Need board for San Diego 4000+

[Soulburner]

That's right, I need a good board for a San Diego 4000+.

I've tried to do some research but a lot of the threads talk about SLI boards. I don't need SLI, as a PCI-E ATI card will be going in there.

Ideally I would like to run daily 300x10 6:5 3-3-3-7 with 2 gigs, or 250x12 3-3-3-7. This will be watercooled. Since the Sapphire ATI board doesn't seem to be coming out for a while and I need a new build as soon as possible (2.4c died today :( ) what other options are there?

Suggestions? :cool:

[andL64]

the DFI boards are good ones take the Ultra-D one or like this if you wont use SLI also you could go for the new EpoX or the MSI ones with nforce4 of course.

hth

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[Soulburner]

Yeah I was looking at the Ultra D...

How about the Abit?
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813127196

It looks badass but why the high price and how does it perform?

And the MSI?
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130484

[andL64]

i heard its a damn killer!

high HTT is no problem with a nice HTT multi also very stable voltages and overall performance is fine

or get that :D

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PS: but i dont know voltages how high you could go etc....

[NiCKE^]

I'm sure that the fatal1ty performance isnt bad but I would take the DFI board all the way because of the vdimm and all the diffrent bios that is optimized for diffrent hardware. You will probably get the best bios support from DFI also and it got its own support forum which is really great so I say DFI all the way ;)

[PicaXuu]

I'm also waiting for a San Diego 3700+,
I will use the new bomb from GSkill: the 4800 FF,
And I was also asking me which would be the better mobo...
After some research I think that DFI is really the mobo to go at the moment,
The forum is an important thing and the modded bios available too...

[gundamit]

Ideally I would like to run daily 300x10 6:5 3-3-3-7 with 2 gigs, or 250x12 3-3-3-7. Not sure if you mean 4x512mb or 2x1gig. I'm hoping for the later because we don't have a lot of information on the NF4 chipset regarding 2x1gig memory set-up in the NF4 chipset.

I believe early signs indicate that new revision CPUs 2T requirement for 4x512 is proving to be true. So you'll take a bandwidth hit at 2T. Why not have your wallet take the hit and get a couple of these 1gig memory sticks (http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146549) and see what they'll do. :D

With regard to your motherboard selection ... DFI NF4 Ultra since it has voltage flexibility and can get to 300HTT without breaking a sweat. :)

[Soulburner]

At the moment I have 2x1gb Patriot RAM so I would try those first, then 4x512 if I wasn't satisfied with the results.

[gundamit]

At the moment I have 2x1gb Patriot RAM so I would try those first, then 4x512 if I wasn't satisfied with the results. So you currently can run the Patriot 1gig sticks at 250HTT 1:1? If so that is incredible. Please point in in the direction of product page I can order from. :)

[Soulburner]

So you currently can run the Patriot 1gig sticks at 250HTT 1:1? If so that is incredible. Please point in in the direction of product page I can order from. :)
No, I run them at 235fsb 3-3-3-7 daily stable in my Intel (well not anymore since its dead), but I would like 250 yes.

[spurious]

i bought 2 pair of PC-3200 Patriot (PDC2G3200LLK) at monarch.

2-3-2-5-1T and they are single sided.

i plan to use the 4gb in a 4000+ machine i will build in a few weeks. right now 3 sticks are running in my XP machine. don't know how they overclock but they are single sided so they should run at 1T with san diego.

[Total Immortal]

I'd take the cheaper of the 3 DFI NF4 boards if i were you...
Also it is a simple pencil mod if you later decide you'd like SLI.

[Pivo504]

DFI 4 alllll the way.....

[Pivo504]

At least until ATI's offering comess =))

[jjcom]

yeah, DFI gets my vote. The Abit board doesn't have high RAM voltages (2.8v) and it costs more than the DFI board. Not that the ABit board is horrible but the price is too high.

jjcom

[Pivo504]

yea the reason why im going dfi is for the higher voltage...

[Soulburner]

Looks like i'll probably be going with the DFI...

I wish newegg didn't have only the OEM board :mad:

[cupra]

i must to agree with everybody, the dfi nf4 is the best choice today.

[MuskBassist]

Looks like i'll probably be going with the DFI...

I wish newegg didn't have only the OEM board :mad:
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813136152
I'm almost completely sure that "OEM" is a mislabel; all other DFI boards carried by Newegg are full retail, and all of the accessories are shown in the pictures on the product page. At the very least, it'd be worth further looking into.

[tictac]

that ABIT board didnt support Venice/sandiego yet AFAIK.... :nono:
so DFI is a best choice

[andL64]

well they told the press it will work ....bout 2-3weeks ago

[tictac]

well they told the press it will work ....bout 2-3weeks ago

any link to that press news? :nono:

[andL64]

ok u wont believe me so i searched xtra fopr it :D

here u are tictac

in german: http://www.tweakpc.de/?news_id=7386
the inquirer: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22053

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