New Rev i975 Infinity from DFI

[Tony]

BA0, not had chance to test but there are huge amount of changes on this board for the memory.


Have a look here to see what i mean. If I get chance I will test, this is also that board that they can enable 1333 strap i hear

T

[Nanometer]

Have a look here to see what i mean. If I get chance I will test, this is also that board that they can enable 1333 strap i hear

T

Good to hear. Kind of sick of seeing this 1333 bus limitation crap.

[eva2000]

interesting indeed.. guess Tony you'll be busy over the next few weeks hehe

[toddm27]

are these avail in retail currently?

[irev210]

nice to see the return of the nippon chemcon caps over the nichi's too.

[Babsy]

read on dfi streets it had some issues with 4gbs of ram,memory hole issues hope it's been resolved.if it is i'm buying one again

[Tony]

Its being resolved, next bios should have the fix.

[erwinz]

very nice.. If the DFI RD600 is not at afar with this board i'm cosidering of buying again..

tnxs sir Tony..

looking forward for your results..

[Tony]

initial runs with memory in memtest only have the board maxing here at 445fsb. I hear this board has the 1333 capability so a new bios may have this Infinity doing 500fsb real soon.

Tested 400 mode 3-3-3 and 533 mode 4-3-3 at 445fsb and both performed well. If I have time I will bench with XP tomorrow but with the impending trip it will be hard.

My honest opinion now is the Infinity is a good buy with the right CPU. 6400 and 6600 will get you 3.5 to 3.6GHZ stable without mods. A 6300 needs a i965 board for the 500+fsb they can do.

If you can afford it the 6700 or Xeon equivalent really is the way to go.

[Harshal]

So da Real-Dragon wakes up??? Watching this space

[erwinz]

initial runs with memory in memtest only have the board maxing here at 445fsb. I hear this board has the 1333 capability so a new bios may have this Infinity doing 500fsb real soon.

Tested 400 mode 3-3-3 and 533 mode 4-3-3 at 445fsb and both performed well. If I have time I will bench with XP tomorrow but with the impending trip it will be hard.

My honest opinion now is the Infinity is a good buy with the right CPU. 6400 and 6600 will get you 3.5 to 3.6GHZ stable without mods. A 6300 needs a i965 board for the 500+fsb they can do.

If you can afford it the 6700 or Xeon equivalent really is the way to go.

tnxs Tony.. excellent work.. we will be waiting for more of your results..

[Raja@ASUS]

initial runs with memory in memtest only have the board maxing here at 445fsb. I hear this board has the 1333 capability so a new bios may have this Infinity doing 500fsb real soon.

The older revision board is good for 445, with 1.75 vnb and read delay of 6. With 1.8vnb and over (mod required) read delay 7 opens up another 10 fsb..
A couple of extra dividers would be nice..

Will be interesting to see what DFI can do with this new revision and if they can keep the price point, if they can it'll be awesome...

regards
Raja

[Tony]

The older revision board is good for 445, with 1.75 vnb and read delay of 6. With 1.8vnb and over (mod required) read delay 7 opens up another 10 fsb..
A couple of extra dividers would be nice..

Will be interesting to see what DFI can do with this new revision and if they can keep the price point, if they can it'll be awesome...

regards
Raja

Raja

I don't feel you are going to see much more from either board on the 1066 strap, the fact is the chipsets just can not handle much more.

BA0 is reported to have the hardware change to be able to switch to 1333, once the bios is released with this the BA0's will start to pull away from the earlier revisions. Of course DFI may decide to leave the BA0 on 1067 and we will see equal benefits from the bios on all revisions.

Overall I do think this BA0 clocks memory a little easier, i have an A00 and even with the same bios its not quite as sweet.

Im off to Taiwan so i will have Rgone take over from where I leave off, he has BA0 also.

T

[erwinz]

wow thanks for the heads up Tony..

[nealh]

how do you know you will get the newer revision when buying online for example

[Raja@ASUS]

I think it'll prolly be advertised as such considering the results that are now cropping up..

regards
Raja

[Tony]

I think it'll prolly be advertised as such considering the results that are now cropping up..

regards
Raja

I doubt it will have new rev splashed all over the box, you have to remember motherboard manufacturers constantly revise boards making them better and cheaper. As stock changes you will see the newer rev everywhere, for now you need a friendly guy at newegg or such who will check for you if you choose to try the newer version.

[Revv23]

damn i need a board by x-mas...

maybe tank guys will step up and gurantee them for us, like with the AD0 939's.

[Raja@ASUS]

I doubt it will have new rev splashed all over the box, you have to remember motherboard manufacturers constantly revise boards making them better and cheaper. As stock changes you will see the newer rev everywhere, for now you need a friendly guy at newegg or such who will check for you if you choose to try the newer version.

True buddy, but some of these retailers do anything they can to hike a price, I won't drop any names (esp. where we come from)...


'we can confirm that out latest batch is indeed the new revision, they're so hard to get hold of, that we've had to pay more our end which means we have to pass on this cost to you...'...


regards
Raja

[RGone]

'we can confirm that out latest batch is indeed the new revision, they're so hard to get hold of, that we've had to pay more our end which means we have to pass on this cost to you...'...


regards
Raja

The problem is the near impossibility to know what has not sold from etailer stock...

I put the 11/15 bios on my orignal A00 board and it will do about everything my BA0 will do both with 11/15/2006 beta bios, I may have to agree with Tony that it may seem a little easier to clock the memory on the BA0 but the benefit to me with a retail 6700 was not well seen until I got on 60F water...then I could run that POS cpu at 392x10...up from dead dog stopped at 3790Mhz.

RGone...

[Raja@ASUS]

I thought as much tbh. The a rev A gets close enough, it can use the 667 divider right upto 435 fsb or so, which is more than plenty for most. Most people running air/water won't really notice the performance gain anyway. In general most will use upto 420fsb (24/7) or so on the 4mb cache cpu's, which is more than enough.

Any other results we see in comparison between the 2 boards will be quite anal I think. Maybe a modded vnb will pull away a little with extreme cooling on the cpu and nb, but not by much i'd imagine.

regards
Raja

[Revv23]

too bad she cant do 4:5 at 450, it would be my dream board then.

however 3-3-3 at 450 may not be so bad, and my ram can do it.

[RGone]

Finally got a little cooler fluid flowing thru my DD TDX block and after Tony and I did a couple of hours of memtesting some timings...decided to put this stuff thru its' paces...I am satisfied for now (<2mins)...hehehe.

Seems with the 11/15/06 bios that there a few timings that do make a difference so I posted some bios pics as I was configured.







3D01 http://www.bleedinedgesupport.com/oc...48&postcount=3

3D03 http://www.bleedinedgesupport.com/oc...49&postcount=2

3D05 http://www.bleedinedgesupport.com/oc...50&postcount=2

3D06 http://www.bleedinedgesupport.com/oc...51&postcount=2

Aq3 http://www.bleedinedgesupport.com/oc...52&postcount=3

SuPi 1M http://www.bleedinedgesupport.com/oc...53&postcount=3

SuPi 32M http://www.bleedinedgesupport.com/oc...54&postcount=2

Whole forum page http://www.bleedinedgesupport.com/oc...aysprune=&f=87

RGone...

[Revv23]

come on rgone drop her into 9x and crank on that FSB, we all know this board can do 390.

[toddm27]

I don't think there's an option to drop the multi, at least not from the bios on my board, but my board unmodded did 440 with ease , we'll see what it does modded in a couple days