Does anyone know when DFI will release their SLi board?

[spinboy]

The topic pretty much says it all.

Any ideas when? Could we expect it in Januari?
That DFI board would shoot a winchester up in some serious speeds.

[pik-ard v1.1]

more like: does anyone know when the DFI will release ANY socket 939 board?

i think january we should see it, if not... then people will buy other things instead of waiting for another month or so...

[OPPAINTER]

Good question.
I heard they are working on some NF-4 bios bugs at the moment.

OPP

[pik-ard v1.1]

if thats all, then it shouldnt be all that long, hopefully.

[dutchman.pt]

This is what i've heard lately about DFI's 939 board

Last week at NVIDIAs editors’ day I spent some time talking to DFI, a 2nd Tier Taiwanese mainboard vendor, who have recently been working hard to break into the enthusiast market, something which we have seen strong support for.

We have learnt that NVIDIA needed to pick key partners in order to develop SLI. They decided to worked with the 'big 3' - in the form of MSI, ASUS, and Gigabyte. These three worked with NVIDIA in order to build the reference solution and following that to iron out the original bugs, both silicon and electrical. As a result you will probably see a lot of similarity in these manufacturers' boards over the coming months.

NVIDIA also released SLI chipsets to the other mainboard vendors but did not provide the same level of direction and support, which should hopefully lead to some more varied products.

In our extensive SLi coverage we showed the bridge ‘PCB’ connector and the physical 'SODIMM' selection PCB. This allows the user to select single or dual graphics cards. Over the past few years we have seen more and more migration from hardware based tweaks to BIOS integration so this sudden reversal was a surprise to us.

However, from our conversations with several tier 2 vendors we have learnt that there other board vendors have decided to take a different approach and are attempting to allow the selection to be performed in the BIOS.

DFI have also reported to us that you do not need the additional PCB bridge, which NVIDIA claims to pump 1GB/s throughput, apparently this can be run via the board. We are dubious about this, but we are interested in seeing the performance hit on this change. We know that the PCI-E bus is capable of running high bandwidth graphics (Alienwares original ALX video array technology).

Since the official launch of SLi it has become apparent that NVIDIA have launched an initiative to help 'control' and provide support to SLI. This is in the form of a validation suite, people can submit boards, chipsets and other parts to their SLi program to check to see if it conforms.

This solution from DFI does not appear to be within the SLI guidelines which are outlined by NVIDIA and the top 3 motherboard vendors. But will we see NVIDIA validate it? Only time will tell. All we know for sure is that DFI will be launching this technology under their own XLi brand.

Source : Hexus.net

Let's just wait and see what DFI will bring to us...

[Playful_Buffalo]

that CPU placement is good and bad....

[spinboy]

Great information "dutchman.pt"!

But that still did not answered the date questions.
I'm think somewhere between mid-Januari or February.
If DFI does not release their NF4 board soon it might be too "late" (like their NF3 250gb board).

[jjcom]

who knows...I kinda like the CPU placement. In my case that would put the CPU right where a fan blows fresh in my case. Nice looking board...now when will it get here..

jjcom

[DudeMiester]

Looking good! Can't wait to get my hands on one!

[seldomsean]

Here's what i have seen...

[spinboy]

Hmm, could we expect this board to be the best OC'er compared to ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte? I would be suprised if not.

[JDizzle]

Also listed here, looks like ETA is Dec. 15 according to this website.

[spinboy]

Hmm, that was kinda strange. It says that it will be in stock in wednesday, but it also says that it will be released in mid-January .

[pik-ard v1.1]

hm, the 15th is in 3 days... so lets see what happens then. i personally would rather have a ultra d(dont have $$ for two gfx cards), and im looking at buying parts around xmas, so this appears to look good for me.

[spinboy]

Hmm true, but you could always buy a SLi system and start out with 1 gfx and then buy another later when you need it. Most people do so.

[pik-ard v1.1]

Hmm true, but you could always buy a SLi system and start out with 1 gfx and then buy another later when you need it. Most people do so.

i'm 17, i've had a job for 2½ months, i've got college in half a year, and a car that randomly needs fixing, im not gonna be finding an extra $200 just sitting around anytime soon. getting another card after the 1st one is not seen in my crystal ball.

[Geforce4ti4200]

if the dfi mobo is 5% slower than others, it better oc 10% better to make up

[mrlobber]

When asked about the arrival dates of DFI Socket939 boards, Angry_Games, the DFI rep at dfi-street.com said, "around February to April". And he constantly keeps saying he has no closer information about the boards because the DFI Taiwan headquarters have not given it to him, which he says indicates the boards won't come neither tomorrow nor the next week or even month.

[viccyran]

Hmm true, but you could always buy a SLi system and start out with 1 gfx and then buy another later when you need it. Most people do so.

You'd think so, but by the time the card drops in price enough to the point where it's viable to buy another one to boost performance, there will probably a single card that will do it for the same overall price.

[SmokeyTheBandit]

This is what i've heard lately about DFI's 939 board






Let's just wait and see what DFI will bring to us...

OMG the first thing i see on this board is the location of the SB when seeing the PCI-X 16X slots ...... reduce the sink or not possible to put any nice cards in the board ....
I hope DFI will fix this becasue i already thougt the cpu socket location was a major dissapointment.

[Geforce4ti4200]

you can always remove the heatsink, bet it will be fine bare, heatsink is just for looks

[SmokeyTheBandit]

you can always remove the heatsink, bet it will be fine bare, heatsink is just for looks

Offcourse but its the principal of it ....

You cant even use a single 6800 PCI-X without modifying the board wich sucks imho ....

[Brum Man]

you can always remove the heatsink, bet it will be fine bare, heatsink is just for looks

I've heard that the it will get pretty hot due to the single chip solution, so maybe better to keep the heatsink on?

[slavik]

what we're not seeing is a nForce3 socket939 solution from DFI ... after ALL this time???

If DFI skips some products (nForce3 socket939 which they have said WILL come), then DFI might become a "fad" of its time ...

[b|gf|sh]

That's an awesome board layout DFI have put together there, especially with both ATX connectors on the right side and the chipset not blocking the lower pci-e 16x slot too.

Can't wait to get one now