DFI LP JR P45-T2RS mATX Mobo

[Skott]

DFI is finally showing off their new mATX mobo. No release date given yet but I'm guessing June since rumors been flying around about the third week of June. Thats just rumors though. It could be later.

http://my.ocworkbench.com/2008...utex2008/part1/g13.htm



For those wanting to follow the HF talk about it

http://www.hardforum.com/showt...osted=1#post1032561387

 

[Zap]

Awesome! Now for a company to make 750i chipset SLI boards for the "other" side.

Always good to see "enthusiast" oriented mATX stuff.

 

[manimal]

That board looks awesome!!!! Of all my builds over the last few years my faves are still the MATXs. I would love to see a microfly with SLId GTs running a E8400 at 4ish. I may order that board at launch!

 

[Zap]

Hold your horses! The board uses a P45 chipset and supports Crossfire. It does not and will not support SLI unless you use hacked drivers or unless Nvidia decides to allow SLI on non-Nvidia chipsets (unlikely). Seriously though, I'd LOVE to have another mATX SLI board (I had the EVGA socket 939 mATX SLI board pic).

 

[aigomorla]

zap...

which microATX case would allow you to drop 2 double height cards to begin with.

LOL....

 

[Skott]

DFI did say they would be making both SLI and CF mATX mobos so a SLI version may not be far behind. We'll have to wait and see what unfolds. Just the fact they are making a dual card mATX mobo is a big thing for SFF users.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: aigomorla
which microATX case would allow you to drop 2 double height cards to begin with.

They're double width, not height. Would fit pretty much any micro ATX case except slimlines, though in some cases I'd worry about ventilation.

I put mine into an Ultra MicroFly case.

rear pic

side angle view

The cards got a bit warm, but held up at LAN parties. Problem is the MicroFly case doesn't have good ventilation. Lots of places for air to go OUT in the rear, but almost no place for air to come IN from the front. An X-Qpack2 case (like my current LAN party rig) would solve that problem neatly.

Originally posted by: Skott
Just the fact they are making a dual card mATX mobo is a big thing for SFF users.

Besides the EVGA mATX SLI board, there have been a couple of G33 chipset boards with 16x/4x PCI-E slots that can be made to run Crossfire (some are already "open ended"). Also, IIRC Shuttle made a mini system that did SLI.

Still, I'm pretty excited. There are still people who can't grok an "enthusiast" computer smaller than a mid-tower, so hopefully a DFI mATX LANPARTY board will open some eyes. If they end up coming out with an SLI version... may have to get one.

 

[Skott]

I'm hoping ASUS and Gigabyte will try to compete with DFI. If any company does I figure it'll be one of those two since they like to go head to head. Especially ASUS.

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: aigomorla
zap...

which microATX case would allow you to drop 2 double height cards to begin with.

LOL....

Any of the cube cases or mini-towers that take standard height cards? Sorry, but I don't follow your thinking as far as where you think you'd run into issues with two double-wide cards (what exactly is a double-height?). If you're talking two 8800 Ultras (assuming hypothetically this were a SLI board instead of CF), then yes, they might not fit. Otherwise I'm not seeing what the potential problem is.

 

[Synomenon]

Now why can't Asus and Gigabyte put their SATA ports on the edge of the board like DFI did with this board? Would solve the problem of these new, massive video cards blocking some of the ports.

 

[Corporate Thug]

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