3D Testing

The CPU was pushed to absolute maximum of 3747Mhz and with the VGA at 675/2Ghz the system passed the stress test by Futuremark’s 3DMark software:





Conclusive Thoughts

The Infinity P965-S from DFI is available at different stores for as little as $139 / €138; while not a true low budget board, it’s nonetheless a good deal seeing as you’re getting the features and performance normally only had from more expensive boards.

The Good

Reasonably priced.

impressive variety of BIOS tweaking options and voltage settings.

FSB can reach 500Mhz easily without extra voltage, allowing you to max out your CPU overclock.

DRAM can be overclocked on this board up to 1200Mhz, so far only the Asus P5B Deluxe does the same.

The not so good

DFI is late to market with their “killer” P965 board.

Less important… but still, no “DARK” logo when system boots up.

DFI continues their winning strike by providing quality motherboards, while never being first on the market, their products do benefit from time spend tweaking the BIOS, the end result is an Intel P965 based motherboard which flies past all competition.

For those who bought this fine DFI board we can heartily recommend this BIOS tweaking guide at TheTechRepository.

Stay tuned as we’ll soon explore the overclocking options of the newly released DFI 680i based motherboard; it might well be the holy Intel motherboard grail for Core 2 CPUs.