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DFI LanPartyUT 915P-T12 Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Conclusion
The DFI LanPartyUT 915P-T12 is really an amazing motherboard that packs in a ton of features that both enthusiasts and casemodders can enjoy. Generally speaking the new generation of LanParty boards are very similar to previous editions given their color and UV reactive expansion slots but small things like the Karajan audio module and silk-screened logo on the back make these boards stand out in the crowd.
Overclocking the LanPartyUT 915P-T12 proved to be quite a chore with the biggest problem being the over analysis of the bios features. For instance on most motherboards when overclocking you want to try and lock the busses that may not like being out of frequency. (i.e. PCI, AGP, SATA, PCIE, etc..) Normally there are BIOS options to facilitate this though sometimes they come locked by default. The problem we ran into was that by locking the PCIe clock to one particular frequency the board would pretty much die at 220Mhz FSB despite anything we did to solve the problem. It turned out that by returning the PCIe clock to default (impliying that the bus is variable) the board would boot fine and clocked all the way up to 260Mhz FSB without any problems.
An interesting thing to note about overclocking on the LanPartyUT 912P-T12 is that if the board fails to boot during an overclocking attempt there was no need to ever reset the CMOS. Simply hit the reset button once. The board will then shut off for a second or so and then power back up. At this point a window of opportunity is given to re-enter the BIOS and change whatever caused the issue to begin with. Soltek has been doing this for quite some time on their intel boards though instead of retaining the settings like on the DFI you would have to start all over.
The LanPartyUT 915P-T12 was really a joy, it looked great and ran even better.
Now for the ever popular list of Good things and Bad things. 
The Good Things
Dual-Mode DDR Memory support
UV Reactive Expansion Slots
Onboard SerialATA Raid
Dual GigaLan Onboard
Firewire support
CMOS Reloaded Technology
Excellent BIOS Overclocking controls
Thick multi layered PCB
UV Reactive Expansion Slots
Onboard SerialATA Raid
Dual GigaLan Onboard
Firewire support
CMOS Reloaded Technology
Excellent BIOS Overclocking controls
Thick multi layered PCB
The Bad Things
No active cooling on Northbridge
Limited space to remove memory with video card installed
Requires all new system components
Limited space to remove memory with video card installed
Requires all new system components
Ninjalane Rating
I would like to thank DFI for helping to make this review possible.
