Cheap X79 board, need help!!!

[meastro]

I bought a cheap unbranded x79 board off eBay for under $80 but now I'm wishing I didn't and I need help if my issue can even be helped... Lol

I will put links to my board, ram, and the Xeon processor I bought. I also have 2 570s I would like to put in crossfire. Here are my questions. Sorry for my stupidity in advance.

1. Where can I find drivers if I open the box and there's not a disc?

2. Can I use Intel Optane with the board, how do I find that out?

3. Is my ram I bought going to work?

Links below...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/X79-Intel-B75-Chipset-Support-M-2-USB-3-0-SATA-3-0-Socket-Desktop-PC-Motherboard-/113895467705?txnId=2003956335001

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5-2660-2-2GHz-Eight-Core-Processor-40-SR0KK-41-/143396974902?txnId=1701972155004#vi__app-cvip-panel

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/4GB-8GB-16GB-32GB-DDR3-1866MHZ-PC3-14900R-1RX4-REGISTERED-ECC-REG-Server-Ram-LOT-/183900961393?txnId=2023245048008

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Optane-Memory-M10-SSD-M-2-2280-16GB-PCIe-3-0-3D-Xpoint-NVMe-MEMPEK1J016GAH-/323927375437?txnId=2110330251011

 

[jaslion]

3 minutes ago, meastro said:

I bought a cheap unbranded x79 board off eBay for under $80 but now I'm wishing I didn't and I need help if my issue can even be helped... Lol

I will put links to my board, ram, and the Xeon processor I bought. I also have 2 570s I would like to put in crossfire. Here are my questions. Sorry for my stupidity in advance.

1. Where can I find drivers if I open the box and there's not a disc?

2. Can I use Intel Optane with the board, how do I find that out?

3. Is my ram I bought going to work?

Links below...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/X79-Intel-B75-Chipset-Support-M-2-USB-3-0-SATA-3-0-Socket-Desktop-PC-Motherboard-/113895467705?txnId=2003956335001

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5-2660-2-2GHz-Eight-Core-Processor-40-SR0KK-41-/143396974902?txnId=1701972155004#vi__app-cvip-panel

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/4GB-8GB-16GB-32GB-DDR3-1866MHZ-PC3-14900R-1RX4-REGISTERED-ECC-REG-Server-Ram-LOT-/183900961393?txnId=2023245048008

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Optane-Memory-M10-SSD-M-2-2280-16GB-PCIe-3-0-3D-Xpoint-NVMe-MEMPEK1J016GAH-/323927375437?txnId=2110330251011

 

1. Windows 10 will get some default drivers. If not all are installed use something like speccy or something and start looking for the drivers for your audio,lan,... by model number

2. Maybe it's kinda a hackjob to get nvme on there

3. Probably you'll see when you assemble it

4. Is this for gaming? That xeon is gonna be pretttty bad

5. Crossfire is kinda pointless nowadays anyways so if it doesn't work nothing lost.  Do try the build with 1 gpu first tho.

[meastro]

Video editing pc, can you provide me some resource links. Any you can think of.... Thanks

[meastro]

I may just sell the other card, nvme ain't gonna work?

[jaslion]

15 minutes ago, meastro said:

Video editing pc, can you provide me some resource links. Any you can think of.... Thanks

Don't know what I could link right now as it all depends what is lacking after windows install.

 

For video editing it's alright nothing too special. Nvme may work but it's optane which is another can of worms

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, Genwyn said:

Nvme wasn’t even a thing when x79 was introduced 

you would probably need a pcie to nvme adapter and I don’t think x79 can boot from a pcie device 

This board has been shown in budget builds before (different names and all but still same board). It's a hackjob but most nvme stuff seems to work however I can't find anyone who tried an optane module.

[Electronics Wizardy]

31 minutes ago, meastro said:

. Can I use Intel Optane with the board, how do I find that out?

Optane is just anouther nvme drive, so it will work as a storage drive fine, and should work for boot fine.

 

Optane caching won't work, but there are better caching solutions out there.

 

4 minutes ago, Genwyn said:

Nvme wasn’t even a thing when x79 was introduced 

you would probably need a pcie to nvme adapter and I don’t think x79 can boot from a pcie device 

They added the nvme boot code to most of these old board.

 

They are also non nvme pcie devices that are bootable.

 

And you can't have a pcie to nvme adapter as nvme isn't a physical adapter, and that board has a m.2 already for most consumer grade nvme drives.

 

 

[porina]

40 minutes ago, meastro said:

I bought a cheap unbranded x79 board off eBay for under $80 but now I'm wishing I didn't and I need help if my issue can even be helped... Lol

Looks familiar...

 

 

40 minutes ago, meastro said:

I also have 2 570s I would like to put in crossfire.

Probably ok. It looks like regardless of the Xeon CPU, the two PCIe slots nearest CPU work at 16x + 0x, or 8x + 8x. Not perfect, but not horrible either. The 3rd slot is x4 and I'm guessing might be off chipset.

 

40 minutes ago, meastro said:

1. Where can I find drivers if I open the box and there's not a disc?

There is no driver disk. According to my post above Windows 10 found things by itself and seems to work.

 

40 minutes ago, meastro said:

2. Can I use Intel Optane with the board, how do I find that out?

I never tried using the M.2 slot so I don't know if it might be SATA only, or might support nvme. That's to use it as a generic SSD, platform is not supported by Intel for caching unless you use something 3rd party like primocache. If you haven't already bought it, give it a miss.

 

40 minutes ago, meastro said:

3. Is my ram I bought going to work?

I am using ECC registered ram with my build so you should be ok.