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

[cantankerous]

hehe please share any differences you are noticing.

I assume a bios saviour isnt needed on this board either like it was on the NF2 right? I may reuse mine anyways just for the heck of it. Better to be safe than sorry and having two different bioses to compare to would be handy as well.

[Tony]

oi Tony, does the bios support boot from USB Flash Drive? I would like to rid if my floppy if so. Thanks.

No option to boot from usb in bios although you can chose other devices.

[cantankerous]

bah that sucks! I thought people were saying the 250UT had boot from usb flash drive so I was hoping this would too. Much ghettoer mb's are supporting this. I want to rid of my floppy but would still like to be able to flash bioses, run fdisk etc.

BTW... what are the chances of getting OCZ Memtest imbedded into this bios like the 250? That would be awesome.

[eva2000]

No option to boot from usb in bios although you can chose other devices.

seems bios is going backwards ? or teething issues ?

[cantankerous]

can you confirm the 250 had boot from usb flash eva?

[eva2000]

i'm vaguely sure :o pc in use so can't reboot now

[metro.cl]

hmmm its not looking good, dfi must do something. Not a bit impresive

[tictac]

hmmm its not looking good, dfi must do something. Not a bit impresive

Does Cool n Quite working with 2 stick memory?

[Prometheus]

The BIG news is that the Ultra chipset can be easily modded to become an SLI. You can see the details just posted at Morphing nForce4 Ultra into nForce4 SLI at http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=2322. Once this simple mod is made to the $140 LANParty UT it is 100% nVidia SLI with both slots behaving as x8/x8. There is aslo the additional option of x16/x2 dual-video.

[cantankerous]

Very nice indeed. Seems incredibly easy to do. I am sure many people are going to be getting this board instead now. I wonder if this is the 'big news' bigtoe said he was going to tell us as soon as the NDA is up?

The performance increase using 16/2 is still a lot better than a single card regardless. In far cry 16/2 is faster than 8/8.

[situman]

sales of the true SLI DFI is gonna suffer because of this. But then again, they can raise the price of the Ultra chipset.

[xgman]

ya I can tell..
I got 5 bios here already..

anything past 114?

[kraggy]

Does anyone know when us "mortals" can order a DFI NF4 DR SLI mobo? I just pulled the trigger on 2 PCI-E 6800 Ultras and want the DFI mobo for them. I can buy it any time....starting from right now!!!

[reject]

since all this stuff is coming out so soon, i really wonder why people went thru all the hassle of 939 nf3. better to sit tight on xp-m or 754
you can buy it in aus already its 270$ for the ultra D ~ 200$ usa
but like the 250gb UT i bet the price will go down, it came out at 295, then dropped to 245 which is when i got it and now its 200

[eva2000]

wonder if there are bios differences between DFI NF4 SLI-DR, SLI and Ultra-D, wonder what would happen if you flashed NF4 SLI-DR or SLI bios on Ultra-D too heh

[Cid]

bigtoe,

You mentioned that the board is like geared towards TCCD ram

The only memory I have is some old school 3700EB which I plan on using when I go to A64. Have you tested this board out with some 3700EB and if you did, how well did it perform? Thanks.

[RAINFIRE]

Does anyone know when us "mortals" can order a DFI NF4 DR SLI mobo? I just pulled the trigger on 2 PCI-E 6800 Ultras and want the DFI mobo for them. I can buy it any time....starting from right now!!!

Latest word is January 24th to 28th when they start selling on national retailer.

Socket 939 K8T890 , nForce4, SiS 756, Radeon Xpress 200 Next Gen Motherboard Pricing and Availability List

[Prometheus]

wonder if there are bios differences between DFI NF4 SLI-DR, SLI and Ultra-D, wonder what would happen if you flashed NF4 SLI-DR or SLI bios on Ultra-D too heh

The BIOS appears to be the same on both boards. There are still some BIOS issues with certain mode combinations on certain BIOS Rev's, so updates are expected.

The boards perform well with TCCD and BH5, but not so great with Hynix memory.

[Tony]

Well guys seems the big secret is out on Anandtech.

If you are wondering I can answer a few questions for you.

1 both the Ultra D and SLI use the same bios.
2 If you mod the chipset both boards are identicle apart from the SI SATA
3 The Ultra will do 16X 2X and 8X 8X dependant on what driver and if you do the chipset mod.

So...Ultra D = SLI...pretty cool eh?

[primeX]

i saw that article earlier and wondered if that indeed was the "big" secret! Well, looks like I was right! That is unbelievable! Where can you get a sli bridge? :banana4:

[Nube]

whats "memory interleaving" ??

also running raid 0 and around 260fsb might cause it to cause some problems on ultra ?

[ejc00]

for those of us in the US:
Ultra:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=246486
SLI-DR:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=246485

[Lood007]

bigtoe,

You mentioned that the board is like geared towards TCCD ram

The only memory I have is some old school 3700EB which I plan on using when I go to A64. Have you tested this board out with some 3700EB and if you did, how well did it perform? Thanks.

I am wondering the same.
I have some 3700EB that my MSI K8N Neo2 hates. Will the DFI play nice with it?

[eva2000]

Great news indeed all we now is lower PCI-E card prices heh

seems reports that Prolink and Gainward 6600GT PCI-E cards aren't working in SLI mode on at least A8N-E. Someone over at OCAU forums flashed Gainward 6600GT's bios with MSI 6600GT PCI-E bios and now it works fine in SLI mode!

[Bourch]

Waiting for the ultra-d (to do the sli mod)

I've got a pair of ADATA DDR500 on my UT 250Gb, so I'm going to sell them and buy a pair of OCZ but don't know wich ones

1024MB 2x512 Kit Rev.2 OCZ4001024 ELDCPER2-K 284,00 €

or

1024MB 2x512 Kit Voltage eXtreme 263,00 €