DFI LanPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Venus First look!!!

[palehorse]

if the Venus actually reports temperatures accurately, then I'm going to fight tooth and nail to have this funked-up Expert board RMA'd for one...

"THE board for overclockers" my arse... how can that be when it inconsistently under-reports temps by as much as 20C?!

lol.. other than that, i love my Expert.. but mannnnn this temp issue is irking the hell out of me! lol..

[ozzimark]

i do hope the "changes" make it into the normal expert when all is said and done.. no point of making a good board to just make a better one for limited run, then go back to the good board

[LoN3R]

if the Venus actually reports temperatures accurately, then I'm going to fight tooth and nail to have this funked-up Expert board RMA'd for one...

"THE board for overclockers" my arse... how can that be when it inconsistently under-reports temps by as much as 20C?!

lol.. other than that, i love my Expert.. but mannnnn this temp issue is irking the hell out of me! lol..

theyre off on every board . if it is engineered for overclockers then some might use a 3rd party temp monitoring device

[palehorse]

theyre off on every board . if it is engineered for overclockers then some might use a 3rd party temp monitoring device

im sorry, but being off by more than 15C is simply not acceptable. And you may not know this, but without removing the IHS from the CPU, you cant get anywhere near the core with any type of probe to measure it effectively.

So in other words, there is no real way to know what my temps are, and THAT is unacceptable from a board supposedly built for overclocking. Nothing you tell me will convice me otherwise...

that said, i LOVE my expert board, but it's just tough to live on the edge, overclocking blindly in terms of temps... alot of $$ at stake ya know!?

and i'd gladly take this Venus board as a replacement if it fixes this problem

[ozzimark]

im sorry, but being off by more than 15C is simply not acceptable. And you may not know this, but without removing the IHS from the CPU, you cant get anywhere near the core with any type of probe to measure it effectively.

in case you haven't noticed, it doesn't seem that the normal dfi's report proper temps.. at least not with my opteron.
here's why i think this:
1.4v, 2ghz -> 30c idle, 35c load
1.56v, 3ghz -> 31-32c idle, 37-38c load

so a 11.4% increase in voltage and 50% increase in speed is only getting me 2-3c warmer? right board, i have total faith in you

to a technical explaination of what i think is going on, think back to sensors 101, or an equivilent course if you ever took it.
the temperature is found by putting a voltage across a resistor, who's resistance changes a bunch more than usual with temperature. the voltage drop across or current through the resistor is measured and converted into a temperature.
now.. at 1.4v, my temps seem normal, but at 1.56v, they don't. what appears to be happening is that the sensor simply isn't calibrating for the higher than stock vcore properly, assuming that vcore is the voltage fed through that thermal resistor. if not, i'll shut up now

[mdzcpa]

im sorry, but being off by more than 15C is simply not acceptable.

There aren't any boards that report accurate CPU temps. All they do is supply a point of reference. The whole point of having CPU temp reporting is to see idle/load variations. Temperature points are all relative. Folks complain about temps from all the manufacturers... Abit, Asus, DFI, MSI, yada, yada, yada. Reminds me of the IC7-G temp reporting hysteria a few years back..lol. That never stopped any serious clockers. Niether does the DFI "temp reporting issue". If it makes you feel better, just add 15c to every number you see. Ta-da all fixed No offense, but its no big deal.


Anyway, after talking to my DFI source, I may indeed try this board. Sounds like a very niche overclockers board. 6 layer yumminess!!

[ccokeman]

Temps off? so what i had an IC-7 maxIII and it was off an,A7N8x temps off. It doesnt matter because you can always find a way to get your temps or as close to what they are as you can and then settle on your own interpretation. This one would be interesting to try out.

[s7e9h3n]

There aren't any boards that report accurate CPU temps. All they do is supply a point of reference. The whole point of having CPU temp reporting is to see idle/load variations. Temperature points are all relative. Folks complain about temps from all the manufacturers... Abit, Asus, DFI, MSI, yada, yada, yada. Reminds me of the IC7-G temp reporting hysteria a few years back..lol. That never stopped any serious clockers. Niether does the DFI "temp reporting issue". If it makes you feel better, just add 15c to every number you see. Ta-da all fixed No offense, but its no big deal.

Couldn't have said it better myself

[dinos22]

There aren't any boards that report accurate CPU temps. All they do is supply a point of reference. The whole point of having CPU temp reporting is to see idle/load variations. Temperature points are all relative. Folks complain about temps from all the manufacturers... Abit, Asus, DFI, MSI, yada, yada, yada. Reminds me of the IC7-G temp reporting hysteria a few years back..lol. That never stopped any serious clockers. Niether does the DFI "temp reporting issue". If it makes you feel better, just add 15c to every number you see. Ta-da all fixed No offense, but its no big deal.


Anyway, after talking to my DFI source, I may indeed try this board. Sounds like a very niche overclockers board. 6 layer yumminess!!

meh not when temps are out by 20C.....there are temp variation up to 3C or whatever but this is outrageously out...................it is an issue.....Abit had an issue like this and they fixed their first before any other requests....because there was more ppl wanting that fixed than anything else.......i haven't had issues with an Ultra-D and SLI-D in terms of temps.....but i do with Expert and i want it fixed