Quote Originally Posted by Tony
I have tweaked the bios already, its allowing TCCD to boot and run at around 280 with no other tweaks apart from Vdimm so we are already taming the board.
LDT has to be set, setting auto does not scale like the NF4 does.Also i have hidden from 3.76V and up and opened up all the inbetween settings for vdimm, so we have options in 0.02v steps all the the way from 2.5v to 3.74V which I really like.

The drive strengths we found nice were 7 8 9, i have set the board to use 8.

To comment on the bios, it needs an update.It is first release and as usual it does need polishing.

Now talking about sata2, I really can't understand why we don't have 3124-2 on this board, it features sata2 and sata1, or you can use 3132 for 2 ports and use a port expander for more, this would have brought the fastest sata2 controller onboard and satisfied many who run Hitachi drives.

The USB is no biggy to me, its fast enough for what i use but you could always add a usb card for faster thru put. Issue is though with the price of the board it kinda leaves a bad taste if you have to do it.

I like the board layout a lot, running this board BTX style with a 120mm fan at the back like the Lian Li would help keep cpu and dimms real cool, I do think this layout is a good move forward.

I have two hitachi T7K250, switching SATA1 and SATA2 back and forth but didn't find any advantage so IF the xpert turns out to be the same as this xfire I know the SATA2 won't be missed by me for sure!!