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2010-03-22T13:56:00.000+08:00

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Review Motherboard DFI LP DK P55-T3EH9

2010-03-21T18:49:00.054+08:00

DFI LP DK P55-T3EH9 is one of motherboard of LAN Party Series from DFI, Enclosed in black, orange and black color. This product is equipped the latest chipsets of Intel Ibex Peak P55.
This Product Also have supported AMD CrossfireX and nVIDIA SLI with 3 slots of PCIe X16, and applicable with AMD CrossfireX and nVIDIA SLI. As for the memory is is available of 4 slots of DDR3, with max clocking at 1800 MHz and 1333 MHz on default. As for the SATA port there is 8 slots, fortunately it still not using SATA3.
For The Cooling system using qualified aluminum heat sink with integrated heat-pipe, heat-pipe that were used is quite thick, and parallel installed following chipset onto the MOSFET. This product of DFI is only armed with 6 power phase unit having fan pin header that is quite a lot with a total 5, with hopes that it can help farthest with the cooling process.

Price Tag :
US$ 220

Positive Side :
- Overall Performance is quite good and the price is not so expensive

Negative Side :
- Needs A lot of power, manual book is not fitted out

ASROCK M3A785GXH/128M

2010-03-20T13:30:00.003+08:00

The usages of components in this motherboard is very nice, because the capacitor that are used is using solid type. and every chip set in it is using 55 nm fabrication which is enhanced by 3 slots of PCI3 X16, so Crossfire-X has been activated in this motherboard.
Also In This Product We Also Se an SLI/Crossfire switch card that is useful to activate SLI or Crossfire, but this method is very old style because there already motherboard that integrated it directly to it’s switching process, with out any need of this kind of switching card.
For the cooling solution, only the chip-sets is equipphttp://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8640793696542812555&postID=918858500658482123ed with heat sink from aluminum with fans, but the MOFSET is let alone with out a cooling protection. For memory slots it uses DDR3 in 4 slots, and are able to use memory up to 1600MHz. For The power phase, is only available in 5 units, and it felt isn’t enough So maintain power for PCIe X16 it’s been added a molex slot to add power to descrete graphic.

Support for Socket AM3 processors: AMD Phenom™ II X4 / X3 / X2 (except 920 / 940) and Athlon II X4 / X3 / X2 processors
ASRock DuraCap (2.5 x longer life time), 100% Japan-made high-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors
Supports CPU up to 140W
AMD 785G + SB710 Chipsets
Supports AMD OverDrive™ with ACC feature (Advanced Clock Calibration)
FSB 2600 MHz (5.2 GT/s)
Supports Hyper-Transport 3.0 (HT 3.0) Technology
Supports Dual Channel DDR3 1600(OC)/1333/1066/800 (4 x DIMM slots) non-ECC, un-buffered memory, Max. capacity up to 16GB
Integrated AMD Radeon HD 4200 graphics, DX10.1 class iGPU, Shader Model 4.1, Max. shared memory 512MB
Built-in 128MB DDR3 1333(OC)/1200MHz SidePort Memory
3DMARK 06 3499 marks by Integrated AMD Radeon HD 4200 graphics
Supports ATI™ CrossFireX™, Hybrid CrossFireX™ and 3-Way CrossFireX™
3 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (green @ x16 mode, blue @ x8 mode, orange @ x4 mode)
Three VGA Output options: D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI
Supports HDCP function
Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) / HD-DVD playback
6 x SATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and JBOD), NCQ, AHCI and “Hot Plug” functions
1 x eSATAII Port
Supports 2 x IEEE1394 ports (one port on back panel, one header on board)
PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
Supports ASRock Instant Boot, Instant Flash, OC DNA
Supports Smart BIOS, EZ OC, ASRock OC Tuner, Intelligent Energy Saver
EuP Ready
7.1 CH Windows^® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (ALC888Audio Codec).
Windows^® Vista™ Premium 2008 Logo Ready
I/O Panel: 1 x VGA/D-Sub Port, 1 x VGA/DVI-D Port, 1 x HDMI port, 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port, 1 x IEEE 1394 port, 1 x eSATAII Port,1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED, 6 x USB 2.0 Ports

Price Tag
100 $
The Good
Overall Performance is good, Equipped with SidePort Memory, Crossfire-X, It has A Cheap Price
The Bad
It’s Has Minimum Equipment

Asus M4A785TD-V EVO

2010-03-20T13:21:00.000+08:00

This is one of the classy motherboard but it still uses economic chip sets from AMD. M4A785TD-V Evo form asus use AMD785G as it’s chip sets and AMD SB710, also use DDR3 as it’s memory.
This product from asus is equipped with 2 slots of PCIe X16, so that the crossfire or hybrid crossfire can be activated through adding 2 discrete graphic. as for the memory slots is claimed to support DDR3 1800 MHz. For it’s onboard graphics, this product use Radeon HD 4200, and equipped with sideport memory DDR3 128 Mb.
For cooling solution, each chip sets is equipped with cooling system and MOFSET with alumunium heatsink which is little thick. Also for capacitor that is used is using solid capacitor , and for the PCB quality is using 2OZ Copper PCB. Power phase of this product is massive, counted there are 10 power unit phase which is used to control power to each component of the motherboard.
Price Tag
132 $
The Good
Overall performance is good, Equipped with side memory, Crossfire,Complete cooling system
The Bad
It’s Equipment is minimum