thoughts on DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL?

Does anyone have any experience with this DFI? (note: the red infinity board, as I can't justify spending $250 for the green lanparty version) After a few frustrating days with a quirky Abit IP35, I'm looking for a different P35 board. I'll eventually be moving to a quadcore, but for now I've got an E2160 that is begging to be overclocked.

hmm, guess everyone's watching football today.
I've mostly decided to get this board but there just isn't that much info available here or elsewhere aside from some scattered reviews (and a couple threads at [H] and XS):

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=524120
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=611
http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?cat=mobos&id=543
http://www.ixtremtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=163

...but i was very happy with my ultra-d, less than impressed with the abit ip35, and i refuse to buy asus (long story). that basically leaves DFI or gigabyte, right? any significant reason to choose one over the other?

well with such a clamor, i could hardly not buy it.

pretty happy on the whole. i have my e2160 running at 3 ghz stable, no fuss. not nearly as finicky as the abit ip35 and many more options in the bios. despite being smaller than a full atx board, the layout is very good and you don't really notice that there's less real estate when installed in a case.

only a couple of niggling issues. very minor, but somewhat annoying:
* the cmos reset jumper sits too far behind the i/o shield, but that means that you just leave it off.
* the smartguardian software doesn't actually control the cpu fan, and there is no option to control the system fan.
* the intel chipset driver on the cd (and on the dfi site) won't install. downloading directly from the intel website solved the problem.

despite these, it's a solid performer located in between the budget and mainstream niches.

Post some numbers! From what I've read about it it's a good board, the Foxconn Mars also looks like a nice sub $200 dollar board.

I could not bring myself to buy a dfi board.

meionm said:

I could not bring myself to buy a dfi board.

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Same.

I've had too much bad experience with DFIs, great for achieving impressive clocks and benching, irritating for an everyday PC.

El<(')>Maxi said:

Post some numbers! From what I've read about it it's a good board, the Foxconn Mars also looks like a nice sub $200 dollar board.

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hmm..well it's only running at 9x333 @ 1.20 cpu vtt + 100mV (memory at 1:1), but i believe the cpu is fsb limited since it won't boot at a higher fsb with a lower multiplier (i'm new to intel systems but this is what i gather from reading other results with this series). getting up to 9x345 requires a lot more voltage and i haven't primed overnight to test stability. i'll get around to benchmarking when things slow down at my day job.

I've had too much bad experience with DFIs, great for achieving impressive clocks and benching, irritating for an everyday PC.

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i've had very much the opposite experience - this is my second DFI board and both have been excellent. by contrast, i've had a lot of experience with flakey boards by asus, abit, and msi. luck of the draw, perhaps.