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10-20-2005, 06:43 AM
Scroatdog

Umm............ no. That is the ATI board you have there, Windwithme. That is not the NF4 'Expert' board.
10-20-2005, 07:23 AM
madpete

For UK people:

http://www.cpucityshop.co.uk/forums/...3&t=2347&st=15

Anyone think there's any truth in this? CPUCITY are normally VERY reliable, and they are saying they have been told this board is USA only.
10-20-2005, 09:04 AM
xgman

Quote:

Originally Posted by madpete

For UK people:

http://www.cpucityshop.co.uk/forums/...3&t=2347&st=15

Anyone think there's any truth in this? CPUCITY are normally VERY reliable, and they are saying they have been told this board is USA only.

That sounds rediculous to me.
10-20-2005, 09:13 AM
xgman

Then again, this is a quote from a Australian reseller web site in the Expert listing:

"Release of this motherboard has been delayed indefinitely by DFI. No release date is currently available"

ouch . . :(
10-20-2005, 09:43 AM
tomati

Quote:

Originally Posted by madpete

For UK people:

http://www.cpucityshop.co.uk/forums/...3&t=2347&st=15

Anyone think there's any truth in this? CPUCITY are normally VERY reliable, and they are saying they have been told this board is USA only.

Don't be affraid , we will see it here in Europe too ,

This shop in belgium have allready listed them .

http://www.bytesatwork.be/shop/_toplogo/main.html
10-20-2005, 10:05 AM
Scroatdog

Just sent this off to their sales, marketing, PR, and tech support e-mail addresses:

To Whom It May Concern,

This is now the third time I am e-mailing DFI, looking for information. The first two e-mails were to sales@dfiweb.com but since no one bothered to respond to me, I have decided to include every e-mail address listed on the DFI website's contact page.

I am trying to find out when the DFI Lan Party NF4 "Expert" motherboard is going to hit the retail channels in the U.S. It was rumored that October 20th was the release date, but that is obviously not the case. Now there are rumors that the board may not be released at all, or that it will be released, but only in select countries. Is this true???

Please do me the simple courtesy of responding to my e-mail. I imagine if you did not want to hear from customers/potential customers, you would not have listed contact information on your website. I would like to know when this board is being released. And if it is not being released, I would like to know why. I can name at least four enthusiast websites off the top of my head with many forum members anxious to see this board released. With the recent reviews on the DFI Crossfire solution, it's USB performance, and lack of SATA2, I think it might be in DFI's best interest to release the updated NF4 board.

Thank you,

******* EDIT *********
I just got a reply from someone named "Jacky". Have no idea what department he/she works in.

Quote:

Sir,

We do not have the definite date of NF4 Expert version yet.

Maybe it will be arriving in Nov time frame.

Jacky

:mad:

Damn DFI. I dont know if I'm going to wait anymore. I'm tired of looking at the top of my desk and seeing my Seasonic PSU box with the PSU in it, and looking at the box above it with the Storm block in it...
10-20-2005, 10:20 AM
xgman

This is what I got today:

"Yes, the release date has been pushed back as our engineers are finalizing things on the board. So, unfortunately I don’t have an estimated shipping date"
10-20-2005, 10:30 AM
CrashOv3r1De

Can't wait for this one. Hopefully this one will be good out of the box since it is still the NF4 chipset. The RD200 is having some ram issues as mickeymouse has posted. Hope to see none of that here.
10-20-2005, 10:30 AM
LexDiamonds

This would imply that the board hasnt even "gone gold" yet. Figure at least a few more weeks for production, packaging, shipping, retail availability.
10-20-2005, 11:06 AM
Onycho

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martin Cracauer

It is not the same, stricktly speaking. Having a solid wire is always better than having wires connected by a plug.

But think about this: if these connectors in the plugs are so horrible, how come it works between the wires and the mainboard. It is the same plug, same mechanism. Of course having one is better than having two, but it is not possible that the adapter itself is a big problem. If it was, the plug on the mainboard would be the same big problem.

