RD600 first look and general questions

[Kin Hell]

Lots of these boards are having faults...Failure rate of the DFI nF4 SLI DR Expert was bad too........Bought 1 that worked fine, tried another 5 boards & gave up for a friend.
I`m on ICFX3200 number 3 here right now since Jan 8th.
*edit* ...thats board #3 and NO voltage increases other than the RAM to 2.0v from 1.89v default.

[pcmoddingmy]

Lots of these boards are having faults...Failure rate of the DFI nF4 SLI DR Expert was bad too........Bought 1 that worked fine, tried another 5 boards & gave up for a friend.
I`m on ICFX3200 number 3 here right now since Jan 8th.
*edit* ...thats board #3 and NO voltage increases other than the RAM to 2.0v from 1.89v default.

Aww... that's bad.
Any idea how your board died?
Was it DOA or were you messing with it until it failed to boot anymore?

[Kin Hell]

Aww... that's bad.
Any idea how your board died?
Was it DOA or were you messing with it until it failed to boot anymore?

First ICFX3200 was DOA with a C1 error code. 2nd board worked fine for 3 days on air & the only adjustment to voltages was RAM to 2.0v. Board was boxed for 3 weeks whilst building a water cooled V2000B case. Board went in, Plumbed CPU, NB, 7950GX2 graphics, 8 hours purging l8r fire up with NO LED diagnotics. Board was dead.
Fun & games getting swapped out to board #3 & now sat here at 380fsb with a 2.4ES Duo at 3.4Ghz 1:1 with PC4300(ddr533) at ddr 760 4-4-4-12 1T.
1Mb SuperPi @ 15.297 sec. Not too shabby at all for crap Ram & standard voltages but for the ram @ 2.0v.

[nealh]

First ICFX3200 was DOA with a C1 error code. 2nd board worked fine for 3 days on air & the only adjustment to voltages was RAM to 2.0v. Board was boxed for 3 weeks whilst building a water cooled V2000B case. Board went in, Plumbed CPU, NB, 7950GX2 graphics, 8 hours purging l8r fire up with NO LED diagnotics. Board was dead.
Fun & games getting swapped out to board #3 & now sat here at 380fsb with a 2.4ES Duo at 3.4Ghz 1:1 with PC4300(ddr533) at ddr 760 4-4-4-12 1T.
1Mb SuperPi @ 15.297 sec. Not too shabby at all for crap Ram & standard voltages but for the ram @ 2.0v.

well I ran my SuperPi 1M e6600 @ 3420 w/ crucial @DDR800 4-4-4-4-18-2T w/2.2v..266 strap
I got 15.156 sec

[momomo6789]

mine works great and always have ... also c1 is memory

[pcmoddingmy]

Anyone else getting error code "7F"?

[erwinz]

I encountered that code.. when i use my corsair 8000UL.. I can't oc my sticks.. I cant pass ddr2 800

and I also encountered this

A12 DDR1 BR#9851 REL P4 Rel 9.4.1.33 R423GL-SE P/N 113-A45101104

I got this message when i boot my screen.. when i set my memory to 402.. I recover my system by a cmos reset and cold boot..

mm.. i think its a compatibility issue..

hope there is a new bios..

and could there be more options for the configuring of raid harddisk using the promise controller.. we can only use 16k

mm.. I think DFI should look onto this problems.. I'm not into benching mostly.. but I want a stable machine..

and also the vdroop issue is worsening.. a member of the official forum of DFI fix his problem by reloading his bios again..

maybe i'll do this later..

hope Oscar is looking at our problems.. I know this board have a capability.. so i'll wait..

[OldGuy]

I encountered that code.. when i use my corsair 8000UL.. I can't oc my sticks.. I cant pass ddr2 800

and I also encountered this

A12 DDR1 BR#9851 REL P4 Rel 9.4.1.33 R423GL-SE P/N 113-A45101104

I got this message when i boot my screen.. when i set my memory to 402.. I recover my system by a cmos reset and cold boot..

mm.. i think its a compatibility issue..

hope there is a new bios..

and could there be more options for the configuring of raid harddisk using the promise controller.. we can only use 16k

mm.. I think DFI should look onto this problems.. I'm not into benching mostly.. but I want a stable machine..

and also the vdroop issue is worsening.. a member of the official forum of DFI fix his problem by reloading his bios again..

maybe i'll do this later..

hope Oscar is looking at our problems.. I know this board have a capability.. so i'll wait..

