ATI RD600 Chipset-DFI LANParty UT ICFX3200 T2R/G First Look

[windwithme]

Since the second half year of 2006, due to Core 2 Duo, Intel platform
becomes the focus in enthusiast group again. Besides 975X chipset,
Intel also launched P965 chipset to enhance its product line.

On the other hand, NVIDIA released NF590 Intel edition this year.
But the performance and OC ability of it is not as good as prospect.
Then, they launched the brand new 6 series to backup the Intel platform

At this moment, except RD580 for AM2, ATI still has a “Final solution” for Intel platform~RD600(ICFX3200)

This time, I have DFI’s LANParty UT ICFX3200 T2R/G in hand.
The board adopts ATI’s RD600; also this is a real high-end LP product of DFI after a long time.

The package of the board is totally different from the past one,
The cartoon illustration is unique style of LANParty product.
I think the red color is represent ATI’s logo color.




The accessories from the package;
Wow, super-thick user menu, driver disc, IO shield and cables…





DFI LANParty UT ICFX3200 T2R/G
Motherboard appearance







A view of board’s lower left: a built-in debug light, chip of Dual gigabit LAN,
a future standard of VGA solution~ 3 slots of PCIe, and 3 traditional PCI





A view of board’s lower right:
Built-in Power/ Reset onboard button,
Southbridge SB600 supports 4 SATAII ports, and RAID 0/1, 0+1 compatible
Promise PDC40719 RAID chip, also supports 4 SATAII ports, RAID 0/ 1/ 0+1, 5 compatible




A view of board’s upper right:
4 x DIMM for memory,
24 pin power plug and a IDE device.




A view of board’s upper left:
6 phase digital PWM, more stable power supply
and a better space-saving for a huge-size CPU cooling fan.





I/O components




The temperature of ATI chipset is lower than Intel/ NVIDIA,
Due to North bridge uses a LP exclusive heat sink




A fancy LANParty case modding sticker, and a quick installation guide.




A supreme High-end/ OC motherboard, should work with a supreme high performance DDRII memory:
CORSAIR Dominator TWIN2x2048-8888C4DF




A cute pinky “starting screen”



the detail of BIOS selection be coming soon..

[The Nemesis]

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[hookid]

damn that thing looks nice

[Senater_Cache]

shame that the NB sink uses those pesky hooks/clips

[Senater_Cache]

whoop[s dbl post

[GoriLLakoS]

Any comparison to 975X on pi 32m without tweaks?

[s e t h]

great pictures windwithme - also looking forward to any results/findings of yours

[kiwi]

Only 2 sata cables

[mrlobber]

Only 2 sata cables

That's called "getting rid of the useless stuff for benchers"

[erwinz]

@windwithme

ahhh.. I envy you..



looking forward for more of your results..

[steelballzz]

subscrbing

nice pics

[Kasparz]

That's called "getting rid of the useless stuff for benchers"

Why manual is included then?

[Revv23]

whats wrong with just two SATA cables? like people here dont have a box full of twenty laying around somewhere?

The people that dont are the poeople that dont use more then 2 sata drives. not only that SATA cables are cheap anyways.

[Kabauterman]

Damn Nice

when it will be on the market

[Paulo Jorge]

Slobbering over my laptops monitor just looking these awsome pics.

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Santa Claus i wanna one of these for christmas...

[Lestat]

these are not final retail boards, DFI has already stated that the boards being reviewed now are not final.

so take that for what its worth when looking at reviews.
less than a dozen boards were sent out for review specifying they were not final.
pretty darn close but not 100% final

and you guys reviewing these boards need to stipulate this when posting pre-final reviews.

im not trying to take away from WWM's always fun reviews i just think its important to note that DFI themselves said these are not Final boards. and WWM need to denote this in his review if at all possible

[qdemn7]

these are not final retail boards, DFI has already stated that the boards being reviewed now are not final.

What else could they change this late in the game other than the BIOS?

[Revv23]

these are not final retail boards, DFI has already stated that the boards being reviewed now are not final.

so take that for what its worth when looking at reviews.
less than a dozen boards were sent out for review specifying they were not final.
pretty darn close but not 100% final

and you guys reviewing these boards need to stipulate this when posting pre-final reviews.

im not trying to take away from WWM's always fun reviews i just think its important to note that DFI themselves said these are not Final boards. and WWM need to denote this in his review if at all possible

Tony has specifically said these are final PCB's.

Could you please link to where DFi said these weren't final?

Obviously they could be changing the bios, but that almost always happens on the review samples. The PCB and components should not be changing one bit.

[somwhere_there]

waiting for some interesting (pre)review - saw some nice SATA performance at Anand tests.

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[principino1984]

nice..thanks for the christmas gift!...

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[rra]

Nice picslike layout around cpu no big caps to block phaze cooling hope the results are as good .

[Okda]

the AMD logo on the box is not placed correctly

but still Very nice mobo, i like the orange color

[windwithme]

BIOS














CPU
0.44375V~1.60000V




CPU
max+121.5%




DDRII
1.50~3.01V















CPU,max->511Mhz






















FSB IO




CMOS Reloaded




















AMD System Manager




CPU ,max->566Mhz
DDRII,max->950Mhz















Test platform
CPU:INTEL Core 2 Extreme X6800
MB: DFI LANParty UT ICFX3200 T2R/G
DRAM:CORSAIR Dominator TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF
VGA:Nvidia 8800GTX
HD:Seagate 7200.7 80GB
POWER:Corsair HX620W Modular Power Supply
Cooler:TT Sonic Tower




CPU 500X7=>3500Mhz,BIOS:1.53V
DRAM DDRII 1111 CL4 4-4-9 2T,BIOS:2.20V
8800GTX Default

3DMARK2005





Super PI 32M




CPU 511X7=>3575Mhz
DDRII 1200 CL4 4-4-9 2T BIOS:2.37V
Super PI 1M




ATI RD600 running the PI this program is slower with other chip but running
other test program is same with other chips.

Other performance and over clock test still not finished yet. Windwithme will
go out two days for idea of ideal. The final test will publish on next week. Thanks for your support.

[OldGuy]

Sweet pics and screen shots WWM...how do you actaully "like" the board compared to other offerings? Forget performance. I just want to know if you like what you see and feel comfy working with it...

[FragTek]

Wow this board is just too sexy... Seriously, when in the hell are we gonna have a chance at getting these??