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DFI LP JR X58-T3H6 Intel Motherboards
Customer Reviews for DFI LANPARTY JR X58-T3H6 LGA 1366 Intel X58 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
1/15/2010 9:58:05 PM

Rating + 5 great board but not for everyone


Pros: Good stable motherboard
very good overclocker
The clear CMOS by pressing the power and reset button simultaneously is pure genious on DFI's part
CF & SLI bridge included

Cons: bios may be confusing for beginners

Other Thoughts: I really wanted the Asus Gene but this was $30 cheaper at the time. This is a very stable motherboard when overclocked 4.1ghz 1.232v, VTT 1.25v, ram 1680 9-9-9-25 1.5v.
If you can't do 4GHz with a D0 on this board it's your own fault.

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tekkitan
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/5/2010 9:41:40 PM

Rating + 3 Works after some tomfoolery


Pros: -Pretty stable (once you get it going)

Cons: -Took a few days to get working correctly. It would boot up fine once, then if you reboot it would get suck at an undefined error code on the board LED. After removing memory modules and rearranging them many times, I finally got it to boot up.
-Support is pretty bad. I tried talking to them about my problem, they dismissed it as my power supply is not a "quality" power supply. It's an Antec 650w trio. Works fine with everything else, but according to them the 12v rails aren't perfect in their eyes. They refused to help me any further unless I bought one of the two brands of power supplies they recommended. Thanks DFI.

Other Thoughts: This is my third morthboard from DFI in my years of hardware experience. First motherboard I had was an nForce2 chipset. Had boot problems and others. Got a replacement motherboard for it, next revision that was supposed to fix the problems but of course it didn't. I have had many problems with DFI, I don't think I'll be a repeat customer ever again.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/20/2009 6:07:10 PM

Rating + 5 Very pleased


Pros: Great board, works as it should. Has all the features I wanted and very stable. I have had NO issues with this board. Hooked it up, powered it on...been enjoying it ever since.

Cons: None thus far (knocks on wood)

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/17/2009 9:25:47 AM

Rating + 1 Don't Get it


Pros: This board works fine if you have no issue. Once issue starts, it never ends.

Cons: MB broke down after 2 months. Customer services is horrible. DFI tries to repair it, but it has been the 4th time i have to send back my item with issue, instead of giving a new board.

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roth4fun
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/15/2009 12:25:43 PM

Rating + 4 Shaky as a server but a great consumer board


Pros: Over all a very good board for the average consumer looking to build a fast gaming rig.

Obviously a lot of features packed into a small board. Runs strong and performance is really good under Vista and Windows 7 as x64. Stable overclocking with lots of nooks and crannies in the BIOS for tweaking. Easily able to overclock my i7 920 easily. 6 RAM slots is fantastic. 6 SATA connections and 1 IDE is great too. Built in Audio is good, gigabit LAN works well.

Cons: Tech support is vacant. Drivers are for consumer OS but most Vista ones work in Windows 2008.

I originally purchased this to be a Virtual Machine host in Windows 2008. Yeah, a consumer board for the cheap home server environment. The BIOS had settings to support hardware virtualization but the BIOS failed to keep them at boot. I contacted Tech Support only to be ignored all 3 times spread over 2 months. I posted on monitored support forumns and they ignored my pleas as well. Months later they let out a BIOS update to fix this issue and a month later another BIOS update claiming to fix the same issue.

I recently rebuilt on Windows Server 2008 after the latest BIOS update and it works. I am able to support multiple VMs using Hyper-V. However the Securable application (common tool for checking) still indicates that the BIOS is not hardware virtualization enabled, which is concerning but as long as I am functional that is good enough for now.

Other Thoughts: My stable configuration is:

DFI LanParty Jr X58-T3H6
Intel i7 920 2.66GHz (running at 3.2GHz)
Stock cooling for CPU (extra fan in the case)
Corsair 620 Watt PSU
6 x 2GB G.Skill 1600MHz DDR3 (12GB of RAM)
WD 250GB SATA for OS
3 x WD 750GB SATA for RAID5 data drive
ATI Radeon HD 4670 graphics

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Midnex
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/27/2009 8:34:20 PM

Rating + 1 Randomly Shuts Down


Pros: Everything except the Cons

Cons: Biggest issue I have had is random shut downs. First they happened once every month or so, but have increased to within 30 seconds of the computer starting. It seems like it has come down to over heating issues. I have tested this with multiple i7 processors, multiple hard drives, ram, and video cars. It is the bored itself and waiting on a replace from DFI on a replacement (owned for 6 months as of now, problems first noted 2 months of ownership).

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KYL
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/25/2009 6:16:37 PM

Rating + 5 Solid and Stable


Pros: Haven't had any issues with this board, rock solid and 48hr burn in tests all stable with GTX295/6GB/975EE

Cons: No win7 drivers atm for RAID manager

Other Thoughts: Best new SLI micro board out there

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/20/2009 3:50:11 PM

Rating + 4 Virtualization now working


Pros: DFI just released a BIOS update (2009-07-01) that allows the board to properly support Intel's "Virtualization Technology". This allows 64bit virtual machines to be installed and run in VMware. For those who will need to do this update. I'm using Vista 64 and only got the BIOS to update from a floppy (The USB-stick method didn't work for me).

