hehe I noticed that too. I couldn't take is seriously either.
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hehe I noticed that too. I couldn't take is seriously either.
I told Kazoo to change it, however he expressed his (justified) uncertainity whether this truly is an official statement. Hopefully it will be cleared out soon enough :)
Should have told DFI to OPP paste this, it would have been held in much higher regard.
20 pin connector power supply works perfectly in my case. Brand el cheapo AGPB 450.
your cpu, vid card and oc, plz?Quote:
Originally Posted by joe2004
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Originally Posted by Der_KHAN
Nope, There is a 8 pin 12V plug too. That is the 4 pin one. Well, I guess one more 12V rail is still a little better.
Just messed around with my DFI, OCZ VX in Windows to run a locally developed benchmark (doesn't really matter what it is) @ 273x10 1:1. Of course, this was far from rock stable settings.
Cooled by subzero air from outside (CPU @ 10C idle, Chipset @ 8C), voltages were 1.78 for CPU (1.45x123%), 3.6v for the VX, 1.8v for the chipset.
I'm using 20pin PCP&C vanilla 510W model, so the 20pin PSU's obviously work quite well (and I noticed that I even forgot to plug in the additional molex). Other hardware was pretty much limited, though: Voodoo3 PCI, 80Gb IDE HDD, a CD-RW drive and a Floppy.
Don't know, though, whether with a 24pin PSU I wouldn't be able to run higher because I'm having trouble to run Prime95 and Superpi stable even at 245 htt.
Just shared my experience.
The way I read this is that you can run the DFI NF4 mobo with a 20 pin plug or a 24 pin adapter plug. I am using an adaptor myself.Quote:
All the new DFI NF4 based motherboards support both 20-pin and 24-pin
power supplies. It is recommended that a higher wattage power supply
with the 24-pin connector be used for utmost stability. Combined with
the onboard power regulating components and the flexible BIOS options,
these new DFI boards can deliver performance without compromising
stability!
It also says if you want stability to use a 24 pin PSU. So what's with that? Should you be excited you can run an unstable mobo?
Just come right out and say - "Your system won't work worth a "HOOT" without a 24 pin psu.
I also don't think they are only referring to SLI boards. The statement reads - all DFI NF4 boards.
I wouldn't call my system stable -
Do I need a 24 pin psu??? I'm hard headed - I need a specific yes or no answer. :D
Don't know if some of this is repost:
The 24 pin connector in dfi nf4 will work very well with 20-pin, in fact i'm using one. When unstable with 6600GT the extra molex power on the board must be connect, even with 1 6600GT. At least for me it helped alot. Especially if you're having BSOD's in 3d while primestable.
Using 20->24 pin is pointless because the extra 4 pins are each one connect to it's correspondent(3,3v,gnd,12v,etc) to the one in the normal 20 pin connector. So you're doing nothing with a 20->24 adapter.
Maybe 24 pin psu's will be more stable, because they have better rails, or more, that can supply more power, but that's it. A good 20pin psu will do the job.
Already tried a 520w ocz 24pin compared to my bequiet 520w and noticed no apparent difference.
Thanks for this info!!Quote:
Using 20->24 pin is pointless because the extra 4 pins are each one connect to it's correspondent(3,3v,gnd,12v,etc) to the one in the normal 20 pin connector. So you're doing nothing with a 20->24 adapter.
So your saying - just don't use the adaptor and plug the 20 pin connector directly into the mobo 24 pin plug??
Yeah