Bigtoe's first look at eXpert from DFI

**Onycho** · 11-11-2005, 01:30 PM

Tony,

One of the things that has me interested in this board was reading that you can lower drive strength and run 4 DIMMs in 1T and not 2T. I would really love to know if this is possible, especially with BH5/UTT RAM. Drooling at the thought of being able to run 2 gigs at 250-260 doing 2-2-2-5.

Any chance you could do some 4 stick tests for us?

**CrashOv3r1De** · 11-11-2005, 01:48 PM

Tony would you recommend going with the 4800plats or 2x1gb ballistix. I have my own opinion and got plenty of feedback but I want an experts opinion as well.

Your a OCZ guy but try not to be biased :P

I will have a modded vapo to work with -40s load and a FX57. I am hoping to be able to bench @ 3.7ghz dont want the ram holding me back..

I am 99% leaning towards the ballistix but another opinion or set of ram would never hurt. Based on my knowledge I picked the ballistix I do not really listen to all of the partisian opinions or flamers but some good honest advice never hurts.

I know nothing is guarantyeed and 3.7ghz is aiming high buts thats my goal for a SPI spable benchmark.

**dinos22** · 11-11-2005, 01:53 PM

hehehe i don't think Tony would go recommending someone elses product.....you are asking the wrong fellow about ballistix

**mongoled** · 11-11-2005, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by IvanAndreevich

Tell me if any of you guys get an appreciable improvement in your CPU overclock

Yes, I am also interested in this information. I want to work out if my Opteron is average or better than average, currently 300x10 prime95 stable +10hrs. Id say its average

**Tony** · 11-11-2005, 03:35 PM

Ok tested VX, 267 is the max, no different from my ATI boards and my UltraD so im not going to bother psting all sorts of screenies for this one.

I did however test async and had issues, 1:1 was fine 180 and 166 over 300fsb on the cpu was giving me some minor issues, so im reporting this to DFI and moving to the next dimms. This will be a minor bios issue so don't all freak out here

**dinos22** · 11-11-2005, 03:37 PM

what sort of minor issues did you experience

**mongoled** · 11-11-2005, 03:38 PM

Hey Tony,

no rush on the CPU overclocks, AngryGames says thts the first thing he is going to test

. So we got you testing the ram and Angry testing the CPU. I love the internet

**cupra** · 11-11-2005, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by Tony

Its better than the RDX200, I have a feeling they reworked something as both this and the RDX are near identicle from the chipset up but they clock a lot differently.

It seems a nice board, reponds to vcore well and vdimm. I will know more as i test all the dimms over the next few days. For now its working well for me.

please let us know tony, coz most of the members here are consider to "upgrade" drom the "old" DR, and we want to know more about that board.
and nice work man, like always

**Tony** · 11-11-2005, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by dinos22

what sort of minor issues did you experience

I talked to DFI, they will sort it quickly, no need to elaborate here as its a minor bios issue

**dinos22** · 11-11-2005, 04:07 PM

no worries...........can you let us know whether current users of these boards with shipping bios will be able to run divider at all

**Tony** · 11-11-2005, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by dinos22

no worries...........can you let us know whether current users of these boards with shipping bios will be able to run divider at all

it ran fine at a lower clock so i will say yes, I was running 333x8 with the ram 183 and it was flakey, 166 was flakey also. This with VX BTW.

Its just register issues, so a fresh bios will have that all fixed in no time, plus it may just be my board etc...so im not worried at all about it.

**dinos22** · 11-11-2005, 04:59 PM

cool......

don't want to OT your thread but looks like OPB killed 2xCPUs with his board....might want to see what the issue was....in case it swallows yours as well

**Tony** · 11-11-2005, 06:07 PM

Async is fine it seems with my venice, maybe just an opty issue although it was there on my 3700+ also.

I have had 3 cpu's in here now with no issues, i use manual vcore settings though at all times which just may be the cure/workaround...