Outside of this issue, I've owned the board for 6 months, and it works great. I'm not an overclocker - so you'll have to read another review or the manual (available on-line) for that info.

Cons: It's evident from their manuals and installers that DFI's English needs work, but is understandable.

Other Thoughts: I bought this board when it was the first X58 based micro-ATX available on newegg, there are probably better boards now that I haven't tried.

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SK8TRBOI
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/29/2009 1:17:41 PM

Rating + 5 Use the GREEN slots!


Pros: A lot of power in a very small package - and it works great! Tons of arcane BIOS settings for the most intrepid O/C'er...and a cool AutoBoost feature that acually works - took my i7 920 to 2.8ghz in about 3 clicks of the mouse and one reboot.

Cons: Use the GREEN memory slots if using only 3 sticks of memory! Manual mis-labels them, web site has it right.

Other Thoughts: Whoa - does this thing play FSX w/ PMDG MD-11 well! Kept WinXP Home Media Edition for just that reason. This thing is a screamer...

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Mr Reboot
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
6/28/2009 12:40:06 PM

Rating + 1 Ghost Company


Pros: I wish there were some.

Cons: System reboots while watching movies and I get various Stop errors with Media center and at random times.

No response to request for support from DFI after several weeks of trying. Finally bought board from another maker of mobo's and all issues are gone.

It's like this company does not exist once they have my money.

Other Thoughts: PC Power 850watt
i920
Corsair DDR3-1600
eVGA GTX 285
Velociraptor x 2
Antec Home theater case
Samsung 52inch LCD
LG Blu-ray burner

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kbrow
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/22/2009 8:05:17 PM

Rating + 5 Great Board


Pros: *SLI works perfectly
*Easy Setup and yet TONS of options to customize, esp. for a matx board, DFI now has a manual with a listing of what there cryptic bios settings mean online, making tweeking easier.
*tri channel on a Micro-ATX...YES PLEASE
*Lots of SATA for Micro-ATX.
*VERY well placed SATA connections as well as the panel ports.
*Locations of major components (processor, pci-e, etc) are in places so that they are not too cramped, especially when compared to the intel board that i was replacing (bought through retail edge a few years ago)
*Numerical led bios readout. Not common on M-ATX boards, avoid having to remember those beeps.
*BIOS reset, haven't used but is a good 'Oh no what was I thinking doing an OC that large!!!' button.

Cons: *Not as fast or as full featured as a regular ATX board.
*If you actually use all that stuff it can get a little loud...im using dual 8800GTX R2 6x1GB sticks with the lower end intel i7 in a micro-atx case (Lian Li cube or w/e) and it is loud and slightly warmer than I want (this is to be expected in a micro-atx case).
*Didn't notice any firewire, which is a bit sad...but I don't see myself using it (no camcorder atm)
*IDE?! Seriously DFI, there had to be SOMETHING more useful to put on the board.
*If you have 2 big cards you cant access the PCI-e 1x ports, could be a deal breaker for some, you have to go up to ATX before you get that again.

Other Thoughts: If you require small, and want sli/xfire, i7, and lots of ram, this board is prolly all you got for choices, and I strongly recommend it.
Finding a good way to cool a small container is the real challenge.

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Happy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/12/2009 7:38:16 AM

Rating + 5 Happy


Pros: Plainly put, this board just worked. Everything ran fine on boot. The color scheme has some potential, but not my favorite. Was available very early in the Core i7 days in mATX no less. Extremely deep BIOS options. Monitoring software had some things that the ASUS equivalent doesn't.

Cons: Missed having eSATA and firewire, mostly eSATA though (that's just me, others may want both). Although the BIOS on this board is something to behold, you just about need an electrical engineering degree to utilize it all.

Other Thoughts: Would have been nice if this board had the holes for both 775 and 1366 coolers (like the ASUS rampage II gene - which I also have a review on) as I had to purchase a new mounting kit for my TRUE. Be sure to properly place ram sa other users have mentioned.

I ended up replacing this board with the Asus Rampage II GENE (also sold by Newegg) because it was closer to what I was looking for and IMHO was better looking. But both are good boards. Tom's Hardware has an execllent review comparing this board to the Asus Rampage II GENE directly.

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musman
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/6/2009 8:09:33 AM

Rating + 5 Update Review


Pros: Fast & powerful! I wanted to re-review this MB, I had a lot of trouble getting my RAM to run at it's rated speed or 1600. The MB default was running it at 1066. It's my fault I had so much trouble because I'm new to Overclocking. So, I want to post what I had to do to get my RAM running at it's rated speed of 1600.

