DFI Release P965 Inifinity!

My initial thoughts on seeing that?

1. Look at the size of the Northbridge heatsink! That'll rule out a few 3rd Party coolers.

2. Look at how much stuff is crowded round the CPU socket. (see point 1).
 
I watercool, so not a problem.

Not a fan (excuse the pun) of, lets add more heat pipes and as many fins onto them as we possibly can aircooling trend.
 
Mekrel said:
I watercool, so not a problem.

Not a fan (excuse the pun) of, lets add more heat pipes and as many fins onto them as we possibly can aircooling trend.
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I appreciate it might not be a problem for anyone water-cooling, but anyone air-cooling is potentially limited.

Also as you are probably aware the P965 market is crowded and anything that is off-putting could wreck a motherboard's chances of selling well. So, you'd be justified in asking why buy a DFI when the Abit QuadGT overclocks like a demon AND lets you fit any CPU cooler and has nothing at all around the CPU socket, the Gigabyte DS3P is stable, mature and quick (and lets you fit any CPU cooler) and the ASUS P5B series cover every possible niche market from overclockers to digital TV enthusiasts (as well as letting you fit any CPU cooler you like).

And as the RD600 has been a roaring sales failure, largely due to a perceived performance defecit, very few people are going to be sitting on a purchase waiting for this board to come to the market with a half-finished BIOS like all the other new P965 boards (not just from DFI).

Sorry to be a doom-sayer, but none of it's features are screaming strong Unique Selling Point at me whatsoever. Even the two-model structure is based on Gigabyte S3 and DS3 concept.
 
The bios from what I can read isn't bad for a release one, and the DFI P965 is faster than those other motherboards clock for clock as coolaler has benched it and shown why. It has some ram speed modes which when put on fast, beat out the above boards.

P5 series from Asus has the designed vdroop still present and means you either got to run higher voltage when idle, for it to droop to desired stable voltage when under load or you can pencil mod it etc.
 
I don't doubt it's a good board (you'll forgive me if I don't believe anything Coolaler produces) but anyone who wants to use a Scythe Ninja or a Tuniq Tower will take one look at that board and buy something else.

It could be the best board in the world, but being a late-comer it has to be better than all the existing boards just to get near the head of the queue and anything bad about it will be thrown up every time someone asks "what board should I buy?"

As the target audience for that board (enthusiast overclocker, early adopter) I'm not going to buy one simply because I think it'll clash with my existing CPU cooler.
 
don't get me wrong, dfi make sound boards, BUT this one is a bit too late & the usual issues of slow distribution channels, as Intel's P35 chipset to replace the P965 is around the corner.
 
535 FSB is nothing to be sniffed at.

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Might look at one of these for my phase project.
 
Yes it looks a good board but it is is about 7months too late!! Also don't believe all the hype, the board makers release the board to known 'overclocking gurus' who have access to cherry picked ram and cpus and they then publish there 'amazing results' on the fan sites and then generate hype for the boards. It's a hell of lot cheaper than advertising!!

Rob H
 
It's nice to see that it has a black PCB instead of the normal green used on the Infinity series
 
gurusan said:
It's nice to see that it has a black PCB instead of the normal green used on the Infinity series
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Nobody tell Kaiju - he'll sell his P5N-E SLI to buy one!
 
aye..sadly the funky color PCB was the only thing keeping me from getting a DS3...coming from a riced out LanParty Ultra-D it just didn't seem right to entirely abandon the bling. :p
 
easyrider said:
535 FSB is nothing to be sniffed at.

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Might look at one of these for my phase project.
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who's sniffing at it ?

How much will it be ?

and do we have to wait years before the distribution channels start supplying it in uk ?
 
Those results were with retail CPU's (well at least the dual core was, not sure about the kents).

DFI are late with stuff because they get the chips last (2nd teir manufacturer) then it has a bit of Oskar Wuu TLC put unto it.

The 680i chipset will pretty much be released right after this apparently and will be using the LT version of the 680i board because the yield of 500+ FSB is higher than normal 680i boards.

Apparently still has a 3rd PEG slot still some how, and there has been pictures of the NB cooler released which is probably the best NB sollution I've ever seen on a retail board.
 
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