Raid performance on this board is less then stellar...the Promise controller is very very slow. I would stick with the ATI controller.

[erwinz]

oh tnxs man..

have you use linux on the DFI RD600?? can the ati raid controller be recognize??

hey, do you any idea of a beta bios on the works??

[OldGuy]

oh tnxs man..

have you use linux on the DFI RD600?? can the ati raid controller be recognize??

hey, do you any idea of a beta bios on the works??

No idea about Linux...here is a link to beta on the DFI site>>> 12/8/06 beta

Didn't have the board up long enough to try it so you may want to wait for someone else to chime in on it before trying unless of course you are wanting a newer one and have already taken this one for a spin.

[erwinz]

hey thanks for your quick reply..

mm.. we really need to be patient in dealing with dfi.. but i know they can deliver jsut like in the dfi 975x infinity..

[OldGuy]

hey thanks for your quick reply..

mm.. we really need to be patient in dealing with dfi.. but i know they can deliver jsut like in the dfi 975x infinity..

The time spent getting this board ready for release was quite a long time...I have a feeling they won't be able to do a whole lot more with it which is why I moved on. Hoping they will, but don't hold your breath...

[Kin Hell]

No idea about Linux...here is a link to beta on the DFI site>>> 12/8/06 beta

Didn't have the board up long enough to try it so you may want to wait for someone else to chime in on it before trying unless of course you are wanting a newer one and have already taken this one for a spin.

Er...you're prolly gettin' older than you realised!

Your link above is for the current official Bios 2006/12/08.

On board number 3 right now...soon to be RMA# 3 as well. Out of 8 DFI LP boards I`ve tried across 2 different platforms, 2 have worked!!
DFI have had enough of my time. Time to move on.

[Polynikes]

Perhaps I WON'T be getting an RD600. :\

[OldGuy]

Er...you're prolly gettin' older than you realised!

Your link above is for the current official Bios 2006/12/08.

On board number 3 right now...soon to be RMA# 3 as well. Out of 9 DFL LP boards I`ve tried across 2 different platforms, 2 have worked!!
DFI have had enough of my time. Time to move on.

Too funny man...I swear to you I went to the beta section...web site won't load up right now so I can't prove I'm not senile and blind...I thought the date was a little stale

On the not too funny part...You, my friend, and DFI do not mix. I still have my NF3 250gb and have had an RDX200 (still have technically, I sold to my company and it's still kicking folding 24/7 for over 9 months), NF3 Ultra D (pain in the ass but worked ), NF4 ultra D, Expert and the RD600. All have worked out of the box without issue. Technically I still own the the NF4 Ultra D until this weekend and posting from it right now. Awesome board...I also have an Infinty NF2 and my trusty Infinity 975X/G...

So you could say DFI has had an excellent track record with me thus far...For you, I would never again even try one and could hardly blame you.

EDIT: Okay...I feel better. They have 12/8/06 in the beta section and it IS a beta. Shipping bios is 12/18/06...

[fhpchris]

Perhaps I WON'T be getting an RD600. :\

Why would you ever switch from x6800+975 to RD600?

[Ten]

Anyone using Super Talant T800UX2GC4 memorys i'm getting some random bsod, if any use them can u please give me ur setting if it's working fine.

[Polynikes]

Well the RD600 sounded really badass before it was released, but with the problems being mentioned, it's probably not worth the effort, at least not for me since I'm not a hardcore overclocker.

[topboy]

Doesn't anybody ever learn about DFI and the crappy quality of their boards.

Their QA Dept is really poor, their Support is really poor, come people wake up and smell the coffee. Move on and buy a product from a GOOD company that has GOOD quality and support for thier products.

