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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.

SiSoft Sandra and Prey

SiSoft Sandra

The Sisoft Sandra application measures system performance with different synthetic benchmarks. In the chart below you find the results of the CPU benchmark (Dhrystone/Whetstone) and the memory bandwidth benchmark (int/buff’ed)

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CPU performance wise, we find a very small difference between all boards.

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Same memory performance 'issue' as we've seen before.

Prey

Prey uses the venerable game engine from ID software, Tech4 it’s called now, also used for Doom 3 and Quake 4. Prey started development back in 1995, and it took 11 years to see this project come to completion, but when it finally was launched, gamers were pleased with such beautiful graphics.

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With the help of the HardwareOC Prey benchmark utility, we tested the board's performance. We tried to maximize the influence of the motherboards by using a resolution of 640x480. We used HWZone's demo, let it run for a few times, after which we calculated the average.

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The differences between the boards’ gaming performance is close to nothing, however we should notice that the X38 is slightly faster.

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.

Quote:

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

Quote:

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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