DFI LT X48-T2R Review

WJA96 said:
That's what I was afraid of. In the past my experience with DFI kit was small clusters of super-users jealously guarding their close-contact with DFI engineers, but ultimately not that helpful to the rest of us.
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Thats why im sharing it with everyone... Publishing it as a review on the net is hardly what I would call guarding it :confused:
 
I understand where both of you are coming from, however... I would say has anyone ever seen what you are asking for from any other motherboard manufacturer?

In my experience the only information available for clocking motherboards usually comes from the people brave enough to buy a new board, play around with it for ages and post their findings...

I find it kind of refreshing that DFI allow access to their engineers by power users so that these things can be ironed out faster :)
 
SpudMaster said:
Yeah i got a fan on mine now to keep temps down but would rather whack a block on it :)

Would you be able to tell me what other voltage settings you are using? Mine currently running at 450x8, so 3.6ghz, my board passed prime95 for 16 hours but im getting crashing in games :confused:

Could it be my PVM's over heating causing the crashes?
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My bet would be the GTL settings... I have found that the 45nm Chips are particularly effected by the GTL settings and a lot of stability can be found by tweaking them. See the bios OC settings in my review ;)
 
melbourne720 said:
:D Just joking.

Back on topic, that review must have taken a fair bit of work - how long did it take you?
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To write it, umm well about 2 hours with editing but spread over a few nights...

Just knew what I was going to do in advance so as I read, examined and installed the board I just took pics as I went...

Now, for the Fun bit... :eek:

Modded mach2GT Standing by to sub zero the board, go for some uber high clocks and FSB & hopefully at the same time some more HWBoints:p
 
SpudMaster said:
im using an e6600, what GTL settings would be recommended for 65nm cpus, currently using the defaults which are 110.

Ive just ran prime now for 25 n a half hours at 450x8, no errors, but cod4 and ut3 crash after 5 to 10 mins :mad:
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It all depends on what you set the VTT settings to... I will be adding a GTL/VTT explanation to the review later on today hopefully...

Try VTT @ 1.453v

CPU GTL 1/3 REF = 130 (x67 or 67%) 80 (x61 or 61%)
CPU GTL 0/2 REF = 120 (x67 or 67%) 75 (x61 or 61%)
NB GTL REF = 100 (x67 or 67%) 55 (x61 or 61%)
 
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drak3 said:
Is floppy the only way to flash these boards?

This is a major problem!
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Always amazes me the amount of people who overclock that dont have a floppy, which I have always considered essential & it isnt like they cost much :rolleyes:

But as Cob says, use a USB key, HP have some software that enables a USB stick to be bootable same as a normal HDD. Google it m8 ;)
 
kitfit1 said:
@Monstermunch, you did'nt say what cpu you are going to put under phase. But if it is an E8400/E8500, then i'm afraid the GTL values in your other thread will not help you. If you click the link in my sig you will find the GTL's needed to run at 4.6ghz are completely different from that list. This could be because of it being under phase anyway. I have another E8500 that is at 4.8ghz at the moment and GTL values for it are much the same as my old one. But i will also add that "clock setting fine delay" is also very very important as well. If the values there are wrong, then the clock will also fail.
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The speed of the CPU is irrelivant to GTL settings, the only thing that is connected is the VTT voltage setting. See here for more details... http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17865450
 
kitfit1 said:
I take it then you did'nt bother to check my OCDB link
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Yes I did

kitfit1 said:
I did'nt say that cpu speed had anything to do with GTL settings.
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kitfit1 said:
...If you click the link in my sig you will find the GTL's needed to run at 4.6ghz are completely different from that list...
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kitfit1 said:
In a round about way i was saying that the values in your chart simply will not work. When you get your phase unit set up, you will see exactly what i mean. Try using that chart to set GTL values will result in instant BSODS as soon as you run Orthos/Prime. I know because i have a stable system with my values, and imputing yours caused an immediate BSOD in Orhtos.
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Well, what can I say... the values in the chart were only given to me by the Head DFI Engineer...

