DFI nF4 SLI-DR EXPERT First look

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11-08-2005, 10:23 AM
xgman

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Originally Posted by B5I8

I just got off the phone with a guy named Keith at Monarch and he said they were sent a batch of "defective motherboards" and DFI is sending them another shipment. He says they should be receiving them either Wednesday or Thursday and shipments should start being sent out on that day. I'll guess we'll just have to wait and see.

This is simply not true. I just spoke with DFI directly, and the deal is that out of the first allocation of Experts to the USA, Monarch is getting most of them (shipped to them yesterday to arrive wed/thurs) and a Canada reseller is getting the rest. None yet for any other reseller. Monday DFI will get another shipment and then more to Monarch and maybe some to the California resellers then or sometime after that. I guess Monarch had an order into DFI first. In any case, NO boards have hit Monarch yet, defective or otherwise. This is straight from two different sales people at DFI USA a few minutes ago. bottom line, if you want one now, then you have to deal with Monarch and will likely receive your order sometime early next week.
11-08-2005, 10:26 AM
xgman

Asside from a update on his progress, I would like to know what BIOS this board is running? Same as SLI-DR etc. updated, or a new Expert only bios?
11-08-2005, 11:40 AM
CrashOv3r1De

I never said the X1800 XL will compete with the 7800 GTx ultra. The X1800 Xt will be the one competing with it.
11-08-2005, 11:41 AM
cantankerous

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlterBridge86

No CPU has fried on an NF4 SLI-DR Expert board. You can't say this board is killing CPU's when only one person has it, god knows where he is anyway, but nonetheless, this baord hasn't killed any CPU's and its not right to say it has until we see evidence of that.

That is not true. The original 704 bios was a cpu killer which is why it was pulled and no longer worked upon. Big toe modded the bios to disable cpu % over 113 to ensure the most you can put through the cpu was 1.7v or so to eleviate and cpu's dying.

This bios does look very similar. I like the smaller increments of the vdimm among other things. I am sure the current nF4 boards could utilize some of these changes as well though but i doubt it cause they want to push these changes in the new boards only. Tony was mentioning before that Oskar has a new bios for the original nF4 boards with changes including REAL CAS 1.5 support however he hasn't given it out.
11-08-2005, 11:41 AM
CrashOv3r1De

I am ordering from the Egg when they get it. I trust them over monarch anyday :) But maybe Ill have the RDX200 if the X1800 Xt does good.
11-08-2005, 11:57 AM
AlterBridge86

Quote:

Originally Posted by cantankerous

That is not true. The original 704 bios was a cpu killer which is why it was pulled and no longer worked upon. Big toe modded the bios to disable cpu % over 113 to ensure the most you can put through the cpu was 1.7v or so to eleviate and cpu's dying.

Correct - but no EXPERTS have killed any CPU's yet... :p:
11-08-2005, 12:26 PM
Mehmet_Ali

I've a DFI nforce4 ultra-d and gonna buy SLI-DR Expert soon.with my current ultra-d board I'm using a raid0 array.Will I have any problem on this raid array moving to dfi sli-dr expert??I don't wanna lose my data.
11-08-2005, 12:39 PM
jetjaguar

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mehmet_Ali

I've a DFI nforce4 ultra-d and gonna buy SLI-DR Expert soon.with my current ultra-d board I'm using a raid0 array.Will I have any problem on this raid array moving to dfi sli-dr expert??I don't wanna lose my data.

u might wanna backup just in case
11-08-2005, 01:02 PM
cantankerous

nah, same chipset and drivers should be seamless.
11-08-2005, 01:14 PM
pcdoc1

Back it up anyway..........
11-08-2005, 01:24 PM
Mod_Aap

Always make a back-up.
You don't want to loose your data, don't you?
11-08-2005, 02:31 PM
ben805

Quote:

Originally Posted by pcdoc1

That's why I seldom buy anything from these guys..... Too many times I've been told "it was in stock when you ordered it but out when we gotta around to shipping." I don't understand why they continue this crap

easy, that way Monarch get in a bunch of orders way before anybody else actually have the product in stock, they do what they do in order to steal sales from other competition...it's a cheap business practice that has been around for quite some time, they're not the first to pull this trick, do you guys remember many many months ago everybody were waiting for the 3700 SD?? and quite a few companies did the same trick to get in a bunch of orders but they kept making up excuses for not having them actually in stock. hmm yea...Monarch might have some special relation with AMD or DFI or whatever and they might get the shipment a day or two earlier, but it's still very cheesy of them to keep up with this crap, whenever you order from Monach your credit card is being charged immediately!! Somebody ought to report them to BBB for selling product they don't even have yet!!
11-09-2005, 07:05 AM
Ferry82

I dont think WWM killed the DFI Expert board.:smoke:

The DFI Expert board killed WWM :explode2: :caution:
11-09-2005, 07:54 AM
xgman

Well this morning Monarch says their ETA of their first shipment from DFI is today, so w'ell see, maybe some orders will actually get shipped tonight. I'm number 25 in line.
11-09-2005, 08:01 AM
Ferry82

Look at this.

http://happy.ap.teacup.com/maiko2/45.html#readmore

Cant read it :D
11-09-2005, 08:10 AM
xgman

yeah, hard to read, but at least it is someone pushing it a bit. Looks good.

http://happy.ap.teacup.com/maiko2/img/1131446087.jpg

CPU：Opteron 146（CABYE 0540FPMW）
M/B：DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR Expert （BIOS：11/02/2005）
RAM：CORSAIR CMX512-3200C2 Rev.1.1 512MB×2枚
CPU Cooler：Cool-Cases MASTERFREEZER-2
Pump：innovatek HPPS Pump 12V
Radiater：aquacomputer airplex evo 240（120mm 2000rpm×2）
Coolant：ただの水
VGA：ASUS Extreme N7800GTX
Power suplly：OCZ Power Stream 520W
OS：Windows XP Pro SP1
11-09-2005, 08:13 AM
xgman

from above BIOS：11/02/2005

I wonder if that is the shipping bios or a beta from somewhere?
11-09-2005, 08:30 AM
Despotes

1 board oc's well--at least from the snapshot. Curious how stable it is in real world.
No more boot problems! :nono:
11-09-2005, 09:52 AM
Eldonko

Quote:

Originally Posted by xgman

from above BIOS：11/02/2005

I wonder if that is the shipping bios or a beta from somewhere?

Good question. Also will this new BIOS work on other DFI NF4 boards or is it Expert only somehow?
11-09-2005, 10:02 AM
Pyr0

mmmm... modded/hacked BIOSes for current DFI boards.... i wish :)
11-09-2005, 10:20 AM
CrashOv3r1De

Let me know if your board actually ships tonight then more of us might order :)
11-09-2005, 11:36 AM
AlterBridge86

interesting...guess Monarch IS shipping... :woot:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...08#post1127708
11-09-2005, 12:35 PM
jetjaguar

yeap mine is shipping today they told me so ill have it on friday
11-09-2005, 01:47 PM
B5I8

Quote:

Originally Posted by jetjaguar

yeap mine is shipping today they told me so ill have it on friday

I just called and they told me the same, that I will be getting my tracking number today :toast:.
11-09-2005, 01:59 PM
Enz0

Quote:

Originally Posted by xgman

from above BIOS?11/02/2005

I wonder if that is the shipping bios or a beta from somewhere?

It's a shipping BIOS.
The first lots are shipped with this BIOS, at least.

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