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

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12-08-2003, 03:43 PM
Iolao

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Originally posted by SAE
@Iolao

This bios is for rev a+ what means it sor rev a+ and higher...

Just to clarify this :)

@NoOne

Newer NF7 boards all were crap compared to the ones around 309/311 NB...

AN7 is out of selection for me till they get it to scream in oc... :mad:

The Lanparty is the ONLY revision B here. The infinity is only available in rev a+!!!

I don't agree. Rev A lanparty is a totally different board, different layout, different voltages, I really don't think they use the same bios. On the contrary Infinity (which is only in rev A) shares the same layout and bios features of lanparty Rev B, so basically the bios is the same (and you can figure it out by watching at the compiled time) with lanparty one having another net adapter (two instead of one) and a different pcb colour (black instead of red). Hope it makes sense now. :)
12-08-2003, 04:02 PM
ToOsLicKz

http://www.angrygames.com/CMOS_Reloaded_NFIIB.htm

heres a page where new beta bios for lanparty b and infinity

its from the amdforums rep
12-08-2003, 04:50 PM
vector7

Quote:

Originally posted by SAE

Newer NF7 boards all were crap compared to the ones around 309/311 NB...

I agree...

Just ordered me one to try...:cool:
I have had over 10 NF7's and the last 3 have sucked terribly with low vdimm below 3v just struggling for glamour shots into the low 220's. My week 09NB does 235FSB but these later ones are hit and a lot of miss. What ram modules is everybody trying on these boards? Mine are TwinMos 3700 and Kingston PC3500 Hyper X.
The right memory is the key with these N2 boards...and of course VDimm "voltage" the attention getter on this one.:)
12-08-2003, 06:59 PM
JAWS

Quote:

Originally posted by vector7
Just ordered me one to try...:cool:
I have had over 10 NF7's and the last 3 have sucked terribly with low vdimm below 3v just struggling for glamour shots into the low 220's. My week 09NB does 235FSB but these later ones are hit and a lot of miss.

I also agree with the 309/311 nf7-s mobos. I just ordered another nf7 as my 311 died, and requested they send me an older one. Hope they still have some left. :(
12-09-2003, 02:55 AM
SAE

@Iolao

Hey pal, I know what you mean :)

I only wanted to mention that IMHO dfi names bios' for 1st rev with A, for newer B rev with A+, but you can prove me wrong and call me a fool ;) :D

But I think my question is already answered now, thx ToOsLicKz :)

I just looked on amdmb forums 2 mins b4 and also found it :)
I'll try it out now.

@all

NF7 quality has decreased over time :( I was hoping they will improve with the release of their new champion AN7 but nope :mad:

So I switched to dfi. Mem scores are much better and that's always good for 3d scores. Hope I can find a vcore mod for it to use full potential of my prom. That was a plus for the nf7...

I am using now the ch-5 of my friend redskin, he actually has my lovely bh-5 and also got himself some badass bh-5 :D
The ch-5 are 2,0-2-2-11-11-16-en-en-fast at 3,1V and could complete a full 3dmark2k1 run when I was able to boot with it once.
12-09-2003, 03:32 AM
NoOne

Hum..

Comparing DFI Infinity vs Abit NF7S/AN7 .. whats the diferençe ?!
12-09-2003, 03:44 AM
SAE

Quote:

Originally posted by NoOne
Hum..

Comparing DFI Infinity vs Abit NF7S/AN7 .. whats the diferençe ?!

The dfi has a 4 port sata raid controller, 1,9vdd, 3,3vdimm and much more mem settings in bios. Not to forget the cmos reloaded feature. With that you can save 4 different bios configs completely and use them per hotkey at boot up (pressing 1 for config 1 and so on, cmos clear should work by pressing esc).
12-09-2003, 03:54 AM
NoOne

Cool!!

And it has soundstorm !? or no APU ?!
12-09-2003, 04:00 AM
kommando

Damn i want one, where can i buy it in aus?
12-09-2003, 10:14 AM
GeekGoddess

OK, here's a newbie's take on the LANPARTY ULTRAII,,,,,THEY SUCK!!! We bought one after reading the reviews and thought it would rock. Well, when we got the thing, got it home and saw the bios,,,it has awesome overclocking stuff, but when we tried to load our OS's,,,,,what a pain in the @**!!! we worked on that thing, taking shifts, for hours and days loading and reloading and tweaking and messing w/ stuff,,,trying to get it working....no deal.,,,,we finally said to heck with it and took it back. We saw so many of them returned sitting there in the back room, and on the shelf,,,it was almost funny. The board was just plain buggy.
12-09-2003, 11:08 AM
SAE

Buggy. The bios is... buggy. I cannot boot with fsb higher than 236, and if I save the bios settings with 240+ it gives me long annoying beeps :(

Sometimes I get to boot anyway. Holding reset for about 16seconds or so gets the board up with the desired setting sometimes...

Another thing getting extremely on my nerves is that using cpu voltage higher than 1,85V results in reboot under load :mad:

Maybe the tiny mosfets are not capable of it :(

@kommando

I looked for the board over dfi.com.tw and did not find a dealer in AUS :(

The only way to get it would be ordering it overseas... or finding a reseller who is willing to get one for you.

