DFI P35 Value Motherboard, Infinity INF P35-T2RL BLOOD-IRON

[emoners]

gah, i hate living here for tech

try living where i'm at... but it's weird that if you take a look at the SB chip, it's made here!

[mascaras]

hi guys


got mine dfi Blood iron T2RL today

first boot with Q6600





with my previous mobo (DFI dark 965) wont boot + 3650mhz

[MotF Bane]

Is PC Wizard 2008 reliable for measuring Vcore? I put +300mV through the BIOS, so that should be about 1.55, right? Idle PC Wiz is showing 1.424 - load flickers to 1.568 before the load crashes. Namely, Orthos made all of 2 seconds, OCCT made about 16 seconds.

[Budwise]

so far this board is really pissing me off. It was fine at stock speeds but once i dialed in my OC from my old Asus board it started throwing fits. The biggest problem is with my sound. As soon as it gets to Windows my X-FI start SCREECHING with static. I tried moving it to a different PCI slot, still no good. Checked the IRQ and it has its own! WTF. This board is also horrible so far with clocking ram. What was rock solid 4-4-4-5 at 945Mhz is now not even bootable to windows with this board. Unless its on Auto it will constantly reboot. Can anyone please help me with this damn thing?

[Budwise]

now im randomly getting ati driver stopping and recovering. Is this board screwed up or what?

[Budwise]

i seemed to have stumbled my way to fixing the sound. Cleared the CMOS, reinstalled the drivers, and for 2 boots in a row now its ok. I still need help with the memory clocking though. It just refuses to use my usual timings...

Update: Funny story. It refuses to boot at DDR 945 4-4-4-12 but it will gladly get into windows and run Orthos at DDR2 1122 5-5-5-18 (auto settings)? All i can do is shrug and laugh i guess. This board baffles me...

[fireice2]

Its a good board, but Ill keep my 965 Dark.

I know color doesnt matter, but id like to see dfi keep the "Dark series"

I second the motion mate! Just love the performance and looks of the dark series. Maybe they should make an Infinity Dark X38?

Its just too bad the BI is not really a full ATX board.

try living where i'm at... but it's weird that if you take a look at the SB chip, it's made here!

I share the feeling bro. We get the latest tech when almost everyone has it already. Plus the overpriced parts here, coz of shipping, supply and tax considerations... How does a $175 BI sound?

A lot of chips are manufactured here but are mainly for the export market, that is why semiconductors is one of our country's top exports.

[Budwise]

im about to send this back. Did a CMOS reset due to a bad memory setting and BOOM, the sound problem is back magically although no bios settings are any different.

[Brother Esau]

I'd RMA it but you've got quite a trial by fire learning this board and getting High Ram Bandwidth in essence its a 3 lock pandora's box when trying to get all of the settings right

[Budwise]

i cant get around this sound problem let alone the memory. RMA time. BOOOOOO

[Fresh_Thing]

I had a few problems with my X-Fi and this board also but i made Clear Cmos - Flashed with new beta bios - Clear Cmos and now it works great

[Budwise]

it had more problems then i was willing to mess with. Its on its way back to Newegg as i type...

[ezrael]

Hi all,

I was reading NB cooler is to small and there is problem with temp. is that true?
It's possible running this board without any external fan over NB ?

Regards,
Ezrael.

[Ajn]

Looks like a nice board. But, am I blind or didn´t anyone mention can this board change the command rate?

And, does it make sense to change this gigabyte p35-ds3r to dfi blood iron? (the drawbacks of this board are: huge vdrop (I´ll mod this soon, just wait ^^) and this mobo cannot change command rate (damn gigabyte..)

Anyhow, on these C2D boards and mobos, how big factor is the command rate anyway?

Thanks

[garson]

Is Thermalright HR-05 SLI compatible with this mobo?

[Sgt_Strider]

How does this board perform with the Crucial Ballistix RAM?

[sofarfrome]

I am guessing it will perform very well with the Ballistix. At least I hope so because I have one coming tomorrow.

[TSFroggy]

Just picked up this board, smooth overclocking and very stable so far... except the vdroop is rather high according to SmartGuardian... almost 0.05v droop.

Can anyone help me to locate the vcore measuring point? And are there any known mods for this board?

[DeW itt right]

Is Thermalright HR-05 SLI compatible with this mobo?

I've got an HR-05 SLI on the SB right now. I used to have either the SLI or the regular HR-05 on the NB as well but I can't remember which.

[garson]

I've got an HR-05 SLI on the SB right now. I used to have either the SLI or the regular HR-05 on the NB as well but I can't remember which.

OK, thanks, but I'm interested in HR-05 SLI on NB, and Tuniq Tower 120 on CPU. I guess SLI can be installed on NB but I don't know if Tuniq and SLI would conflict.

[sofarfrome]

Too bad this seems like a slow thread as this board is very nice

Here are some quick results. I have a 550FSB CPUz validation somewhere here.

[Jimbo Mahoney]

I'll be picking this board up soon, so I've started a vDroop thread in the vMods section. I'm happy to be the guinea pig.

[DeW itt right]

Just got my Wolfdale in yesterday and it's already playing very nicely with the blood iron board. Just like the pre-release reviews: 4GHz without breaking a sweat...

[garson]

Just got my Wolfdale in yesterday and it's already playing very nicely with the blood iron board. Just like the pre-release reviews: 4GHz without breaking a sweat...

Great. I have same mobo and I'm waiting for 8400.
What CPU voltage did you set in BIOS?

[DeW itt right]

Great. I have same mobo and I'm waiting for 8400.
What CPU voltage did you set in BIOS?

I'm not exactly positive on the numbers but this is about how it went at these speeds...

+100mV - BSOD at boot up
+150mV - failed immediatly during Prime
+200mV - failed after 9 minutes of Prime
+225mV - Ran 7.5 hours of prime without failing!