|
Bios upgrades, memory swaps, and hours of Intel tech support failed to find a solution to the board's inability to boot up with 8GB. The above setup not only ran the systems flawlessly it ran them two monitors, and 5.1 audio, all at the same time--never missing a beat.I do have one small complaint--notice 6GB of RAM above and not the expect 8GB. And thank you Microsoft--you did fix something, so I will accept it as a micro payment for Vista creation. This board, along with a Core2 Quad Q6600, 6GB RAM, Windows XP Professional x64, processor performed outstanding this last and final year of college. In pursuit of a B.A in CIS Programming I was using Visual Studio, Adobe CS3, MSSQL, WampServer which require increased performance from the system. After installing Windows 7, I decided to try the 2GB memory stick that has been lingering around my PC.
dp35dp is good board but don't have floppy drive connection is bad for install window XP. no proplem with window vista.
The controller that comes with the motherboard CD for this audio card is just awful. Maybe my only complaint is the built-in sound card. And the equalizer has no presets on it (rock, hip-hop, dance.etc) it's completely empty and you have to set things up yourself. I'm a gamer and, according to reviews and advices on the net, this might not be the best choice for a gaming computer. That's why I'm totally buying a sound card.Overall I think it's a pretty good MOBO if you can't be bothered to overclock and stuff like that, just like me. I have this set of Logitech 5.1 speakers that I used on my previous computer and the sound is pretty neat, but for some reason the sound is very very low on this computer.
I updated the controller and it's the same thing. Recently bought this motherboard to build my new computer. However everything has been working just fine so far. It has very little to work with, only gives you the option of having it set up for either 5.1 or 7.1, which sucks when you are using headphones.
The Intel Windows express bios software would not work because of a "internal programming error", there is no bootable.iso bios software on the Intel website for this motherboard, but intel provides files and provides links to websites that instruct you on how to make your own bootable.iso image to burn a bootable CD in order to flash the bios. This motherboard is another failure for Intel.The board does not support floppy disk drives, yet the RAID software is included with the motherboard package on a floppy, this is absurd.I needed to flash the bios on this motherboard and guess what, you need a floppy disk drive in order to flash the bios but the motherboard doesn't support floppies. Absurd.Also, Intel does not provide a boot record for the.iso so you have to copy a boot image from a bootable CD in order to make your bios flash CD bootable, this is absurd, and I haven't been able to make this work.
If your machine boots slow, you need to know how to upgrad the BIOS. YOu need to purchase a simple fan also, 775 compat. Intel board and chip is a great combo, if you need help you don't need to contact DELL in india. Expect to flash the bios to get it to run good in 64-bit mode. It is also a Video Encoding machine, running 64bit, QUAD-CORE. All instructions come with it, with photos, very nice packaging.
Just write to intel directly and get a real computer engineer who know the boards inside and out. the QUAD chips beat dual-core like nothing you know. All has VMWARE accellartor which you can turn on in the BIOS. It also has External SATA link, and Network built on.
God Bless U. You must READ about the RAM, only use 1.8V ram, this is NOT an overclocking board. I run an NVIDIO 500M card, the graphics are incredible, This is my DVD which I record shows, and encode them, burn to DVD with added Huadgepauge card. All Sata, has IDE if you need that for your CDROM.
Mine is a MEDIA MACHINE< which records shows 24x7. No more spending 10$ a month for Tivo or such. Wonderful board, I have had no trouble with it. I recommend using Kingston Memory, but it from them directly.
This board is awesome, I am running Vista 64-bit, with 8G RAM, and 2 1T drive, the board can handle up to 6T I believe. It has optical output, 6 UBS, and 2 FIREWIRE. As i said I bought 2, one is a dual-core, and one was a QUAD.
|
