DFI roadmap Intel s775

[Waus-mod]

new roadmap.. For us extreme overclockers A must.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=47561&stc=1&d=1148599492
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=47562&stc=1&d=1148599492

just hold on xs begin june ;)

[Lestat]

bout damn time

[vanovich]

looking forward to all these new platforms, which will be the conroe champ? msi looks promising so far .vcore options ,and nice high fsb.

[Waus-mod]

This (rd600) dfi will kill everything ;)

[vanovich]

time will tell , depends on how many oc stability and options ,it will have.dfi can do some good boards ,but hasnt been intels strongest side for a while,but who knows?

[Nasgul]

I'd take the fallowing instead:

1-ASUS
2-ASUS
3-ASUS
4-ABIT
5-GIGABYTE

I won't accept nothing less.

But for a 6th choice? I'll take an ECS.

[Meefle]

what will the RAM speeds be Conroe mobos be? 667, 800, 1066? I'll probably get the RD600 when it comes out in june but i need to know what speed DDR2 RAM i should get, if its 667 i'll go with 800 for OCin headroom, etc. Also, these Conroe boards support old P4s right? cuz i'd use my P4 i have now till i can get my hands on a Conroe.

I'm kind of confused about Conroe's L2 Cache, now do the lower end ones have 2*1MB cache to equal 2MB total or 2*2MB to equal 4MB total and the higher end have 4MB per core and 4MB total?

[mr_knowitall15]

I won't accept nothing less.
apparently your english teacher wouldnt not expect nothing less from her students. :D
ON topic: If DFI can make a mobo for conroe with the legendary OC capabilities like the NForce 4 939 boards, we may have a serious winner. looking forward to seeing results from Asus, A resurected Abit, and DFI for conroe.

[irev210]

I'm kind of confused about Conroe's L2 Cache, now do the lower end ones have 2*1MB cache to equal 2MB total or 2*2MB to equal 4MB total and the higher end have 4MB per core and 4MB total?


it is shared L2 cache, not seperate. The E6600/E6700+ have 4MB L2 cache, the lower models have 2MB L2 cache.

Lower models have 2MB L2 because it is much cheaper to make.

[vapb400]

RD600 + SB600 + 2xR600 + Conroe

:slobber::slobber::slobber::slobber::slobber:

[Nasgul]

apparently your english teacher

You mean English. With a capital "E", got it?

Now, how legendary is something that was just release about a year and a half ago? Which btw, they finally got it right, after 10 times trying.

ASUS has been long before..........they're the ones with the "Legendary" record. :fact:

[vapb400]

nasgul where in dc are you from?

[k|ngp|n]

new roadmap.. For us extreme overclockers A must.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=47561&stc=1&d=1148599492

just hold on xs begin june ;)


The DFI SLI board looks like fun :).

[Waus-mod]

yeah. but on intel i dont know what there capable of.. so i rather stick to the rd600 just for some benches.. i also get the sli to test the difference :)

[StrikeRTM]

I have to agree with Nasgul. ASUS will probably be the better choise. ABIT will follow, but DFI is not exactly the superior Intel board maker. There were couple of good boards from DFI, but not as good as came from ASUS and ABIT. The ASUS P4P/P4C series, ABIT IC7 and IS7 series were killers. And even long before those ASUS had some solid boards selling.

[Sumanji]

I'd take the fallowing instead:

1-ASUS
2-ASUS
3-ASUS


Haha, Amen to that! And with an Intel chipset thanks, none of this nv/ATi garbage!

[Kallenator]

Very Nice, Il go fro the ATI :toast:

Now lets get some board pictures ^^

[Owen1978]

You missed one!

http://img485.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dfi105do.jpg

Cant wait to get thet CFX1150!

[DaWaN]

Asus + Intel chipset is proven to be awesome !!!

I wouldn't go blind for the ATI / nVidia chipset (nForce4 intel was pure garbage)

[Sumanji]

(nForce4 intel was pure garbage)

Rofl, QFT :D

[albertwesker]

hope that the new nforce chipset is better than the nforce 4 intel edition

[bigjohns97]

I don't know about you guys but i can't wait to get back to intel chipsets.

I am so glad they finally came out with a killer chip, I can't wait to see what AMD does to fight back.

