DK P45-T2RS is a well thought out and cost effective motherboard most suited for 24/7 use. To start with, the layout is pretty much everything you could want, with no silly ATX power connector placement and all the connectors are close to the edge of the board. There's also plenty of space to fit large air coolers to the CPU. If you wanted to be really picky, you could gripe about the fact that the two PCI-E slots are quite close, which means that running two cards in Crossfire may prove tricky if they have large GPU coolers. Some may find the Clear CMOS jumper to be obscured by the GPU in the first slot as well, but that argument doesn't hold much weight given that there is one on the I/O plate which does exactly the same thing.
The final question about this board is, of course, should you buy it? This depends on a number of factors. If you're looking for a stable, practical board that has the potential for some good 24/7 overclocks at a decent price then I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the DFI DK P45-T2RS. If you're looking for bells, whistles, over-sized heatsinks and BIOS features you wouldn't use without LN2, then you'd do better to look elsewhere. Read more... |
DFI LANPARTY DK P45-T2RS ATX Intel Motherboard
Price $109.99 (last updated: Friday, January 9th 2009) Follow @_pcoptimize
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