@GeekGoddess

Yeah. My first impressions were similar. I am hoping for a good bios fixing the ram/cpu voltage issues. Otherwise the board will go rma for a refund. :shrug:
I thought the LP would be better.. but it seems they act the same indeed.
12-09-2003, 01:15 PM
Lithan

Just got my infinity. Options are real nice. Very sweet seeing my ram getting 2.24-2.29vdimm without a mod... But even as low as 220fsb dual channel I can't even pass memtest... despite both sticks doing 240 single channel through memtest just fine on this board. I will work with it and see if I can work anything out. Either way... it's better than my nf7-s which can't run these two bh5 sticks above 166fsb. It also has some issues keeping oc settings for me as well... but I kinda figure those will go away once I have it setup and stop tweaking.
12-09-2003, 03:40 PM
OSKAR_WU

Quote:

Originally posted by SAE
Buggy. The bios is... buggy. I cannot boot with fsb higher than 236, and if I save the bios settings with 240+ it gives me long annoying beeps :(

Sometimes I get to boot anyway. Holding reset for about 16seconds or so gets the board up with the desired setting sometimes...

Another thing getting extremely on my nerves is that using cpu voltage higher than 1,85V results in reboot under load :mad:

Maybe the tiny mosfets are not capable of it :(

@kommando

I looked for the board over dfi.com.tw and did not find a dealer in AUS :(

The only way to get it would be ordering it overseas... or finding a reseller who is willing to get one for you.

@GeekGoddess

Yeah. My first impressions were similar. I am hoping for a good bios fixing the ram/cpu voltage issues. Otherwise the board will go rma for a refund. :shrug:
I thought the LP would be better.. but it seems they act the same indeed.

Hello SAE:

The boot problem you encountered is duplicated in DFI lab one hours ago when the DRAM need 3.0V or above to be stable enough @ High FSB

A BIOS update can solve the problem , beta testing BIOS will be avalaible today or tomorrow ...

Sorry for the problem you encountered ...

OSKAR
12-09-2003, 04:46 PM
OSKAR_WU

some preliminary result with the new BIOS after solving the 3.0V above VDIMM problem , the new BIOS will be beta today or tomorrow ...

3.2V DIMM , 1.6V ChipSet , 1.95V CPU Core , 1.5V AGP , A-DATA Winbond BH5 256MB Single Side * 2 , ThermalTake Volcano 12 , Barton 3200+ @ 260@10 , ATI 9500 128MB

DFI NF2 Ultra B , Pure Air Cooling(including NB)

DRAM timing is 11-2-2-2-2-9-12-Enable-Enable-Fast

All DRAM Driving and Slewrate is left as Auto

http://myweb.hinet.net/home8/oskarwu/260-4023.jpg

Original BMP Screen Shot

Is this the highest memory bandwidth score of NF2 ??? :banana:
12-09-2003, 05:33 PM
Iolao

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Originally posted by OSKAR_WU

Is this the highest memory bandwidth score of NF2 ??? :banana:

Yes it is! Congratulations! DFI shows much better bandwith than abit nf7-s :toast:
See this:
http://utenti.lycos.it/databench/sandra260x10.JPG

Good news also! I'm waiting to test new beta bios hoping to solve my problems... are you a DFI engeneer?
12-09-2003, 06:05 PM
Evil_Spork

why does this one dfi mobo do 260fsb while most others i hear about cant break 230?!
12-09-2003, 06:13 PM
TheWeaseL

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Originally posted by Evil_Spork
why does this one dfi mobo do 260fsb while most others i hear about cant break 230?!

Possibly because of the new bios he talked about?
12-09-2003, 06:24 PM
eclypse

Damn thats sweet.. but what can it do in DC? I'm sending out my DFI for RMA soon like tomorrow possably. I hope you can get thsoe BIOS out in time for me to check them out.
12-09-2003, 06:27 PM
clockedOut

That is dual channel
12-09-2003, 06:38 PM
Iolao

guys... he has killer ram (adata bh5) and above all it's only sandra mem, 3dmark is another story.
12-09-2003, 08:25 PM
OSKAR_WU

Quote:

Originally posted by OSKAR_WU
Hello SAE:

The boot problem you encountered is duplicated in DFI lab one hours ago when the DRAM need 3.0V or above to be stable enough @ High FSB

A BIOS update can solve the problem , beta testing BIOS will be avalaible today or tomorrow ...

Sorry for the problem you encountered ...

OSKAR

new beta bios

Please Remember it's still a beta , try it with your own risk although I already tried it ...

For LP NFII ULTRA B

For NFII ULTRA INFINITY
12-09-2003, 08:41 PM
eclypse

Umm the links dont work?
12-09-2003, 08:56 PM
XtremepH

ok what's the latest anyone tried it out this new bios yet besides oskar? very interested to see if this might actually help.
12-09-2003, 09:01 PM
eclypse

heh if the link above worked someone might beable answer that question
12-09-2003, 11:59 PM
TheWeaseL

I hope this new bios is avail. non beta when I break out my lan party B.

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