Page 1 para 4 - 'They come in now less than six varieties' - unless you're a brummie, it's no.

Skimmed the rest when I saw it had only 6 sata ports :(

only?

It's a DS3R - if you want more you have to pay more, so check out the DS5.

Also America now works in pounds sterling now apparently. (Price as reviewed is in £)

Aye, I know - this board isn't for me as I require 8 sata ports. Also, I don't understand why a floppy port is included when QFlash is dead easy to use.

Originally Posted by kenco_uk
Aye, I know - this board isn't for me as I require 8 sata ports. Also, I don't understand why a floppy port is included when QFlash is dead easy to use.

Windows XP SATA drivers.

EC - Didn't you hear? The colonies will heed to the might of the glorious British Empire! Independence shall be revoked /stands and salutes picture of the queen while drinking tea while wearing a Union Jack flat cap.

Originally Posted by Bindibadgi

Quote:

Originally Posted by kenco_uk
Aye, I know - this board isn't for me as I require 8 sata ports. Also, I don't understand why a floppy port is included when QFlash is dead easy to use.

Windows XP SATA drivers.

come on! Windows XP sata drivers?! You are joking right... right?

Originally Posted by [USRF]Obiwan
come on! Windows XP sata drivers?! You are joking right... right?

No, people still use XP and people still want to use RAID.

Originally Posted by [USRF]Obiwan
come on! Windows XP sata drivers?! You are joking right... right?

windows xp does not allow to select a drive letter during installation when it comes to raid drivers, which means you must have a floppy drive for it. (exception: integrate them with nlite in the cd, but that requires that you have a working pc with windows on it somewhere).

I wonder if anyone's thought of launching a 'Not XP' edition mobo, which omits a floppy port?

Were the multi GPU benchmarks with CF 3850's or 4850's?

Originally Posted by xaser04
Were the multi GPU benchmarks with CF 3850's or 4850's?

It's not a graphics review, it's a motherboard review - we picked a pair of cards and kept them consistent :)

Originally Posted by Bindibadgi

Quote:

Originally Posted by xaser04
Were the multi GPU benchmarks with CF 3850's or 4850's?

It's not a graphics review, it's a motherboard review - we picked a pair of cards and kept them consistent :)

So which pair of cards were used?

Originally Posted by xaser04
So which pair of cards were used?

doesnt matter does it? if one motherboard is better than the others with a 3870 then it'll no doubt be better with a 4870 too

For XP raid you need a stiffy or if you have a USB stiffy you can use that, but a stiffy is required for Raid configuration during setup.

Why complain that something IS included... I always tought you need to complain when something ISN'T included yet you need it...

Guess there are always people who complain...

Originally Posted by M4RTIN

Quote:

Originally Posted by xaser04
So which pair of cards were used?

doesnt matter does it? if one motherboard is better than the others with a 3870 then it'll no doubt be better with a 4870 too

Its a simple question given that I couldn't see which ones were used in the review.

Also given that there was alot of debate around whether the lack of twin x16 lanes were an issue when running the 48XX range (tweaktowns review showed a large different although how accurate it is I won't question) I was curious to know whether it was say CF 48XX shown in this review (if it was then it shows that the tweaktown review is questionable)

Originally Posted by M4RTIN
doesnt matter does it? if one motherboard is better than the others with a 3870 then it'll no doubt be better with a 4870 too

Yep HD 3870. I started testing P45s before the HD 4000 series was announced.

Test Setup Page

I wasn't aware it should make a difference, but I'll check.

Segway? That's a scooter.

Try 'segue'

Originally Posted by cpemma

Segway? That's a scooter.

Try 'segue'

Sshh, it's a subliminal message!

I just finished building a rig for a friend using this board and a Q9450. After updating the BIOS, it's a nice stable build. I also liked that it has 8 USB ports in the back, I know I'd make use of them.

Originally Posted by kenco_uk
Sshh, it's a subliminal message!

No, my irony is perhaps too subtle. :(

Purchased this mobo a few days ago, plonked in a Q9550 and 4 gigs of OCZ SLI 1066mhz RAM... and it's anything but stable. After a few minutes of running x264.exe (RipBot) the system either freezes up completely, reboots or x264.exe is totally removed from system memory. Mind you, I'm running WinXP Pro SP3...

What BIOS are you using?

P45 at 1066MHz is not very stable globally to be honest, it takes a bit of tweaking in the BIOS. What are you memory timings, clock skews and voltages?

I'm currently running F8 BIOS; F9 didn't perform any better. I haven't tweaked any timings, skews or voltages. I disabled all energy saving functions and chose Standard for DRAM instead of default Turbo. I'm trying to get the board as stable as possible, really, no overclocking.

I wonder if the problem lies with my choice of memory. OCZ2N1066SR2GK is "NVIDIA SLI-Ready Edition with EPP and SPD performance enhancing features". A friend wondered whether its voltage requirement of 2.2 volts is causing all these problems.

Well, d'oh! Installed BIOS F9, loaded optimized defaults and checked what voltage it suggested for DRAM. Wouldn't you guess it... 1.8V. Selected 2.1V (according to OCZ's website) manually and running memtest+ right now.