I’m assuming you’re replying to my thread since you mentioned the e5-16xx. My apologies if that’s not the case.

Facts
1. My dual x79 is unbranded and labeled as Dual X79-SS v3.2 with only 2 dimm slots, only one long PCI and one short PCI and no diagnostics LED. No back panel usb3- only usb2. It does have a 19pin socket for usb3. Tiny, cheap and pathetic. I’m cheap.

2. My older ThinkStation S30 died. I took the case as a donor and shoved in the new cheap dual x79.

3. Waiting on my dual e5-2670 shipment, I tried with only one e5-1650 and ddr3 from the donor S30.

4. The mobo starts and all fans spin for ONE second and shuts off. I tried both slots; same thing.

5. The old S30 won’t POST with a solid 00 on the diagnostics LED using niether the e5-1650 nor the original e5-1603. But it stays powered on with buzzing speaker sound.

Now, is this:
A. Possibly a PSU problem.
B. This mobo doesn’t accept e5-16xx in any configuration.
C. This mobo strictly requires both e5-26xx installed, or just one.
D. Both B and C.

Or something else?
I guess I’ll have to wait for the 2 e5-2670 cpu’s to show at my door step.

My JingSha Dual X79 have a C602J chipset who are compatible with dual CPU, the real X79/C600 isn’t. But Chinese simply called this mobo like this because it’s easier (single Xeon are X79, dual are Dual X79 ^_^ )

It accepts dual GPU operations (dual Radeon RX580/8GB for me) in Mojave, it is really fast for exporting pictures from RAWs in Capture One!
But the two cards are very close, the upper card are not really well cooled.

For the Kernel Panics problems I have in MacOS when the upper RAM slots are populated, I just need to introduce patches for the RAM in the config.plist in Clover Configurator.
BIOS are really poor, it’s a “default” BIOS, not tuned for this hardware: it shows 12 RAM slots per CPU instead 4 really present! Sleep are limited to S1, impossible to disable VIA USB 3,…
But it provides a lot of power for an cheap price !

That’s kind of a relief. Because I have an E5-1603 and an E5-1650 and they won’t POST. I also stupidly put both of them, fooling myself into false hope. Okay,I guess I’ll just have to wait for the 2 E5-2670 to show up.

I’m pretty sure that the chipset demands a 2x compatible processor

None of them are compatible with Windows 11, so prices should be dropping

I’ve used two different ones as I just wanted lots of monitors.

I’ve bought random gtx 980s and despite having 5, none of them are identical so i can’t sli and even if I did I’d need a much bigger PSU

Chinese boards aren’t that bad, but the power supplies are a different story!

I think v3 Xeons are finding their way into the dual boards soon, as they are in the single proc boards, even though the 3 bridges DDR 3 and DDR 4. Although the memory controller is in the processor so nothing they can do about that anyway.

No idea on split bios. I’d get a jtag programmer if I were all that worried about playing with the BIOS as no doubt you are to brick yourself sooner or later.

Hello, It’s very impressive that the thing didn’t blow into your face. 😉
And thanks for your review. I’m in the point that I consider to buy it’s bigger sister which is HUANANZHI X79-16D – only thing which holds me up is whether it works with NVMe boot from UEFI (since it’s smaller sister HUANANZHI X79-8D has the ability). Even more important to me is whether it has bifurcation option available form UEFI or allows to mod the BIOS. Now I work on Sabertooth x79 using moded UEFI with NVMe and bifurcation (well – half of it – my ASUS HYPER M.2 x16 four slots shows only two of them which is not enough for me). So I wonder whether is a chance that the HUANANZHI X79-16D at least will bifurcate 16x to 8x|8x which would allow to me to switch to the HUANANZHI board instead of ASUS Z9PR-D16 X79 which layout of sockets is very bad… Cheers. Jerzy

My boards are running fine. There was some grid maintenance done a few days ago, so I don’t have solid uptime, but the boards have been fine.

The one issue I faced was the memory, although I have no idea why the Jingsha didn’t like the memory as the Dell & Huanzhai both work with it just fine. I didn’t have any issues with the PSU’s although on one its a bitcoin mining one that is something insane like 1800 watts and I used an 8 pin Y cable for that, the other is a PSU with 2 8 pin connectors. Although the bigger PSU’s really are the ‘right’ way to do, I did use a 600 watt PSU and a GTX 1030 for a long while… But the Huanazi has the pinnout to take a 6 pin connector backwards. You may not have enough voltage… I guess…..?????