They do exactly the same as the x?? settings on an Asus board except they allow for a little more adjustment... Plus looking at your link again with the exception of your NB GTL's you have them virtually set at the numbers in the 61% chart anyway, so I dont really understand what you're getting at tbh :confused:

Plus, why or earth would anyone want or need to run Orthos... total waste of time IMO... It proves nothing, it's not a real world test! It stresses the CPU to basically 100%, which no game & or program ever does & it doesnt take other components into account in the mean time... Stability is just that, I dont bother with prime anymore & have never EVER had an issue with crashes BSOD's or anything of the like... The last time I ran orthos was with my Q6600 & it told me that my CPU wasnt stable @ 3.8Ghz with 1.5vcore... Funny how it ran anything & everything for nearly 9months without a single crash or hiccup...

BALLS to PRIME :D
 
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drak3 said:
With modern (and better) operating systems more sophisticated algorithms were developed to recover from fatal error. However, if a system is not cabaple of running programs like orthos "indefinately" without corruption is not considered stable. Not stable "scientifically" at least.

For everyday use and general computing on the other hand you will not notice either because the operating system recovers from it, or the hardware is not pushed to the limit.
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Yea, but it's still BALLS & a waste of Leccy IMO...

This is how my stability test regime works...

1. It Posts...
2. It boots into Windows...
3. Runs All Benchmarks 32M Pi, all 3dMarks & PCmark
4. Renders a Full Screen in Cinebench

I usually do that, then downclock 100mhz & undervolt a little, hey presto... Stable system. I dont need some idiot program to tell me that my PC is stable. :p

The only time I ever use it is if I am having problems finding a good clock on a new CPU that wont do what it should... I had issues with my first E8500 that happened to be a bit of a bobbins chip, it passed 10hrs prime only to randomly reboot when starting Firefox or watching a film. :(
 
supershanks said:
At least Clunk's work is all original :D
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You're an idiot... :D

The only thing that I apparently had from Clunk, was a LanParty logo that looked like it was made by DFI themselves & probably technically the property of DFI in anycase because of their trademark of the LanParty logo...:confused:

I apparently had a picture that was from clunk's site, which was news to me as I found it by googling the word "HeatMinator"... The Picture was just of the heatsink standing on it's own... so who cares, what difference does it make :confused:

This whole image stealing thing it's utter bull**** to be honest, there is no copyright on the images, I wasn't deeplinking, plus I had permission from DFI to do the Review.
 
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supershanks said:
How am I an idiot quoting facts ??

It may be that your eyes are bad & you missed the watermarks. If so I apologise.
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But if you have the board it's surely easier & quicker to take a picture of your own kit than :lol:


luck:)
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I say again... You're an Idiot...

I took over 60 images in total when I was doing the review, just happens that the image of the Heat minator didnt come out right, so I looked for another!

HAVE YOU EVEN READ MY REVIEW?... Or are you just bored?..... It took a lot of work, just to have some ****** come along & try & rubbish it!!!


YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN BE A PEDANT!!!

1st Image, I put it forward & I never removed the watermark!!! FACT! & u can see it's a modified Trademarked DFI logo in any case... Hardly property of anyone except DFI!... Like this one:

LANPARTYlogo.jpg



2nd Image... Well, lets face it... It's a picture of the Heat Minator on it's own on a white background, so who gives a ****

END OF DISCUSSION!
 
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kenofstephen said:
um...... what are the differences between a picture show and a review, I wish I could see a "review" soon.
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http://www.digitalreport.net/content/view/84/29/

/sarcasm mode - You see those black scribbles between the pictures.... thats the review! :p

It does say to stay tuned because more will be added to the review, like a full bios walkthrough (underway) and an Overclocking review (this weekend hopefully)
 
setter said:
have just rush read this thread guys but im wondering are dfi gonna release any nvidia chipset based boards eg 790i if i remeber correctly they made some really good socket 939 nforce 4 boards, when i first joined the forum here i was running an athlon 64 4000 on an msi diamond plus, but i read a lot of threads about dfi sli boards and they seemed to have a good reputation.
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Yes, the 790i boards are due very soon, next few weeks IIRC
 
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