Question Chinese Motherboards & Performance Quality

[AceTech1]

I'm just wondering if any of you have tried any of the Chinese motherboard brands and if you believe that they perform as well as common name brands such as ASUS, Asrock, MSI, Gigabyte, etc., etc.. When I say Chinese motherboard brands, I'm referring to any of the following:

• Jingsha
• Machinist
• Mucai
• Maxsun/Soyo
• Kllisre
• Huananzhi
• Qiyida
• etc.
• etc..

The particular motherboard that I've taken an interest in is the JINGSHA New ITX H110 H311 LGA1151 Motherboard as shown in the image below.

What I'm trying to figure out is if the claimed specs are real as far as performance goes.
I'd appreciate any experiences that any of you may have had with any of the motherboards listed above. Thanks.

 

[Eximo]

Most of the specs are right off the chipset they've recycled, so yeah, pretty much as advertised. Sometimes with the older chipsets they add functionality, by adding NVMe slots and such.

The questionable things become compatibility with other off the shelf components and long term BIOS support.

Also they don't ship them with batteries overseas so they can fly air without question. Sometimes they sneak a battery into the packaging though with instructions for finding it.

 

[stonecarver]

I have 3 for 1366 CPU's 3 years and going strong. In fact son is right now playing Mass Effect in the living room on it.

There no frills motherboards no over clocking as basic build, set and forget. The only issue one was missing the backplate.

 

[COLGeek]

Same thread here: https://forums.pcgamer.com/threads/chinese-motherboards-performance-quality.141999/

 

[drea.drechsler]

where do you even find them for sale?

Specs are one thing, quality of manufacture is another. As is support: we've all seen how important BIOS updates are to fix emerging problems with compatibility and security. I'd want to know they are responsive on that front with accessible and stable updates that are timely.

 

[stonecarver]

where do you even find them for sale?

Amazon

 

[AceTech1]

I have 3 for 1366 CPU's 3 years and going strong. In fact son is right now playing Mass Effect in the living room on it.

There no frills motherboards no over clocking as basic build, set and forget. The only issue one was missing the backplate.

Which motherboard do you have in particular? Also, I'm actually trying to build a server with mine. Have you tested out it's storage? Do the M.2 NVMe SSD's work well as well as the HDDs with this board?

 

[AceTech1]

Most of the specs are right off the chipset they've recycled, so yeah, pretty much as advertised. Sometimes with the older chipsets they add functionality, by adding NVMe slots and such.

The questionable things become compatibility with other off the shelf components and long term BIOS support.

Also they don't ship them with batteries overseas so they can fly air without question. Sometimes they sneak a battery into the packaging though with instructions for finding it.

So, which board have you actually tested yourself?

 

[Eximo]

So, which board have you actually tested yourself?

None, I don't have much a need for an older board when a cheap late model board with a low end CPU is as fast or faster. More efficient too. I suppose I do have an i7-950 laying around, and picking up an LGA1366 board would let me do something with it, but an i3-13100 is so cheap...

They have been reviewed by many outlets. Featured in excursions to Taiwan, purchased, assembled, tested. For the most part, they do as advertised. Minimal BIOS options is generally the rule, so anything outside a basic build is probably too much to ask. They are recycled chipsets. so there is always the risk they weren't assembled perfectly after being stripped from a board. Something designed to be soldered once, getting heated up three times...

Slightly more interested in the ones where they use mobile chips. A good way to get a very efficient desktop build, but then you are kind of stuck with it and whatever features they give you in the BIOS. Though they now have unlocked mobile chipsets and chips, and they will probably harvest the code from those BIOS at some point. Being able to mess with the frequency multiplier would be useful.

 

[stonecarver]

I paid $ 47.00 for the 1366 motherboard in 2020
Bought x 3 Xeon x5680's $33.00 so $11.00 per CPU
Bought a tray of 25 16Gb ddr3 registered memory total 400Gb's for $ 70.00 use 2 per build so $4.37 per 16 Gb stick
SSD $ 30.00

Board $47.00
X5680 $11.00
32 Gb memory $8.74
SSD $30.00
Grand total $ 96.74 So the only thing it can't due is AVX instructions.

Runs windows 11 once you side step Microsofts CPU generation rules.

By no means am I saying this is the best way to go but is it bad No.

Will it game yes. Is there drawbacks Yes no AVX and the big elephant in the room 1366 platform is 13 years old.

What I can say is so far no glitching , no BSOD , no micro studder, no sound issues, no Windows 11 crashes, solid FPS in gaming on these boards. so for $100.00 + GPU I can't complain

I still have enough memory to feed another 12 1/2 computer with 32Gbs each.
+ two more Xeon x5680 CPU out of the original $180.00 I paid for the parts + extras I originally bought.


But look at it this way every new or two year old system being ran right now in 3 years time will be told oh that old thing time to upgrade WHY? Windows 10 is hitting 9yrs old and most people are still running 10

What I didn't add was a GPU to my cost. I have so many on the shelf that I have as back-ups but even if this was a new intel 14 gen or latest Ryzen builder would have to decide that on his/her own.