DFI Crossfire Capable P45 mATX Board

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Oh yes:

DFI LP JR P45-T2RS

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Changing to a mATX has just become even more tempting for me...
 
HeX said:
Changing to a mATX has just become even more tempting for me...
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And me. If this turns out to be as good as it seems, I'm most certainly downsizing. I wanted to downsize my setup for university accomodation, I'm considering heading the ATi direction (and possibly crossfire) as I do more Folding than gaming and I'm due for a new motherboard as my ICFX3200 is falling apart. Very good news indeed. Regardless, I haven't ventured to SFF since Socket 478.

If this appears at £110 or below, I'm sold.
 
Any ideas when we can expect these? There's seems to be little information about this board at the moment.
 
Only just been shown at CeBit, and P45 is brand new so i'm not sure, but it does look like a pretty finished design to me.

Going to be keeping an eye on it for sure as i've been looking at mobo's lately to go mATX and non have really taken my fancy.

This one seems to tick all the boxes however!
 
It does seem so, yeah. As far as I'm aware, DFI get their chipset supply a bit late compared to Asus, Gigabyte and similar so this board could turn up fairly late. But if it's as good as it looks it could well be worth the wait.
 
HeX said:
It's 2 x 8x PCI-E 2.0 which is equiv of 2 x 16x PCI-E 1.1
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Right - so that's still half as fast as 2 x 16x PCIe 2.0 with PCIe 2.0 graphics cards or a quarter as fast with PCIe 1.0 graphics cards (they don't run at PCIe 2.0 speeds in PCIe 2.0 slots) so it's still compromised over an X38 or X48 board.
 
WJA96 said:
Right - so that's still half as fast as 2 x 16x PCIe 2.0 with PCIe 2.0 graphics cards or a quarter as fast with PCIe 1.0 graphics cards (they don't run at PCIe 2.0 speeds in PCIe 2.0 slots) so it's still compromised over an X38 or X48 board.
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Yes, its half the bandwidth of an x38/x48, but twice as fast as the 975 or the ASUS Blitz (which was 2 x 8x PCI-E 1.1) with PCI-E 2.0 cards, or the same with 1.1 cards.
 
Which does raise the question, to what extent would performance be compromised when using two Radeon HD 3850/3870's in Crossfire in a 8x/8x PCI-E 2.0 lane configuration, when compared to a 16x/16x PCI-E 2.0 lane configuration? Personally I would've thought it'd be next to negligible but perhaps I'm wrong.
 
Mul said:
Which does raise the question, to what extent would performance be compromised when using two Radeon HD 3850/3870's in Crossfire in a 8x/8x PCI-E 2.0 lane configuration, when compared to a 16x/16x PCI-E 2.0 lane configuration? Personally I would've thought it'd be next to negligible but perhaps I'm wrong.
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I'd say it'd be pretty much nothing. But we'll have to wait for the P45 reviews.

I seriously doubt if a 3870 or even a 4870 could use all the bandwith PCI-E 2.0 provides.
 
I've e-mailed DFI to identify what the model number is (as the one listed with the pic seems to be for the new ATX DK board).

I've also asked for expected release date.

I'll post if I hear anything.
 
HeX said:
I've e-mailed DFI to identify what the model number is (as the one listed with the pic seems to be for the new ATX DK board).

I've also asked for expected release date.

I'll post if I hear anything.
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Did you get a reply? guess not as you said you would post, but thought id ask anyway :D
 
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