DFI INFINITY P35-T2RL Blood Iron

[MDE]

In case anyone else was on the fence about this board, I just put my Newegg order in, so hopefully I'll have it in time for my "weekend" Tuesday and Wednesday. I'll be overclocking a Q6600, so wish me luck.

I've got the board installed and so far my thoughts are:

The bundle is almost nonexistant. Two SATA, floppy and IDE cables along with Molex to SATA power adapters. Other than that it's the standard backplate, manual and driver CD.

The northbridge gets HOT. Like burn your finger hot. I'm thinking of a way to rig up an 80mm fan somewhere in my case to point it at the NB\PWM area.

Overclocking to 3GHz was the easiest thing I've ever done, literally. Set bus speed to 334 and go. No sweat at all. Higher bus speeds required more voltage to the northbridge though, compounding the heat issue.

 

[CapnBiggles]

Yeah I'm very interested.

 

[Pwntcomputer]

please keep us up to date. This board looks sick........

Great price, solid aluminum capacitors and overclocking goodness. DFI FTW!

 

[Sylvanas]

What is the difference between the 'Blood Iron' and the current P35 T2R?

 

[Nickel020]

The Blood Iron is from the value "infinity" series, while the P35 T2R from the enthusiast "Lanparty" series and costs more than twice as much. The Lanparty has digital PWMs (very little Vdroop) heatpipe cooling and stuff like that.

 

[MDE]

The Blood Iron board also has digital PWMs, but only 4 phase opposed to 8 phase. I forget exactly where, but I saw a thread that had dual core overclocking at 540MHz FSB and a quad core around 470MHz. 470MHz puts a Q6600 at 4.2GHz, so I'm sure the board won't be a bottleneck for me .

 

[MDE]

Just to update you guys, the board is supposed to be delivered along with the CPU, RAM, PSU, and a DVD burner (figured I should just go all SATA while I'm ripping my PC apart) on Wednesday. UPS usually gets here around 1:30 or 2PM so I'll have plenty of time to mess around with it that night.

 

[Shimmishim]

for board pics and bios pics

http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=155464

 

[Pwntcomputer]

subscribing!

 

[CapnBiggles]

Did it arrive ok?

 

[MDE]

I've got the board installed now, After I get some heat related issues taken care of I'll start the fun stuff.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (rev G0)
Thermaltake Big Typhoon
DFI Infinity P35-T2RL Blood Iron
2x 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800
ATI Radeon X1900 XT w\ Accelero X2
2 TV Tuner cards
Seasonic S12 500W PSU
Antec P180

 

[flashdim]

Heat issues? Oh god don't say that.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: flashdim
Heat issues? Oh god don't say that.

It's just a matter of getting the heatsink screwed down properly, don't be alarmed. I think I've got it sorted out now, just running Orthos to make sure it's seated properly then I'll start cranking up the speed.

EDIT: Stock 2.4GHz
3.0GHz stock volts
3.1GHz stock volts

I may go farther tonight, I don't know for sure. 64C is the highest temp spike I've seen, so although it's not the greatest, cooling is adequate for now. I'm not sure what will happen if I start bumping the Vcore up.

 

[MDE]

3.2GHz

Going to stress test this tonight and see what happens.

 

[boglwe]

Very nice, I think we are going to have the same system. I already have the memory in my cart, just figuring out board now. if you got those NB temps down, then its a go.

 

[Thor86]

OP, is there any vdroop with this board from idle to full load on the cpu? If so, what is the value difference?

Thanks.

 

[MDE]

I couldn't tell you, I still have SpeedStep enabled . I'll take a look.

EDIT: I can't get SpeedStep disabled, so I can't tell you. The thread at XtremeSystems I read showed very little Vdroop though.

 

[brencat]

Bump! MDE, any update for us? btw, how are the pwm temps with that quad?

 

[MDE]

Still trying to get 3.2GHz completely stable. I'll bump the voltage and test it while I'm at work. PWM temps are 54C at load.

 

[CapnBiggles]

*nudge*

How goes it? So far this board is the leading contender for when I decide to upgrade.

 

[MDE]

I've got 3.2GHz (400x8) stable, I'll play around with higher FSBs tomorrow and see what I can get.

 

[CapnBiggles]

Originally posted by: MDE
I've got 3.2GHz (400x8) stable, I'll play around with higher FSBs tomorrow and see what I can get.

I know I'm going to probably sound like a wet blanket but if it's stable at 3.2Ghz under those specs I'm pretty much already sold. But yeah, keep us posted as much as you want. Thanks a million for being the proverbial canary in the coal mine.

 

[MDE]

To be honest, anything more than what I've got it overkill. 400x9 is 3.6GHz, which is probably the upper limit on decent air cooling. I'll just work to get the last few MHz out of this last voltage bump and settle on it since I'm starting to get to my heatsink's limits.

EDIT: Vcore is 1.328-1.312V idle and 1.296-1.312V under load.