DFI ICFX3200 (RD600) T2R/G Information - Page 4

No it's not.

1. I have no intentions of using SLI/Crossfire.

2. The P965 motherboards have shown to be stronger and faster overclockers in the "real world" than the i975x or even 680i from what I've seen so far. Factor in price, and I prefer P965 at the moment.

That is why I am going RD600... I am shooting for north of 4GHz on a C2D. I won't be doing it on air or water, rather TEC. I've been waiting several months for this chipset.

Just get a friend to smuggle one over. Those border patrol guards don't check for anything. In fact, your border patrol guards aren't allowed to carry guns, so when a guy is seen walking towards the border with a gun, all the guards leave and go into hiding (true story, read it on fark!)

Lol thanks for the advices!

I am already smuggling a radar detector, a tuniq tower and a Tj09 =)

Btw, even if that deal on the GTX/GTS you found was really sweet, I didn't have any cash flow =( and I can probably get it when I come back to Canada for almost the same price.

The only problem with the motherboard is that it takes a few weeks before he receive the stuff, he's getting his first batch of P5N32-E next week to give you an idea. And I need a PC up and running by christmas...

Consider buying an Asrock Dual-VSTA. $70-80Cdn or $50US for Xmas.
Then you'll have your working computer for Xmas, and some time to see the reviews come in. Wait until March hits (or whenever prices drop), and buy the motherboard you want.

Consider the money spent on the Asrock as a "rental" spare tire, LoL.
(I'm actually seriously considering this, as I can re-use my DDR memory and older AGP card. Hoping prices for DDR2 drop more by then, then get something top of the line.)

About damn time!
Its going to be 6 phase digital VRMs!
The only downside then would be that the phyx card must be one slot, but this doesnt seem to be too limiting since that more than youll ever need.

PS: The OP has been edited.

Not really. There was a version of the ForceWare that only ran on certain south bridges, one of the ULI ones if I remember, M1570 or something but I know it wasn't M1575 (mainly because I have that south bridge and they didn't work lol).

That was my understanding as well. Intel basically sets up the chipset for SLI but doesn't officially support it... but with the ATi/AMD merger, who knows what will happen.

The NDA will be lifted on Dec 4th, so expect reviews to pop out just days after!
...from DFI themselves.

Good info, thanks.

What will you want after? To show you my boxers??
Let's just say a little birdie told me 8)

Another Tidbit in that article


Talking about the striker:

Why mention the delay, expect for the fact that it's been delayed many times =|

Yeah why not?
Most C2D motherboard support that now, expect for Intel BadAxe...

Asus market it something like: Adjust speed like you want

heheh, skying is wicked over there!

I kinda enjoy the Colorado skying while I am in here!

Now what ??
8)

I feel like cartman waiting for the Nintendo Wii
commmmonnn, commmonnn, might freeze myself for the next 2 weeks =)

Now we do have we have been done all this time. We wait in staggering anticipation.

680i had a lot of dead FSBs in its very first BIOS revision, this I believe has been fixed.

You should get it and write a review I'm sure I could squeeze it into DaClan's blog.

You'd better review it Canuk.

Meh, me location is down here in nice warm Houston... I think it was like 40 degrees this morning.. so cold...

I've gone skiing in New Mexico and Lake Tahoe before. I heard Colorado is also nice, I'll probably hit that up with my friends some day. Either that or Las Vegas (not for skiing, but for... "what happens here, stays here" )

Still waiting for news... la de da de da...

Anyone know if they fixed the 680i's problem with OC'ing C2D with 4mb cache?

It would be interesting to see stats from experienced OCers. Looking at the 4 boxes I've OCed this year, it's 2/2 for highest multiplier/lowered multiplier. I suspect that patterns would emerge for specific chipset/CPU combinations, at least at stock volts.

Id be interested to. I would say that the lower.higher multiplier is also application specific.
SOme apps like max CPu speed other like max FSB speed for more bandwith and so on.

If you do read the link I provided it explain some pretty interesting stuff where the northbridge actually get OCed by default when using lower multiplier. If it OC to far then it relaxes it's internal timing when changing to the 1333 strap, thus loosing performance.

So I could see some multiplier/fsb combination you would definitively want to avoid.

All this being specific to the P5B but it is suspected that something similar will be found with the 680i. Just not enough testing yet!

On a side note, I can get the P5N32-E Sli for 280$ canadien at my computer shop, kinda tells you how much money NewEgg is making of this board.

LoL your not kidding, remember c2d release lol what a joke all chips were at least 100usd over priced.

yeah had the same experience when I was buying the ram for my system, looked back 3 days later it went from 270 to 300.

Ah... thats what I did in Capitalism II, but it got real tiring real quick...

I buy from Directron.com, and it really helps when they're warehouse is only 20 min from my house. I can just drive over, pick things up, and leave. Advanatages of a e-tailer and a retail store. FTW!

Harwin and Beltway 8... near Chinatown. What part of H-Town you from? I'm Sugarland/Mo. City.