Cons: Not the easiest to OC for noobs but great for people who know what they are doing. Here is my RAM.
OCZ
Series Platinum
Model OCZ3P1600LV6GK

First set the DRAM Voltage to 1.65
Set "PPM Function" to Disable
Set "Turbo Mode Function" to Disable
Set "DRAM Frequency" to BCLK * 12 Mhz
Set "VTT Voltage" to about 1.29 (or a little higher)

The MB will automatically set the "UnCore Frequency" to it's appropiate setting.

That should get your RAM to run at 1600 if you have the same RAM as I, or at least be a guideline for just about any 1600 speed RAM.

Other Thoughts: DFI customer service has been really great! I exchanged Many e-mails back and forth and it never took longer than an hour to get a response. They were very helpful in getting my RAM to it's rated speed.

My timings are a little slower than rated, I will try to set these manually to 7-7-7-24 (rates timings)

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HarBar
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/29/2009 1:10:10 PM

Rating + 5 Good Motherboard


Pros: The board works fine and continues to deliver quality performance with my Core I7 920 @ 3.4Ghz Onboard audio sounded good while it worked.

Cons: I had to move all of the memory over one slot from where they would usually go, i.e.: from 1,3,5 to 2,4,6. There is a problem with my integrated Audio. Win7 decided that there is no longer an audio controller installed... Not sure if it is OS or the Board. I just plugged in an old Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and that works fine.

Other Thoughts: Zalman 9700 needs a special adapter for I7. I plan on upgrading soon to a 27.5 in monitor. And my new GTX 260 should arrive today.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/27/2009 10:04:25 AM

Rating + 1 DOA 2


Pros: You can actually talk to a person on Tech support

Cons: I received 2 DOA boards both I RMA'd through New egg cause they deal with the issue faster. Also this board puts a lot of static electricity down, it will litterly ground its self on case screws.

Other Thoughts: Go Asus its what falcon northwest uses

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Zerias
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/20/2009 7:31:38 PM

Rating + 1 Memory Support Bit me in the Rear


Pros: High Performance MicroATX board with Crossfire and SLI support

Cons: Memory support is lousy

Other Thoughts: I bought the 3 stick, 6gb, pack of OCZ3X1333LV6GK. This particular motherboard... only lists OCZ3FXT20002GK, OCZ3P20004GK, and OCZ3P16002GK as supported OCZ sticks. Booting the motherboard up just gives me a CF error, which according to the manual, means I either need a BIOS update... or the memory is incompatible. I'm left with the feeling of "I've never had these memory problems on AMD kit... do all Intel users put up with this *CENSORED*?"

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Jason Lihani
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/17/2009 7:43:07 PM

Rating + 1 DO NOT RECOMMEND


Pros: Auto Boost System works well. Splash screen is somewhat cool.

Cons: I have had nothing but trouble with this mobo. The 6th DIMM slot was dead so i was going to RMA it since have 3 X 2Gb DDR3 RAM. After emailing tech support, i was given an email and a phone number to RMA it. I went with the email first and never, ever heard a reply. I finally called them and, after talking to an unpleasant representative, sent my board in. I get it back a few days later telling me i had voided my warranty. I called them up to find out why to learn that i had voided it by getting thermal compound on the CPU BRACKET. NOT EVEN THE PINS. Horrible customer service and a lousy board.

Other Thoughts: I highly recommend against DFI. I ended up putting out another $300 for an EVGA board. But if you HAVE TO buy DFI, at least get a full size board, if you can, not a micro ATX. I will miss the ABS, though. It gave my i7 a boost from 2.66 to 3.2 with no effort from me at all. That was great.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/15/2009 1:49:01 PM

Rating + 4 Great new mobo!


Pros: Just bought this mobo for my new i7 processor. This thing has got some features on it.

-LED debugger
-Good quality workmanship!

Cons: No problems or complaints at all.

Other Thoughts: My specs:

Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz Quad-Core Processor with Hyper Threading
EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 "For the Win" Edition 1GB DDR3
Samsung 23inch 5ms 16:9 Widescreen LCD 20000:1 Contrast Ratio
Corsair XMS3 6GB 1333MHz Triple Channel (3 x 2GB)
DFI Lan Party JR X58 T3H6 LGA 1366 Micro ATX
Corsair VX 550Watt Power Supply

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/2/2009 11:38:52 AM

Rating + 5 Very nice and easy


Pros: My first time building a PC and it booted the first time! Runs great.

Cons: I like it!

Other Thoughts: Out of time...

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DJ
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/25/2009 2:35:33 PM

Rating + 4 Great board, not perfect


Pros: Small, high quality, great layout and a ton of options which is even more impressive since this is a micro-atx board.

The control over memory clocking is superb.

Cons: BSOD over and over until I figured out to disable CXE. Support was no help but I find a related article on their site.

Support is pretty week. They will get back to you but they don't offer much insight.

The integrated sound has some issue like it would disable USB when turned on. I had to disable it, install the drivers then re-enabled it. There is a hotfix patch on the site that just throws an error rather than installing.

