Just ordered the DFI P35-T2R/s motherboard from MotherboardPro featured here. So far that's the only place I've found that has the board available, I've been stalking it there for a few weeks now to be the center of my new build.
I'll post pictures, screenshots, and information in this thread in case anyone's interested. A lot of people are all about X38 and Crossfire, but for those of us not caring about dual-GPUs, I think this board might be a winner.
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The box contents for this model were modest, giving just the basics. User manual, I/O Backplate, SATA RAID Floppy, Driver CD, IDE Cable, Floppy Cable, two SATA cables, and a SATA power adapter.
The board layout, however, is excellent. The first thing I noticed was that it's using 100% solid capacitors. The PCI-Express x16 slot is neighbored by the seldom-used x1 slots, leaving plenty of breathing room for the (as of this time) more useful three PCI slots. Below those is the Floppy connector (bad location, but if you need it using the rounded cable provided you could make it work), three USB headers, and the standard Power/Reset buttons found on the Lanparty line.
The board has a total of five fan headers, including the CPU fan. Two of these are located very near the north and southbridge chips, allowing easy upgrade to active cooling from the standard passive that's included with the board. The mosfets are also passively cooled around the CPU socket.
On the back panel there's a CMOS clear jumper, which is also mirrored on the board itself. This motherboard also uses DFI's EZ clear, where you can depress the power and reset buttons to also clear CMOS.
UPDATE: BIOS screenshots are up. For those of us that have owned DFI Lanparty boards before, the sight is fairly familiar. Once again, DFI gives an almost oppressive amount of DRAM options. The board allows CPU Clock settings between 200 and 700.
I'll post pictures, screenshots, and information in this thread in case anyone's interested. A lot of people are all about X38 and Crossfire, but for those of us not caring about dual-GPUs, I think this board might be a winner.
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The box contents for this model were modest, giving just the basics. User manual, I/O Backplate, SATA RAID Floppy, Driver CD, IDE Cable, Floppy Cable, two SATA cables, and a SATA power adapter.
The board layout, however, is excellent. The first thing I noticed was that it's using 100% solid capacitors. The PCI-Express x16 slot is neighbored by the seldom-used x1 slots, leaving plenty of breathing room for the (as of this time) more useful three PCI slots. Below those is the Floppy connector (bad location, but if you need it using the rounded cable provided you could make it work), three USB headers, and the standard Power/Reset buttons found on the Lanparty line.
The board has a total of five fan headers, including the CPU fan. Two of these are located very near the north and southbridge chips, allowing easy upgrade to active cooling from the standard passive that's included with the board. The mosfets are also passively cooled around the CPU socket.
On the back panel there's a CMOS clear jumper, which is also mirrored on the board itself. This motherboard also uses DFI's EZ clear, where you can depress the power and reset buttons to also clear CMOS.
UPDATE: BIOS screenshots are up. For those of us that have owned DFI Lanparty boards before, the sight is fairly familiar. Once again, DFI gives an almost oppressive amount of DRAM options. The board allows CPU Clock settings between 200 and 700.
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