The Return of DFI?

Firegod · 16 Mar 2008 at 10:20

Nelly said:
Hi, did your motherboard come with a socketed or soldered on bios chip? I've just noticed the DFI LanParty Dark P35-T2RS comes with a soldered on bios chip, looks like DFI are following in Asus, MSI's footsteps.

Hope no one has a bios update fail.

Mine is socketed.

XtAsY · 16 Mar 2008 at 14:01

I had a DFI board, it was the Intel 875P chipset one, cant remember its exact name. It was bloody good that's all I know, I'd deffinetly get another if it was worth it.

clocka · 16 Mar 2008 at 16:36

Gibbo, add the Dfi x38 and x48 please.

dC2006 · 16 Mar 2008 at 17:42

Purchased my dfi x38 t2r from abroad as got tired of waiting for ocuk to stock them. Anyways the x38 chipset is EOL, if ocuk are to stock dfi motherboards then the x48 ones would be a good start.

kosch · 17 Mar 2008 at 21:46

Bump for DFI Love!

Bradley8988 · 17 Mar 2008 at 22:38

dC2006 said:
Purchased my dfi x38 t2r from abroad as got tired of waiting for ocuk to stock them. Anyways the x38 chipset is EOL, if ocuk are to stock dfi motherboards then the x48 ones would be a good start.

EOL?

Azza · 17 Mar 2008 at 23:49

Bradley8988 said:
EOL?

End Of Line.

bluesouljah · 18 Mar 2008 at 13:01

Guess Overclockers might want to consider their decision. Two competitors have the X48 DFI boards up for Pre Order. I reckon people will go where the boards are.

gurusan · 18 Mar 2008 at 13:03

bluesouljah said:
Guess Overclockers might want to consider their decision. Two competitors have the X48 DFI boards up for Pre Order. I reckon people will go where the boards are.

Yup thats what I'm doing...I want a DFI!

bluesouljah · 18 Mar 2008 at 13:12

gurusan said:
Yup thats what I'm doing...I want a DFI!

A tip, then, order from Germany, it's cheaper

kosch · 18 Mar 2008 at 18:01

I haven't seen any of the LANPARTY UT X48-T3R for pre order yet.

Ideally since I'm doing a major upgrade I figured I would jump to DDR3 plus once I get my house purchase sorted out I can say good bye to random impulse hardware upgrades

gurusan · 18 Mar 2008 at 18:02

the X48-T3R isn't going to be released til Aprilish...that's why it's not available for preorder yet

gurusan · 18 Mar 2008 at 18:06

bluesouljah said:
A tip, then, order from Germany, it's cheaper

Actually from the prices I've seen its about 10 quid more before shipping in Germany.

hardtarget · 18 Mar 2008 at 18:22

Have a DFI LP UT-X48-T2R iX48 on oder from a UK competitor...........got an e-mail today confirming stock to arrive about the 25 March

WJA96 · 18 Mar 2008 at 19:17

I've also just ordered one, from a competitor, and it does look like it's going to be a deusy, and relatively cheap compared to the other X48 boards out at the moment.

spicypixel · 18 Mar 2008 at 20:37

Likewise order just went in, awaiting confirmation. This board looks like a right bargain, quick question, are two of the SATA ports on a different chip?

# Intel ICH9R chip - Intel Matrix Storage technology - Supports up to 6 SATA devices - SATA speed up to 3Gb/s - RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5
# JMicron JMB363 PCI Express to SATA and PATA host controller - Supports up to 2 UltraDMA 100Mbps IDE devices - Supports 2 SATA devices - SATA speed up to 3Gb/s - RAID 0 and RAID 1

If so, would this Jmicron be better for a 2 hardrive RAID? All I hear is good things about Jmicron.

gurusan · 18 Mar 2008 at 21:51

WJA96 said:
I've also just ordered one, from a competitor, and it does look like it's going to be a deusy, and relatively cheap compared to the other X48 boards out at the moment.

Yeah! Almost 1/2 the price!

WJA96 · 18 Mar 2008 at 21:57

I'm waiting on these posts getting deleted to be honest.

spicypixel · 18 Mar 2008 at 22:50

Well technically they can once they release it on OcUK, atm its not in competition because they dont sell it, abit like talking about the costs of washing machines

that said, as soon as they do, im sure it'll be deleted lol.

Nelly · 18 Mar 2008 at 23:09

It's a shame the X48 boards dont have ICH10, otherwise may have been interested myself.

The DFI LANPARTY DKP35 T2RS is appealing I may be interested in a P45 variant, I'll wait till P45 chipset is released, I only use one graphics card anyway so it would be a waste of money for me i.e. X-48.

I'm quite surprised OcUK haven't stocked any DFI boards not that I'm that fussed.

OcUK customers have been waiting weeks & weeks with no definite yes or no on this & to be honest it looks like competitors have seen the actual market for them having read this very forum? & grabbed it.