Although the worst part was the motherboard/NIC drivers. They require .Net 2.0 to install which is on the disc but .Net 2.0 requires MS Installer 3.0 which is not. You can't get online until the NIC drivers are installed and you can't install them without getting online. You'll need a second computer to install this if you Windows XP SP2 or earlier.

Lastly, the motherboard drivers will not install on XP unless you do several windows updates. I'm guessing you need SP2 but I'm not sure, I just installed them all.

Other Thoughts: The board is realy excellent. One of the best I've owned but unfortunatly because it was inoperable due to one OS incompatibility and support provided no assistance I have give it a 4/5. I still highly recommend this board, just have a second computer handy if you're installing on Windows XP or download Windows Installer 3.0 ahead of time and stick it on a USB.

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NewDfiFan
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/21/2009 6:15:27 AM

Rating + 5 Great board...


Pros: This board was a pleasure to setup, installed 3 OS's with out problems(tri boot). Its been stable from the moment I powered it up...running non-stop for over two weeks.
I do not OC, but the features are available to do so. Everything works as it should. This board has the right stuff, compatible with old devices as well as new ones. The on board sound is excellent. I am very happy with this board, it does everything I wanted and then some.

Cons: Could have come with better documentation, but the dfi website has some good docs/info available for download.

Other Thoughts: Will update if any issues arise.

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ed
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
4/21/2009 5:46:55 AM

Rating + 5 worked


Pros: Worked great.
Easy setup of Vista 64. I absolutely LOVED the case switch plug extenders. What a great idea! No more fishing tiny 2 pin IDE/PWR/RESET plugs into narrow, dark places.

Cons: Manual was lacking.

Other Thoughts: I don't build PCs for people anymore, they expect lifetime free tech support after they blow up their machines. I sent a friend a Newegg wishlist and they ordered everything and I built the system for them.
Being a Core i7 X58 noob I only had them order 4 GB of ram and after a lot of trial and error, finally figured out that it would only boot with both sticks in the first bank. Otherwise the system turns on but stops on a CF POST code. After a few minutes of panic it was smooth sailing.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/21/2009 3:29:14 AM

Rating + 1 doa


Pros: great board

Cons: I got a defective one. You don't want that. A day of hair-pulling, rma paperwork, another two days waiting, plus double shipping cost. It may seem cranky to give one-egg for that, but defective deliveries hurt, and do reflect quality control.

Other Thoughts: Replacement board is fine, and Newegg shipped fast.
By the way: low passive heatsink near sata bus runs too hot.

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nitgundo
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/17/2009 5:13:44 AM

Rating + 5 so far so good


Pros: it has alot of sockets to plug into for storage and vista ready
it was easy to setup and i did not overclock

Cons: none so far

Other Thoughts: my case was small so i put my psu on top of the case no biggy

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/13/2009 10:49:18 AM

Rating + 2 hmmm


Pros: Nice layout, 6 ram slots, angled sata ports, Micro-ATX

Cons: Board workd for about 3 weeks then started random restarts. No overheating or anyhting. Temps around 35C. Loaded up the Auto Boost System and the board no longer completes boot sequence.

Other Thoughts: I really liked this board, Extremely nice layout but the fact that using the DFI overclocking makes it unusable and unrecoverable is a pretty big problem. DFI support will not answer my emails and phone calls are put on an infinite hold. I am pretty disappointed with DFI on this. My old Opteron and a DFI 939 board are perfect but this high-end i7 and their tested and approved OC settings are a bad choice.

i7 920
DFI JR T3H6
6x2gb XMS3
640gb Seagate
XFX gtx 260 core 216
pc power and cooling 750 quad silencer

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tekkitan
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/11/2009 2:14:29 AM

Rating + 1 Outright horrible experience


Pros: When it works, it works fine, if you can get it working...

Cons: I wish I could say good things about this board, but when you have problems installing Windows, then when you finally get it installed you can't boot, it's very hard to do so. If I would have RAID enabled, ANY Windows XP 64 CD I would try would blue screen. I would slipstream the driver into a CD or try a bone stock CD with a floppy with driver for RAID. Blue screens. Turned off RAID completely and it goes into setup fine. After finishing the Windows install and it goes to boot, and WON'T BOOT. The code on the motherboard shows "8.8." which is all the lights in the LED. I contacted support and they immediately told me that my Antec power supply that has been running pretty much the same setup (new mobo/cpu) fine. I only started having problems with this motherboard. I finally got it working and ran fine for a few months, until I had to reinstall Windows again. Now it is back to the same old not booting etc.

Other Thoughts: I cannot get a refund for this board anymore, and I sure don't want a replacement. I am done with DFI. I had an nforce2 board with them a few years ago (two different revisions that were also RMA'ed) and had problems then. I should have known I would have problems again. I'm going with one of the better working brands this time, although I'm out a couple hundred bucks.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/9/2009 7:25:17 AM

Rating + 4 Worked well but don't try to expand


Pros: It works - out of the box, first time
All the necessary hardware right there
Lots of USB, SATA, and Fan support

Cons: No Firewire support on board
No external SATA jack
Expansion slot count is misleading, if you use any type of high end graphics board, it will cover up either the pci or pci express slot. If you actually use the onboard SLI or Cossfire support and install two graphics cards you will have no expansion slots. Combine that with the lack of firewire support and you might be limited.

