DFI LANParty UT ICFX3200-T2R/G

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There are good elements to the design, of course. The layout is solid, we're big fans of passive chipset cooling, and it's nice to see Gigabit Ethernet done right. Even the BIOS's fine granularity and attention to detail can be appreciated by hardcore tweakers and overclockers, though it's probably a little much for mainstream enthusiasts.

An overly complicated BIOS isn't what sinks the LANParty's appeal, though. Instead, it's the fact that with all that power at our fingertips, our board's overclocking performance was unremarkable. What's worse, its performance at stock speeds was lower than that of the competition, including at least one board that costs much less. The RD600's memory controller clearly has issues, and that may be why the ICFX3200 is the only board on the market that uses this chipset.

So the ICFX3200 isn't a mouth-watering blend of flavors from AMD and Intel, and it's certainly not something we'd recommend given the $200 asking price. However, it does give us faith in DFI's ability to push the envelope. Now all they need to do is build a Core 2-compatible LANParty board based on a better chipset.