DFI RD600 - Official Web Page Up!

fornowagain · 8 Dec 2006 at 20:24

raja said:
Shamino at vr-zone has already said that the 980i is slighlty faster at superpi than the RD600.

And slightly slower in 3D. I know which I prefer

raja said:
The 975 boards that can hit 445fsb are still hard to beat for price and perfomance.

Out of interest which 975's would you say consistently hit those speeds?

raja · 8 Dec 2006 at 20:28

depends on the ram and cooling you have (good water needed at least) and good ram using d9 micron. Dfi Infinity with the latest beta bios and the Asus Pro boards are the most consistent when you have the right memory and cooling capacity and finally overclocking ability.

I'm pretty sure we'll be seeing the looser straps on the rd600 too over certain fsbs. Though I'm happy DFI are making the board over anyone else, Oskar will get the most from it.

regards
Raja

silversurfer · 8 Dec 2006 at 22:13

SidewinderINC said:
not sure i can see what this board does that any other boards on the market today to seriously well

You can overclock the fsb, pci-e and memory all seperately. It might be hype but apparently it has its advantage there

marscay · 9 Dec 2006 at 10:59

it's going to be a limited edition board by the sounds of it, guess that means £250-300.

i smell another DFI Venus

Jokester · 9 Dec 2006 at 11:18

silversurfer said:
You can overclock the fsb, pci-e and memory all seperately. It might be hype but apparently it has its advantage there

Something the 680i chipset also does.

Jokester

Arthalen · 9 Dec 2006 at 13:16

fornowagain said:
I was under the impression the 8800 needs x16 bandwidth? So I'd assume the R600 is the same, so what happens with only 8x+8x slots in xfire? Does the bridge make up the rest or what?

For me personally, I rely on software crossfire i.e all transfers through the PCI-Ex bus rather than an internal bridge (1950 Pro's) or the dongle.

I think with ATI opening up the latest driver to enable software crossfire for pretty much any card apart from the X1950Pro, I think its a bit of a silly move to only have 8x\8x bandwidth on the PCI-Ex bus.

Although R600 will be using Crossfire2/Internal Bridge connectors, and thus the 8x\8x config won't matter, I think ATI have left those using software crossfire high and dry on the intel platform :/

Why they did this when 16x\16x is available on the AM2 platform, I have no idea.....

So in reality, I think its time I jumped ship and went with Nvidia for motherboard/video :/

torrentthief · 9 Dec 2006 at 14:11

looks crap, hope dfi bring us a 680i board already! or atleast announce that its coming!

silversurfer · 10 Dec 2006 at 05:22

Jokester said:
Something the 680i chipset also does.

Jokester

Does the 680i do overclocking of the pci-e ? I thought all boards till now were unstable when attempting this to any degree not that Ive seen any tests on the rd600 of course

Jokester · 10 Dec 2006 at 10:51

silversurfer said:
Does the 680i do overclocking of the pci-e ? I thought all boards till now were unstable when attempting this to any degree not that Ive seen any tests on the rd600 of course

Yeah, mine sits with a 25% overclock, it does it automatically if you plug in an Nvidia GPU. Not sure what the limit was.

Even on 975x boards you could overclock PCI-E a reasonable amount.

The 680i isn't fully unlinked when it comes to RAM overclocking, consider it having a lot, lot more dividers, allowing you to overclock RAM in 10-20MHz (5-10MHz actual) steps without changing the FSB.

Jokester

silversurfer · 10 Dec 2006 at 15:21

Ive not heard of that before, thanks for the info