*****Official***** DFI NF4 ultra-D first look

[H2OGun]

You would have to PM me your e-mail addy.

OPP

YGPM

[Blindbat]

Might seem a strange question but does anyone know the maximum amps you can connect to the cpu fan header?
My fan draws 2 amps which is too much for a lot of motherboards. Ive looked in the manual and it doesn't say. The asus sli allowed 2 amps max but that seemed a bit to close for me so i opted to use a thermaltake fan controller which is mounted in a pci slot.
Its really annoying to have to reach round the back of the computer to change the fan speed. Never found a rheobus which could take 24w.

Maybe something like this could solve your problem.

http://www.adpmods.com/case-modding/...able-p-49.html

[conrad.maranan]

Just flashed to the new bios. Gotta love Interleave

2-Way or 4-Way?

[OPPAINTER]

2-Way or 4-Way?

2-way
I have 1gig of memory.

With 2gigs you would get 4-way

OPP

[Blindbat]

I notice that on these boards that the sound system only has coax digital out.
Any mention anywhere about an optical SPDIF connector?

Or if not, does anyone know if the optical SPDIF and coax SPDIF have the same
pins if I were to bust out the wand of soldering and not care about the warranty?

My whole setup is based around optical in/out and so if the built in sound is
good I'd rather use that than have to go with CL's latest cash cow.

Ok, so I screwed up there is coxial. LOL

Here is what i found in the manual:

The system board is equipped with an onboard S/PDIF-in RCA jack
(red) and a S/PDIF-out RCA jack (yellow) at locations CN5 and
CN7 respectively.
The S/PDIF connector at location J3 is used to connect to
optical S/PDIF ports. The S/PDIF ports may be mounted on a cardedge
bracket. Install the card-edge bracket to the system chassis
then connect the audio cable connector to J3. Make sure pin 1 of
the audio cable connector is aligned with pin 1 of J3.
DO NOT use RCA S/PDIF and optical S/PDIF at the same time.

My puzzle is how do you get the S/PDIF ports and the card edge?

[reject]

isnt that depending on how many banks you have?
2x single sided is 2 way and 4 way is for 2x DS

[conrad.maranan]

2-way
I have 1gig of memory.

With 2gigs you would get 4-way

OPP

Hmmm. I always thought that if the modules were double-sided, you can enable 4-Way Bank Interleave with 2 modules so long as the BIOS had provisions for it. Maybe I'm wrong.

EDIT:
reject beat me to it.

[Fewture]

2-way
I have 1gig of memory.

With 2gigs you would get 4-way

OPP

Eric, what would 4x 256MB give me? Would that give any possibilities with interleaving? Thanks m8.

I have this board coming and have 4 sticks of BH-5 that do some nice clocks.

[enduracell]

isnt that depending on how many banks you have?
2x single sided is 2 way and 4 way is for 2x DS

2xSingle sided in DC is one bank for MCH, 2x double sided (4 physical) is 2 in DC for ΜCH

[daniel734]

OPPAINTER whats ur 01SE score with the board at this moment?

=)

[uranium]

quick question for bigtoe,

what's the clearance underneath the x850xtpe to the board. from your pictures i can see that it barely clears the dfi chipset fan. i'm thinking of watercooling the chipset and was wondering 2 things.

1. do you think it's necessary to wc the chipset in a 24/7 overclocked setup inside a case?

2. will any current waterblocks fit? i'm considering a slimline fusionSL which is 19mm tall, or a polarflo waterblock which has a 360 degree rotation of the barbs. the a dd maze4 chipset waterblock doesn't look like it it will fit from the pics i've seen.

I'd like to know this too
I sent PolarFLO a link to pictures of the board and they said their chipset block won't fit (too tall)

Any of the lucky people who have this board like to get their ruler out?

[ZaVkE]

Hasn't koolance any?
I know they aren't the best performing, but they're always very thin.

http://www.koolance.com/shop/product...products_id=87
http://www.koolance.com/shop/product...roducts_id=104
http://www.koolance.com/shop/product...roducts_id=105

Any of these should seem to fit.
I know, there are better out there, but watercooling is always better then air, so it could be the next best thing ...

[Demoulous]

The S/PDIF connector at location J3 is used to connect to
optical S/PDIF ports. ?

Nice! I wonder if their connector is like the one on my dearly departed A7N8X-D as I could use the Asus optical out slot daughter board with it and dance around like the Dean of happy from happy university.

Great to hear that this beast now supports bank interleaving as my gig of Twinmos BH-5 will be in this mobo and loving the bandwidth. Gotta try for that CAS 1.5 when I get her.

[cantankerous]

Will enabling interleaving affect ocing performance at all?

[uranium]

Hasn't koolance any?
I know they aren't the best performing, but they're always very thin.

http://www.koolance.com/shop/product...products_id=87
http://www.koolance.com/shop/product...roducts_id=104
http://www.koolance.com/shop/product...roducts_id=105

Any of these should seem to fit.
I know, there are better out there, but watercooling is always better then air, so it could be the next best thing ...

Thanks Zav
Only problem is the fittings look a bit on the small side- really need at least 3/8" id tube. Maybe I'll just have to go to the machine shop....

[FallenAngel]

in the same site you got adapters to go with the wb cooler

http://www.koolance.com/shop/default.php?cPath=25_36

[reject]

yeh, since the early via athlonxp chipsets had interleaving, and 512mb was the normal max back then, it would have had to been 2 way

[OPPAINTER]

OPPAINTER whats ur 01SE score with the board at this moment?

=)

I don't have one yet. I will hook my Graphics card to my cascade today and should get around 42500 if all goes well.

OPP

[OPPAINTER]

As far as interleave goes, it's not the same as the old days.
These days, and this may be because of the AMD onboard memory controller, it goes by Gigs. Total of 512Mb gets you No-way, 1Gig gets you 2-way and to get 4-way you need 2Gigs. This has been the way it is since the S940 FX-51 through out my testing, and on both Via and nVidia chipsets.

OPP

[felinusz]

Bigtoe

3.4Vdimm for 264 1.5-2-2-5

WOW.

Thanks man, that pretty much hammers the last nail into the purchase decision

[n00by]

Man I am so lost with all these new boards. DFi has 3 NF4 boards out. The Ultra-D, SLI-D, and the SLI-DR. I am so confused as to which has which and what I should look into. So all 3 accept 2 video cards but can work with just 1?

[synergy321]

heres what i think plz correct me if im wrong
ultra- atm 2 slots pci-e 16x, have to do sli "hack" to get 16x/2x cards to work. that information is at anandtech.

sli-2 video cards 16x/16x, good performace, just lots-o money.
then if it has name-Dthen a R, r has to do with something with raid. there are many posts about this, at dfi-street, and here. also any of the boards just run off 1 16x card, if the board is for sli, it DOESNT have to be in sli all the time. hopefully that answered your question. and feel free to correct me.

[reject]

and the dfi ultra can be modded into FULL SLi 8x/8x

[danbob]

anybody know how much the dfi costs.. haven't seen it in any places yet.

[DustMite]

They have the Ultra-D and the SLI-DR at ZipZoomFly for pre order.

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 ULTRA-D nForce4 Ultra Athlon 64(FX) Skt939
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=246486
price = $155

DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR nForce4 SLI Athlon 64(FX) Skt939
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=246485
price = $227

Does that help?

...my $0.02...