[steelballzz]

buy a product from a GOOD company that has GOOD quality and support for thier products.

and by that you mean.........

lmao

can you say threadcrapping.......

i guess you never been to asus support forums or had a few of their boards dead for no aparent reason

all the dfi boards i had were pretty solid...

au contraire.....in the past 6 months i watched half a dozen asus p5b deluxe going to rma with no justification

i remember when i had an EVGA 680i with the 1 st bios....
i ear retailers talk about rma rates of gygabyte and abit.....

i have bought 2 rd 600 baords....1 can do 540 and the other 529 fsb.....
apart from the chipset cooler and the "raw" bios its a very good board
solid voltages and very good to take the most out of your ram

i just dont get why dfi would put an alloy painted cooler with a chipset that heats up like a sob

but a bios update is more than necessary

regards

[topboy]

and by that you mean.........

lmao

can you say threadcrapping.......

i guess you never been to asus support forums or had a few of their boards dead for no aparent reason

all the dfi boards i had were pretty solid...

Im not here to recommend im here to tell the truth.

I have owned Asus and yes they are as bad as DFI.

Im glad your DFI products work so well for you but come on be real, they have as worse if not worse reputation as Asus. When you consider the amount of boards that Asus push out the door and then consider the amount that DFI push out, i would say Asus come in better than DFI.

[Kin Hell]

Too funny man...I swear to you I went to the beta section...web site won't load up right now so I can't prove I'm not senile and blind...I thought the date was a little stale

On the not too funny part...You, my friend, and DFI do not mix. I still have my NF3 250gb and have had an RDX200 (still have technically, I sold to my company and it's still kicking folding 24/7 for over 9 months), NF3 Ultra D (pain in the ass but worked ), NF4 ultra D, Expert and the RD600. All have worked out of the box without issue. Technically I still own the the NF4 Ultra D until this weekend and posting from it right now. Awesome board...I also have an Infinty NF2 and my trusty Infinity 975X/G...

So you could say DFI has had an excellent track record with me thus far...For you, I would never again even try one and could hardly blame you.

EDIT: Okay...I feel better. They have 12/8/06 in the beta section and it IS a beta. Shipping bios is 12/18/06...

LOL OldGuy.....Funny thing is, the very first DFI board I ever had ROCKED for me too. T'was an nF4 SLI DR Expert & Opty175...the best AMD rig I have ever had the pleasure of owning & indeed the Fastest PC I had owned to it's exit date. Another 4 boards tried for a friend to no avail & identical Spec down to everything but the Lian Li case. Heck, even Quad SLI ran F.E.A.R. like I've never seen the game run..."LPB Boy"...eat your heart out! The FPS increase was awesome in that game & 3DMark totally Sucked...rofl.
Anyways, maybe I have been unlucky, but I refuse to waste anymore time larking around. I'm seeing cr4p with hard drives that are normaly associated with ALI (now ULI) & VIA chipsets & it appears some of the 680i reference boards are also suffering mass storage issues. For my money, it all went tits up when the Industry started using the SCSI name for IDE devices & all sorts of strange anomalies with hard drives not working on certain boards means that Industry Standards are not being adhered to!
My Maxtor 600GB 2 x Raid0 Stripe & Segate 750GB drive behave like tin cans full of nails compared to the Opty SLI DR Expert rig. What cracks me most is HDTach saying my hard drives are bursting @ 303Mb/sec rather than 97Mb/sec on the Promise, but when windows loads from the ATI headers at the alleged 303mb/sec, it takes 4 times longer to load windows??
Then when you're on the desktop, copying files is like waiting for paint to dry.
It`s even funnier that after waiting 6 months for a motherboard that was fast developing into being a piece of Vapoware only days before it's release, That "Collective Smoke" we were all having shoved up our collective Asses has kinda blown away me trusting any other Chipset other than Intel for Intel CPU's. Hold up Bad Axe 2, I'll be right there..............

[Polynikes]

I can't do without RAID. Guess we'll see if there's gonna be any bios updates. I was afraid there wouldn't be.

[topboy]

Just on another note. Isnt it funny that we see Nvidia 680i based boards from nearly every mobo company except DFI. What with this and no bios updates, and the fact a little bird told me that DFI was going down the pan, im sure glad i didnt buy the RD600 and went for the Badaxe2.

I suggest everyone that owns a RD600 get onto the DFI forum and start a petition to get these problems sorted, because i dont see DFI doing anything about it any time soon.

[AbelJemka]

Blah, Blah, Blah. If u hate DFI good. Thread's name is "RD600 first look and general questions". You look? OK. Questions? nothing. So go away far from this evil mobo and let dumbasses like ours use it.