bhtooefr's Journal: DFI P-M board announced, will be in NA on 8th

Built-in OC capabilities (the P-M has an unlocked multiplier, as DFI found out - this board supports it), and (after a voltmod) x86-secret got it to 2.8GHz with a 2.1GHz part. It obliterated an a64 4000+ at that speed. Oh, and all of this was with a northbridge cooler as the heatsink (DFI didn't put a P4 heatsink bracket on, unlike Radisys and AOpen, because they didn't want to deal with AXP-esque core crushing incidents).

It'll the first P-M desktop board to hit the US, and the third (IIRC) P-M board that could be obtained in single quantities in the US (including Commell's board and Lippert's board). This board design appears to be based on their G5M100-N, a Mini-ITX board. Also, x86-Secret (the site that OC'd it), which appears to be The French Hardware Review Site(tm), participated in the design of the board (from what I understand... I've also heard that they participated in the design of the ill-fated PL-iPM (guesstimated name from other PowerLeap product names)). The somewhat official forum for this board is: http://forum.x86-secret.com/viewforum.php?f=16. The fact that the site that reviewed it might have partially designed it does mean that the benchmarks are somewhat tainted, though, so we need to see whether Anand, TR, and [H] get the same results.

This was rejected (no, I didn't write it like THAT, I was just typing quickly this time around), so it's going up here. I added a few^Wbunch of things I found out after submitting the article.