NO INSTRUCTIONS! It comes with a thick manual - says nothing in fifteen languages! All it has are a couple of diagrams showing where the jumpers, power, and peripheral cable connections are - says nothing about installing or booting. The initial boot screen goes by quickly and the entry into bios setup - hit the delete key - is very faint. The initial bios setting does not read a CD/DVD drive for bootup, so if you can't figure out how to get to the bios setup you can't boot a new machine!

Other Thoughts: With so much now included on the motherboard expansion slots aren't as necessary as they once were. I need firewire and missed the fact that it was not on the motherboard so I had to have one slot at least. Now if I need scsi support I'm out of luck - Ill leave that on the old machine. It could have used a few more stand-off supports for the motherboard but if you place the six that come with it in the right place and are careful pushing on the MB all works fine.
The bottom line is that I haven't built a machine from scratch in more than a decade and had this machine built and running in three hours. I'm not a geek or a gamer so I won't push, tweak, or play with the board and so far this looks like a board that I can simply forget about while I get stuff done.

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KoiKeeper
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/3/2009 1:54:06 PM

Rating + 4 A small diamond


Pros: Works remarkably well, the BIOS are amazing and save four profiles for you, plus auto load the last good post and boot configuration. I am not a geek and managed to OC my i7-920 and 12GB of DDR3 no sweat! Cool!

Cons: The full potential can not be activated without loads of online searching as the documentation is terrible! And as the board is small and feature packed, the space is too cramped for my big fingers. I had trouble with the front facing SATA connectors

Other Thoughts: I am now a DFI fan, I like this board!
Ultra m998 Aluminum extra wide Mid-Towe Case w/ modular cable manager
Ultra X3 600W Hi-Efficiency modular psu
DFI LANPARTY JR X58-T3H6 Micro ATX board
Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz OC to 3.4GHz
[ 2 kits] mushkin 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Model 998659
MSI R4870-T2D1G Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5
COOLER MASTER V10 Hybrid TEC RR-B2P-UV10-GP 120mm CPU Cooler
Nippon Labs ICR-EE Card reader/FDD combo # N82E16820816002
[ 2 ] LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model GH22NS30
[ 2 ] WD Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

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Evan
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/18/2009 8:05:00 AM

Rating + 5 Best Motherboard I've had in a long time


Pros: X58 chipset with SLI and Crossfire on a mATX board = Nice.
I was waiting for this for awhile and I am not disappointed. Lots of features and runs very cool compared to my old 680i board probably because they moved the memory controller to the CPU.

Cons: Have to use the green slots first when installing ram. I was baffled at why my new system wouldn't boot at first, pulling hardware one by one until I figured it was the ram. I'm not too sure if it's my ram or not but the memory timing/frequency defaulted to the lowest settings. I had to manually tweek the setting which I didn't even notice were off because it goes through BIOS in half a second.

Other Thoughts: Fits nicely into the Mini P180 case I had although my GTX260 is stupidly long. Longer than my motherboard.

After loading the software from the CD, I used the Fan Controller software and it made my computer near silent under no load and slowly ramped up fan speed according to heat.

i7 920, DFI LP JR x58-t3h6, 6GB Corsair DDR3 1600, 3 150GB VRaptor in Raid 0, eVGA GTX 260, Thermaltake Toughpower 700W, Mini P180

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WyzrdX
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/12/2009 10:50:33 AM

Rating + 5 Options, Options, and More Options.


Pros: This thing has options. Very easy to configure and control if you know what you are doing. For a uATX, this thing is great. I dont think it could get any better. Everything recognized at boot. Everything works great.
Lots of features, auto-overclocking, easy installation, very stable.

Cons: Not a con but I did have to flash the bios. When I would reboot, I would get an 88 error code and would not initialize, which according to DFI means corrupt bios or defective MB. I had to unplug completely and the reboot. I flashed the bios and resolved the issue.

Oh and it wont bring me coffee.

Other Thoughts: Paired with i7 920 and 12GB Crucial DDR3 1066 and it works great. Used the pre installed profile to OC and running i7 920 @ 3.4 GHz and RAM @ 1333 MHz.

Bios is not for the faint of heart. If you dont know what the options in there are for, do not buy this or leave them alone. Too many people dont have a clue what they are doing and blame the MB for their mistakes.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/11/2009 4:44:24 PM

Rating + 1 Nice when it works


Pros: Nice specs.

Cons: Mine was defective. It crashed randomly and then refused to boot at all. I tried to contact their tech support, but they outright ignored me. I wound up shipping it back for a replacement, though I was given a refund instead (which is fine, since I am no longer sold on this board).

Other Thoughts: Micro-ATX is a bit cramped in general. My graphics card would only go into one of the slots, because there wasn't enough room for it in the other. I would advise going for a full sized ATX board if at all possible.

