Who uses the DFI Intel based boards?

[MrWizard6600]

I remember a PR statement by DFI that included the fact that, back in pre- C2D days, 95% of the consumer line products they shipped were AMD based systems. Back when S939 was the most powerful beast on the market, you could see why. It was easy to find those tell tale UV pci-e slots on an enthusiasts system in the "post your XXX system here" galleries.

Not any more.

I figured with such overwhelming AMD numbers, when Core 2 was released, DFI was in trouble. Looks like i was right.

But im wondering, who here owns, and operates one of DFIs new boards (which, in all fairness, look excellent)?

now, enthusiast is a relative term, so i'll leave it up to you to decide if your board is "enthusiast" If the most you've ever spent on a mother board is $180, and you own an Infinity on the higher end chipsets, then I would disribe that inifinty as an enthusiast board. But again, its up to you.

 

[BUFF]

DFI traditionally didn't make great Intel enthusiast mobos.
With Core 2 whilst they've been learning & brought out some nice designs they've often been late to market (965, 680i, P35) & the 965 especially but also P35 have had problems with noisy mobos (inductor squeal etc.).

 

[azuldenial]

Yeah, DFI hasnt been on top anymore, its like somehow they didnt see the Conroe coming. They're 939 based boards were legendary, but I cant recall a single person thinking about purchasing one now.

Plus they had that debacle with their enthusiast website, dfi-street, I think.

 

[MrWizard6600]

yeah, the DFI street thing might have POd a bunch of customers, DFi street admins say DFI wasnt payin em enough, DFI states they wanted a price hike, so they went their seperate ways.

anyways its club DFI now.

but anyways, there new Intel based boards sure do look cool. Check out the cooling when its fully setup. Δ10°C I bet...

Its gotten a handfull of awards but no press coverage, why?

 

[Glow]

Yeah, DFI hasnt been on top anymore, its like somehow they didnt see the Conroe coming. They're 939 based boards were legendary, but I cant recall a single person thinking about purchasing one now.

Plus they had that debacle with their enthusiast website, dfi-street, I think.

There's still a bunch of fans. look on xtremesystems there's a lot of people pushing them. I'd consider picking up one of the new blood-irons. I know this guy did.

 

[Willseyvilleny]

infinity 975x when the c2d came out, and i was overly impressed with it, it wasnt even a high end board but i hit 3.2ghz on my e6600 day one with no issues.

 

[Spectrum17]

I had a DFI P965-s, which made horrible noises and died within two weeks, taking a hard drive with it. Never again.

I replaced it with a Bad Axe 2 and have been quite happy since.

 

[engiNURD]

I love my Ultra-D, but the thing is so damn picky with parts, lol. With the ease of OC'ing a C2D and the OC'ing options on the other boards today, you don't really need all the other BIOS options DFI likes to offer. I agree being late to market also hurt them a lot, along with the DFI street debacle.

 

[alg7_munif]

I bought the icfx3200 but never had a chance to use it since it died on the first day I got it, the latest bios killed the board, it said that my bios update was a success but after rebooting it never boot anymore so I sent it back and now I end up with an Asus P5E

 

[Glow]

I love my Ultra-D, but the thing is so damn picky with parts, lol. With the ease of OC'ing a C2D and the OC'ing options on the other boards today, you don't really need all the other BIOS options DFI likes to offer. I agree being late to market also hurt them a lot, along with the DFI street debacle.

No you don't need them but thats why they are above the norm when it comes to enthusiast boards. Too much knit picking in the BIOS for me kinda what keeps we away from another one right now I loved my Ultra-D as well but ehh.... not sure if I want to go threw all that again always thinking I missed a certain setting or if I didn't turn something off in their 498304029230 options. I also got into a huge fight in the old DFI forums about this. Apparently there are those who would die before giving all that useless crap up.

 

[MrWizard6600]

well thats what dfi boards are for.

Control over every aspect, but theres two sides to that: you need a good bios to change some of those super low level settings, and of course, the user has to know or be able to find out what each setting does.

Anyways, If dfi was a launch partner for 680i, I would have been all over it.