The DFI X58-T3H6 Rolling Review

[Praz]

How is this a fail on the OC dept

Exactly. There are full size $300.00+ boards not capable of running the speeds you have posted.

[PClark99]

Hot Damn, Got an email from motherboardpro, my board shipped today.

WOOHOO

[Clint]

How is this a fail on the OC dept

With "fail" I mean not as good as in the good old days when the highest FSB's was reached by Lanparty boards. 200 bclk isn't really reflecting the price, at least in the OC perspective. For me at least the DFI boards is all about OC'ing, so I consider this a "fail".

[Pedalmonkey]

dude, its a freaking M-ATX board. go for the UT board if u want OCing. that board will do 230+ BCLK for around 300 dollars. serriously, what more can you ask of a board this small with the good OC it does have plus dual PCIx16 2.0, DDR3 mem, etc?

[CedricFP]

dude, its a freaking M-ATX board. go for the UT board if u want OCing. that board will do 230+ BCLK for around 300 dollars. serriously, what more can you ask of a board this small with the good OC it does have plus dual PCIx16 2.0, DDR3 mem, etc?

I suppose a more practical question is also:

Considering that the m-ATX board is aimed at m-ATX users (lan goers, fans of small cases) it is expected that on a smaller board (don't ask me why it is expected) that oc'ing capabilities should fall slightly short of the bigger brothers. The point is, if your i7 920 hits 4000 mhz no problem, then is there any significant performance difference between running 200x20 on the Jr or 230-17/18 (39xx-41xx mhz) on the DK/UT. I suppose you have more freedom with RAM multipliers, but bandwidth there is a non-issue in anything but synthetic benchmarks anyway.

[Supershanks]

Great stuff Johnny
I'm running the DK, think bios is similar this
Bios Template may be useful.
Am running 920 and got to 4,200 21x200 Ram x8 1,680 8-8-8-21 so far

[WhiteFireDragon]

what devices take advantage of the pci-e x4? can we also plug pci-e x1 int he x4 slots?

[Johnny Bravo]

Johnny, is the NB HS removable like the P45 version?? just wondering so i can maybe Water cool it too.

It is indeed - same nut and bolt setup for attaching aftermarket cooling. THe hole distance looks to be approximately 60.5mm

Great stuff Johnny
I'm running the DK, think bios is similar this
Bios Template may be useful.
Am running 920 and got to 4,200 21x200 Ram x8 1,680 8-8-8-21 so far

Cheers SuperShanks, yes the BIOSes seem to be almost identical; I may well make use of the profiles

what devices take advantage of the pci-e x4? can we also plug pci-e x1 int he x4 slots?

You can indeed - some PCI-e x4 cards I have seen are Gigabyte network card, RIAD devices and other high bandwidth peripherals

[MrHydes]

awsome motherboard

nicre review johny_bravo