Quote Originally Posted by andressergio View Post
Just give her a good present for Xmas and so on January 2/2009 just run for a new board

Cheers mate !

How come the DFI not getting that ? is it a very good mobo...

Kind Regards
Sergio
Quote Originally Posted by jcool View Post
Because DFI X38 and X48 can't hit decent FSBs with any and all Quads. I have the same problem, can't get above FSB 460 with my Q6600 for the life of it, tried it for months lol. Another mobo --> 480 stable
Only no other mobo will hold my 250W Q6600 on 24/7 load without exploding

Jcool is right, it's disappointing really I've been thru 3 DFI's X38 and 2 DFI's X48 and they all gave same results on Quads with a little difference in FSB.

I got these boards as soon as this Chipset debut because of the double x16 in Crossfire capability, but then when ATI's X2 came out that was a feature that became a bit useless.

The boards cost me $300+ at the time and they are good for high mem clocks DDR2@1300 with little voltage. They are also solid trustworthy boards but for that price DFI could have done a lot better.

The reason I believe is a fatal mistake made on the PWM-Chipset design for running Quads. They underestimated that for sure.

The max FSB I got out of a Quad was 485x9 but that stresses the board a lot, needs a lot of volts on NB/VTT/Vcore for that (with a board rev. A1).

So you have to chose between running 470x9 and low volts for everything (vtt, vnb. vdimm, vcore etc) or 485x9 with huge amount of volts.

I prefer to run it low volts and comfortable because the extra 15Mhz won't be missed.

With a new board in the near future that can change. I'm not thinking about i7 as it won't give me any gains in reality.