RD600 first look and general questions

**AKHandyman** · 12-11-2006, 09:50 AM

Which e-tailer will be the first to offer the board? How many are slated for the USA?

**marauder16** · 12-11-2006, 09:53 AM

Man this board will carry many sleepless nights from me I see already... I just can't wait for it, it's just so great. DFI and Tony are really the best!

It's just so weird that there will be no more divider problems, but I say

Just

for DFI...

**XeRo** · 12-11-2006, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by AKHandyman

Which e-tailer will be the first to offer the board? How many are slated for the USA?

How about which e-tailer will be the first to charge an insane price for the board? (assuming supply is limited)

Newegg

**Tony** · 12-11-2006, 10:03 AM

Got some info:

Less than 100 boards coming to the USA, The EGG will have them. They will be onsale before Xmas I am told although i could NOT get a firm date.

I can show bios shots and clocks but no benches. Bingo13 has the exclusive and we have to respect DFI's wishes to look after chosen reviewers. We will drop hints etc so don't think we will just stop feeding info.

more soon.

**Gambit_2K** · 12-11-2006, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by Tony

Got some info:

Less than 100 boards coming to the USA, The EGG will have them. They will be onsale before Xmas I am told although i could NOT get a firm date.

I can show bios shots and clocks but no benches. Bingo13 has the exclusive and we have to respect DFI's wishes to look after chosen reviewers. We will drop hints etc so don't think we will just stop feeding info.

more soon.

Damn less then a hundred boards for the US means like 10 for Europe =/

**AKHandyman** · 12-11-2006, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by Tony

Got some info:

Less than 100 boards coming to the USA, The EGG will have them. They will be onsale before Xmas I am told although i could NOT get a firm date.

I can show bios shots and clocks but no benches. Bingo13 has the exclusive and we have to respect DFI's wishes to look after chosen reviewers. We will drop hints etc so don't think we will just stop feeding info.

more soon.

Tony, is that 100 boards just this year? There will be more later, right? I do hope that DFI is planning on shipping more to the USA. There are more than a 100 DFI 'ocers here, licking their chops, just waiting to get this board, myself included.

**Killnine** · 12-11-2006, 10:23 AM

Did they finish this board last tuesday or what? They couldnt fab more than 100 boards? Wow, thats really sad....

what, like 500 boards EXIST at this point? What has been going on for the past 6 months? Ugh....

**Tony** · 12-11-2006, 10:26 AM

There will be more boards, its just near xmas thats all.

more goodies for you all. take a look.

1200DDR 3d stable, still tweaking but this shows some potential to be as good as i680 for dram overclocking. This is 8500EPP part from OCZ micron IC and 6 layer PCB. As soon as I have Flex here I am sure I will break 1300+ easy.

More soon

**AKHandyman** · 12-11-2006, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by Tony

...Bingo13 has the exclusive and we have to respect DFI's wishes to look after chosen reviewers. We will drop hints etc so don't think we will just stop feeding info...

RGone over on the Street closed his thread, but will any of them be posting here with their results? When will we see more of other reviewers stuff?

**Virtual** · 12-11-2006, 10:33 AM

really nice

**Tony** · 12-11-2006, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by AKHandyman

RGone over on the Street closed his thread, but will any of them be posting here with their results? When will we see more of other reviewers stuff?

Robert will post here if needed, we have to respect Travis has rules on his forum.

Bingo13 will be reviewing the board but has promised some teasers here for us all....he will be the only one benching due to DFI promising him the exclusive.

**Gambit_2K** · 12-11-2006, 10:35 AM

Tony if you have konstant any contact with DFi could you ask about availability for Europe? Before XMS? After? And an estimate on how many boards?

And Isn't EPP an nVidia thing or does AMD/Ati have a licens to use it too? Or am I just plain old wrong?

**Tony** · 12-11-2006, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by Gambit_2K

Tony if you have konstant any contact with DFi could you ask about availability for Europe? Before XMS? After? And an estimate on how many boards?

And Isn't EPP an nVidia thing or does AMD/Ati have a licens to use it too? Or am I just plain old wrong?

Their is no EPP hook in bios, I was just quoting it is an EPP part.

I will ask DFI netherlands for stock forcast tomorrow.

**qdemn7** · 12-11-2006, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by Tony

Less than 100 boards coming to the USA, The EGG will have them. They will be onsale before Xmas I am told although i could NOT get a firm date.

100 boards? Oh man, Newegg is going to rape people on the price. Ouch!

**bingo13** · 12-11-2006, 10:58 AM

My first impressions of the board are very good.

The latest BIOS release is still being sorted out by us and required a little study time at Oskar University to learn a couple of performance enhancing tricks.

Right now, the board is extremely solid but my clocks with a E6600 are just slightly below Tony's E6400 results, nothing that a little more tuning on my part will not solve. We will have more later today and will include BIOS screen shots.

**situman** · 12-11-2006, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by qdemn7

100 boards? Oh man, Newegg is going to rape people on the price. Ouch!

So which one of your arms and legs you like teh least?

**Johnny Bravo** · 12-11-2006, 11:04 AM

man we're not gonna fair much better in the UK

**Yoxxy** · 12-11-2006, 11:07 AM

Seems RD600 for X-Fire
680i for SLI.

Seems both chips act pretty close to the same from initial reactions.

**kemist** · 12-11-2006, 11:08 AM

Tony what about ZZF, are they getting any boards? They have had the page for the board up for forever.

**AKHandyman** · 12-11-2006, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by bingo13

My first impressions of the board are very good.

The latest BIOS release is still being sorted out by us and required a little study time at Oskar University to learn a couple of performance enhancing tricks.

Right now, the board is extremely solid but my clocks with a E6600 are just slightly below Tony's E6400 results, nothing that a little more tuning on my part will not solve. We will have more later today and will include BIOS screen shots.

Well, after looking at the manual I downloaded, that BIOS is by far the most intensive one I have ever seen. I have to agree with RGone that it will indeed be a time consuming process to set that board up. But I know a lot of us have nothing better to do than spend a few sleepless nights tinkering with a new Lanparty board for our Conroes ...

**XeRo** · 12-11-2006, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by situman

So which one of your arms and legs you like teh least?

All I have left is my soul. As long as the price is below $300, I'll buy it. I need to have my build up before going back to school.

**Revv23** · 12-11-2006, 11:21 AM

man only 100 xmas boards, merry christmas to the lucky few!

**G H Z** · 12-11-2006, 11:28 AM

100 boards only? I got a bad feeling about this, It will probably go for more than Striker.

**BLHealthy4life** · 12-11-2006, 11:35 AM

Is this board listed on newegg?

I cannot find it.

BL

**M3kk** · 12-11-2006, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by BLHealthy4life

Is this board listed on newegg?

I cannot find it.

BL

Not yet.

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