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CPU: 400X9=>3600Mhz
DDRII 1200 CL4 4-4-9
Performance and bandwidth


After I spent a lot of time to adjust a suitable “Clock fine delay” value,
the system ends up in 400/ 1200MHz stably(further, it reached CL4)


QX6800, the limit of FSB: 515MHz
A single Super PI 32M finished stably!


45nm E8500
4G 1.28V, Dual SP2004 finished stably.


The latest Nov. BIOS of DK P35 supports 45nm CPU.
Merits:
1)There is an ID of “Dark” from outside to inside. Looks good
2)All in solid capacitors and on board Power/ Reset button and those Mosfit heat sink
3)Rich Bios options for tweaking, particularly in DRAM’s ratio
4)The FSB record is almost the fastest of all P35 boards in market.
It rocks me when DRAM can reach 1200 & CL4 level.
5)High C/P ratio in DFI LANParty series

Drawbacks:
1)The timing of launching this model is a bit too late to others in market
2)DFI product is being harder to find in channels, it’s inconvenience to buy
3)Although the 3-way Crossfire is not that popular in market yet,
but if the board has one more PCIe x16 slot, the expansibility must be better.

I tried to use QX6800 CPU for a record of DK P35, but my highest record is only FSB485MHz.
Aside from this, the performance of Dual core CPU is a bit weaker than UT P35.
But you still can reach FSB550 to 580 if your CPU is good enough.

DFI LANParty DK P35 Series provides a “overclockable” BIOS and features,
that make users have an good OC environment; DFI features 4-phase PWM this time.
Although it looks a bit weak,
but it equipped with 16 mosfit within which gains a stronger performance than 6, 8-phase digital PWM.
It has been a long time that DFI created a high C/P ratio model like NF4 Ultra-D.
DK P35 is a similar model and has good performance too.
Hope DFI could continue to launch more and more good C/P ratio models to satisfy users.

Next Review of mine. Thermaltake QFan Toughpower 650W