The bundle
DFI included one 80-pin IDE cable for hard-drives based on the UDMA/66/100
Standard, and one FDD cable is included to use with your floppy drive. DFI
as all other mainboard companies included a manual covering some of the most
basic functions of the board. I would have personally expected more of them
in that scene; a good manual covering all the features/functions/installation
of hardware is always a welcome for the homebuyer. I would love to see more
information on how installing the processor, ram and so on. At last, DFI bundled
an Anti Virus application and the required drivers for windows on a CD.
The P4/i850 Power requirements
A Pentium 4/850 combo requires an approved power supply. As we already know,
the Pentium 4 is one hungry processor. The 1.5GHz easily reaches the 50+ W
ranges. If your remember just a few months ago, several angry AMD users started
complaining about having problems with their systems because of power problems.
The reason was simple; the Athlon known as a heavy power eater bundled with
a cheap power supply was not able to provide the necessary power. Many users
that upgraded to AMD's latest offerings had to spend the extra money and buy
an AMD approved power supply to feed their systems correctly. Intel in order
to avoid having a similar problem decided to take another step and include
a standard for power supplies by introducing their ATX 2.03 specification.
What they did is added
an extra +12V power connector that connects to the 850 motherboards allowing
extra power to be distributed to the motherboard around the CPU. This is basically
a stability measure. Although we did not have any problems running our Intel
D850GB Motherboard that Intel provided without the extra connector, we would
highly suggest having an approved ATX 2.03 power supply. After all, if you
were ready to invest that 1200$+ for that Pentium 4 upgrade, what that extra
60$ worth?
Benchmarking System(s)
| CPU(s) |
Intel
Pentium 4 1500MHz
|
| Heatsink
& Fan |
Stock
Intel HSF
|
| Motherboard(s) |
Intel D850GB i850
DFI WT70EC
SuperMicro P4STA
|
| Memory |
2 X 128 - 256MB PC800 Samsung RDRAM
|
| Hard
Drive(s) |
IBM
75GXP - 30GB -IDE
|
|
CD-ROM
|
Hitachi
12X DVD-ROM
|
| Sound
Card |
Sound
Blaster Live!
|
| Video
Card |
Nvidia
GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB
|
| Operating
System |
Windows
2000
|
| Video
/ VIA Drivers |
nVidia reference 1040 ,Direct X 8.0
|
| Benchmarking
Applications |
Benchmarking
Applications
|
| Other |
SYSmark
2000
3DMark 2001 PRO
SPECviewperf 6.1.2
|
