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DFI Lanparty LT X38-T2R S775 Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S775 by massman @ 2008-02-19

We take a look at the newest DFI Intel motherboard, based on the X38 chipset, the successor of the high end version of the P35. Can DFI work their magic and produce a tweakers dream X38 board? We find out.

Futuremark bench suite

Futuremarks tests

These synthetic 3D benchmarks from Futuremark allow you to evaluate the expected performance of a system with different generations of games. As each 3DMark uses different features and quality settings, it allows you to get an idea of how your system will perform.

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3DMark01

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3Dmark01 has - more than ever - become a system benchmark, as every part is stressed in another test. A good start when we want to see the performance difference between the X38 and P35 chipset. As we kind of expected, very little difference between both DFI motherboards.

3DMark03

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Same story when we run 3DMark03: both X38 and P35 perform almost the same.

3DMark05

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In 3DMark05, it seems that the X38 has a slightly better optimized 3D performance, which would not be that strange as the difference between the P35 and X38 chipset lies in the PCIe lanes design.

3DMark06

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Motherboards play a very small role in the 3DMark06 story, especially as we're using an 8600GT video card, which is not known as the top dog of the video card market. However, we can see that at higher memory speeds, the X38 is slightly faster.

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Futuremark’s 3DMark06 has a separate CPU benchmark which runs one of the 3D scenes completely in software, multiple cores will speed up this benchmark, and higher speed memory and faster motherboards will benefit here, although the difference is hardly noticeable.

Comment from eva2000 @ 2008/02/21

Nice review maybe try with 1/11 official bios as it changes the way clock fine delay values are set. Also try with clock cross settings and common clock setting set to More Aggressive with Enhanced Data transmitting and addressing set to FAST and T2 Dispatch enabled.

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DRAM Timing
- Enhance Data transmitting: FAST
- Enhance Addressing: FAST
- T2 Dispatch: Enabled

Clock Setting Fine Delay
Ch1 Clock Crossing Setting: More Aggressive
- DIMM 1 Clock fine delay: Current
- DIMM 2 Clock fine delay: Curren
- DIMM 1 Control fine delay: Current
- DIMM 2 Control fine delay: Current
- Ch 1 Command fine delay: Current

Ch2 Clock Crossing Setting: More Aggressive
- DIMM 3 Clock fine delay: Current
- DIMM 4 Clock fine delay: Current
- DIMM 3 Control fine delay: Current
- DIMM 4 Control fine delay: Current
- Ch 2 Command fine delay: Current

Ch1Ch2 CommonClock Setting: More Aggressive

love to see how that changes your results

Comment from jmke @ 2008/02/21

thank you for your input, always appreciate feedback from experienced OCers

Comment from KingDingeling @ 2008/02/23

Greetings from Germany!

Just a question, if you're reviewing such a high-end OC board, why is there no overclocking section? Many other mobo reviews I read include a section where they talk about overclocking, for example if this mobo was able to push more CPU clocks outta their system or not.

Comment from jmke @ 2008/02/24

last time I checked 500FSB is not standard speed, this board was tested at 500Mhz = OC

Comment from KingDingeling @ 2008/02/25

Yea, I saw that, but that's your standard overclocked speed for that E6300 from what I've seen? What I meant was how this boards overclocking potential compared to other boards, for example if you were able to achieve an even greater overclock from this board than you were from for example the Asrock 4core P35 board

Comment from Massman @ 2008/02/25

I did not continue my tests above 500FSB, for the simple reason that I cannot guarantee stability above 500FSB with the E6300 on air cooling (and I did not want to insulate the board for phase-change tests).

600FSB is very easy for the Dfi in 99,9% of the cases. The Asrock P35 is not built for overclocks, whereas the DFI is built especially for the overclockers.

Comment from Massman @ 2008/02/25

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Originally Posted by eva2000

Eva, is it okay to test these settings on my P35 motherboard? Or is it purely for the X38 board to tune the memory settings?

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