If the board is over $200 usd then i dont see it as being any different from commando other than maybe better vdroop. The main thing that could put the board over the top in my eyes would be strap control and 1t that actually works.
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If the board is over $200 usd then i dont see it as being any different from commando other than maybe better vdroop. The main thing that could put the board over the top in my eyes would be strap control and 1t that actually works.
QFT. Hopefully DFI will release this sub 175... I've got my eyes on the ICFX3200 (RD600) but if they can price it well soon and release it, I may just change my mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrDeeds
1st, 500+ FSB are not hard to find, but clock by clock this thing beats Asus P5B-Dx by a fair margin, you just need some more reading. ^^Quote:
Originally Posted by OBR
2nd, reason for the above might be it still stays on 1066 strap in reaching 500+ FSB, tell me a where a P5B-Dx does 500+ on 1066 strap unmodded?
So in the end, you got a P965 board that outperforms even 975X and any other chipsets out there at the moment, with the bonus of extremely overclockable.
Their engineering is simply amazing ^^ !
nothing is simple about DFI engineering
and being an Infinity board, it is guaranteed to be cheap.
If you must pick on my word usage, the adjective in my sentence was "amazing", not "simple" ;) .Quote:
Originally Posted by trans am
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Originally Posted by FatHippo
Im almost sure the Infinity 975X/G was released around $240 @ newegg.
That reply was to the link provided for the initial performance results, not your board although it is from DFI engineering just like others floating around here in the US. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by AndreYang
It's a hand built engineering sample. I have seen plenty of results like that released by the various engineering groups and in this case it was DFI engineering for the initial results. There is a reason why you only see SuperPI/CPU-Z results and nothing else. I can take SuperPI/CPU-Z shots all day long with the abit QuadGT at 7x550, which is faster than the DFI board by the way, but it will fail within a few seconds of running a game or 3DMark at that level. The point is, until we get a retail board and BIOS, then it is premature to crown a new King. Case in point,the best performance BIOS for the RD600 was never released due to QA issues, and it holds true with several other board suppliers. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by M3kk
that's true:toast:Quote:
Originally Posted by bingo13
So is there a "new" King right now; or are there just too many problems to sort out? I like the idea of the new chipset (ATI), even though I have an 8800gtx/Nvidia, not an ATI.
What does "QA" mean? :cool:
"quality assurance"Quote:
Originally Posted by Knight
Not many people can get this mobo now, but I think that link results are from coolaler for sure,not from Oskar Wu.Quote:
Originally Posted by bingo13
Any ideas when this mobo will be available in the UK?
It's safe to say the key to the primilinary success in overclocking of the Infinity 965 is the tweaking job on NB latencies. It runs much tighter and produces a huge bandwidth boost, this is clearly demonstrated in the comparison tests against P5B-Dx at the same clocks/FSB/mem. Infinity got over 10.5MB/s while P5B-Dx scored over 9.2MB/s. My guess is Infinity goes nuts on 1066 strap while P5B-Dx needs 1333 to run this kind of FSB (~540)Quote:
Originally Posted by bingo13
And he (coolaler) did 32MB runs as well, I'm aware this is not the best bench for stability, but if the whole system isn't stable enough (CPU/mem/NB) then it's bound to fail, however the board didn't fail.
If you are still unsure, you could always ask for an Orthos bench from him (not here though). However, until I see more impressive Pi times with Abit QuadGT, this DFI board is about the fastest scorer yet. Many boards can do 500+, but at 500+ which is the fastest, is what we are concerned here. (I'd rather get a 500FSB board that makes a 4Ghz Allendale do 12s 1M, rather than a 700FSB board that scores 15s same everything else :D)
But why are they so tight-lipped about release? NDA?
I know who did the initial benchmark results and who is tuning the BIOS. ;) Tell us, when is the board going to be released? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by AndreYang
read his post he hit 400FSB on a quad... I don't know if ti's 24/7-able but still, QX 6700 has an unlocked multi...Quote:
Originally Posted by eclypse
and as for crossfire, look at the board layout, there are two 16x slots so you can, but you're limited to 4x on one slot.
Why is it the best OC board if every time I see a DFI customer review, they're complaining about how terrible the bios is? I had a lot of problems with my DFI board too in terms of the bios being a total b*tch. It was really finicky about ram too. Im having a love hate relationship with DFI right now, and I don't think my next system will have a DFI mobo in it, sorry to say. But I've had it with their buggy bioses, and boards that are released before getting the major problems worked out. DFI stopped making the board I bought after only a few months cause they had so many problems with it, and I'll bet money they won't replace it with another model if I ask. I am extremely reluctant to trust buying anything from them again.
I agree, I love my Gigabyte S3, but I need the 1067 strap option, and more vdimm (up to 3v would be nice). And this and the QuadGT are the only two 965 boards out that are any diffirent to me. I can get to 532fsb with my board, I just to be able to do more with my memory. I find it hard to buy a commando ( which appears to be a glorified p5b-d) that won't get me much better performance than I have for twice the price I paid for my S3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blknoel
They are saying 8 to 10 days
http://global.dficlub.com/
I see this board in preorder in CZ e-commerce. It costs around 4100 ck, about 150 €.
It's very interesting. :toast:
@OP
nice will pick one up asap, btw what kind of cooling are you using on ur qx6700 oc?
High points, I saw the following working on a 1066 strap @ Ocxtreme:
DDR2 1280 (Done on E6600 @ 3844MHz)
540 FSB (x7) on C2D (E6300 @ 3784MHz)
452 FSB (x8) on Kentsfield
490 FSB (x7) on Kentsfield from the DFI forum linked in this thread.
VDIMM Max- 3.375
NB Max- 2.00v
SB Max- 1.8v
It will be interesting to see the first round of reviews to see how well these numbers hold up.