[Doumz]

RD600 + SB600 + 2xR600 + Conroe

:slobber::slobber::slobber::slobber::slobber:


read again

it's SB650,not 600


You missed one!

http://img485.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dfi105do.jpg

Cant wait to get thet CFX1150!

only 1 pci-e 16x,so no crossfire,and onboard gfx is not really usefull,at least to the hi-end user

[cupra]

Hallelujah, great boards - and its looks like it will be my next board :toast:

[Owen1978]

read again
only 1 pci-e 16x,so no crossfire,and onboard gfx is not really usefull,at least to the hi-end user

It will be ideal for me doing encoding & running my vmware environments at the moment i can just about run about 4 servers & 2 clients off my 2.4C with 1GB.

Hopefully with the power of Conroe i can have a much bigger virtual network, say 10 Servers & 5 Clients or more!

Does anyone know if there are any issues with running 4GB with Conroe?

[Clairvoyant129]

That Crossfire platform is looking sweet. *Sick of SLI at the moment*

[DaWaN]

Does anyone know if there are any issues with running 4GB with Conroe?

No, the i975x chipset runs always at 2T so there are no issues with 4 dimms :)

[Sumanji]

No, the i975x chipset runs always at 2T so there are no issues with 4 dimms :)

Really?! That kinda sucks :( performance hit?

I wanna run 4 x 1Gb though, so that's cool I guess...

[Haltech]

Seeing coolers post re: the MSI 975 Plat seems to be owning eveything with the conroe. 460 fsb bus on that sucker? I really don't know what dfi can do to improve Msi and Asus's ability. Although DFI made great 939 Boards, they have quirks in them that piss you off. I m curious as to what comes out of it in the intel camp. June huh? Means theey will be here in aug.

[hipro5]

No Intel North chipset on anyone of them?.......Not good......:(

[zakelwe]

No Intel North chipset on anyone of them?.......Not good......:(

There are 975 chipset DFI's coming out as well Hipro.

Regards

Andy

[hipro5]

There are 975 chipset DFI's coming out as well Hipro.

Regards

Andy


Ahhhh........Thank god we'll play a bit......:D

[Vassili]

I'd take the fallowing instead:

1-ASUS
2-ASUS
3-ASUS
4-ABIT
5-GIGABYTE

I won't accept nothing less.

But for a 6th choice? I'll take an ECS.
:slap: :stick:
You are prejudged here, wait till it hits the market. It MAY be a killer, since DFI reputation on socket 754/939. They didn't focus on the intel-market at that time, that is the main reason why you don't have high expectations I guess.
But I thought the DFI 925x was pretty good? *Please correct me if I am wrong*

[hipro5]

I could be a BETA tester of the 975 one........:D

[Vassili]

I could be a BETA tester of the 975 one........:D
Don't forget to report here!:D

[savantu]

It's obvious that the first posters are from the AMD world...there DFI is regarded very highly.

Not so on the Intel side altough there have been some remarkable Intel based DFI boards . ;)

[s7e9h3n]

Two words:

OSKAR WU

period.

[Pandamonia]

my dfi 939 rox, love it!

i hope there is an intel one just as good for when i try out conroe.

buyin the 1066 ram will be the killer.... :( so expensive

[Torin]

my dfi 939 rox, love it!

i hope there is an intel one just as good for when i try out conroe.

buyin the 1066 ram will be the killer.... :( so expensive
Hopefully we can get 800 ram and clock it up.

Intel dudes don't have the history with DFI that AMD guys do, so naturally they are pessimistic. I do believe these new line of Conroe-compatible DFI boards will be the first that Oskar Wu has designed. Now that the Intel forum is being flooded with long-time AMD fans, naturally there is going to be some disagreement about what board makers will put out the best Conroe-compatible board. I hope DFI does, knowing Oskar's reputation with AMD boards.

But yeah... not looking forward to spending $450+ on ram.

[Pandamonia]

£350 in uk! which times that by 1.9 is what we pay in $!

personally if there is more than 2 colours on a mobo i think it looks rubbish.

im lovin the yellow and orange.

blue and silver for intel wud own.

DFI OC options on here rock!

[s7e9h3n]

Intel dudes don't have the history with DFI that AMD guys do, so naturally they are pessimistic. I do believe these new line of Conroe-compatible DFI boards will be the first that Oskar Wu has designed. Now that the Intel forum is being flooded with long-time AMD fans, naturally there is going to be some disagreement about what board makers will put out the best Conroe-compatible board. I hope DFI does, knowing Oskar's reputation with AMD boards.

