DFI Lanparty DK P45-T2RS Plus Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S775 by massman @ 2008-10-10

The P45 chipset has been out on the market for quite some time now and motherboards are widely available. But as usual, it takes a bit more time for DFI to tweak and tune their version of the P45. Today, we have a look at the P45-T2RS Plus motherboard, let´s find out if it was worth the wait.

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Test setup and methodology

Test setup

Intel Test Setup

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CPU Intel Core 2 E8500 (from Madshrimps (c))
Cooling Stock Aluminum Intel Heatsink
Mainboard
  • Asus Maximum II Formula
  • MSI P45 Platinum
  • DFI Lanparty DK P45-T2RS Plus
  • Memory 2 * 1GB PC6400 TeamGroup
    Other
  • Sapphire HD4850
  • Tagan 520W PSU
  • Western Digital 320Gb SATA HDD
  • Windows XP SP3 Dutch


  • Methodology: benchmarks

    To compare all motherboards, we used the following benchmarks:

  • 3DMark01
  • 3DMark03
  • 3DMark05
  • 3DMark06
  • Aquamark
  • Superpi 1M
  • Superpi 32M
  • Lavalys Everest: Memory latency
  • Cinebench 10
  • PCMark05
  • TechArp HD x264 benchmark
  • Trackmania Nations

    Methodology: test settings

    We used two different test settings:

    - CPU @ 333x9.5; Memory @ 400 4-4-4-10
    - CPU @ 500x8; Memory @ 500 5-5-5-15

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