**Tony** · 11-11-2005, 07:02 PM

async seesm fine, I also have a new bios under test

Im getting a -2 version of this to release also.

One last thing.

Do NOT flash eXpert bios to old NF4 or old NF4 to eXpert

IT WILL KILL THE BOARDS

**Speedpc** · 11-11-2005, 09:21 PM

My 1st post !!!!!! Hi Everyone

Hey Tony, I finally got SLI Enabled ,the board is working flawless. Did you have a chance to see how your temps are doing bios versus windows i'm running 250x11=2750 with my SD 4000+ 1.47v My bios shows 27C but in windows everest, smart guardian shows 45C i'm sure it's not running at 45C, this same cpu was running at the same speed on the SLI-DR at 37C in bios and windows. Just curious what you have observered. Thanks

**Stumpjumper5200** · 11-11-2005, 09:40 PM

Just got my eXpert this morning. Within the next week I'll finally be moving from my aircooled Northwood & 9700Pro to a watercooled Opteron and 7800GT. It'll be so nice to be able to crank up the details again

This guy says it all ----->

**mrlobber** · 11-12-2005, 02:39 AM

Originally Posted by Tony

i use manual vcore settings though at all times which just may be the cure/workaround...

As far as I understand, OPB's board never got to the bios at all, it just killed his cpu's.

**Jack** · 11-12-2005, 05:41 AM

Lot´s of good info in this thread

Keep it coming, Tony!

**Tony** · 11-12-2005, 06:10 AM

Originally Posted by mrlobber

As far as I understand, OPB's board never got to the bios at all, it just killed his cpu's.

maybe be a one off bad board m8, I have had 3 like that and none of them were DFI. Im sure OPB will get sorted out and be back clocking in no time.

**tarrcm** · 11-13-2005, 07:29 PM

Hi all, first time posting here. Got an Expert board and a question.
I was testing new ram running memtest86+ from BIOS, esc'd out to bump HTT another 10MHz and rebooted.
Insteadof getting back into memtest, the darned logo appeared!
I went back into BIOS right away only to find everything was set back to default in BIOS.
Can you tell me what happened there? I never saw that happen before.

**stealth17** · 11-13-2005, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by jetjaguar

ill let u know how my crucial ballistix do tomorrow since my expert board will be here

updates?

**MaTr1x** · 11-14-2005, 01:16 AM

Yeah, this is one of the things I want to know aswell since I have 4 sticks of BH5, would be nice to run them in the eXpert with CPC on.
BTW any reports yet 'bout what is actually causing some CPU's to die? Heard something 'bout a high squeeky sound when plugging in the ATX cable, which is a symptom the CPU has been fried....

Originally Posted by Onycho

Tony,

One of the things that has me interested in this board was reading that you can lower drive strength and run 4 DIMMs in 1T and not 2T. I would really love to know if this is possible, especially with BH5/UTT RAM. Drooling at the thought of being able to run 2 gigs at 250-260 doing 2-2-2-5.

Any chance you could do some 4 stick tests for us?

**dinos22** · 11-14-2005, 05:19 AM

Originally Posted by Tony

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=39751&stc=1

async seesm fine, I also have a new bios under test

Im getting a -2 version of this to release also.

One last thing.

Do NOT flash eXpert bios to old NF4 or old NF4 to eXpert

IT WILL KILL THE BOARDS

400HTT nice

new bios already....can't go wrong with that

**LikwidKool** · 11-14-2005, 09:37 AM

Tony, have you been able to try the 2x1024 pc4000 Plat EB's? I am curious as to what they clock on this board.

Anyone clock an opty on this board yet?

**jetjaguar** · 11-14-2005, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by stealth17

updates?

not going too well

cant get my cpu stable on this board at what my sli-dr could do .. its just a headache

Thread: Bigtoe's first look at eXpert from DFI

Thread Tools

Search Thread

Rate This Thread

Display

Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions