DFI Infinity P965 due to hit U.S. shores in 8-10 days

cyburzaki

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from the last page of THIS THREAD at the DFI Club forum, posted today by DFI employee "RGone":
  • "IF" there is no hang-up and you live in the Usa...you may see one of those boards in about 8-10 days. As usual, there likely will not be many available in a first shipment, so when it shows...and you want one...get one if you like being at the forefront of upgrading.
3/29: P965 release announcement appears at U.S. site
 

hardwareking

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Well typical DFI.Always late to the party
But i've seen a post on a forum somewhere with this taking an E6300 all the way to 525FSB on air

 

Heidfirst

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Originally posted by: hardwareking
Well typical DFI.Always late to the party
But i've seen a post on a forum somewhere with this taking an E6300 all the way to 525FSB on air
but a QuadGT or a P5B Deluxe or a DS3?DS4 etc. will do that already ...

 

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Which would be better? This one or the Gigabyte Rev 3.3 board? Does DFI usually make revisions to their boards?
 

Heidfirst

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if it runs the 1067 like the QuadGT then the DFI (or QuadGT) will perform better above 400fsb (unless you have started below that & clockgenned up).
DFI mobos can be quite picky though to find the sweet spot & the Gigabyte will have the more mature BIOS.
 

Jodiuh

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This board can't get hear soon enough. I'm VERY anxious to give Asus and it's crappy AMI bios the boot!
 

cyburzaki

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This morning on the DFIClub thread I linked to above comes news of a brief delay:
  • sorry to say i have just been informed of a one week delay on these boards...
 

Bozo Galora

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delay after delay makes me nervous - like they keep finding probs. And In their haste to finally issue this thing prob means the consumer will be the final testers of this mobo . And just when we get thru all the hassles, and get it pretty figured out, a new chipset comes out and it all starts again.
 

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Originally posted by: cyburzaki
check out the box.
Hmmm... From the picture it looks like 16x PCI-E slots each have power mosfets / transformers right next to the slot? Also, CPU area is well stuffed too.

This board looks promising...

 

cyburzaki

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I'm still struggling to decide between the QuadGT and the Infinity P965. Hopefully someone will put the two head-to-head shortly. I like the fact that the Abit has a 1T option in the BIOS. And even if that command rate doesn't work at 800MHz, there's always the (increasingly dim?) hope the company might some day issue a second official BIOS to fix this.

Just on the basis of surface specs, it also seems like the Abit's 5-phase digital PWM should offer marginally better power regulation than the DFI's 4-phase. But then again, I realize number of phases in and of itself is no indication of better or worse regulation--and Gigabyte's screaming proclamation of 12-phase PWM on its latest flagship, in terms of actual measured stability of output, will probably turn out to be a mere numbers game or marketing hoopla.

But it's looking like as good as the QuadGT may be, the DFI might be the better bet overall, especially if Oskar Wu will be taking an active hand in optimizing its code.

Any comments anyone can offer up on this will be appreciated. Thanks.
 

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This plus an E6320 or E6420 should rock. High points, I've seen the following working on a 1066 strap at Ocxtreme:

DDR2 1280 (Done on E6600 @ 3844MHz)
540 FSB (x7) on C2D (E6300 @ 3784MHz)
452 FSB (x8) on Kentsfield
490 FSB (x7) on Kentsfield shown here at DFI forum:
http://csd.dficlub.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1068

Vcore Max ?
VDIMM Max- 3.375
NB Max- 2.00v
SB Max- 1.8v
Max FSB possible- 700 (Yes I know you won't be getting that :p)

More DFI P965 threads:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=131744
http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30564


Seems like a good start.
 

cyburzaki

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It's HERE! But in a very limited and isolated quantity, and it actually won't show at major resellers until sometime next week. April 10 is still the targeted public launch date.

MSRP for the Infinity P965-S, with solid caps: $135

DFI's LanParty 680i LT board now probably won't make an appearance until the first week of May. MSRP: around $200.
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UPDATE: Just talked to William Yang at DFI. Guess I goofed on the price. He's saying the board is $140. But here's the kicker. He's agreed to take individual orders right now, and he will also ship boards out immediately, this week, by UPS or Fedex, direct from DFI San Jose (which actually is in Hayward, I think).

But for those who can wait it might be better to buy from a reseller, since William quoted me, if I understood him correctly (and it's possible I didn't), something like $15.50 for shipping, which seems way high. And there might be a more competitive price shake out on the board too once it hits the retail channel in quantities. William said as of this afternoon they had 60 solid-cap boards sitting in their office.

At any rate, for those with an itchy finger, the devil awaits:
williamy@dfiweb.com

(note: that's William Yang's email address, not mine. And Mr. Yang only knows me by my real name, so please don't confuse him by making any references to "cyburzaki." He does already know, though, that he'll probably be getting some email out of the blue asking about buying the board.)
 

cyburzaki

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yeah, I hope you didn't address him as "cyburzaki"--that'll throw him for a monster and possibly unrecoverable loop!
 

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Oy...the Captain's had some influence on me tonight. :D First time I get the place to myself in 2 months!!! It looks like I mentioned the anand forums w/ the board in the subject. It will be very nice to dump the pos AMI bios on this P5B. :D
 

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I am assuming from everything I am reading that the DFI boards are considered good boards...

I usually go plain-jane Intel, but have been looking at Gigabyte this time around... should I consider DFI?
 

Bozo Galora

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never bought from ewiz, but they have an excellent 9.0 rating on RR
I am so happy with my DS3's, I really shouldnt do this
(sigh)

Edit:
Two good points - its ful size atx, has Intel ICHR Southbridge - full raid which makes the board a good buy anyway.
One bad - its ATI crossfire 1 16X 1 4X, not nvidia SLI
Curious thing - it says JMicron 368 chip which isnt even on the JM website (stops at 366) and I believe the DS3 has the JM 363. Is this the latest and best?

This mobo also would give me a chance to test out those Intel Matrix Storage super RAID transfer protocols.- bursts near 1GB
 

cyburzaki

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I've bought from eWiz two or three times, and never had any trouble. They actually gave great service. Although in this case I hope they're not merely taking orders in anticipation of getting the boards next week.

I ended up ordering direct from DFI several days back. I'll get the board tomorrow! I don't know what my rush, was, though, since I no longer own a Conroe. And at this point it would be foolish to do anything other than wait for the price cuts. Grrrr...

btw, DFI's U.S. site now has a fully functional listing for the board, with download links. The manual is HERE.