Official DFI NF4 ultra-D first look

Printable View

Show 100 post(s) from this thread on one page

01-20-2005, 04:07 PM
ison

X850XT PCI-E card fits perfect in both PCI-E slots.

OPP has an alpha or beta board. RG and I have RC boards.

magnetic fan spins down (blows down on chipset)

just woke up...more in a bit

from:http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/show...5&pagenumber=4

ok then ati x850xt it is for me:)

One question (i know it must be answered somewhere but i cannot find it)

The dfi boards have the A2 or the A3 revision of the nforce4 chip?

Is this the same with the sli AND ultra mobos?
01-20-2005, 04:21 PM
Kobalt

A3 revision on all boards....how else do you think people are hitting like 1300ht
01-20-2005, 04:30 PM
ison

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kobalt

A3 revision on all boards....how else do you think people are hitting like 1300ht

ok thanx (im not too experienced so didnt quite noticed it)
01-20-2005, 04:48 PM
jikdoc

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kobalt

A3 revision on all boards....how else do you think people are hitting like 1300ht

i thought tony mentioned that the dfi board automatically scales ldt down with overclocks to keep htt ~ 1000. people didn't notice it since it was done automatically and assumed they were running htt ~ 1300
01-20-2005, 04:51 PM
OPPAINTER

Quote:

Originally Posted by choseone214

Opp> Looking good. I might have to put something fresh up now. My new chip a week 0442GPMW is a win2000 lover.. Rem the old chip? The one King got "3580mhz" that was a winxp+2003 only chip? This is same, but Its doing win2000 :banana:

Hay, didn't you say you wanted to swap me that chip a ways back? :D

OPP
01-20-2005, 05:24 PM
althes

Cant wait to see opp push on for the record
01-20-2005, 05:24 PM
xgman

Quote:

Originally Posted by jikdoc

i thought tony mentioned that the dfi board automatically scales ldt down with overclocks to keep htt ~ 1000. people didn't notice it since it was done automatically and assumed they were running htt ~ 1300

That is sort of what he said, but where do you see this scaling down and can someone confirm this?
01-20-2005, 05:56 PM
Chris27

what about this PSU, will it work?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...101-502&depa=0
01-20-2005, 08:11 PM
TinTin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blindbat

DFI tech support already stated they will NOT support 20 to 24 (or very close to similar comments), they insist that an ATX 12 PSU be used, and all 24 pins connected.

Check dfi-street on that one.

Look in this thread:
http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/show...&pagenumber=35

Using 20pins PSU is totally okay, even overclocking ;)
01-20-2005, 08:14 PM
TinTin

Quote:

Originally Posted by OPPAINTER

I was useing the 5v jumper for memory last night.
It works good, it ran my VX at 3.65 without problems.

OPP

3.9V or above seems to be unstable, did you try?
3.8V with 512*2 BH-5 to window is okay, but 3.9V gave me BSOD :D
What I tried before was a sample board.
01-20-2005, 08:15 PM
thebluesgnr

Quote:

Originally Posted by ison

The dfi boards have the A2 or the A3 revision of the nforce4 chip?

People always ask this about nForce4 boards... if the specs says it can do 2.0GTs Hyper Transport there's nothing to worry about.
01-20-2005, 08:28 PM
TinTin

1 Attachment(s)

Can you see it is a A3 chips? Taken by mobile phone.... :D
01-20-2005, 08:44 PM
Blindbat

Quote:

Originally Posted by TinTin

Can you see it is a A3 chips? Taken by mobile phone.... :D

Barely visible but yes, thank you. CPUZ motherboard tab would show it also.
01-20-2005, 09:21 PM
uwackme

hmmm

Well gotta tell ya, the absolute minimum I'd task with a serious system based on this motherboard series is this PSU...

Fortron 500Watt ATX2.0 24pin

Just my $.02
01-20-2005, 10:51 PM
GRAFiZ

Quote:

Originally Posted by thebluesgnr

People always ask this about nForce4 boards... if the specs says it can do 2.0GTs Hyper Transport there's nothing to worry about.

Do you know if the Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI supports 2.0GTs?

All I can find on thier site is: Processor interface via 2000MT/s HyperTransport bus

Is that the same thing?

Thanks!
01-20-2005, 11:04 PM
TinTin

1 Attachment(s)

Quote:

Originally Posted by GRAFiZ

Do you know if the Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI supports 2.0GTs?

All I can find on thier site is: Processor interface via 2000MT/s HyperTransport bus

Is that the same thing?

Thanks!

SLI version must be A3 chips, they support 1GHz Hypertransport (i.e. 2GHz bi-direction)
The Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 nForce4 4X chipset :rolleyes:
01-20-2005, 11:17 PM
GRAFiZ

Quote:

Originally Posted by TinTin

SLI version must be A3 chips, they support 1GHz Hypertransport (i.e. 2GHz bi-direction)
The Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 nForce4 4X chipset :rolleyes:

Aha!

Thanks friend.

You'll have to excuse my ignorance, I'm used to Intel systems.
01-20-2005, 11:26 PM
TinTin

Quote:

Originally Posted by GRAFiZ

Aha!

Thanks friend.

You'll have to excuse my ignorance, I'm used to Intel systems.

I just hate Gigabyte selling those 4X chips (A2) instead of REAL NF4 ultra chips ;)
01-21-2005, 01:58 AM
Tony

Well guys I have a new bios, about to test but indications show a huge improvement on the memory :D

OPP mail me and i will return mail it to you.
01-21-2005, 02:15 AM
NoStra

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigtoe

I found the same when beching my Epox 9NDA3+ for some reason the DFI is giving lower benches. i hit 4k unbuffered sandra on the Epox and came nowhere near on the DFI....email time I think.

here is my Epox unbuffered with the 3500EB, now this is at 290fsb but 10fsb more on the DFI will not give me the 4K the epox is giving.

The epox is nforce3 and the dfi is nforce4....that's the difference. Nf3 gives more bandwith.
01-21-2005, 02:43 AM
Kunaak

Big Toe or Opp.

whats under the chipset fan, thermal pad, or paste?

like always, looks like DFI just out did everyone again.
01-21-2005, 03:16 AM
jrw

How are the actual voltages compaired to the bios settings?

As everyone says, this board is really tempting for all of us that dont like modding our boards due to the extreme voltage options...

How are the voltages then?

As posted earlier 3.9vdimm results in BSOD. Any other troubles related to the voltages?
Deep vcore drops during load? VTT tracking? Vdimm 3.0->4-0v?

It really seems as we are entering a great chipset era. Ati is gonna spice up the scene!

Now, give us a DFI manufatured board featuring a killer chipset with Dothan support! Wuuuuhaaaaaa!!!
01-21-2005, 04:04 AM
Holberg

Quote:

Originally Posted by TinTin

Using 20pins PSU is totally okay, even overclocking ;)

that is good news, then I can use my 20-24pin converter on the DFI NF4 board.

tintin did you try with a 20-24pin converter?
01-21-2005, 04:14 AM
Tony

Quote:

Originally Posted by NoStra

The epox is nforce3 and the dfi is nforce4....that's the difference. Nf3 gives more bandwith.

Not so my friend...a new bios comes to the rescue ;)

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...id=22975&stc=1

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...id=22976&stc=1

Now Angry Games over at DFI street has some later OCZ TCCD thats doing 310+fsb easy, mine does 303 or so.

I will post settings as i load A64 tweaker etc.

Show 100 post(s) from this thread on one page

*****Official***** DFI NF4 ultra-D first look

Official DFI NF4 ultra-D first look