CPU/Mobo DFI LAN Party UT RDX200 CF-DR Review @ VR-Zone

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DFI LAN Party UT RDX200 CF-DR Review @ VR-Zone

CPU

AMD Socket 939 Processors, AMD Athlon 64 FX/Athlon64/X2

Chipset
ATi Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire Northbridge with ATi SB450 Southbridge

RAM

Dual Channel Mode (128bit Wide),Support : PC2100 (DDR266), PC2700 (DDR333) and PC3200 (DDR400) DDR SDRAM DIMM,
Up to 4GB system memory

IDE
Supports two IDE connectors that allow connecting up to four UltraDMA 133Mbps hard drives

SATA
Four Serial ATA ports supported by the ATI SB450 chip
- SATA speed up to 1.5Gb/s
- RAID 0 and RAID 1
Four Serial ATA ports supported by the Silicon Image Sil 3114 chip
- SATA speed up to 1.5Gb/s
- RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5

LAN
Dual Gigabit LAN - Marvell 88E8053 PCI Express and Marvell 88E8001 PCI LAN
Fully compliant to IEEE 802.3 (10BASE-T), 802.3u (100BASE-TX) and
802.3ab (1000BASE-T) standards
Sound
Karajan audio module
- Realtek ALC882 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC
- 6 audio jacks
- 1 CD-in connector
- 1 front audio connector
True stereo line level outputs
S/PDIF-in/out interface

USB
Up to 8 USB 2.0 ports provided by chipset, 6 on back I/O

IEEE1394
VIA VT6307
Supports two 100/200/400 Mb/sec ports

Expansion Slots
PCI Express x16 Graphics (PCIe x16) x 2
CrossFire mode - Each x16 slot operates at x8 bandwidth.
Single VGA mode - PCIE1 slot operates at x16 bandwidth.
PCI Express (PCIe x1) x 1
PCI x 3

Rear Panel I/O Ports
1 mini-DIN-6 PS/2 mouse port
1 mini-DIN-6 PS/2 keyboard port
2 S/PDIF RCA jacks (S/PDIF-in and S/PDIF-out)
Karajan audio module (6 audio jacks)
1 IEEE 1394 port
2 RJ45 LAN ports
6 USB 2.0/1.1 ports
I/O Connectors
1 connector for 2 additional external USB 2.0/1.1 ports
1 connector for 1 external IEEE 1394 port
1 connector for 1 external serial port
1 connector for the Karajan audio module
1 front audio connector for external line-out and mic-in jacks (on the Karajan audio module)
1 CD-in internal audio connector (on the Karajan audio module)
1 S/PDIF connector for optical cable connection
1 IrDA connector
1 CIR connector
8 Serial ATA connectors
2 IDE connectors
1 floppy connector
1 24-pin ATX power connector
1 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
1 4-pin 5V/12V power connector (FDD-type)
1 front panel connector
5 fan connectors
4 diagnostic LEDs
EZ touch switches (power switch and reset switch)

BIOS
Award PnP 4Mb Flash ROM BIOS with CMOS Reloaded
Hardware Monitoring Monitors CPU/system/chipset temperature
Monitors 12V/5V/3.3V/Vcore/Vbat/5Vsb/Vchipset/Vdram voltages
Monitors the speed of the CPU fan, Fan 2 and Fan 3 fan
CPU Overheat Protection function monitors CPU temperature during system boot-up

Form Factor
ATX

Board Size
305 mm x 240 mm
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Overclocking

Overclocking seems to be a little disappointing with this board.

With 5x HTT Multiplier, I can run 220HTT all day. Higher than that it is not so stable. That is a total of 1100Mhz of Hyper Transport speed and it is pretty much where the nForce 4 board goes as well on the 5x HTT Multiplier.

With 4x and 3x HTT Multiplier, i can go up to 270MHz HTT stably. Higher than that it does not even detect my hard disk after the bios boot up.

I've tried a lot of different settings in the bios in order to get HTT higher than 270Mhz but failed to do so. Perhaps more time is needed in order to find the settings that will pass this barrier. I have a feeling it is due to an unlocked PCI bus but sadly, there does not seem to be an option for PCI bus speed nor PCI Express Bus speed in the present BIOS. Hopefully, a new bios will have these options.

There are no working ClockGens with this board as well. We are still waiting for Franck of CPUID fame to prgram one for the ICS951446 clock generator on this board. The bundled software of the DFI also does not include any clock adjustment software
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Yep initial testing with this board seems to be disappointing. I remember reading up on DFI Street where even angry_games himself was having trouble pushing the board. Moreover the board was acting very finicky with TCCD (the RAM that *most* people seem to use) but could run fine with the Crucial Ballistix series (won't Chaos be thrilled :p ).
 
People at XS Forum told that
It seems that the PCI bus is unlocked , hard drive could not be detected after 270HTT.

A new bios fixing the PCI bus lock will allow the board to go higher.
 
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