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Infinity I875 is up and running, at a smarmy 2.64Ghz so far (my birthday + work has kept me from jumping it as high as I can yet).
This board had a strange quirk in it when I first loaded windows...it skipped right through the reg process and user setups...and locked hard a few times right after Windows was done installing, SP1 installing, or Windows UPdates installing...always at the end of them also.
But I did flash the BIOS, and everything seemed to correct itself very much. There are a buttload of odd folders left on the drive (the kind Windows likes to leave around when it screws up).
The board, after the latest BIOS, runs flat out awesome. I don't think its as fast as the LanParty board, but I have yet to drop the P4 2.4c into the LanParty board yet.
here is the system I built:
Intel P4 2.4c 800FSB/HT
DFI Infinity I875 - latest BIOS
1GB HyperX PC3500 DDR
30GB IBM GXP75 U100 boot
160GB 8MB Maxtor U133 data
GeForce2 MX AGP
Lite-On 52x CD-ROM
its running at 2.64Ghz right now as I said. I am going to reload it in about 1 hour with a fresh install of XP (HT enabled) and see if it is a clean load this time.
I can say though, it has ran a couple days of these games as dedicated server (along with 12 hours of flawless Prime95):
BattleField 1942 - Desert Combat mod
Day of Defeat 3.1beta
Need for Speed 6 Hot Pursuit 2
Motocross Madness 2
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament 2003
Quake III - Urban Terror Beta 2
games run flawless. No issues to report after the initial failures. This board does not have as many of the tweaking options of the LanParty 875, but its no slouch for sure.
The onboard SATA + SATA-RAID + RAID is the king. No stupid IDE issues like a lot of the AMD boards with a single SATA channel have.
I can highly recommend this board (especially because I own it now and can help you if you have any issues lol).
I will repost once again after reload, and it should go something like this:
no flaws or issues on this load of XP. The BIOS flash corrected everything.
Let me know if there is something that I didn't answer here =)
Travis