Quote Originally Posted by Jor3lBR View Post
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.


get the avenger thats what I'll be moving to as my EOL 775 board for the next year or so, it should be out in <1month