Nice board, can't wait to see it perform.
I can't exactly explain this but the aesthetics of the mobo are fantastic. The digital life series are aimed at the more upper mainstream end [similar pricing to the deluxe range in ASUS] but have always looked bland and come with a stupidly high price. Hopefully this board will be at a reasonable price and oc fairly well. Some Quantum Force features would be great.
Some dudes told me the x58 was going to support Sli. It sounded like bullcrap, and I guess now that you are testing one is the time to ask. The problem with me just dismissing this notion is that I was told by multiple people. And that is a lot of RAM slots.
Doesn't even look much like a mainboard, but like something you took out of a stereo or something. In a good way, it looks very streamlined.
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My 680i A1 is not responding... WTF
... it wasnt my idear and i recommended them to change it as soon as i saw it.
i still havent figured out who that guy is supposed to be, who made that drawing anyways, zenno? :P
its actually the first board of our new transformer series!
it can transform from a mainboard into a boombox with 5 simple steps
what do you mean with socket revision?
x58 will be xfire only, but you can send some boards to nvidia to certify that sli works on them, then you gotta pay a one-time fee and then a fee for every board sold afaik.
both is possible, if you certify for SLI you can still use xfire. and xfire works fine even when you use nf200 chips, so in any case, if it supports sli, it support xfire as well. the only exception beeing nvidias own chipsets
yes, itll beg for mercy if you turn up the volts too high
what board? pretty impressive for 4 sticks! how about 2 sticks?
: / i forwarded your feedback, thats all i can do unfortunately...
hey, i didnt design that heatsink! :P
thanks for the feedback, i forwarded it to the digital life team
why not? and yes, BloodRage will be black pcb too
Black Blood? ... doesn't sound that healthy to me.
Petri, can you give any first impressions? Is it easy to work with in terms of overclocking? Will we need to use a different approach to reach the limits of the chips? Another approach to find the best working settings? Any info on your first LN2 results?
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put on your glasses?
Nehalem works with a base clock which gets multiplied to create cpu clock, qpi clock and imc clock. other than amd which used 200Mhz as base, Intel is using 133Mhz as base. the base clock works pretty much like the fsb, as in cpu clocks is multiplier x Bclock. Just like with amds hyper transport the bus speed is created using the base clock and a bus multiplier.
So when you overclock the base clock to get a higher fsb and better throughput for the cpu, the qpi speed will come up as well.
so to max out the Bclock you need to lower the qpi multiplier, just like with amd... even when changing the qpi multiplier the max Bclock is around 220, so with the 920 you guys will be limited to 20x220=4400Mhz. Which is fine tho, to max out a chip on air the base clock limit is just fine, but when you go for ln2 or phase change the 220 will be limiting.
Thanks for the nehalem oc input saaya
Okay, the basics are still similar to the things we already know: Increase Bclock to increase CPUfreq, QPIfreq and NBfreq. If I understand correctly, the Bclock will be limited to around 220MHz due to technology limitations, much like we see with the Phenom processors, which mostly hit the limit at 250Mhz, no matter what voltages are increased.
How about the QPI/NB freqs? What would be the limits on air? Will there be multipliers available to finetune these? Any special ratios we need to keep in mind (~AMD's NB/HT ratio)?
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For those that are interested in the bios options on other X58 boards, Coolaler posted detailed pics on OCX: http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/sh...6634#post56634
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the 220 isnt the limit i think, its the resulting qpi speed that, even when using the lowest qpi multiplier, is still too high.
higher qpi doesnt really help performance... just like with hypertransport the bandwidth is way more than you need... its only gonna be saturdated in the server segment i think
Sacha, Could you take pictures of inside of NB cooling ?
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I just flashed the latest bios and there is some nice improvements. Thanks Saaya!
Check your PM-
I will continue testing now
You are as good as your samples are!
Did you test multiple cpu's already? If so, does the max qpi frequency vary between processors, or will we have to search for gem motherboards? .
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Well, SAS isn't exactly mainstream, is it?
Hopefully the BloodRage (where do you get those names from?) will not feature this speaker-inspired heatsink design, which shows quite well the entertaining charakter of this board, suitable for digital life.
I thought, you are the mainboard therapist, to do your job
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it wasnt my decision to put it on there, but i dont see whats wrong with it?
you prefer a board with less features? :P
the ports can be used for SATA drives or SAS drives, which gives a nice perf boost and adding sas doesnt cost a lot, so why not? asus did it and i think others will do it as well.
obviously not, it has a way different heatsink
theres this alley in taipei with a small run down shop that sell them
whats wrong with the name?
if you have a better one let me hear it
for quantum force, digital life is a different department
FYI, reading spots for vtt and vnb:
well well well... guess you should have come to the GOOC to pick up 4 sticks as well hows it going bill?
sure that NB readpoint is correct Saaya?
beautiful motherboard !!
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