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The whole video feels like a vehicle to talk about the salvage-chipset motherboard market in China, which is genuinely very fascinating. They're all over AliExpress, usually sold as a platform kit with a 6-10 core Xeon and 16-32GB of quad-channel RAM (DDR3 or 4 depending on the CPU gen) for around $150-200. This can legitimately be a fairly powerful setup once paired with a modern GPU.
Also, the fact that Russian enthusiast forums have thousands of pages of research and custom software for these boards is somehow not surprising whatsoever. Russia is full of competent technicians, but they also don't have a lot of money, so extracting every possible drop of value out of cheap hardware only makes sense.
X99 is good step up for anyone looking to make a step up from consumer hardware for building out the next level of Homelab/NAS/VM/Media server.
I'm still runnign a 5820k although overclocked. I had thought about upgrading to a i7-6950X just for fun, they are cheap now but I woudl think almost any modern CPU is going to be better. A 7800X3D isn't much more expensive then a second hand one anyway.
But do be aware that by building your NAS / homelab around x99 instead of OEM desktop Skylake, you are spending quite a lot of electricity to buy experience with high-port-count platforms.