Took a bit longer than last few times, as I had to change my waterblock, so did a few other jobs had been planning to do for a while.
There were no issues with the motherboard, one or two hiccups along the way
Smart Connectors
This is the second
DFI motherboard I've had with the
Smart Connectors I was swapping out the
DFI UT P45-T3RS, so just plugged
usb & front panel straight in.
Rear Clear CMOS Jumper
I was quite taken with this rear panel jumper earlier.
However with the
I/O panel fitted, it's not quite as useful. I can't see how I can access this jumper, maybe if iI use the wife's tweezers ?
Needs enlarging so you can use a pair of pliers, to move the jumper.
Clunk has come up with the answer for this
, use the bag of jumpers
DFI always provide with their motherboards
:-
Original took some pulling out though.
So don't forget to swap jumpers before you put motherboard in case.
Great job
Used 1st set of Memory slots
When I first fired up board, with
ram in the yellow slots it hung with CF
post code , which is memory. Went fine when I switched to green slots. This is a chipset issue, not a motherboard. It's rto do with how the
ram slots are populated.
Dave ran into the same thing with all X58 boards he's used. It is a bit unnerving though if this is your first x58.
So Whatever X58 you get
USE The Second Slots, if using 2 or three Modules.
EK- Supreme Water Block
I got this new block to go with my 1366. Got a backing plate for it. The Supreme uses M4 bolts, when mounting to the
mobo, the bolt posts were splayed , do to the backplate slots being to short. Had to drill them out as shown in red below:
Did the trick:
Crossfire
I got 2x HD4670 the other week, which are budget boards but give good scaling in crossfire , so am currently seeing how they work for me. Being budget boards they come without bridges, but when buing them you tend to take opot luck on the width of the bridge.
This caused a pronlem
The top bridge is the right width, and is provided with this board. The bottom pair are the ones I was using.
According to the manual for the graphics card, I need two bridges:
Floppy Power headers
As I'm running crossfire and because it generally helps regulate voltage and improve stability, I opted to power both these headers.
See bottom two pictures
Motherboard Close Up (3of3).
It proved quite a chore plugging in the PCIE4 plug with the two cards fitted. I used a floppyext.jpg
for the PCIE1 header.
It doesn't do much for cable management if you do this
Accesories and extras
Linear Mode