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JPeso456
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/8/2009 7:34:20 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Like stated before X58 Micro ATX motherboard, Dual x16 pci-e slots,6 Dimm slots, no onboard video, HD audio, Great for small form factor gaming, full gaming tower cases overated and to bulky for me anyways...So i went micro...Good job DFI!!!

Cons: My knowledge of overclocking...Needed to adjust memory remapping to get it to load vista with 2 graphics cards...Dimms were mislabled in manual... other than that none..

Other Thoughts: DFI lanparty jr x58
Intel core i7 965 extreme 3.2(stock)
6gb corsair dominators DDr3 1600m
2x nvidia gtx 295 geforce in quad sli
2x 300gb velociraptors in raid 0
TRue 120(black) cpu cooler with 1600rpm scythe fan
2x2000 rpm Scythe Ultra Kaze Fans(INtake and Exhaust)
Topower 1100 fully modular psu...

All in a Silverstone TJ08 micro ATx case and Cpu 33 degrees C idle....

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G2G
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/5/2009 9:51:05 PM

Rating + 5 Nice


Pros: Quality of this board is high. Smooth build. Paired with i7 720 and OCZ DDR3 the results are impressive with room to grow. A huge gain over my dual core 6600 @ 3.5. Can hardly strain two of the four cores so far running VMs and Vista. This setup is blazing fast and cooler temps than my Core2.

Cons: Pricey but really only MATX option for i720. Maybe a con or benefit for some people depending on computer case and preference...The side mounted SATAs were a bit difficult to work around in my case. Side mounted SATAs are more expensive and look cool that many will probably appreciate but my very compact SG01 silverstone case (a great MATX HTPC style case from Newegg btw) only had a 3/8 inch clearance for the SATA connections. I worked around this problem by moving/modifying the HDD chasis that was in the way.

Other Thoughts: Disable HyperThread in BIOS and run the included motherboard monitor to automatically quiet down the stock CPU fan and run cooler. Seems like a great investment for 2-3 years of solid superior speed.

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Gimmik
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
3/3/2009 9:33:09 AM

Rating + 5 Great Board!


Pros: Really easy to set up. Had only a few problems that where easily fixed. Following the manual helped a lot. Made things go a lot smoother.

Cons: I had to update and flash my BIOS because it would shut down every 10 minutes while gaming.

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Po Diddly
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/3/2009 7:32:43 AM

Rating + 5 Good buy for the buck


Pros: This board is working great right out of the box. It recognized my core i7 920, my g.skill 4gb 1333 chips (x2), and my sapphire 4870 1gb card just fine.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Although being a micro ATX board, it still works wonders!

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Perry
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/3/2009 6:34:33 AM

Rating + 5 So far so good


Pros: Lots of features, decent auto-overclocking, easy installation, very stable and looks cool.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: Bought it along with an i7 920, and 3GB's of Crucial DDR3 1066. Right now running the i7 at 3.59ghz and RAM at 1466mhz, very stable and idle temps in the high 30's low 40's with a XIGMATEK Dark Knight-S1283V heatsink/fan. Love this new rig!

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OCnoob
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/2/2009 6:28:36 AM

Rating + 5 Love it


Pros: Got this last Friday, assembled my rig on Saturday. Everything went smooth, this little mobo is great. It looks pretty funny in my Full Tower ATX case, but I knew that when I bought it. Installation was easy, updated the BIOS with no problems, there's a buttload of options available in the BIOS that I haven't even played with yet but it looks very, very inticing.

This was my first build, and DFI's mATX x58 board has pretty much sealed the deal, I dont think I'll ever buy a "PC" again, they'll be hand built from now on.

Cons: None really; It only has 2 PCI x16 slots, but I knew that. Its a freakin mATX board, after all.

Other Thoughts: 6 DIMM slots, up to 24 gigs of RAM (Who needs that much, anyway?). The troubleshooting LED is nice, and the whole board glows under my case's blue neon lights. Very cool.

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Kaeotic
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/27/2009 9:05:34 PM

Rating + 5 First time build


Pros: Great board for all your overclocking needs in a small package. Running at 3.4GHz 33c idle and 53c after a 12 hour prime95 stress test with no errors. With all the options this board offers you could go on forever with the pros. The highlight for me was the EZ reset being a first time overclocker with a few failed attempts. Fast shipping as always.

Cons: The solder around where the heatsink mount goes was a bit too high on one part causing the heatsink to attach crooked. This caused a small gap between the processor and heatsink resulting in a hour of why the @#!* wont this thing work. I ended up leaving three mounting screws a bit loose to obtain a flush surface. Being a first time builder not sure if this is just one of the things that happens and the reason heat sick mounting screws are spring loaded.

