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Old 08-13-08   #1 (permalink)
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You may not believe it but we had much, much more planned for this review but unfortunately our DFI motherboard conspired to haunt us again and again. Other than the fact that our LanParty DK X38 T2R decided to mysteriously give up on our very slight memory overclock, it refused to cooperate when we installed the HD4870 X2 into it. An ASUS X48 P5E Deluxe worked without a hitch, as did a Gigabyte EP35 and ASUS P5Q Pro so we knew it wasn’t the chipset and had read of these same things happening to owners of the HD3870 X2 when pairing that card up with certain DFI boards.
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To cut a long story short, we brought in another DK X38 T2R along with a beastly LanParty LT X48 T2R and found both new boards to have the same video display issue so we immediately knew that it was the board itself and not the card. After searching through the DFI Beta site, a BIOS was found that completely resolved the problem with the incompatibility between the motherboard and the HD4870 X2.
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yep, it's commonly known that the DFI boards don't like the X2's. There's a rather large thread dedicated to it on DFI-Club forums.

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and even the 3870x2's.
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Man, I used to have a DFI mobo back when I was using an AMD X2 3800+. They are monsters when they work right, but when they decide to get upset, it can be exasperating.
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