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For any europeans looking to buy this motherboard. :woot:
9th May 2007 - 3pm BST Currently in stock:-
(Belgium) http://www.compumsa.be/
(Germany) http://www.trend4pc.de/product_info....oducts_id/1100
Hope that helps a few people, it only took 48 hours from ordering to recieving i.e. Belgium to England. :) :clap:
who sells this badboy in ontario canada?
The place comp store I can think of is NCIXQuote:
Originally Posted by elninio
They're one of the best comp retailer/e-tailer in NA :)
SWEET
Everything is running smoothly and configured. Thanks to the people who helped me on the way and special thanks to FCG!
I had no problem using Winflash1.84 on Vista ultimate. I followed the procedures as stated from HERE and the flash was succesful in Vista. However, upon restarting, the system would not POST, and there were continous LOUD BEEPS every 2 secs. I had to power down the system and restart it again and it posted fine. The BIOS date is 4/24/07 up-to-date.
When the system wouldn't post after the flash, it sure scared the HELL out of me...LOL! I upgraded the NB/SB heatsinks and bacially build everything from scrach....it would suck if the mobo is xxxxxx cos of winflash
So as a reference for future Vista DFI DARK owners, winflash is proven OK to work by my own case :D
one doesn't have all solid caps, and doesn't have firewireQuote:
Originally Posted by M3kk
Takes fiddling but either could work. I'm using 1+3, although I failed small fft after 6 hours :(Quote:
Originally Posted by X-Tiramisu
wonder what to crank up now
Im using the Blue slots.
Thanks for letting us know.Quote:
Originally Posted by wangerin
I'm so in love with this board!!!
OMG I can't believe the "voltage droop" on this beast is almost NON-EXISTENT!!!
This is by far the best mobo I've bought up-to-date; the best cost performance ratio mobo. P5N-E SLI 650I no longer hold that title :D
The stock voltage for my current E6700 is 1.25v and I'm getting 1.248v in windows!!! talk about 0.002v droop...UNBELIEVABLE without even bother to make a pencil Vdroop mod. Under Orthos load, the droop only comes down to 1.238!!! The OC progress up to this point it @ 3340mhz, stock 1.25v:cool: , Idle 30 degrees :D
AWSOME!!
ncix is vancouver :/ i bought faulty ram from them and it was a pain in the ass to get a new oneQuote:
Originally Posted by X-Tiramisu
Why would you expect a Vdroop at stock voltage?Quote:
Originally Posted by X-Tiramisu
still does. for instance, my first ds3 board.
vid for my e6400 is 1.325. under load, it'd only be 1.264
Every mobo has Vdroop, it's normal and the way it is but this mobo has significantly less Vdroop compare to the past 3 C2D mobos I had with the same Vcore setting :D
This is actually my first DFI board and I'm quite satisfied so far...OC at 3420 right now at 1.325v and full load is at 1.28v :D
At stock Vcore, 1.25v, the max stable result I could reach is roughly ~3.3G
Here is the current StageII OC at the moment. :)
Stock NB/SB/VTT voltage, except Ram/CPU voltage.
NB temp 24 degrees and system temp 22 degrees.
Please check my sig for mod on the board and the rest of the air cooled setup.
More results to come..:)
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...oad0834hrs.jpg
u got a nice cpu :)
what si the maximum fsb u can get with lower multi ?
Any particular reason?Quote:
Originally Posted by wangerin
he likes the color blue ;)
Actually that's why mine are in the white...so I can see the blue. :toast:
Still working with my first board but here are my initial results.
Test Setup
E6400 L628B194
Tuniq Tower 120 Stock
eVGA 7900GTX Stock
Crucial 25th Anniversary (white slots)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA II
HSPC Top Deck Tech Station
OCZ GameXStream 700w
http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/4334/memsetax8.jpg
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/2...3920mhzhe9.jpg
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/2...ial25thcm8.jpg
damn, that's one hell of a chip
Nice Nemesis. How ram overclocking wtih 2/3 divider? Thanks.
Yeah after 2 returns minus restocking fee for the 2 C2D I had, this one is by far the best OC chip. I havn't test the CPU MAX FSB WALL on the DARK but with the same chip on my last mobo, I could reach ~500FSB * 7 multi.Quote:
Originally Posted by SaFrOuT
If you notice in my sig I'm using PC6400 Platinum Rev2 rams and at DDRII1000 is probably the max they will go. I'll kinda capped by the rams...so I either stick by *7 multi at ~500FSB = 3500mhz ish or go for the *8 multi route and gains higher clock speed but lower NBCC and bandwidth.
I'm waiting for some nice MicronD9 rams to go on sale and do 1:1 / 533mhz DDRII1066 with tight timings like 4-4-4-8 :) and *7 by 533 I'll be at ~3731mhz and this is roughly the max I want to go as my goal is to build the max stable 24/7 xtr system. The CPU prob can touch 3800mhz but temp will become an issue at that point.
What would you like me to try? I don't have great ram, but I'm considering correcting that. My best kit is a G. SKill 6400HZ's that do DDR2-1266, but that was on a 680i. I did try them on this board briefly.Quote:
Originally Posted by loc.o
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/971/53899638ml9.jpg
AWSOME OC there Nemesis!!
:D:D
IIRC i read that mem overclocking was hard compared to other 965 boards. 2/3 divider with mem around 600mhz would be nice. Very strong E6400 youve got, it deserves a higher multi :D
All previous DFI boards we have had here rather early but unfortunately stil not this one.
Yes, i know that, but i want to know if between the two boards has any difference in MAXfsb, stability, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by ziddey