram voltage and it works.

[SWISS-]

Although I'd never buy one myself, I think creating these motherboards to use up old laptop CPUs that likely would become e waste if not used, is a fantastic idea. If you were looking for a low/mid system, or even an interim system if your old board blewup, this could keep you going until you can buy another decent mobo cpu package.

[Boogie_the_cat]

Dawid, the cmos battery is usually the most expensive part of an AliExpress motherboard

[satoriikei]

As far as i remember there is a very convoluted way of enabling xmp on these boards. You should try asking the seller for instructions. Also there is a 12th-gen board coming out soon (march if i remember correctly)

[AN-]

Idk why but I'm fascinated with these weird motherboards. I know Linus also unboxed a motherboard with a built in gpu as well.

[titanhd]

I actually ordered one of the non engineering sample ones myself for use as a home server because of the low power draw. They’re very interesting and for the price I think they have a ton of potential for server/htpc/sff rigs.

[Motti]

I'm a simple man, I see a Dawid upload I click the video, I click like, I click play.

[HavokR]

you know if they made an ITX version of this, it would be even more appealing than it already is (depending on the price)

[radhisghaier]

The reason it doesn't come with a cmos battery is because of the strict chinese transport law regarding batteries

[gruzzob]

Thats an adorable motherboard, like a few others have said I would love to see a mini-itx version of it.
Regarding what you said was CPU bottlenecking, I imagine it was actually memory bandwidth related as you had not found how to overclock/xmp the ram (other have pointed out where in the BIOS the option is). I totally get your comments about the naming and options in that style of motherboard configuration, I imagine less than 1% of people who went in to those bios even knew what most of those did, let alone needed to change anything.

[markkocsicska]

While I would not trust my work on aliexpress engineering, as always I am quite impressed with it.
I was impressed when they have found a way to make laptop GPUs work as desktop GPUs. And I am impressed with this too.

Thank you for covering these items. They are certainly impressive and entertaining pieces of technology.

[gawrbage]

On some older BIOSes, the memory speed configuration could be under the CPU settings. Did you check there?

[ottoguilherme]

I've built a PC using one of these mobos, I got the i9-11900h version and I have to say this thing is a beast, and the better part of it
it only consumes like 40w on load.
The only downside that I found was the vrm temps 90c without the heatsink.

[jamiemallett]

I've got the 1.8 ES version running an unRAID server at the mo and it's working great, upgrade from an old dual Xeon board that used so much power. This thing is super power efficient

[Kuri]

You shouldn't do direct die cooling if your cooler has exposed heatpipes like that, it can cause die to crack and AliExpress LGA1151 laptop CPU sellers warn you about this.

[PupptClwn]

I like old BIOS UI more than modern UEFI one. For me it was far easier to find setting that i was looking for on older motherboards

[rihavein]

this kit is actually quite powerful but you have to config some bios settings and xmp works perfectly fine just need little work on the bios and it did be running nice and properly, as for the die to the IHS it doesnt have the best contact surface, so to reduce temps even further you have to disable the avx512 and the intergrated graphics, also it should be boosting constant at 4.4/4.6ghz all core or most of the time. The Br community has done quite a few videos on this kit. Its past 12am already! 26th, the pre sale for 12th gen boards are out in china atm, however i doubt the prices will be any good because they dont have 12th gen laptop es so retail chips going to cost alot more.