Re: Aliexpress LGA2011 X79 motherboards

I hate all of those.
With X99 at least you don't gamble that much on chipset(either x99 or C612), but chinese x79 are a total mess of mismatch-reballed hubs: one person gets X79, next one - B75 or H67 etc.
Had about a dozen of those in my workshop 2 years ago - all with either dead PCH, or blown VRM, or both at the same time.

The best alternative is to get a used HP Z420/Z620, Dell T3600 or Lenovo S30. All of those are as cheap as chinese crap, but they are built to spec with full feature set, and are meant to do...