Other Thoughts: Intel core i7 920 @ 3.4
WD 500gb x 2 in raid 0
6gb OCZ OCZ Gold 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1600
Lanparty Jr X58-T3H6
850w thermaltake
2 4850s in crossfire

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Ian
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/25/2009 2:15:59 PM

Rating + 3 Good but problem


Pros: Is the latest and greatest, seems really excellent for you overclockers. And it is nice and compact for how much it contains, fits into a mini.

Cons: I have not been able to install my Windows XP OS, And I have been trying for a day and a half now and I can't figure it out. I get to the Windows XP home edition setup and it simply won't continue, like my keyboard isn't an input device anymore. It seems like it is not acknowledging my harddrive. I tried changing to RAID status in the BIOS, but I can't get into the RAID BIOS. And the BIOS doesn't seem to let me change my Drive A from a floppy(that I don't have) and my DVD so I can try to install the Raid Drivers from the DVD that comes with the Motherboard. So I am out of ideas and have a email to there techsupport and am very frustrated.

Other Thoughts: Intel core i7 920
6mb OCZ DDR3 memory
WD 640gb harddrive
Lanparty Jr X58-T3H6 motherboard
Apevia X-QBOII Mini atx tower

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Mahhn
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
2/24/2009 12:25:13 PM

Rating + 5 Looking forward


Pros: Will fit in my vinster m@x case with 4870 x2 I plan on adding in.

Cons: A little pricey, but being the most future proof makes it worth it.
Lack of firewire is surprising. (reason for 4 and not 5 stars)

Other Thoughts: I don't have this yet, but will be buying with my tax return. Although the site KillerRigs says they are out of stock on the m@x, they are still selling the bare case. It's a great combination.

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Midnight
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/19/2009 1:39:09 PM

Rating + 5 Amazing


Pros: Support for the Latest 1600 Mhz DDR3, latest I7 Processors, small form factor (mATX) along with support for nVidia SLI and ATI Crossfire setups. The board appears very ugly as picture, but looks amazing when turned on do to the UV in the cables and connectors. I love it now.

Cons: No 1394 support period (use 3rd party per.) Under the CMOS LED panel, is usually a hole to screw the mobo down, but not on this one, you may have to modify your cause (LANBOX Lite). SATA ports are directed off the board (horizontal). Vertical ports would allow for installation in smaller setups (had to buy new cables to even run my drives). DIMM slots are mis labeled in manual and mobo, read other thoughts.

Other Thoughts: Overall, I am amazed by the board, Running i7 920 at 3.8Ghz (air), along with Corsairs 1600Mhz DDR3 (oc'd to 1800 Mhz), 3 1TB Drives, and a LG Bluray Player & Burner, with a evga 9800 GTX (Second one in mail still). The overall cable management is very tight in mATX cases, I custom sized all the cables and connectors of the LANBOX case to fit the 3 pin ports on the mobo. Overall Amazing board.

DIMM Slots from left to right (CPU -> RAM)
DIMM 2, DIMM 1, DIMM 4, DIMM 3, DIMM 6, DIMM 5

DIMM 2, 4, 6 (are yellow)
DIMM 1, 3, 5 (are green)

Depending on mobo revision you may need to swap ram to Green DIMMs instead of Yellow DIMMs

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techgeek
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
2/17/2009 7:45:40 AM

Rating + 5 ATX Mini Tower


Pros: Look other thoughts:

Cons: Look other thoughts:

Other Thoughts: Check cpu3d dot com/review for this board i like the fact it a micro board with all these features , and it will fit nicely with the latest video cards (geforce or ati) in a ATX Mini Tower (my favorite APEVIA X-QBOII X-QBOII-NW-BK )

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B
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
2/14/2009 5:58:34 PM

Rating + 5 Which heatsink fits this mobo?


Pros: I do not own this but am looking @ it night after night. However, I own the p45 lanparty and had to mod my heatsink & fan to get it to fit with the northbridge heatsink (see bend the fins!) so I keep wondering which heatsink & fan will fit this board. This will be a determining factor in my upcoming purchase. Oh I am wondering about the heatsink fan combos available @ the egg only. Has anybody used the Cooler Master v8, Noctua NH-U12P, Vigor Monsoon III LT Dual 120mm SE1366 120mm?

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: 800 billion dollars! Better buy it soon before my dollars turn into pennies.

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Glenn
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/13/2009 1:49:42 PM

Rating + 5 Great Hackintosh!


Pros: mATX! SLI / Crossfire capable. mATX, 6 DDR3 slots, runs stable. Running this with OS X 10.5.6 using DD's method over on insanelymac. Sound not work on OSX yet, but just haven't found the right kexts.

Stable with 6GB of SuperTalent DDR3. Running prime at 3.2ghz w/stock cooler for over 12hours, no issues so far. Need to buy a TRUE or Mugen cooler to go beyond 3.2ghz. Did I mention mATX yet?

Cons: Manual is lame, but I rarely look at them, but as Jeff mentions, has not a word about the RAM slots or which is first. I usually only install 1 RAM at a time, but it's the green slots that need to be filled. Yellow slots will give you a "CF" error upon boot.

Why does an i7 board need PS/2 slots? eSATA would have been nice.

