Intel D975XBX "Bad Axe" Revision 304 - Who Wants One?

[Sneaky]

To make a long story short, Intel began shipping these boards about a week ago, so good luck getting them out of retail stores before the older revisions are sold out (a.k.a. not anytime soon)

I have a friend in Boston that has connections at an Intel channel, and he's going to be checking if they have received any revision 304 boards that support Conroe yet. If all goes well, these boards will be available through me and mikeguava in a short while.


Pricing for the boards has been established at $190 per board ($1900 per 10-pack OEM system builder pack)

the way this will all go down is that once we have a surefire 30 boards sold, everyone will send payment in full via either paypal, or money order/cashiers check

once payment is recieved for all 30 boards, the order will be submitted to the channel warehouse for processing (can take between 1-2 weeks for the order to ship, it is company policy at the channel to test all hardware before shipping it to ensure that there are no DOA boards)

then when the boards are shipped from the channel and recieved by me, they will be sent out to their respective buyers via USPS Priority/Global Priority mail







Boards will be ordered in multiples of 10 (OEM system builder bundles - estimated $190 per board)

if we get 20 orders and more people want them - we need 30 boards to be sold, there can't be any extras


Order Sign-Up List (X) = Email Confirmation Recieved

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if you are one of the people who are going to be pre-ordering D975XBX rev. 304 boards, please email me at my alternative email address: sneaky.xe@gmail.com


include your Name, XS Display Name, and E-Mail where I can contact you if/when needed

please title the subject of the email - D975XBX Rev. 304 Pre-Order


-Justin

[vapb400]

Chris dot Hughes89 at gmail dot com

sorry I dont want spam

[Latiass]

latiass at gmail dot com

Throw me on the "maybe" list. :O We're Intel channel at work, so I might end up getting my own through that, and I'm also heading to ICC next week, so I might also win one there. If neither of those happen, though, I'm most certainly interested if the cash is in my pocket!

As a side note, let's hope for some juicy Conroe/Merom benches at the ICC, and hopefully some juicy info!

[automagic]

I'm interested but Intel boards have a reputation of not being much on overclocking. Do you think this one will have any oc ability?

Thanks

[Sneaky]

this has somewhat limited overclocking options, but the main thing is that it will run conroe, when no other boards will be out that fully support conroe until its official release in Q3

[zabomb4163]

so this will be useful for early ES chips.

[Latiass]

so this will be useful for early ES chips.

And as far as I know, dropping an ES/Extreme Edition (confirm?) into the 975XBX unlocks all the "enthusiast" features, so.. some extreme conroe overclocking, perhaps? 8)

[SluRRR]

If the price is no more than $250, count me in.

geshook at sbcglobal dot net

Since I am new here, could you please forward (at the email address above) some details about past group purchases and some of the payment options you used for them.

Many thanks.

[vengance_01]

Count me in if Price is not over 250$

jflogerzi @ gmail.com

[Waffles]

jakewaffles at hotmail.com

i def. want one!

[gone_fishin]

I found a way to overclock any chip to any speed you want on it. Just modify the ITK file (with Intel Developers ToolKit) in the bios update to change the hidden settings to what you want, flash the new settings, reboot, shut down, change jumper to start in maintenance mode, shut down, put jumper back, then boot into windows. Once changed hidden settings are flashed they stay till a new flash.

You can over ride the FSB to 1066 or 1333 and add or subtract up to 30% so this gives the entire FSB spectrum. Once you overide the hidden FSB overide for non-ES or EE chips, you manipulate the 30% burn in option to fine tune it to where you want to go.

This also works for the hidden vcore of Non-ES EE.

Here's my example,
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=86970

As you can see I am overclocked with a 920 to 41% above spec. This was done by setting the hidden FSB overide to 1066 then adding an additional 7% to the FSB manually.

[StixxX]

If you can ship it to Canada then corveete@hotmail.com but put me as a maybe wondering If i should get this now n be futureproof r wait till all the boards come n pick the best one...but if this happens we should finally see Conroe Overclocked by a bit

[gone_fishin]

Correction, I used the tool called Intel Integrator ToolKit.
Some are PM'ing asking what the developer toolkit is, sorry for the mixup.

http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/itk.htm

[freecableguy]

kjboughton @ COX DOT NET

i'm in for 2

[Extera]

So this board is surley supporting conroe?

"In addition to multiple thread support, the Intel 975X Express Chipset enables key performance-optimized capabilities such as support for multiple 2x8 graphics cards"

This also means crossfire support I gues?

Let you know if im in for 1 soon

[death metal]

The D975XBX is a great board that supports up to 30% overclock from the nominal FSB or clock speed. If you have an ES or an Extreme Edition, the features for voltage and multiplier setting, as well as the so called "enhanced power slope" that somehow reduces dropping will become available.

I am getting five(5) of these from internal contacts soon along with a "processor" ...

You can also play with Chipzilla tool, if you ever ran out of options specially if you are not using an ES or XE version of the processor =)

Have fun guys...and let us see some extreme volt modding for the motherboard. Btw, do let me know what other features you'd like to have on this board if ever you believe it is lacking and I'd be willing to shout it out to my relevant internal contacts.

Here's an old OC:

I changed the multiplier from 13 to 15. Not tested heavily, but it's 4Hours+ stable on Prime95. All other benchies work, 3DMark, PCMark, Sandra, S&M (run once only). Stock voltage, stock fan =)

CPU-Z Validation: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=79090

[althes]

In for one damianbarker at comcast dot net

[Extera]

sorry, didn´t do my homework.

Found a nice revieuw http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2681

[Eastcoasthandle]

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/i...0109/10651.png
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/i...0109/10652.png
Oh NOES!!!!!

[Extera]

the fsb max sucks

But in this tread you can read a bypass

[freecableguy]

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/i...0109/10651.png
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/i...0109/10652.png
Oh NOES!!!!!

200 + 30% (x1.30) = 260 FSB
That's an artifical limitation. This can be overcome with the Intel ITK (333 * 1.30 = ~433Mhz). Plenty to get an 8x CPU to the 3.6-4Ghz range no problem. 333Mhz FSB is based on support for the Conroe XE which is a 1.33Ghz FSB product. I am assuming that we should be able to "unlock/unhide" the higher FSB support with the new rev.

-FCG

[Extera]

An other issue might be mounting a tube on it / isulation of the mobo

There is not much space arround the socket. But he, it's not the worst problem to overcome

For the rest I join FCG, the fsb stucked @ 250/260 is just cuz it's 30% OC max.

[\Karting_freak]

ygpm buddy!

[Thorburn]

An other issue might be mounting a tube on it / isulation of the mobo

There is not much space arround the socket. But he, it's not the worst problem to overcome

For the rest I join FCG, the fsb stucked @ 250/260 is just cuz it's 30% OC max.

Have used a Vapochill XE-II with the D955XBK and D975XBX no problem in our labs.

[LarsK]

Have used a Vapochill XE-II with the D955XBK and D975XBX no problem in our labs.

No problems here with a D975XBX and a Mach II GT either. it actually works much better with the Mach II than the Asus P5WD2-E did, because it doesn't do the "shut down and restart" thing that Asus does @ 280+ MHz fsb.

My board is also completely stable @ 345 Mhz fsb with 4 mem blocks @ 1:1 cas 3-2-2-8.

I would love to get a rev. 304 board as well (mine is rev 0302), but I bet postage to Europe would cost an arm and a leg.....