DFI LP UT P35-T2R - Mini Living Review.

[Clunk]

Welcome to the forums Phil

The reviews are usually a bit more in depth, but I had to give the board back before I was finished.

Glad it was of use though

[lethial]

I dunno Clunk, I found that your "short" reviews are much more informative then 80% of the "big name website" reviews.

As always thanks for the review. Esp. now since I think my P5K is dying, this time for real

[Clunk]

Thanks, I'm glad they are useful

Bad news about the P5K dying. Will you be going x48/ddr3 then?

[lethial]

no way x38s are expensive enough... I am wondering if the DFI x38 is worth $280...

[Clunk]

Can't answer that I'm afraid. If it has the same C1 error as the P35, I would say no, but if they have fixed that, then it could be a winner.

[lethial]

what exactly is this C1 error thing? I see that you mentioned it in the review, but I am still bit hazy on what exactly it is about.

Offtopic:
Since you got a P5k too, and you are far more experienced then I am, I'd like to borrow some of you brain matter if I may

So lately I have stability issue with my system. Mind you my OC setting has been tested with multiple days of stability testing in windows, and a ton of memtest86+ testing. I have been conservative with my voltages Vcore= 1.4V, V_NB = 1.25, Vmem = 2.15 (with a OCZ ram fan blowing on it)

But just this past weekend (crap always seem to happen when I am on vacation...) I ran memtest86+ again (because I am having a lot of crashing issue with Hellgate London game). And this time I get errors w/in 20 min of the test! What's even more strange is that the "faulting range" is from something like "0x0000 - " Memory affected: "0MB" ...

I did some research, and it seem to indicate that there is some problem with the chipset...

I swapped the ram with a brand new pair of Corsair Dominator, and the same thing... (at default ram and CPU running below 2.4GHz...)

Also, now when I boot up from cold, sometimes the PC won't detect the CD-ROM drive that I connected to SATA2... And I keep on getting BIOS checksum error (which went away after I flashed the BIOS to the latest 0701 (?) version.) But the SATA problem is still there...

Is this a sign of the mobo battery going out? Or something seriously wrong with my mobo?

Sorry for the digression.

[Clunk]

You'll find the C1 error here.

On the P5K, try disabling legacy USB before you do the Memtest, and then run test 5.

[lethial]

heh, I thought the C1 error is some code name for some sort of mysterious error, nvm

But I have already disabled the legacy USB support Which kinda stinks since now I can't get to safe mode since keyboard is disabled

[Clunk]

C1 as in, it chows C1 on the Error display

This why its always good to have a spare PS2 keyboard. About £1.50, very handy

[supershanks]

This why its always good to have a spare PS2 keyboard.

I just use a ps2/usb adapter. Takes less space