DFI first DDR3 motherboard, UT X48-T3R Heatsink by Thermalright

[Infa]

Finelly!!! what I have been waiting for this moment!!

Since 26 february when the news came I have been waiting, it it has gotten delayed and delayed and delayed!!

yeeeey...

some one know if any other store that will ship in the EU also will get it the 29th?
MotherboardPro dont ship international, so i have to get it in EU, and 3 shops here still says pre-order but no date.

regards.

[zfactor]

are you sure i thought motherboard pro did ship overseas. i could swear they did

[Infa]

Ahhh ok

but it is a far way to ship electronics i think, what if it is broken when it arrives?
omg, sending it back, and RMA and yati yati

i will look and trend4pc or scan computer, or Hpm computer first if they will get them at the same time, if not , then i will get it all the way from the states
i looked at their shipping, they hardly shipped all over states, so i figured it was really a no go

but if u say they are like petra's i like it!

regards.

[Clunk]

Just reviewing this one





I'm just adding BIOS images and other stuff now and then I'll get to the testing

[Roger_D25]

At the moment I'm trying to sell my S2E to pick this board up, been waiting for months for availibility! Can't wait to read more results from testing, so far looking very promising! Thanks Andre for posting your testing results, much apprecaited! Also Clunk great job with your review as well!

[SeLecT]

@Clunk

Nice Review! Waiting for the rest!

[Clunk]

Thanks

The first good news is that the TRUE fits and also the RAM slots don't get in the way of the top PCI-E slot now

[Supershanks]

Hi Infa
HPM have them must admit i'm tempted but have got to sort a fewe thinfs before i can order

You going for one , tather than your Asus ??

[mrlobber]

Me & kiwi having already 2 coming to us from trend4pc.de... we'll see how really good (or not) these boards will be (having that QX9650 in the house which on P5K3Dlx almost set the 1M & 32M WR's ) If these boards can give additional 100Mhz vs Asus as well as having solid CPC & DDR3 performance, the Pi times will be better

[azza21]

Id love to see this compaired against the new foxconn board, to see which is better in overal performance. I do not know which one to get.

[mrcape]

It's really cool that they added finer grain control on VTT.

[Roger_D25]

Just ordered the board, should arrive this afternoon as its on the delivery truck as I write this! I'm gonna do my best to get my currrent system pulled apart and then build up the DFI quickly so I have some time for testing and initial thoughts. So I'll do my best to post back later tonight if all goes well!

Clunk - Can't wait to read the last parts of your DFI X48-T3R reviews (results) once your able to get it posted! I've been having a blast reading and checking out your site, very impressive!

[Supershanks]

Have to see how this develops Foxconn Black Ops vs. DFI UT X48-T3RS Comparison Review

[Roger_D25]

I must say that I struggled quite hard with what board to get (to replace my S2E), it was between Asus's P5E3-Premium, DFI UT X48-T3R, and Foxconn's BlackOps. I think their all decent boards with the Asus probably the easiest to setup, overclock, and get stable followed by the DFI and then the Foxconn. This is only based from the reviews and articles I've read. However on the other hand that list is probably reversed in terms of potential, Foxconn, DFI, and Asus (for overall clocks, especially with sub-ambient cooling involved). I like to overclock as much as the next guy but I also only have one system so I like it to be reliable too. This is probably the only reason I got the DFI over the BlackOps, well that and the somewhat steeper learning curve on the BlackOps as far as the BIOS is concerned. In any case I'll be keeping close tabs on the thread you just linked to Supershanks so thanks for posting it!

[Supershanks]

Yep understand, I was an early adapter of x48 & went for the Gigabyte GA X48T DQ6 over the Asus's P5E3-Premium , basically didn't see any advantage in paying an extra £70/$140 that the premium was here in the UK. From what I've found , together with Ace-a-Rue (see thread in siggy). I've been very pleased with board.

It's only now of course that the DFI & Foxconn have appeared. Again I'm more drawn I guess to the cheaper but well appointed DFI board. Like you say though I'm interested to see how they compare.

[Roger_D25]

I am now the proud owner of a new DFI UT X48-T3R motherboard which just arrived less than 5-minutes ago! Even though I've done it a hundred times I still love opening up new hardware and checking it out! As usual with DFI this motherboard is beautiful and the build quality is very good! Its so much different seeing hardware in person than it is viewing it in a photograph (no matter how nice the photos are). I think this onboard cooling setup is even nicer than my old DFI UT P35, plus it looks like this will actually do a decent job of cooling even when pushed a bit! In a few minutes I'm gonna pull my S2E apart and transfer everything over to the DFI, if all goes well I'll be up and running (with a clean install if WinXP Pro)within a couple hours. Once it is up and running I'll try to post back with some better descriptions of the board.

With that all said I've got a quick question for people who already own this board, the board arrives in a plastic clam-shell container. The actual motherboard is in the bottom plastic half and the transpiper type cooler and sound card are attached to the upper plastic half. Well there was a small empty white box between both halfs of the plastic container right about the CPU socket. Well was this box supposed to have something in it or was it just used for keeping the two plastic clam-shell pieces separated correctly? I quickly browsed through the manual and it doesn't show this box, plus I seem to have all the parts shown in pictures? If anyone has information on this I'd be greatful! Last but not least, wish me luck guys in getting this board setup and running!

[Praz]

The box is used as a filler only. It is empty.

[Supershanks]

Very nice

Even though I've done it a hundred times I still love opening up new hardware and checking it out

part of what keeps us coming back. Looked at Clunks thread & couldn't see anything related to your white box, i'll ask.

Must admit I'm getting an itch
look forward to seeing you running


luck

[Roger_D25]

Thanks Praz, glad to know! Have you put this board through its paces yet and if so what are you general thoughts so far?

Supershanks - I'm glad I'm not the only geek who still enjoys opening new hardware, heck I even enjoy the smell of new hardware, lol! By the way thanks for the kind words, I'm hoping for the best! Alright this time I"m really shutting down and starting the new build!

[Praz]

Haven't had much time with it. What I did notice right off is no more double boot from a cold boot or FSB change. I haven't posted any results as I'm using an Alpha BIOS. It's tuned for clocking 1GB sticks but seems to do good with 2GB ones also. I asked last night if a beta version based on this one could be posted up.

[Supershanks]

I'm glad I'm not the only geek who still enjoys opening new hardware, heck I even enjoy the smell of new hardware

yes at least it's cheaper than that other great smell , the new motor

[ACE76]

I'm surprised more people here haven't jumped on this board yet...I think I'm gonna go with this over the Foxconn for my phase build...I know the BIOS and already had great sucess with the X48 LT board...I hope more people jump on this so we can get some good discussions going for it.

[Clunk]

Updated things slightly.

It turns out that there is a glaring error in the user manual regarding the PCI-E slot configs.

[emoners]

Updated things slightly.

It turns out that there is a glaring error in the user manual regarding the PCI-E slot configs.

clunk, you referring to the 1x instead of the 16x?

[Clunk]

Yep, the manual says that PCI-E 4 is the second 16x PCI-E slot, when it is actually 1 & 3 that are the 16x slots.

Also, I found that if I started off with the 8800GT in the PCI-E 4, and then moved it to PCI-E 3, I still only got 1x until I reset the CMOS.

Seems ok now

Added DFI UT X48-T3RS voltage measuring points.