Not long ago I was complaining in an earlier post about the lack of memory timing settings on my 2.5-year-old Gigabyte 965P-S3, days later I had to declare its honorable death.
The Gigabyte had a HK$8xx price tag at time of purchase, having run a Pentium dual-core E2140 @ 2.8GHz for about 2 years, and then my recently-acquired Celeron dual-core E1400 @ 3.2GHz for 2 months, it has certainly delivered reasonable performance and reliability for the price I paid.
Nevertheless, having some burnt smell coming out from your case, especially on my hackintosh workstation built with much time, blood and sweat, is definitely not something I want to deal with in times ahead. So I am in the market again for another socket 775 motherboard that offers better than average overclocking ability, reliability and also a reasonable price tag – this time, I look no further than DFI.
As you all know, I have been very satisfied with my AMD Opteron 146 running on a DFI Lanparty UT for more than 3 years. This rig has been running overclocked @ 2.8GHz for 3 good years and is still handling 30-40% of my regular computing tasks such as downloading, file-serving and some web surfing the moment I wrote this.
LANParty BI P45-T2(R)S Elite - An entry level P45 board from the DFI Blood Iron series seems to fit my bill perfectly - with all solid capacitors onboard, DFI’s renowned overclocking ability, its HK$800 price tag, hackintosh-friendly ALC885 sound and Marvell Yukon 88E8053LAN, it looks like a good match with the multiplier-lock-free Pentium dual-core E6500K my buddy David helped me to pick up from China!
by WuJo
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