DFI Lanparty JR P45-T2RS MATX - Living Review

[khemera]

I have the Cooler Master Centurion 541 case. It's pretty roomy for a mATX case, so it should fit a decent air cooler in there.

I really want this board and the E8500, but I'm kinda torn between waiting to see if prices will fall or not when the new Intel chips come out. Do you guys think I should wait?

[Clunk]

I don't think the wolfdale chips will fall much, if anything until the next gen dual cores are out next year.

Depends how much you need a quad core.

[Praz]

DFI LP JR P45-T2R, 10/30 BIOS
550x8, Memory 1100MHz
E8600
2x2GB OCZ PC2-9200 Flex II 1050MHz 5-5-5-18
SAPPHIRE 4870
OCZ Core SSD
Orange Slots Used For Memory

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CPU Feature Page
Thermal Management Control................Enabled
PPM(EIST) Mode............................Enabled
Limit CPUID MaxVal........................Disabled
CIE Function..............................Auto
Execute Disable Bit.......................Enabled
Virtualization Technology.................Enabled
Core Multi-Processing.....................Enabled

Main BIOS Page
Exist Setup Shutdown......................Mode 2
Shutdown after AC loss....................Enabled
AC Shutdown free..........................Enabled
O.C. Fail Retry Counter...................1
O.C. Fail CMOS Reload.....................Disabled
CPU Clock Ratio........................... 8x
CPU N/2 Ratio.............................Disabled
CPU Clock.................................550 MHz
Boot Up Clock.............................Auto
CPU Clock Amplitude....................... 800mV
CPU Clock0 Skew........................... 200ps
CPU Clock0 Skew...........................   0ps
DRAM Speed................................333/667
PCIE Clock................................100MHz

CPU Spread Spectrum.......................Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum......................Disabled

Voltage Setting Page 
CPU VID Special Add.......................+175.0mV
DRAM Voltage Control......................1.957V
SB Core/CPU PLL Voltage...................1.55V
NB Core Voltage...........................1.3575
CPU VTT Voltage...........................1.18V
VCore Droop Control.......................Enabled
Clockgen Voltage Control..................3.45V
CPU GTL 0/2 REF Volt......................0.67X
CPU GTL 1/3 REF Volt......................0.67X
North Bridge GTL REF Volt ................0.61X
FSB Vref..................................  2A

DRAM Timing Page
Enhance Data Transmitting.................Fast
Enhance Addressing........................Fast
T2 Dispatch...............................Auto
Clock Setting Fine Delay..................Listed Below

Flex Memory Mode..........................Auto
CAS Latency Time (tCL)....................5
RAS# to CAS# Delay (tRCD).................5
RAS# Precharge (tRP)......................5
Precharge Delay (tRAS)....................15
All Precharge to Act......................5
REF to ACT Delay (tRFC)...................54
Performance Level.........................10
Read Delay Phase Adjust...................Listed Below
Write to PRE Delay (tWR)..................13
Rank Write to Read (tWTR).................10
ACT to ACT Delay (tRRD)...................3
Read to Write Delay (tRDWR)...............8
Ranks Write to Write (tWRWR)..............Auto
Ranks Write to Read (tWRRD)...............Auto
Read CAS# Precharge (tRTP)................3
ALL PRE to Refresh........................5

Read Delay Phase Adjust Page
Channel 1 Phase 0 Pull-In.................Auto
Channel 1 Phase 1 Pull-In.................Auto
Channel 1 Phase 2 Pull-In.................Auto
Channel 1 Phase 3 Pull-In.................Auto
Channel 1 Phase 4 Pull-In.................Auto

Channel 2 Phase 0 Pull-In.................Auto
Channel 2 Phase 1 Pull-In.................Auto
Channel 2 Phase 2 Pull-In.................Auto
Channel 2 Phase 3 Pull-In.................Auto
Channel 2 Phase 4 Pull-In.................Auto

Clock Setting Fine Delay Page
DLL and RCOMP Settings   .................By Menu
Ch1 DRAM Default Skew.....................Model 5
Ch2 DRAM Default Skew.....................Model 5
RCOMP Setting.............................Model 0

