RD600 first look and general questions

[Vice]

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[Lestat]

wow.. NDA is up.. 511 fsb is really promising.. hope 9x500 works wahahaha.. i'm realy bothered with the high chipset temps and only 100 pcs... waaaaa... I'll wait for my distributor for this..

thanks sir Tony

thats 511x7 and i dont call that promising at all, its the same stuff all the other boards do.

and it needs to be able to handle 6600 and higher better than alot of boards do. the 4meg cache cpu's are getting killed when it comes to overclocking on lower multi's.,
its gotta be able to wow people, and make people want it for its power not just cuz its been the largest piece of hyped vaporware ever seen.

and it aint real til it hits store shelves. and neither are any of these benchmarks. if it aint done on a retail board it dont mean jack. and most of you know this if you've been around here over the last year and seen all the sample boards just perform light years better than their retail counterparts.

i sure hope gary has a retail board and not a pre-retail sample.

[EnJoY]

thats 511x7 and i dont call that promising at all, its the same stuff all the other boards do.

and it needs to be able to handle 6600 and higher better than alot of boards do. the 4meg cache cpu's are getting killed when it comes to overclocking on lower multi's.,
its gotta be able to wow people, and make people want it for its power not just cuz its been the largest piece of hyped vaporware ever seen.

and it aint real til it hits store shelves. and neither are any of these benchmarks. if it aint done on a retail board it dont mean jack. and most of you know this if you've been around here over the last year and seen all the sample boards just perform light years better than their retail counterparts.

i sure hope gary has a retail board and not a pre-retail sample.

Overall you would generally be right in your statements. But this is Tony, not some marketing guru pretending to be an overclocking guru. He would not raise our hopes, empty our wallets and then say "ooops, sorry, guess my board was special?". Not what he does.

[Tony]

thats 511x7 and i dont call that promising at all, its the same stuff all the other boards do.

and it needs to be able to handle 6600 and higher better than alot of boards do. the 4meg cache cpu's are getting killed when it comes to overclocking on lower multi's.,
its gotta be able to wow people, and make people want it for its power not just cuz its been the largest piece of hyped vaporware ever seen.

and it aint real til it hits store shelves. and neither are any of these benchmarks. if it aint done on a retail board it dont mean jack. and most of you know this if you've been around here over the last year and seen all the sample boards just perform light years better than their retail counterparts.

i sure hope gary has a retail board and not a pre-retail sample.

Its final PCB revision, in full retail box, but yes was supplied by DFI to me last week.

If my cpu would do 511x8 the board would do it, fact is 3.8GHZ is all this 6400 will do so im kinda limited by that. Also remember you are not limited to certain ram ratio's like on an Intel board, so clocking is different...you just need to pick a higher multi CPU and work within the boards limits.

Also lets not forget, i975 is FASTER than i965 even though the i965 does higher FSB's....you again just have a cpu with a higher multi.

Finally Gary has a retail board, his came from the final production run as did mine, but mine is pre used by DFI engineering.

If needed I will measure all voltages on this board to see if they are close to what i see in bios...really though I do not doubt the board as the voltage options are nothing short of incredible.

[Rattle]

who cares about overclocking with low multi, after ddr2 800 1:1 the fsb is pointless anyway, and I prefer 975 anyway.

[The Nemesis]

Tony, if it hasn't been said enough, thank you for all the info and responses. I know some of us came make some pretty bold or silly statements from pure speculation. It's nice that you correct us and point us in the right direction professionally.

[RGone]

atchoo didn't get no brandmespanking new board like I got...did you get the mauve manual? Hehehehe. I been caressing and talking sweet to mine so she mat do pretty goot...you english folks is sumtime to rough speeking tuh yore shett...hehehe.

RGone...

[Tony]

atchoo didn't get no brandmespanking new board like I got...did you get the mauve manual? Hehehehe. I been caressing and talking sweet to mine so she mat do pretty goot...you english folks is sumtime to rough speeking tuh yore shett...hehehe.

RGone...

WHAT????? LOL

[Knight]

Tony, can you show us pictures of the board in action, or does it interfere with the review sites?

[Poodle]

Tony,

First: Thanks, I love the bios pics!

...It sounds like you're saying that it has lower mem bw per clock than the 975X?

You say that the chipset is hot. But it's much cooler than the i680 right? Do you have a killawatt or UPS to measure with?

Last but not least... Now when the nda is up, how is that Promise ctrl:er connected?


Thanks for posting so often.

[argonmtt]

the little vdrop in this MB is wat i'm looking for. as for the FSB wise, as long as is over 450 i'm happy with it ..

[erwinz]

Tony,

First: Thanks, I love the bios pics!

...It sounds like you're saying that it has lower mem bw per clock than the 975X?

