[First Look] Retail Box DFI UT LP P-35-T2R (56K Warning~~)

[dinos22]

Do you think you could handle the truth?

ROFL gary hahah

[Booj]

Priced at $369 Australian dollars for preorder at a couple of Aussie PC shops. Probably not as high as I expected.

http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/....cgi?q=dfi+p35

I'm liking one of these with a G0 Q6600 coming in the next week or so

[EnJoY]

Excellent pictures Andre, and nice results!

I am very eager to see performance comparisons at the same cpu mhz between 600fsb and say 450-475fsb with tighter strap.

[billdavis]

probally my next board

[EternityZX9]

Priced at $369 Australian dollars for preorder at a couple of Aussie PC shops. Probably not as high as I expected.

http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/....cgi?q=dfi+p35

I'm liking one of these with a G0 Q6600 coming in the next week or so

Soo...about $314 for those American folks on here....ooowheee expensive.

[Booj]

Soo...about $314 for those American folks on here....ooowheee expensive.

It should be less than that because we have 10% sales tax in Australia.

Edit: one of those shops i linked to lists an ETA of 3rd August. I have emailed them. If they have them I will buy but I doubt it.

[Aldy402]

detachable heatpipes

this is going to really benefit us watercoolers
damn nice results

and @Tony

good point about the R&D, most of us consumers never take that into consideration

[ziddey]

any results for max fsb on max volts said safe in intel spec sheets? like 1.26vtt or something along those lines and 1.375vmch?

[Stalk3r]

Nice, no legacy I/O, it's about time serial and com ports died. Also 600 fsb

[ImportantAwareness89]

Remember when the SLI-DR were insanely expensive? Similar enough. Then we had the Ultra-D. Not everyone needs SLI/Crossfire. We need a cheaper mainstream board.

Edit: And it would be nice to have a mainstream board in the LP series and not Infinity. Furthermore, the Ultra-D was everything the SLI-DR was minus the SLI and RAID.

[turtle]

Furthermore, the Ultra-D was everything the SLI-DR was minus the SLI and RAID.

Um, it had SLI and raid.

I get your point, and agree...but I doubt we'll see a board like that again...It must cannibalize sales on the higher-end part...and we all know the ultra-d's setup pissed nvidia off.

[wedfighter]

is cmos reloaded comes with this board?

[Brother Esau]

Yes!

[Tony]

The fact is this, to get the chipsets clocking high latencies have to be relaxed, so you buy a cheap low multi CPU you think all you need is a board that does 600fsb to match everyone who has a higher multi CPU, fact is thats not the case.

You guys need to move past buying the cheapest and hoping to clock it up, it may get close but performance will always be sub par as latencies on the MCH etc are relaxed so you see more like Allendale performance from a Conroe.

Ofcourse DDR3 helps as it can do silly clocks, but for DDR2 you really are wasting your time over 500fsb UNLESS you stay 1:1 and tweak a ton of registers to dial speed back in, but overall its still not as fast as staying under 500fsb.

Same for 680i, same for 975, same for 965, same for P35....Infact 975 is fastest below 450 not 490.

[Tony]

Remember when the SLI-DR were insanely expensive? Similar enough. Then we had the Ultra-D. Not everyone needs SLI/Crossfire. We need a cheaper mainstream board.

Edit: And it would be nice to have a mainstream board in the LP series and not Infinity. Furthermore, the Ultra-D was everything the SLI-DR was minus the SLI and RAID.

you are asking to much of DFI, they have an Infinity based off a cheaper 4 layer PCB, whether it clocks as well who knows.

Overall most have no idea how much work goes into making a high end clocking board, especially one at DFI. RnD and final tune take a huge amount of time up, there may have been 4 maybe 5 PCB revisions also and numerous changes to VRM etc to get the board working how you all expect it to.

This is why the ROG boards from Asus are expensive also...RnD is not cheap

[EvilMoe]

@Tony: What means RnD?

What's about Vdrop on this Board?

[Brother Esau]

Research and development

[Ad1tya]

Whats the Transpipe thing for?!?

[DMH]

The expected price in Portugal is 274,95€ so I think you american guy's are getting the board a bit expensive

[[VII]]

In gemany the pricing of the board is about 230 - 270 €, will be available hopefully next week

[bing]

nVidia RAID ?

So its a P35 mobo with nVidia south bridge and el-cheapo ICH9 ? So where is Intel soutbridge ICH9R then ?

Imo, Intel Raid > nVraid and the latest ICH9R capable of 6 drives raid.

[Bootsy]

Where does this "NVIDIA Raid" written on the backside of the box come from?
The FSB450 with the QUAD looks a little low - is this really the max?

Thank you for the info.

What Mibo said. How well will this board handle a Quad - 450fsb does seem a little low.

[AndreYang]

do you have price info?

btw, sweet chip you have! 600+ FSB on air!

I hear the price about 260~270 uSD, but I really don't know real price in the market.

is this board 16x X 4x in crossfire or 8x X 8x in crossfire?

16X+4X+4X

Well i like most the vdrop controll. Can u show us the options in it?

BIOS has vdroop option. You can select on or off.

@AndreYang.......Is there anyone I can contact that you know that could give me some info on Raid Controller Card use and compatibility on PCI-E X4 signal speed and compatibility issues on the D.F.I P35?

Which one of the other PCI-E slots are able to scale to X4 signal the middle one or the top one?

Is it possible to contact Oskar Wu myself and have a chat about the posibilities and performance scalability using X4 signal on this board with my Raid Controller Card?

Thank you......Campbell

I already pm to you.

Well, can you show whats the best @ 3.6 with that e6850 you can get?

And show us how does that heatpipe cooler mounts please.

Here is heatpiper install from DFI.

whats the big deal with 500fsb+? I keep asking and NO ONE can give me a straight answer.

The boards are fastest between 380 and 490 from my testing as down here the chipset is not neutered down to hold the FSB.

Im glad to see "performance level" in bios, Oskar said he would add it and has, now lets see the others open up their bios files and stop overclocking for us

You are right. Not of many people use FSB 500+ because you need high voltage on DDR2. This just prove DFI LP P35 retail performance still is stronger than other brand DDR2 P35.

Next, Oskar Wu will tweak performance on DDR2 memory control. You will receive new bios in few days.

[Grinch]

Next, Oskar Wu will tweak performance on DDR2memory control. You will receive new bios in few days.

for:
DFI 680i LT NF-680i LT SLI...?

[Tibu]

Man... I'm a huge DFI fan. Especially of their LP boards. But if X38 isn't that far away... oh man I just don't know.