First Reveiw of the DFI 680i LT board

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http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1087/1/page_1_introduction/index.html

looks good, love the big north bridge cooler.

Of course, the few places that carry it right now are gouging as usual @ $300ish

 

[gvayl]

How much should this cost normally? if its $200...I see no point.

 

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Originally posted by: gvayl
How much should this cost normally? if its $200...I see no point.

i THINK $220 is the MSRP.

 

[ribbon13]

let me get this right

6-phase Digital PWM
100% solid capacitors
room for SLI, RAID HBA, and physics.

sweet.

 

[Gary Key]

Quick Impressions-

1. The quality of the board is excellent, all features work right out of the box, RAID, SLI, and audio are in total harmony.

2. The board screams with a 2MB Cache C2D, but do not expect overclocking over 500FSB with them, the board can do it at low multipliers, but the strap change at 501 just kills performance. Right now, my board is extremely stable at 475~485FSB, anything higher is not possible except for a CPU-Z screen shot.

3. The board had average memory performance when overclocking with the 4MB Cache C2D or Quad Cores, the EVGA has much better memory performance above 400FSB with these chips. There are also various FSB holes with these processors and particular memory settings. That said, DFI is working overtime on these issues.

4. I really like the board, it just needs some TLC within the BIOS. If you have a Quad Core or 4MB Cache C2D and an EVGA/ASUS board, do not switch yet if benchmarking is important to you.

 

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Originally posted by: Gary Key
Quick Impressions-

1. The quality of the board is excellent, all features work right out of the box, RAID, SLI, and audio are in total harmony.

2. The board screams with a 2MB Cache C2D, but do not expect overclocking over 500FSB with them, the board can do it at low multipliers, but the strap change at 501 just kills performance. Right now, my board is extremely stable at 475~485FSB, anything higher is not possible except for a CPU-Z screen shot.

3. The board had average memory performance when overclocking with the 4MB Cache C2D or Quad Cores, the EVGA has much better memory performance above 400FSB with these chips. There are also various FSB holes with these processors and particular memory settings. That said, DFI is working overtime on these issues.

4. I really like the board, it just needs some TLC within the BIOS. If you have a Quad Core or 4MB Cache C2D and an EVGA/ASUS board, do not switch yet if benchmarking is important to you.

Thanx for the impressions Gary. Can you confirm a MSRP?

 

[Skott]

Its good to see DFI in the reviews again. I wonder how loud that sb fan gets?

 

[Gary Key]

Thanx for the impressions Gary. Can you confirm a MSRP?

I wish I could, the pricing on this one is going to be crazy from the looks of it. The board should be in the $229 to $249 range, considering the limited supply I have a bad feeling the etailors are going to be asking $300~350 on average until supply catches up.

We have a new BIOS from Oksar this evening that should address our 4MB Cache C2D and Quad Core memory performance issues.

 

[Gary Key]

BIOS just arrived.

Doing 8x474 with the E6600, it still needs a little more tuning on memory performance but it appears our problems have been addressed to a certain degree with the 4MB cache chips, Quad is up next.

 

[Gary Key]

Originally posted by: Skott
Its good to see DFI in the reviews again. I wonder how loud that sb fan gets?

It's not too bad right now, six months from now, who knows.

 

[Skott]

Originally posted by: Gary Key

Originally posted by: Skott
Its good to see DFI in the reviews again. I wonder how loud that sb fan gets?

It's not too bad right now, six months from now, who knows.

Yeah, thats what I was thinking too. Although I assume there will be better aftermarket options availble to replace it if it does get too loud or troublesome.

 

[cyburzaki]

Here's a a link to a kinda funny 47-page NF680i LT SLI-T2R sales kit that DFI sent me the other day. Also, William Yang at DFI San Jose tells me he is now selling these boards direct for $275. Not sure about the shipping. (phone: 510.274.8000 x137, fax: 510.274.8012, email: williamy@dfiweb.com)