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   #37. Posted at 08:53 AM on Jun 27th 2008 Edit   Reply
onlycodered
Oh my gosh. That Gigabyte board is horrible! It looks like something out of the Teletubbies or something!
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   #18. Posted at 07:20 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
DrDillyBar
4 network ports.
DIY virtualization with a NIC apiece.
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#18, I just bought the DQ6 for the pseudo-hardware RAID mainly, b...  :  INMCM  (#25)  «
#18, Ahem, that is not really what having several NICs are for. I...  :  Krogoth  (#29)  «
#29, It seems to me that having 4 NICs is be for whatever purp...  :  MadManOriginal  (#36)  «

   #2. Posted at 12:31 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
willyolio
4 GigE ports? are they trying to save you money on routers or something?
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#2, Ayuh. I can't feature why someone needs /4/ GigE ports. That...  :  bthylafh  (#3)  «
#2, definitely not a good server board, but for a company of 25-...  :  albundy  (#8)  «
#2, I can't figure it out either. Just seems like extra money to...  :  continuum  (#12)  «
#2, I think it's silly. Even a cheap switch will probably get yo...  :  Patsoe  (#32)  «
#2, Each GigE port is backed by its own controller right? I gues...  :  Kurotetsu  (#35)  «

   #34. Posted at 08:42 AM on Jun 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
Prototyped
Thank you for listening and providing P35 DDR2 results. I hadn't noticed the X-series DDR2 results the previous time, but it turns out the P35 didn't have similar performance to the X38 or X48 anyway, and that the P45's performance looks a lot like the P35's much of the time. (Which isn't really a bad thing given its price points. The 750i is cheaper than the 780i, though, and competes directly with the P45, so it would be interesting to see how that fared.)
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   #5. Posted at 01:01 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
Kurotetsu
So the new DS3R actually loses SATA ports, but gains CrossfireX. This may sound bizarre, but I'm not sure whether I like that tradeoff.

I big thing I liked about the P35-DS3R over the DS3L, besides having twice as many SATA, was that the ports were on two separate controllers. Keep your opticals on IDE and your hard drives on AHCI. With all six now sitting on the southbridge alone, you don't have that flexibility.
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#5, Cheap pcie card for optical drives?  :  flip-mode  (#9)  «
#9, I prefer just letting the board handle it. Less compatibi...  :  Kurotetsu  (#10)  «
#5, I haven't had a problem running 3 or 4 different SATA optica...  :  MadManOriginal  (#22)  «
#22, I don't think he meant there were problems per se, just t...  :  Forge  (#23)  «
#23, Hm true, I remember running some bootable CD utilities...  :  MadManOriginal  (#24)  «
#23, I'm sure you're aware of this, but for others, you can...  :  bthylafh  (#26)  «
#26, I integrate my own drivers, one by one. Fits on a C...  :  Forge  (#27)  «
#27, How often do you flash your video card firmware....  :  Usacomp2k3  (#28)  «
#27, Irregardless ...  :  eitje  (#30)  «
#30, I'm glad you took so much meaning from my pos...  :  Forge  (#33)  «

   #31. Posted at 04:23 PM on Jun 12th 2008 Edit   Reply
d0g_p00p
Strange about the FSB. There are several people hitting 600+ FSB with little voltage tweaks or in some cases on Asus boards hitting 600+ out of the box.

Good review though, I cannot wait for the new video card reviews.
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   #21. Posted at 08:04 PM on Jun 11th 2008, Edited at 08:06 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
MadManOriginal
Need oc'ing results with a quad core please. Maybe 65nm and 45nm if you're up to it, nothing extensive just to see if P45, or at least these boards in particular, have any advantage over P35. Oc'ing a dual core doesn't show nearly as much.

Also too bad Gigabyte discarded the JMicron SATA ports on the P45 DS3R like they had on the P35. The P35 was my choice for a reasonably priced but solidly built server build board with lots of ports, the P45 doesn't quite live up to it in that resepct.
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   #20. Posted at 07:48 PM on Jun 11th 2008, Edited at 07:51 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
Forge
Additionally, for the P45-DXY crowd:

I'm hoping the P45-DS4 shoots the middle. The EP35-DS4 did, and I'm happy here. I like the 6+2 SATA arrangement, and I do like the heatpipe chipset coolers, too. P35/P45 doesn't crank out the watts like nFurnace, but a little cooling doesn't go amiss, and that ICH10 heatsink on the P45-DS3R looks anemic.

The P45-DQ6 goes just a bit too far the other way. The SilImage multiplexer/RAID thingies are FTW, and I like that, but the FOUR NICs are about 2 too many. Those just jack up the cost. I didn't see it in the BIOS screens that you took pics of:

Can you disable some of those DQ6 NICs without axing the whole gang? I know on the EP35-DS4 there's just one big master on/off and an option to enable/disable the boot rom.
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   #19. Posted at 07:45 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
Forge
Odd, I was expecting P45 to finally do away with the 500FSB curse. Seems that P35 got there without much trouble, X38 and X48 go there and no farther, and now P45 joins the club.

WTF with the hating on 550-600FSBs!?
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   #17. Posted at 06:04 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
oldDummy
Good Job...
A Shuttle SG45H7 review would be quite the cat's meow.
It has the potential to be a showstopper.
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   #16. Posted at 06:02 PM on Jun 11th 2008, Edited at 06:04 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
Sargent Duck
Was it just me, or did the P35 DDR2 chipset seem to be beating the P45 DDR2 chipset a majority of the time?

Not only in games, but also drawing less power as well.
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   #15. Posted at 04:45 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
ssidbroadcast
Oh and thanks for the review, btw. I was getting STARVED for something--anything--TR Reviewed.
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   #14. Posted at 04:01 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
crazybus
It's nice to see the plethora of voltage options offered that were missing from Gigabyte's P35 boards. Hopefully those should help when overclocking quads.
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   #7. Posted at 02:14 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
ish718
Should have included OC performance
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#7, It's there. I'd love to see quad-core OC performance, though....  :  continuum  (#13)  «

   #11. Posted at 03:49 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
nerdrage
Are any mobos going to use the ethernet controller on the ICH10? It would be nice to avoid the crab without having to use an external NIC.
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   #6. Posted at 02:12 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
albundy
gonna be upgrading in a few months. hopefully the P or G series of the x58 will come out soon...I'll pass on this one.
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   #4. Posted at 01:01 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
ssidbroadcast
I hope you guys didn't pay money for that fancy "audio-analyzer" software.
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   #1. Posted at 12:21 PM on Jun 11th 2008, Edited at 12:32 PM on Jun 11th 2008 Edit   Reply
flip-mode
First my bizzles.

Wow, DS3R for the win. Three cheers for Gigabyte for the straight forward interface of Easy Tune 6. No gimmicky interfaces please, just the options in a rectangle.

Yeah and if I were to pick on nit, it would be to say the 3850 in XF is a good value, any other XF config... not so much. It will be very interesting to see how the value proposition holds up with the 4850.

If the wife left me tomorrow I'd console myself with an E8400 on a DS3R with 3850XF and catch up on some video games.

Or I'd get an HDTV, and upconverting DVD player, and a lot of beer. This latter option sounds better.
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