You say that the chipset is hot. But it's much cooler than the i680 right? Do you have a killawatt or UPS to measure with?

Last but not least... Now when the nda is up, how is that Promise ctrl:er connected?


Thanks for posting so often.

I'm also interested on how the promise controller is connected.. I really want a balance system.. 500fsb is enough fo me, memory async overclocking is a plus.. and faster I/O for the hard disk would mean a balance system for me..

thanks tony for sharing hope you can answer our question when you have time..

[Revv23]

i think its realy cool that you can adjust PLL voltage.

wonder if it does anything.

[dinos22]

atchoo didn't get no brandmespanking new board like I got...did you get the mauve manual? Hehehehe. I been caressing and talking sweet to mine so she mat do pretty goot...you english folks is sumtime to rough speeking tuh yore shett...hehehe.

RGone...

you been taking Snoop Dog classes?

[bingo13]

That SLI news is really good. Gaming/3D performance is all really care about. I'm not much of a Pi cruncher, but I am concerned with the orthos stability issue. Hopefully it will get worked out and not be like my Abit AW9D-Max.

I don't remember Gary having 2 7900's so who tested hacked drivers for SLI on this board?

I'm looking forward to grabbing one of these Friday, even if the cost is outrageous

I have four 7900GTXs..... and two of them clock like no tomorrow, well at least on this board.

[bingo13]

I'm also interested on how the promise controller is connected.. I really want a balance system.. 500fsb is enough fo me, memory async overclocking is a plus.. and faster I/O for the hard disk would mean a balance system for me..

thanks tony for sharing hope you can answer our question when you have time..

The Promise controller is on the PCI bus. I am running RAID tests on it tonight but none of the HDTach stuff, iPEAK all the way.

[EnJoY]

i think its realy cool that you can adjust PLL voltage.

wonder if it does anything.

Why else would they have it?

[Killnine]

So lets just say I wasn't as "extreme" as everyone else here. Would it benefit me to get this board over a 975 board if I had DDR2 533 because of the async. memory features?

[dinos22]

Why else would they have it?

just for the hell of it maybe

how many voltage options actually impact performance in any way >>> not very many

[fhpchris]

thats 511x7 and i dont call that promising at all, its the same stuff all the other boards do.

Ya all the 975 boards are putting down 511 fsb :|

and it needs to be able to handle 6600 and higher better than alot of boards do. the 4meg cache cpu's are getting killed when it comes to overclocking on lower multi's.,

NO THEY ARE NOT!, Get a GOOD E6600! Freecableguy ran 520*7 on the cpu that I sold him in my Sig, once you get a good Xeon, there is no going back to that Allendale crap or normal E6600/E6700/X6800s.



I will put my L628B Xeon 3060 up against anyone here's E6600ES or X6800. Alot of the E6600s are crappy and cannot even do 3.7 and that is the problem.

its gotta be able to wow people, and make people want it for its power not just cuz its been the largest piece of hyped vaporware ever seen.

Yes it will wow people

and it aint real til it hits store shelves. and neither are any of these benchmarks. if it aint done on a retail board it dont mean jack. and most of you know this if you've been around here over the last year and seen all the sample boards just perform light years better than their retail counterparts.

i sure hope gary has a retail board and not a pre-retail sample.

I am sure the DFI board is not going to be slow, but it might be buggy, like my AMD DFI CFX3200

For the last time!

4 meg cache chips do overclock as well as 2 meg ones, just normal E6600s blow

[pcdoc1]

Alot of the E6600s are crappy and cannot even do 3.7 and that is the problem.

What kinda of BS is this? What do ya want from a 2.4 spec chip?

It's amazing how much reality has slipped away from so many....

[dinos22]

What kinda of BS is this? What do ya want from a 2.4 spec chip?

It's amazing how much reality has slipped away from so many....

he is talking in relative and NOT literal terms

[pcdoc1]

he is talking in relative and NOT literal terms

I understand, but ya buy a remarked 6600, spend an extra $12.00 because the box label says Xeon, and get sucked into believing you have bragging rights... No wonder I haven't posted here for months... (Nothing personal dinos)

Regards-

[erwinz]

The Promise controller is on the PCI bus. I am running RAID tests on it tonight but none of the HDTach stuff, iPEAK all the way.

thanks for your answer.. looking forward for your result.. I hope the sata controller on the DFI RD600 rival or just be equal with the performance of the Intel Raid Matrix

[dinos22]

I understand, but ya buy a remarked 6600, spend an extra $12.00 because the box label says Xeon, and get sucked into believing you have bragging rights... No wonder I haven't posted here for months... (Nothing personal dinos)

Regards-

but there is a difference between Xeons and retail conroes