Fine Delay Step Degree....................70ps


Ch1 Clock Crossing Setting................Auto
DIMM 1 Clock fine delay...................Current 2476ps
DIMM 2 Clock fine delay...................Current 2476ps
Ch 1 Control0 fine delay..................Current  472ps
Ch 1 Control1 fine delay..................Current  472ps
Ch 1 Control2 fine delay..................Current  410ps
Ch 1 Control3 fine delay..................Current  394ps
Ch 1 Command fine delay...................Current  472ps

Ch2 Clock Crossing Setting................Auto
DIMM 3 Clock fine delay...................Current 2492ps
DIMM 4 Clock fine delay...................Current 2428ps
Ch 2 Control0 fine delay..................Current  442ps
Ch 2 Control1 fine delay..................Current  442ps
Ch 2 Control2 fine delay..................Current  346ps
Ch 2 Control3 fine delay..................Current  332ps
Ch 2 Command fine delay...................Current  442ps

Ch1Ch2 CommonClock Setting................Auto

Ch1 RDCAS GNT-Chip Delay..................Auto
Ch1 WRCAS GNT-Chip Delay..................Auto
Ch1 Command to CS Delay...................Auto

Ch2 RDCAS GNT-Chip Delay..................Auto
Ch2 WRCAS GNT-Chip Delay..................Auto
Ch2 Command to CS Delay...................Auto

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[Praz]

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[Praz]

Vista 64 Bit SP1


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[Retro]

Originally Posted by Clunk

DFI Lanparty JR P45-T2RS MATX - Living Review

There's been plenty of speculation about this motherboard and there's even been photoshopped pictures of an X48 DK claiming to be one of these! - You'll be pleased to hear that we have the genuine article here today at Clunk.org.uk.

MATX motherboards as a rule, don't tend to be great overclockers, or they lack other important features - That's not the case with the JR P45-T2RS, it's a fully featured DFI motherboard (See specs further down) and the only thing it appears to be lacking is size!

I've been looking forward to this review for quite some time now, and on the face of it, DFI have a niche market filled with this little beauty, but how will it perform? Does size really matter? Read on to find out...

Just joined this great Forum, what a fantastic review on this motherboard
I post regularly on other forums like XSF but after seeing this forum I had to join. Lots of good info and members here, and as far as I am concerned, the UK rocks!
Thanks again for the review. I am new to this mATX concept, but due to circumstances, I built this setup a few weeks ago. I sold my previous Asus P5Q-D to a friend who needed a replacement board pronto, and my wife didn't like my Coolermaster Stacker 832 "It's too big and noisy"
So instead of buying a replacement P5Q-D I walked out of the shop with the DFI LPJR and an Antec Mini P180.
Glad I did, the case has great cable management, and the DFI board has been superb. I'm stable at 4400MHz, perhaps I can go a bit higher with the 8600. We shall see.

[Clunk]

Welcome to the forums

I'm glad you found the review useful.

Where's BC?

[Retro]

Originally Posted by Clunk

Welcome to the forums

I'm glad you found the review useful.

Where's BC?

Thanks for the welcome!
I sure did find your review useful. I'm checking into your posted bios settings for the 4600MHz stable clock.
I'm going to compare them to what I have the bios set at now to see if there are any improvements I can make.
The only weird issue I have with this board now is that the Link Width, as shown in CPUZ, in the Motherboard section, sometimes is at 4x instead of the proper 8x. My fix for that has been to re-boot the system, sometimes it takes more than one re-boot, to get it back to 8x. I experienced this with the original bios and still have it with the latest DFI bios I flashed to.
Other than that, it's doing fine.

B.C. stands for British Columbia, it's a province in Canada, on our West Coast. Or Wet Coast as some refer to it as

[Clunk]

Aah, Canada eh?

That's strange about the link width, I didn't see anything like that, but then again, I was using a different GPU.

When using my settings, keep in mind that my E8600 has a pretty low VID, so you may have to compensate for that

[Retro]

Originally Posted by Clunk

Aah, Canada eh?

That's strange about the link width, I didn't see anything like that, but then again, I was using a different GPU.

When using my settings, keep in mind that my E8600 has a pretty low VID, so you may have to compensate for that

Yep, Canada, eh?
Yes, perhaps it is related to my GTX280 somehow, it's annoying but at least it's fixable.
Thanks for the info on your 8600. Mine unfortunately, has a vid of 1.2500 so it may need some different voltages, etc. I have managed to get it quite stable at 4400 by monkeying around (pardon the pun great smilie selection here) with the bios settings, but have many on auto as with your tested settings.
Will keep you posted on my success.