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Jeff
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/11/2009 10:41:15 PM

Rating + 5 Great mATX board for X58


Pros: mATX x58 chipset! No onboard video - this is a true gamers motherboard.
2x PCIx 16.
6 RAM slots!
Looks good.
All the usual included goodies including the DFI neon green SATA cables.

Cons: Manual doesn't say how to set up RAM. System wouldn't boot with 3 sticks in the yellow slots. Put them in the green slots and it worked fine.
Price is a bit steep. I haven't spent this much on a mobo since the first AMD KT133 I got.

Other Thoughts: Fit all this into a mATX case:
Lanparty JR X58
Intel i7 920
MSI GTX 295
6 GB Corsair triple channel
Corsair 750W PSU
DVDRW
1GB Samsung 32mb cache HD

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OlympiaLogger
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
2/11/2009 2:47:09 PM

Rating + 5 LAN boxes


Pros: A MICRO X58... woot !!!
Will make a killer video graphics box to work along side my NewTek TriCaster.

Cons: No 1394 port... that's a BIG problem for a video box.

Other Thoughts: Don't mean to turn this into a chat board, but do you technoids who build lots of LAN boxes think the Thermaltake VF1000BWS is a good box to put this m-ATX in ???

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ShadowForger
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
2/9/2009 9:14:37 AM

Rating + 5 Awesome board


Pros: I waited and waited for this board to come out. I have had it for 2 or 3 weeks now. I preordered it at another site with overnight shipping. I love this board. I finally have a powerful and portable system. My other PCs are just to big to haul around.

Cons: None that I have found so far.

Other Thoughts: Thermaltake Lanbox
Intel Core i7 920
DFI JR X58-T3H6
Sapphire Toxic 4870 1GB
WD VelociRaptor 300GB
6GB G.Skill 1600
26" Asus LCD

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
2/8/2009 5:37:34 PM

Rating + 1 Amazing, reviews before you even try it?


Pros: Very promising motherboard. Now let me give my "never before tried it review". I'm excited about this new technology but honestly there is really nothing out there software wise that will fully challenge it from my perspective. I do plan on upgrading to this new hardware when software catches up. And of course I will purchase my items through Newegg as usual.

Cons: Currently very tough economic times for some Americans and soon to be broadened on a massive scale. Just wondering how many will really be able to upgrade to this new platform that requires a brand new processor & additional memory.

Other Thoughts: I doubt this will get published.

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annon
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
2/5/2009 12:35:13 PM

Rating + 5 best microatx


Pros: Ive been waiting for this Motherboard since the week x58 came out. DFI is an awsome company and they have awsome motherboards, and fellow microatx DFIers arent limited to crossfire now you have an option!!.

Cons: not free

Other Thoughts: I plan on buying this board in a few weeks and there are some prefered case's if you want to run Quad SLI or CrossfireX(Quad) but you will have to figure out those for yourself ;)

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Nightadder
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
2/5/2009 8:40:07 AM

Rating + 5 Mico ATX with full x16 SLI


Pros: If you're on of those people that wants a high powered gaming machine with a smaller form factor then this is the perfect board for you. This is by far the best mATX board on the market. X58 chipset with full x16 SLI. It's a little tight on space, but that's the idea.

I'm glad DFI chose to put the full 6 memory slots on this board. That's a very impressive achiement for this form factor.

Cons: The one con that comes to mind is in no way related to this product, but there just aren't many high end low profile video cards out there to choose from. To my knowledge the best you can currently get is an 9600GT with 512MB (which newegg sells). I'm sure eventually you'll be able to get a GTX260, but it could be a long wait. In that respect this board from DFI is ahead of the game.

Would have been better without the P/S2 Ports. Who uses those anymore?

Other Thoughts: Just wish more manfucturers would support the niche market for high end + low profile hardware. Thanks DFI.

Power requirements for high end/ low profile machines that you would want to use this board for have always been an issue. However, with solid state drives becoming better and more affordable new possibilities are opening up for those who want to build super machines using low profile hardware.

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AUDIOGURU
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
2/4/2009 5:33:20 PM

Rating + 5 Best M-ATX Board Ever?


Pros: Giving this 5 Eggs in advance because of everything that it is and that I know it is going to be. Just ordered and should be here tomorrow. There is a HUGE fanbase for this screamer already and it isn't even shipped yet. Putting 2x285 GTX XFX 6 GB 1666 DDR3 3xSeagate 1 TB drive in a Raid 5 and 2xRaptor 36GB in a Raid 0 for OS. All this in a Sugo sg3 case baby :-))))) Bring it on!!!!

Cons: Cons? x16 SLI in a M-ATX with 6 SATA & an I-7 Chip? Bite your tongue :-) I will update this however if any little nit picky thing comes up...

Other Thoughts: Best of the best I am sure... Last 5 Machines all DFI or MSI boards after I went 0 for 4 with ASUS (pretty, but highway robbery and ZERO support)

Will update within 72 hours with post install data...

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