bigtoe, what can effect the boards from EU?
Im ordering SLi-DR from Germany.. I should get it soon next week.
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bigtoe, what can effect the boards from EU?
Im ordering SLi-DR from Germany.. I should get it soon next week.
Quick question for those that already have there boards up and running...
I am not using the higher voltages for my TCCD memory, so do I need to plug in the molex and/or 3.5" floppy power source to the board? I didn't see any mention of it in the manual... A quick repsonse would be awesome as I'm finishing up the board installation right now.
Section 2 page 58 of the manual:
Quote:
The 4-pin +12V power connector enables the delivery of more
+12VDC current to the processor’s Voltage Regulator Module
(VRM).
The HDD-type and FDD-type power connectors are additional
power connectors. If you are using two graphics cards, we
recommend that you plug power cables from your power supply
unit into the two 5V/12V power connectors. This will provide more
stability to the entire system. The system board will still work even if
the additional power connectors are not connected.
Quote:
Originally Posted by SVTSnake
I just plugged everything in. The 24, the 4, the extra molex. I figured WTF. :D
Good. I guess, further questions can now be delayed until the overclocking and stability of the board has been tested. Let's really hope it will be the same as R.A01 or R.A02 boards :toast:Quote:
Originally Posted by bigtoe
Btw obviously, as always, EU gets more of the trash than the U.S.
Thanks for the replies Blindbat and XGman!Quote:
Originally Posted by xgman
I didn't get a manual in my box, so that is why I was asking. It came with the user's manual, but that didn't go in depth about it. I kinda thought that everything should get plugged in. Anyhow, got all the hardware installed, will install the OS tomorrow.
Initial impressions so far are:
Power ckt looks really good
Really like where the ATX power connectors are located
Like that they have space between the ram slots (install in 2 & 4)
XP-120 fits great!!!
SATA connectors are at the edge of the board
Heatsinks on mofsets are soldered to the board. No tape!
Very little room between my X850XT PE and the active cooler
The only con I can see right now is those who have 6800 Ultra's in SLi! Very tight. My ATI X850XT PE goes almost to the edge of PCI-e #2.
:toast:
thats what i hope too, mine is A00 as well, do you plan to let run mem on high voltage ? i already post some pages before that one of my BH5 died at 3.4v. hope it was my fault and not the mobo. if you can, please check high voltages on your A00 rev. i'll check my VX when they come from RMA.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrlobber
must send my mushkins soon for RMA, somebody have experience with their service ?
Is A01 a later revision than A00 then?
Yes it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by H2OGun
Anyone using SATA drives having ANY problems on the NF4 contoller and high overclock??
Trying to decide whether to get the SLI-D or DR.
Here screen of my DFI with 3000+ and watercooling. of course 2800 is just screen stable :-)
i love this board :D
http://www.psycho-house.org/DFI/2650.jpg
http://www.psycho-house.org/DFI/2800.jpg
no problem man, i got a maxtor dm10 300gb sata as single sata and 2 raptors 74gb connected via raid0, i can clock like hell :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bito
and to those who worry about getting r00 and 1.19, it aint much of a problem, just update the bios, no big deal. the boards are fully functional. so no reason to worry :toast:
Hey guys it seems that my trouble would never end with this board. Now I can only seem to install win x64 and NOTHING else, tried w2k, sp1, sp2, nada, zip, zero. This of course happens when I try to install with my raptor on sata1. I only see the "setup is preparting etc" and then no go.
Are you trying to insall OC'ed? Try to take the clocks back to their nominal values.
I have tried a lot of thing and yes I have reverted to stock clocks for this one, although x64 seem to install without any problems on my solid overclocked system. Only I cannot install anything else!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by D_o_S
remove one stick of mem, try a different optical drive, try different CDs... theres still a few things that I would do before I could decisively say that my mobo was the unlikely culprit.
I know with my NF3 based board i need 2000 SP4 to run the SATA controller in the chipset. I never tried the other SATA controller but i'll asume it has the same issue. What i ended up doing was building an extra 2000SP2 OS on a OLD 2gb EIDE drive that's only for 3Dmark2001.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anakin_Skywalke
Of course I do :D Both BH-5 and VX on stock for me and I plan using at least 3.6v on each of them :devil:Quote:
Originally Posted by psycho303
:D BTW - not even got trash - got nothing till yet............. :toast:Quote:
Originally Posted by mrlobber
BTW I thought the NF4 chipset was supposed to have NCQ? Does the DFI have that? I just bought a drive with NCQ so that would be cool.
btw does the 74gig raptor support NCQ? I think the newegg specs say it does.
Finally my problems were solved with quite a... peculiar way. Enabled RAID in BIOS and let the pc think that I run the hdd in raid.. voila, it's working and I installed xp sp1... I've spend a whole day in trying to understand what was wrong...
and btw the 74G raptor does not support ncq
but it does support tcqQuote:
Originally Posted by Anakin_Skywalke
Yes, but TCQ and NCQ are not the same. You need a different controller for TCQ.Quote:
Originally Posted by goddh0r
Raptors support TCQ, Tag command Queuing. But beware it is not very effective at times and can use lot's of cpu cycle to run.Quote:
Originally Posted by situman
nf4 support full set of SATA II specifications, including burst transfer rate of 300 mb/s and ncq.Quote:
Originally Posted by LikwidKool
Will run under windows, Drive properties activate TCQ or not. But read above about draw backs of TCQ.Quote:
Originally Posted by D_o_S