Ummm...Just in case you didn't know....Oskar Wu designed the ABIT BH6, BP6, and IS7 - all considered some of the best INTEL boards of their respective generations. Oskar has more of a history with Intel than most Intel "dudes" do :rolleyes:

[Sumanji]

buyin the 1066 ram will be the killer.... :( so expensive

Hopefully we can get 800 ram and clock it up.
But yeah... not looking forward to spending $450+ on ram.

Err... what are you guys talking about? :stick:

Conroe = 266MHz quad pumped

So you only need dual channel DDRII-533 (PC4200) for full bandwidth at stock speeds.

[Torin]

Err... what are you guys talking about? :stick:

Conroe = 266MHz quad pumped

So you only need dual channel DDRII-533 (PC4200) for full bandwidth at stock speeds.
Thank you for clearing that up for me.

Now all I can say about Conroe is: :banana: :banana: :banana: :woot:

[FischOderAal]

it is shared L2 cache, not seperate. The E6600/E6700+ have 4MB L2 cache, the lower models have 2MB L2 cache.

Lower models have 2MB L2 because it is much cheaper to make.

well not exactly ;) the Cores are identical. but because the Cache is 50% of the whole size errors might occur there (in former times the Cache was even bigger). because of this manufacturers add extra Cache so that they can disable some Rows but still have the full size. if there are far to many errors this isn't helping any more and so there are the models with less cache.
(hope I didn't screw something up?)

but errors can occur in one of the Cores as well and that's why I wonder why there aren't any Single Core Conroes.

this supports my theory that Meroms are selected Conroes. Single Core CPUs then might be used in cheaper Notebooks (with Core 2 Solo).

so, btt... I'm really looking forward to seeing how well the DFIs will perform. up to now with Intel you only have these choices:
1. Asus
2. Asus
3. Asus
4. Asus
5.... etc

and especially I want to see how well the nVidia and Ati chips will do :D hope there'll finally be a competitor to the 975X (ICH7R *pah*) ^^

[Sumanji]

Has anyone else seen the Intel roadmaps on Dailytech? Apparently 975X doesn't have a replacement slated... so might have to go for P965 boards if we want ICH8.

Suman

[s7e9h3n]

Has anyone else seen the Intel roadmaps on Dailytech? Apparently 975X doesn't have a replacement slated... so might have to go for P965 boards if we want ICH8.

Suman
I've heard talks of 985....

[Thorburn]

Lower models have 2MB L2 because it is much cheaper to make.

They are actually probably just standard dies where part of the cache is faulty and so is disabled.

[Nasgul]

They didn't focus on the intel-market at that time, that is the main reason why you don't have high expectations I guess.
But I thought the DFI 925x was pretty good? *Please correct me if I am wrong*

Yes, thank you for seeing my point Vassili.

when the Oskar Wu was at ABIT, ABIT was always trailing ASUS by a couple of notches, but never better than ASUS.

So, with or without Oskar, ASUS will always be better and we'll all remember him as: Oskar Who?

I like better ASUS than any other, I don't see anything wrong with that, just like there are lots of you that like "X" better than "Y".

ASUS has not let Intel overclockers down ever, I seriously think they're going to let the rivals take their reputation as being the absolute best for Intel systems.

[schmusli]

:down: asus=v-mods!

[Fixxxer]

The one with i975 and the one with ATI RD600 look really good.

I have always had ASUS mobos for Intel processors. I'm sick of voltmodding mobos. Now is the time for me to try several other brands: DFI, Albatron (if supports Conroe), MSI... they all look good.

DFI, in my opinion, can do very good things. In 939 boards they did an awesome work. I just expect a similar board for Intel, full of tweaks and capable of providing huge vcore and vdimm values.

Looking forward for the Infinity 975X/G and the RD600 to be released.

[elec999]

No one can tell for sure what may happen. Im sure DFI will make a great intel board. Asus does make some solid boards on the intel side, but not on the amd. Thanks

[graham_h]

any more conroe news from DFI ?

[Vric]

any more conroe news from DFI ?
Computex open tomorrow (well tonight) so News will come soon.

[Waus-mod]

will get info soon :)

[z00mX]

dfi are good w/ amd motherboards but i dont know about intel. but it seems dfi put in a lot of effort and ocing features for us.