[UniHW] DFI 790FX M2R Review, King of AMD is back!

[Zytek_Fan]

that board looks flat out sick .

Tru dat!

[VictorWang]

It does, but afaik it can only be enabled with a Phenom CPU.
Victor have you tried running 1066 with this 6000+?

yup, i've tried, and it's HALF-WORKing.
200fsb, 1066, cpuz can't read the memclk, 200*15 1m=30.875sec
200fsb, 800, 200*15 1m = 27.xxx sec
so as you said, the 1066 ratio can support only on K10


like i said, this mobo, remind me the years of DFI LP NF4.
yes, CFX3200 almost make everyone crazy, but this mobo is not.
even if u leave all setting = auto, it can overclk pretty good.
for mem timing settings, i think if u fimiliar with memset, u can handle almost 80% of the options available in bios.

[bigdaddy25fb]

This brings back memories of my NF4 SLI-DR...god I loved that board...can't wait for this one to be paired with a phenom..may have to take out another loan just to build another rig

[VulgarHandle]

VW, should we follow this thread for some K10 benching?

[Brother Esau]

@ Victor Wang....Hi, Victor will the new DFI AMD 790 Support Cell Shock (PC2 8000) 4-4-4-12 or is this chipset going to be limited to ddr2 800?

[VictorWang]

VW, should we follow this thread for some K10 benching?

could someone find me a K10 to me plz
'coz i dont wanna buy AMD cpu

@ Victor Wang....Hi, Victor will the new DFI AMD 790 Support Cell Shock (PC2 8000) 4-4-4-12 or is this chipset going to be limited to ddr2 800?

lol, it's not a problem, u can set 300*10, ddr2-667, and ur memclk = ddr2-1000

[Brother Esau]

Thanks Victor Whats new with you these days?

[Tony]

This board is suposidly able to do 510FSB with a 6400 @ 5 multi!

better then the MSI with 500FSB.. but this was on standard air cooling!!

This board will defo pwn!! esp when Phenoms ramp clocks speeds up Q1/Q2 2008

No FSB on an AMD board m8...FSB is intel only.

HTT is amd, HTT bus speed

[papatsonis]

@Victor , impressive perfomance@ spi .The last week i was trying to do some bench @3300 , ram 1100 4-4-4 , and even with extensive tweaking in all subtimings (in fact all minimal except Twrt,Trtw ,2,4 respectively) cant even get close ( getting close i mean 0,5% difference..) , fastest tryout was once (never succeeded to repeat again) 4-4-3-9(or -8 , dont remember) with 24.593 almost 1% slower(i dont think tras =5 could make more than 50-70ms differcence).To make this difference clearer before "crucify" me :p, keep in mind that with all subs tweaked , going from 5-5-4(tCL-tRCD-tRP) to 4-4-4 got 0.9-1% faster at spi , so this difference from my setup (m2n32 ws pro,XP64 ,diagnostic startup :p) is HUGE!! .Is so much gain from the extra subtimings the bios has? or is just the high HTT?

[fyseni]

Bah, I was really excited when I saw that AMD Phenom-related slide claiming 169€ QuadCore CPU's and then seeing this DFI board and thinking it'd cost 150€ or so (for example MSI's 790FX costs ~120€), but cheapest Phenom ended up at 230€ and this board is listed at 200€(!) at the moment...

Hello IX38-QuadGT (180€) & Q6600 (200€) then, I guess.

[|ron]

Launch prices are always higher than expected...
We need to wait until all shops have phenoms and 790 mobos available in quantity and not only some of them.
Then they probably start the price battle and we'll be able to get a dfi at 150€ and a X4 9500 at 190€...
Another example is the 8800GT... here in Italy it's still unavailable in almost all of the shops and where it's available it's sold at 250+ € (350$ or so)..

[MDK]

Is it possible to crossfire 2 cards with 1 in the last bottom slot? That would be really nice as it would save 3 PCI slots for devices.

[fyseni]

Launch prices are always higher than expected...
We need to wait until all shops have phenoms and 790 mobos available in quantity and not only some of them.
Then they probably start the price battle and we'll be able to get a dfi at 150€ and a X4 9500 at 190€...
Another example is the 8800GT... here in Italy it's still unavailable in almost all of the shops and where it's available it's sold at 250+ € (350$ or so)..

Well, the 8800 GT is out of stock everywhere in Europe, but even so it's still sold at 200€, even under at some stores. Theres no price gouging on the HD 3800-series either, even though it's a new product.

Though I hope your right, I'd love to get this board at 150€ (and a K8 DualCore), but looking at DFI's recent pricing with their Intel boards, it'll stay at 200€.

Alright, enough ing and offtopic from me, carry on.

[Brother Esau]

I know I asked this in another thread but.......does this mean that overclocking a Phenom at this point beyond 2.4ghz will result in the Errata Bug and shut down under Prime Load?

[Inteleron]

c'mon guys lets start clocking Phenoms!!!

[Brother Esau]

You buy Please.....I am a little light on cash ATM

[asp6000]

I know I asked this in another thread but.......does this mean that overclocking a Phenom at this point beyond 2.4ghz will result in the Errata Bug and shut down under Prime Load?

Not according to this reliable source heh heh heh:

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...om-ghz-due-tlb

[jarthel]

would this board make phenom more overclockable on air?

[tictac]

3.3GHz 1.48V

[sora3]

My next system if I can save up fast enough

[Bulldog14]

I must say you make valid points and their boards are way too expensive and their support crappy as can be (in Euroland).

Care to back that up with some evidence mate?

-DFI Support Europe.

[Athens[2004]]

3.3GHz 1.48V

stable 24/7 settings ? on witch model ? 3.3g phenom with air sounds good.

[SeLecT]

3.3GHz 1.48V

More Infos please

Or was this Post ironic?

[LowRun]

Care to back that up with some evidence mate?

-DFI Support Europe.

Well, i got a board with the warped socket in the days and unlike DFI support in the US they told me they wouldn't take care of the shipping cost, after i mailed them back telling them (in a very polite way) that i didn't understand why it should cost me anything when it was a 100% DFI mistake, they just ignored me. You can't possibly do worst in my opinion unless you insult your customer of course.

[drunkenmaster]

Care to back that up with some evidence mate?

-DFI Support Europe.

is it available anywhere yet, and does anyone know if they are sold through any stores in the UK anymore. was a point you could pick up a dfi from anywhere, even dabs.com , now you can barely find dfi boards and i have no clue why they dissappeared

none of the "where to buy" links on the dfi site have anything. i think one company of all the ones listed had a single dfi mobo on. they've just evapourated completely from the uk, which is a shame.