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DFI Lan Party UT X58 T3eH8 - Motherboard Review

Motherboards & CPUs · Author Stuyo · April 29, 2009 · 21682 reads · ★★★★★ (8 votes)

  1. DFI Lan Party UT X58 T3eH8 - Motherboard Review
  2. Page 2 - Packaging, Content and Overview
  3. Page 3 - Closer Look, Connectivity, BIOS
  4. Page 4 - Testing methodology
  5. Page 5 - Performance: SATA, eSATA and USB 2.0
  6. Page 6 - Performance: Cinebench 10
  7. Page 7 - Performance: WPrime, SuperPI
  8. Page 8 - Performance: Memory (Everest Ultimate 4.60)
  9. Page 9 - Performance: Memory (SiSoft Sandra Lite XII.SP2c)
  10. Page 10 - Performance: image processing
  11. Page 11 - Performance: WinRAR
  12. Page 12 – Overclocking, Conclusion

Page 2 - Packaging, Content and Overview

Page 2 - Packaging, Content and Overview

DFI Lan Party UT X58 T3eH8 came in a mostly white box, suitable for a product with this price:

After we flip the front cover, we see the board itself, the expansion card and short description of the product's features:

Inside we find two boxes – one is transparent and contains the hardware and the other contains everything else in the bundle:

Not only is the motherboard with numerous UV reactive components, but we also ge some UV reactive PATA and SATA cables, back panel plate, extra power cable, thermal compound, manual, drivers – generally speaking slightly more than we are used to receive with a standard middle and high class bundle:

The bundle also has the extension audio panel, as I does not have any audio connectors on the back plane. There we also can find the external cooling body, which mounts where normally the back panel is:

And here is how the board looks from all side (DFI clearly have taken into account the weight of the coolers and we can see the strengthening panels from the bottom side):

As for the cooling itself, it really is massive and besides that is covered with nice looking protection panels:

Page 3 - Closer Look, Connectivity, BIOS »