Actually, your reasoning is a little flawed. Every time you put a connection in, you increase the resistance in the wire. Since in this case that resistance is not as constant as the resistance caused by an actually resistor, it can cause fluxuations in power. The more connections in the wire, the greater the fluxuations in current.

Also, it takes one bad connection to really introduce fluxuations bad enough to affect your overclocking ability.
10-20-2005, 01:12 PM
Ender17

too much whining going on here
your life isn't going to end if you have to wait a few more weeks for a motherboard
and wouldn't you rather DFI spend the extra time making it better?
10-20-2005, 07:45 PM
tomati

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ender17

too much whining going on here
your life isn't going to end if you have to wait a few more weeks for a motherboard
and wouldn't you rather DFI spend the extra time making it better?

I wish you right on there , but my last experience with the dfi nf3 s939 was a disaster , a crappy board realesed 1 year after everybody and wich even needed a second rev during the first month of his realese , this time I will wait after the user's test before to buy one dfi more .
10-20-2005, 10:01 PM
jetjaguar

how come they are not going x16 like most of the motherboard makers .. seems like asus .. msi and abit revisions of their sli boards are all x16 .. while dfi is staying 8x .. ?? are they planning on releasing another sli board after the expert with x16 ?
10-20-2005, 10:09 PM
dinos22

Quote:

Originally Posted by jetjaguar

how come they are not going x16 like most of the motherboard makers .. seems like asus .. msi and abit revisions of their sli boards are all x16 .. while dfi is staying 8x .. ?? are they planning on releasing another sli board after the expert with x16 ?

there is no peformance difference between current x8 SLI and x16 SLI solutions...what's the point
10-20-2005, 10:23 PM
nn_step

If it is x16 default they don't need jumpers, switches, or cards to split the PCI-E bandwidth, Thus allowing a much Highier overclock...
10-20-2005, 10:56 PM
dinos22

Quote:

Originally Posted by nn_step

If it is x16 default they don't need jumpers, switches, or cards to split the PCI-E bandwidth, Thus allowing a much Highier overclock...

i'll believe it when i see it...........so far no evidence to support that claim so your statement is on short legs
10-20-2005, 11:50 PM
Revv23

Quote:

Originally Posted by nn_step

If it is x16 default they don't need jumpers, switches, or cards to split the PCI-E bandwidth, Thus allowing a much Highier overclock...

uhh pci-e bandwidth makes no difference and has nothing to do with overclock. if anything performance is worse thanks to the added latency.
10-21-2005, 12:39 AM
TuKo

Does this motherboard has double x16 like the A8N32 Deluxe ?
10-21-2005, 01:05 AM
dimasdw

Quote:

Originally Posted by TuKo

Does this motherboard has double x16 like the A8N32 Deluxe ?

no this board stil use 8x+8x in SLI mode :D...
10-21-2005, 05:46 AM
ElDuderino

Does any board use 16x-16x in SLI mode?
10-21-2005, 05:56 AM
[XC] leviathan18

yes asus the 32 lanes version
10-21-2005, 08:15 AM
ElDuderino

I can't understand why the new SLI-DR expert isn't gonna be 32 lanes...oh well. Is ASUS the only one with a 32 lane board?
10-21-2005, 08:22 AM
Vapor

I don't see why you want 32 lanes....the current implementation sucks and it won't be good until a single chipset version comes out.

Anyway, I wonder if this can be dropped in place of a regular SLI-DR without a reinstall/repair of Windows. :shrug:
10-21-2005, 08:29 AM
ElDuderino

To get twice as much FPS when running SLI-AA.
10-21-2005, 08:33 AM
Vapor

Quote:

Originally Posted by ElDuderino

To get twice as much FPS when running SLI-AA.

Huh?! Got proof?

There's currently a huge problem with the fact that it's a multi-chipset solution that has limitations and often results in lower FPS in situations that aren't 100% GPU bound (just about every situation).

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