Dfi Lp: P35 T2r

No DFI this week.

Not to sure about it now either seen as by the time I get it the X38 boards will be out in full swing. Maximus Formula maybe. Hmmm
 
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This version has no transpiper, so will be around $30 lower than the original.

New product code: LT P35-T2R

Thanks to Andre for the pics and info.

The 1st release of the UT/ LP board is now in the UK @ £190.

The budget (but still stellar) Blood Iron board is £90.
 
Gone ;) hence cheaper board. 4-phase analogue PWM instead

EDIT: CPU power plug is behind the VRM heatsink between the CPU and the I/O

Its a pretty similar layout to the Blood Iron
 
Quality Vs quantity in general. Despite the space it takes up, its better (read as...cheaper) for mobo makers to use a large number of crapply implemented phases than a fewer number of really well designed/specced phases.

A good single phase costs more than 2 poor ones.

Thats not to say the Asus is crap, but most mobo makers are marketing gear as "more is better": 8 or "pseudo-12" phase CPU voltage derivation, masses of heatpipes look good, but the same job can be done with less- it just doesnt look so "visually impressive"

Intel design spec says that no less than 4 phases can be used on a C2D mobo.

examples:

DFI Blood Iron: per phase: 3FETs, 1 choke, 1 pre-phase cap, 2 post phase caps (I think)

P5K3: per phase: xxx FETs (under heatpipes) 1 choke, 1.5 caps per phase and 1 control IC of some kind

Giga P35 boards: per phase: 3 FETs, 1 choke, 1.66 caps per phase (a bit odd) (the DQ6 has 2 chokes per phase)
 
No idea. If the board handles a highly OCd quad, thats good enough!

The P5K Vanilla and shockingly enough one or 2 Blood Irons are the only boards in recent histroy I can think of that arent up to the job of heavy load because of dodgy/skimped PWM design
 
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