What do you guys think of the DFI LAN Party Model NFII Ultra B

Anyone try to use 4 sata drives on this for a RAID0 4 drives wide? I'd like to know what the performance is vs 2 drives. 2x80/8 Maxtor 133MB/s drives are giving me 85MB/s avg in HDTach 2.70 up from 45MB/s single drive on the IDE or Sata. Just curios, since 4 80/8 Maxtors costs less after rebates than 2 Raptors and has 4X+ the storage space.

Are these DFI boards getting the same bandwidth/FSB Mhz as the Abit NF7-S or is it higher FSB at the cost of lower MB/s per MhzFSB?

230x10 11,2,2,cas2 cpuint=enb and Im getting 3500 on SiSoft Sandra memory benchmark. Would I do the same, more, less on the DFI?

XMS 3500 2-2-2-11 @ 3.3vdimm 1.9v vdd

http://xerohour.xplosivehost.net/245.jpg

Going to try 250 now.

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Originally posted by uwackme
Anyone try to use 4 sata drives on this for a RAID0 4 drives wide? I'd like to know what the performance is vs 2 drives. 2x80/8 Maxtor 133MB/s drives are giving me 85MB/s avg in HDTach 2.70 up from 45MB/s single drive on the IDE or Sata. Just curios, since 4 80/8 Maxtors costs less after rebates than 2 Raptors and has 4X+ the storage space.

Are these DFI boards getting the same bandwidth/FSB Mhz as the Abit NF7-S or is it higher FSB at the cost of lower MB/s per MhzFSB?

230x10 11,2,2,cas2 cpuint=enb and Im getting 3500 on SiSoft Sandra memory benchmark. Would I do the same, more, less on the DFI?

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it's quite a bit faster clock for clock with either the 12-10 or 12-18 bios.:D

Hello all. :D

No internet till 2004-01-28, but then dsl :)

I at the uni now.

Have a 3dmark with 255x11 with locked week 49 barton and got 24.1k :D

But guys, I have a problem with my second board (mosfet rip off story again) :rolleyes:

I cannot get anything stable dual channel over 230 to 240 I think, but every of my ram sticks can do 260+ at my vmodded 3,55VDimm, prime stable nad 3d with 2900MHz :(

It's a pain... Gonna get another stick of the hyperX bh-5 :D Only one bought but wanting another one...

Okay. C U later.

Holler. Welcome back SAE, we thought you fried yourself trying your vcore mod. :P

holy crap, SAE, AWESOME SCORE!:slobber:

Whatever happened to the Vcore mod?

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Originally posted by SAE
Hello all. :D

No internet till 2004-01-28, but then dsl :)

I at the uni now.

Have a 3dmark with 255x11 with locked week 49 barton and got 24.1k :D

But guys, I have a problem with my second board (mosfet rip off story again) :rolleyes:

I cannot get anything stable dual channel over 230 to 240 I think, but every of my ram sticks can do 260+ at my vmodded 3,55VDimm, prime stable nad 3d with 2900MHz :(

It's a pain... Gonna get another stick of the hyperX bh-5 :D Only one bought but wanting another one...

Okay. C U later.

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Whatever happened with the Vcore mod?

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Originally posted by texuspete2k2
I do seem to get slightly lower marks then my abit boards but my OS has been through quite a thrashing while using my hyper x bh5. Benny- how come so much higher in 3dmark with the soltek? The cpu clocks couldnt be that much of a difference so maybe it's your VC clocks, or are you experiencing lower 3dmark scores as well?

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I did'nt overclock my radeon 9500... only running at default softhack to 9700 270/270.

Vcoremod is no problem, I did it with a grabber, 50Kpot to ground. Works like a charm :)

My barton needs around 2,08V to do 2,87Ghz :D

@EnJoy

No I fried nothing accidently ;), but the china produced board was crap for me, and I could not return it without damage :explode: so I was told by my friend. DFI would return it to me letting me know the "works within the expected parameters" :rolleyes:

So it died ... Cr**p.

The Taiwan board was sooo much better.

The 24k score I repeated the run after next reboot... But nature was very high those two runs... around 180fps... who knows.

Can publish the scores when I am online again at home.

SAE: Other than plastic and metal levers, is there a way to tell by looking if you have a Taiwan or a China board?

sjohnson...check between dimm1 and northbridge.

do you have a white sticker with a bar code? should say below that.

OK, found it. Below a white sticker, but no bar code (scratches head, wonders why he missed that on the initial inspection of the board). Thanks!

The first board had the sticker and below the letters "made in taiwan". The second really bad board had no sticker, just a plain white rectangle with (originally) the letters below it but obviously painted with a white colored marker or sth like that... :rolleyes:

Furthermore there was the origin of the borad written on the side of the box it came with. Below the sticker with all the information bout the board...


Maybe they changed the country to save money through lower wages??? :confused:

Taiwan - China... China - Taiwan... who knows. Infact it sucks.

My Lanparty B gets to 255 fsb stable . I run at 248x10.5 for everyday use . I have added a fan to the NB and thats it . It says made in china on my board :)
I will try water cooling , but I am putting it off because it means taking my Vapo PE out of the case and into a lian li :rolleyes:
I will wait for the weather to get a bit warmer so I can do it outside . Dont want bits of metal fragments everywhere in my house :)

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Originally posted by Mickey Padge
My Lanparty B gets to 255 fsb stable . I run at 248x10.5 for everyday use . I have added a fan to the NB and thats it . It says made in china on my board :)

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Mine did not even do 240dc stable, but I could prime with 260x11 single channel :confused:

I wonder if I should try the lp b. In case the infinity rma is not satisfying...

