DFI LAN Party NF590 SLI Intel Early Sample

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It has been a while since we last did an in-depth test on DFI LAN Party Motherboards. Their previous motherboard based on the Intel 975X chipset, the DFI Infinity 975X offered great performance but had trouble keeping up with the rest of the pack in terms of overclocking of the Front Side Bus Speed, a very important aspect of a motherboard for the Intel Core 2 Duo overclockers with the locked and low multipliers of the CPUs. A few days ago, we were very fortunate to have an early sample of their latest Intel platform Motherboard shipped to us, the DFI LAN Party NF590 SLI Intel Edition, based on the NVIDIA NF590 SLI chipset. I must admit this is one board I have been waiting for quite a while.

[...]First of all, in terms of performance, this board plays like a dream-lover. You don't tweak around much, run it like it is and see it out run its competitors. It was also way easy to get it running good, within minutes I was at prime spot benchmarking the motherboard with very optimal settings. But it has a Killer downside to it, being an early sample and on a beta BIOS. The current BIOS does not support FSB in Excess of 325MHz. This will be more and more of a damper the lower-end your Core 2 Duo gets with the dropping multipliers. It does not support higher than 11x multiplier with an X6800 CPU. It only supports up to 1.6v VCore. We can only wait to see how well the BIOS will pan out... and how high the FSB can go when the BIOS gets in shape.

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