DFI offers sneak peek at Intel P55 motherboards
A RARE SIGHTING of DFI's upcoming "Ibex Peak" single chip design Intel P55 Express based motherboards has come to the INQ's attention.
The Aussie boys from TweakTown got a glimpse of DFI's UT P55-T3eH8 and DK P55-T3eH6 motherboard samples yesterday at the firm's Taipei headquarters in the run up to Computex.
Although the specific models on show aren't yet quite ready for mass production and sale sometime in September 2009, they do give a good indication of what to expect.
Designed to support Socket LGA-1156 Core i5 quad-core Lynnfield processors, the motherboards have seen one delay after another as Intel apparently seems to be doing its utmost to shift inventory of P45 and Core 2 Duo parts before P55 launches.
Core i5 - Core i7's cheaper brother - is squarely targeted at the mainstream, with a key difference being it only has dual-channel DDR3 support compared with Core i7's triple-channel.
TT says, P55 also supports Havendale Core i5 dual-core processors with an on-die GPU, but this, apparently, is just for testing and will be scrapped by the time a new 32nm version hits shelves at some point in Q110.
As for DFI's super high-end UT board, TT was told it sported a digital power management (PWM) system, an advanced audio add-on card and a pretty nifty cooling system. The board also boasts an Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) slot for Intel 4GB or 8GB flash modules. This apparently acts much like having extra cache, boosting system performance and allowing user access to the flash memory much in the same way one would access a hard drive.
The DK version of the board has fewer bells and whistles than the UT and will purportedly be cheaper, although DFI didn't quote a price for either.
That's not to say DFI didn't have anything to say about pricing, with the firm purportedly blasting Intel over its prices for the single chiped P55, which costs the same as the dual chip P45 north and southbridge combined. Hmmm... µ
More pics at TweakTown. µ
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ive used DFI before, and everyone crapped out, dfi will repair when you pay for shipping (no big deal prety much standard practice), well ive gotten some packages back never opened saying the fixed it, some were opened (who knows what they did) unrepaired, then refused to take back a second time to repair, if your looking for quailty products dont use DFI
Yep, that much like my experience. I still have the "fixed" MB sitting in the box as it did not work. I even drove to the repair centre the 2nd time to show them the problem.
Their testing procedure was to run 3dmark for 10 mins
I would never buy a dfi product again
I've used DFI since their nForce2 boards and have never had a problem. *THE* most extensive, tweakable BIOS of any manufacturer and outstanding overclockers. Not had a single one die on me, the nF2 board is still going strong now today.
If you have patience they're one of the best choices for high-end kit.