Pictures DFI 939 NF3!!

[Dissolved]

Tim: Thank you for testing the SATA ports out for me. My worst fear was that this board was gonna have a few of the ports not being locked.

---dens

i dunno if there locked.. he may have tested them, but theres still a narvel chip located by the bottom 2 sata.. i highly doubt there native sata ports. i think the nf3 chipset is limited to only 2 native ports from what is semi-blurred spoken about on the DFI-street forums.

untill i get word from dfi, or some more people, i can't say i believe there locked, unless you can lock seperate sata host controllers that run through the pci bus.

[Sneaky]

just for you guys that are complaning/worried about the placement of the 2 SATA ports near the CPU... there's a reason why they make right/left angle & 90º SATA cables...

left angle to left angle: http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...c413c6cdd7eca7

left angle to straight: http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...c413c6cdd7eca7

right angle to left angle: http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...c413c6cdd7eca7

right angle to right angle: http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...c413c6cdd7eca7

right angle to straight: http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...c413c6cdd7eca7

90º to 90º: http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...c413c6cdd7eca7

90º to straight: http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...c413c6cdd7eca7


enjoy

[xenolith]

For the love of god... The NF4 boards had problems with the 4v jumper, as it killed ram. DFI even said so. They removed this so that they wouldn't have the same problems with this board. We're hoping that a modded BIOS will allow us who have an adjustable PSU to bump up the voltage to close to 4v, if we need to do so.---dens

I wasn't complaining about the 4v vdimm jumper removal, bro... just trying to help out others.

[Tim]

I'm no expert though, but if Clockgen lists the AGP and PCI speeds as 66/33 that means that they are locked right?

HTT is now at 220 and the AGP/PCI speeds stay the same....check the screenshot, SATA connector 1

[Absolute_0]

yeah, seems locked to me
i heard that in DFI's 754 NF3 board, as soon as HTT is raised beyond stock 200, the bios automatically kicks in the PCI/AGP locks, so assuming this applies to this mobo as well, you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

BTW, how is that nVmonitor for that board?
Even if it sucks it's better than MSI Corecenter! I don't even pay attention to my Neo2's temperatures because the readings are so wrong....

[G H Z]

I'm no expert though, but if Clockgen lists the AGP and PCI speeds as 66/33 that means that they are locked right?

HTT is now at 220 and the AGP/PCI speeds stay the same....check the screenshot, SATA connector 1

NF3 250GB will show the same 'locked' buses via Clockgen, but try running a SATA drive off port 1 - 2 and nothing works past 240mhz.

Thanks for the info though. Nice to see these boards finally on the scene, your one of the first to get his hands on one

[Tim]

No problem, I only feel sorry that I can't really overclock with this CPU....I'm gonna try some other things though, because it seems that the Vcore adjustment is a little weird..I'm at 1.7 but Speedfan says 1.64v

[babyelf]

u set 1.7 and shows 1.64?

[Tim]

Yeah...look here

(1,55 and + 0,2 in bios)

[babyelf]

well.. that happens on the nf4 boards as well.. i think it's just undervolting

[Tim]

SATA 1 and 2 are NOT locked I believe

250x10 boots on 3 and 4, but on 1 and 2 freezes and reboots during HDD detection.....so that means they are not locked right?

[babyelf]

hmm.. looks like it.. it could be a few things.. try to eliminate everything except for ur HDD

[Dissolved]

SATA 1 and 2 are NOT locked I believe

250x10 boots on 3 and 4, but on 1 and 2 freezes and reboots during HDD detection.....so that means they are not locked right?

im sure they arent locked.. as ive said many times.. theres a marvel sata controller chip near the bottom sata, dont you see it?

[Tim]

hmm.. looks like it.. it could be a few things.. try to eliminate everything except for ur HDD

Memory is on 166 divider, CPU voltage is at 1.65 (for 2500Mhz) so, I think I eliminated everything right?

im sure they arent locked.. as ive said many times.. theres a marvel sata controller chip near the bottom sata, dont you see it?

I guess you are right.....those SATA ports that near to the socket could be a bit of a problem when going subzero....(I think)

[Dissolved]

I guess you are right.....those SATA ports that near to the socket could be a bit of a problem when going subzero....(I think)

shouldn't be unless the plasic is cheap.. i dont think they will break, unless u pull on them while there frozen.. but the plastic wont bend much when cooler, the it would while warm.

[Tim]

So just put some Die-electric grease on the pins and connector and you are set?

Good

[Tim]

Booster seems to be working ok.....plugged it in Slot 4 (Top most slot), got it to 3.4-3.5 volts, did a few memtests, booted up etc....voltage increased was correctly, you could even turn the knob and see the Vdimm in the Genie section increase, so I think that is a positive sign..

But again....it's a really tight fit with 2 memory modules

[Der_KHAN]

does it have cmos reloaded?

[Tim]

does it have cmos reloaded?

No,

What...the...heck is this Vcore thing?

1.55 + 0.2v is 1.75 right? Speedfan says :

1.58 Vcore1
1.63 Vcore2

Bios says 1.58.....

[terror_adagio]

No,

What...the...heck is this Vcore thing?

1.55 + 0.2v is 1.75 right? Speedfan says :

1.58 Vcore1
1.63 Vcore2

Bios says 1.58.....

It may be a BIOS read out issue.

[Tim]

This is even weirder....

I select 1.50 + 0.2 in bios and now it shows the correct voltage on Vcore 2 in Speedfan....1.73 which it should around.

Bios shows 1.52 and Vcore 1 shows 1.52 (is there a difference btw, between Vcore 1 and 2, is Vcore 1 the startup setting (1.55 in my case? )

[Tim]

Just great..... 1.50 + 0.2v in bios.....get's this...

I'm suprised it even boots...not stable at all ofcourse...only webbrowsing..

[NiCKE^]

Maybe it should've been +0.02v?

[Tim]

Maybe it should've been +0.02v?

It says 0.2 in the bios.....I don't want to turn it up to 0.7 which could mean 2,25v..instant death of FX-55.....

[NiCKE^]

Try 0.3 and see if the second decimal changes to 3 when you got 1.5 + 0.3.