View Full Version : Good SLI board other then DFI?
eclypse
02-27-2005, 08:14 PM
So whats a good board as i had a DFI NF4 SLI DR go bad on me after not even 24 hours of use total..
I cant get more then 200Mhz on the ram.. It will only boot into windows at 200FSB but its not even stable.. It did do 270FSB with some G-Skill..
I've tried 3 different memory sets and its the same all around so i'm thinking the chipset is burining up.
I'm thinking either MSI.. What voltage options are there?
cupra
02-28-2005, 04:33 AM
So whats a good board as i had a DFI NF4 SLI DR go bad on me after not even 24 hours of use total..
I cant get more then 200Mhz on the ram.. It will only boot into windows at 200FSB but its not even stable.. It did do 270FSB with some G-Skill..
I've tried 3 different memory sets and its the same all around so i'm thinking the chipset is burining up.
I'm thinking either MSI.. What voltage options are there?
its look that you get a very bad dfi :slapass:
the msi diamond voltage is far from the dfi board but still if you want sli + performance that are not dfi - the diamond is the best choice for you.
diamond voltage :
vcore : 1.55v + 8.3% = 1.68v
dram: 2.85V
chipset: 1.85V
D_o_S
02-28-2005, 09:20 AM
The Diamond seems to be the second best thing after the DFI.
//mAr
02-28-2005, 09:22 AM
its look that you get a very bad dfi :slapass:
the msi diamond voltage is far from the dfi board but still if you want sli + performance that are not dfi - the diamond is the best choice for you.
diamond voltage :
vcore : 1.55v + 8.3% = 1.68v
dram: 2.85V
chipset: 1.85V
vdimm 3.1 with 502 bios ;)
cantankerous
02-28-2005, 12:01 PM
that is the only bad thing about non dfi boards is the lack of vdimm. Anyone with VX will have to do without. I was going to get the MSI over the DFI cause I was not in the mood for issues but at 2.8v on my ram my VX wouldn't even start up.
i think there might be a way to trick the power ic into giving it a lot more voltage than spec. so basically what you do is get the special +20% bios, i think there is one for the SLI version, then go into corecenter, and it won't read at +20% voltage, it will read like normal. so then from there you can add another 8% in corecenter. so you can get like 1.9+ volts for a 130nm cpu. something like 1.8 for a winnie.
Pr0d1gy
02-28-2005, 02:26 PM
You should read this:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2358
eclypse
02-28-2005, 04:38 PM
Link dont work.. Try again please.
eclypse
02-28-2005, 04:40 PM
oh heh.. forget it.. it was slow to show up. :)