DFI motherboard LP JR X58 T3H6 M-ATX

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The Taiwanese manufacturer DFI has added a map based on the Intel X58 chipset to its range of motherboards micro ATX LanParty called "JR". LanParty JR cards represent one of five denominations card in DFI among UT, LT, DK and Blood Iron. Here the card we tested is the portrait miniature of its big sister the LanParty DK X58 T3eH6. As you can see despite its small size, the X58 DFI LanParty JR T3H6 has nothing to envy card ATX.

The DFI LanParty JR X58 T3H6 puts a black six PCB layers and its different components are very flashy colors: fluorescent green and yellow that are more responsive to UV radiation. A large radiator covers and Northbrige heat pipe is connected by a smaller radiator cooling the mosfets. It may be noted that the radiator chipset has the holes for the fixing of a small fan and the top of the radiator can be removed from the heatpipe to be replaced with a waterblock. The southbridge when it is cooled by a small independent radiator.

The card has 6 ports RAM and supports DDR3 memory up to 1800MHz triple channel. The DFI has six SATA ports at 90 ° handled by the Intel ICH10-R supports RAID 0/1/0 +1 / 5. The card has power buttons ON / OFF and reset and a diagnostic LED display for displaying and more easily resolve the errors of the system.

JR X58 has voltage to 6 phases for the CPU, 2-phase DDR3 memory and phase 2 for the ATV, which seems more than enough given the quality of components used by the manufacturer.

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Specification of DFI LP JR X58 T3H6 M-ATX

CPU

• LGA 1366 socket for Intel Core i7 processors
• Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) technology - point-to-point interface that connects to X58; providing a dynamically scalable interconnect for increased bandwidth, lower latency and stability
• Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) supports 3 channels of DDR3
• Intel Hyper-Threading Technology delivers 8-threaded performance
• 6-phase digital PWM provides stable voltage to the CPU

Chipset

• Intel chipset
• Northbridge: Intel X58 Express chipset
• Southbridge: Intel ICH10R

QPI

• System bus - 4.8GT/s to 6.4GT/s

System Memory

• Six 240-pin DDR3 DIMM sockets
• DDR3 1800(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066 MHz
• Triple-channel memory architecture
• Delivers up to 43.2GB/s bandwidth
• Supports non-ECC unbuffered DIMMs
• Supports up to 24GB system memory
• Windows 32-bit operating system is unable to accurately detect more than 4GB system memory.

Expansion Slots

• 2 PCI Express (Gen 2) x16 slots - 2-way SLI or Quad CrossFireX configuration at x16/x16 transfer rate lanes
• PCI Express x4 slot
• 1 PCI slot

BIOS

• Award BIOS
• 8Mbit SPI flash memory
• CMOS Reloaded

Graphics

• Multiple GPUs - 2 graphics cards in 2-way SLI or Quad CrossFireX configuration

Audio

• Realtek ALC889 High Definition audio CODEC
• 8-channel audio output
• 108dB Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR) playback (DAC) quality and 104dB SNR recording (ADC) quality

LAN

• Marvell 88E8053 PCIE Gigabit LAN controller with Teaming technology
• Fully compliant to IEEE 802.3 (10BASE-T), 802.3u (100BASE-TX) and 802.3ab (1000BASE-T) standards

Serial ATA with RAID

• Intel Matrix Storage technology
• Supports up to 6 SATA devices
• SATA speed up to 3Gb/s
• RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5

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Summary of different voltages applied

• CPU VID ~ 1.06255 - 1.60000V
• CPU VID Special ~ 100.23% - 114.88%
• DRAM Voltage Bus ~ 1455 - 2.400V
• CPU VTTSpecial Add ~ +0.0125 - +0.1875 V
• ~ CPU VTT Voltage 1.21 - 1.61V
• ~ CPU PLL Voltage 1.80 - 2.15V
• IOH / ICH Voltage 1.1V ~ 1.11 - 1.73V
• Analog Voltage IOH ~ 1.10 - 1.45V
• ICH Voltage 1.5 ~ 1.5 - 2.1V
• ~ ICH 1.05V Voltage 1.05 - 1.35V
• VREF Adjustments ~ 0.00 - +15.0%

Conclusion


DFI has produced a micro ATX motherboard which is by far the most powerful of all micro ATX motherboards in the market. It additionally offers the same capabilities in terms of performance and overclocking than other cards based on the ATX Intel X58 chipset previously tested. If you are a fan of Lan Party, look no further it is a map designed for you.