Just ordered one today after seeing several gr8 reviews. I've had an ABIT AN7 for several months; tired of their horrible customer support. Maybe now I can start to reach a tad of my memory's potential. 213fsb was the sweet spot on the AN7.

I wonder if I'll be able to get by without a reinstall of XP; both boards are NF2 and basically use the same drivers. hmmm.. anybody upgrade from another nf2 to this board? If so, was it basically plug and play, or did ya have to reinstall OS?

If you use the SATA controller on the AN7 for your bootable drive you'll have to reinstall.

The AN7 uses the 3112, the Infinity NFII Ultra uses the 3114, they use different drivers and the PC wont boot if you just swap boards. Believe me, I tried :)

If you don't use SATA on your bootable drive you should be ok :)

thx for the tip..guess i better start backing stuff up.

Uninstall all your drivers (mobo, VC, etc.) then switch boards. It will make your life a lot easier. You will potentially get a crap load of errors if you just switch boards. Thats what I did NF7S to AN7 - just a swap. Then I uninstalled drivers to switch back to the NF7S because my AN7 sucked and it was very smooth sailing. Can't hurt to try anyway.

OSKAR_WU WE NEED YOU! I Need you!

Sorry about what i said man.. i didnt know who you were at the time plus i was just in a real bad mood cause i was having (still am) a real bad time finding a stable fast MB for my highly overclockable Barton. That and the wife toldd me to goto hell cause i had my heart set on buying a AMD FX system.

Anyways.. You need this place just as much as we all need you! We are the best test subjects that are willing and knowedgable enough to try anything for that outragious overclock! THis should be your home so come back and stay awhile :toast:

So i'm sorry for lashing out at ya like that.

Now to the fun part..

i've since bought up another DFI LP ultra B baord locally for 135 bukcs! hehe.. What a steel i tell ya.. Same place i bought a 9800 XT for 320 bucks as well! heheh.. They messed up i guess.. that sales guy quoted me the 320 price 3 times caause of there 20% off of all ATI graphics cards and the store manager said hell no.. The 399.99 is the price after the sale.. After a few words exchanged she left to have a chat with the salesmen and came back and gave in! heheh.. 320 for a 500 dollar top of the line card.. i love it.

Anywhoo.. This time i mod the board before installingg it and even trying it out so i wouldnt have those power issues this time..

I lapped both the north and south bridge.. Attached a Abit NB HSF to the SB with AS epoxy and slapped 2 very tall finned HS on the MOSFETS.

I used a Antec TP 550 P/S with a Unlocked 2600 Barton 2 sticks of 512MB Corsair BH5.

What happends is the same power issues but worse:

+3.3= 3.10-3.14
5.0= 4.70-4.89
+12= 11.55-11.70

It was runing with this though with the voltages maxed.. but durring a 3D game it would just reboot after about 5-10 mins.

So i pull out the old Antec 403 P/S a P/S that i could easily tweak the pots on it and tweaked the voltages to:

3.3= 3.51v
5.0= 5.40v
12.0= 12.34v

Once i turned on the board and got into the Bios i got readings of:

3.28-3.34v
5.19-5.22v
12.0-12.06v

Alot better then before! Did it help? Nope.. I still have rebooting issues! Really strange.. its only in 3d games.. I can get the computer completely stable in 3dmark loop test and prime95 but quake 3 will reboot the system after 10 mins or more.

The other issues i'm having is that my Keyboard is possesed! I notice it when i'm typing or playing Quake.. Some keys stick and others just go off that i didnt press!

I've only tired the newest 31 BIOS and the 18.

I get tthe same overclocking results with both..

I can get up to 260FSB benchable with one stick of ram. 3dmark loop stable at 255FSB and Prime95 stable at 250FSB.

Dual channel with double sided sticks in DIMM slot 1 or 3 stable in Prime 95 at 240x10 1.95v vcore and 3.10v Vdimm. 3Dmark is only stable when i put the ram at 3.20v.. Quake 3 reboots the system still.

Can only achieve total stability at 233x10.5 1.95v vcore Vdimm at 3.10v chipset at 1.80v. At 235x10.5 i am 3dmark loop stable but prime errors right away. Even with 2v vcore.


I've never owned a MB that gave me Keyboard issues.. and this is a PS/2 keyboard.. i wonder if it would still exist with a USB keyboard.. i'll pick one up soon if someone thinks it will solve the prob.

Need any more info just ask!

same with me, ANYTHING over 234, and it'll fail memtest, prime, super pi, whatever voltage combo I use.

that's with DC in 1+3. 2+3 is crappy.

with one stick, I can pass 245 memtest, but reboots instantly in SANDRA, WTF?:confused: :stick:

unrealneo, I'm stuck at exactly the same place as you.

OK....here is my question...

I admit, I have not read ALL of this thread... (I'm reading Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, I don't have time for TWO Uber novels!;) ) but I have read Most of it....

I'm in the market for a new board and I guess the question comes down to this.....


Would you buy the DFI again?
or something else?
if something else, What?

From reading this thread and others, it is obvious that people put quite a bit of thought and testing into their choices, as I do (am I a geek if I have pages of notes from various overclocks and settings and their corresponding benchmarks?:p: )
so based on that research... would you buy it again??

Bring it on... this thread needs a few more posts!!!:slobber: