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

[OPPAINTER]

Rainfire is right, thats a connector in the bubble wrap.

Nice looking board

OPP

[eva2000]

nice pics ... wish i had that board

[xgman]

what's with the plastic cpu back plate?

[uwackme]

The SLI bridge connector is in the pink bubblewrap.

Im so jealous.

I wish someone would slap 2 36/74G Raptors on raid0 to tell us how fast the new NV raid controller is.

[cantankerous]

Hopefully better than the SIl 3114. Especially in terms of writes.

[Jupiler]

I wish someone would slap 2 36/74G Raptors on raid0 to tell us how fast the new NV raid controller is.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=51501

[dnavarro]

uwackme , I can tell you the NF4 Raid/SATA 2 controller is damn fast. I currently have a gigabyte sli setup (Dual Rapors 36GB Raid 0) and it blew away my previous setups. The bandwidth increase was extreme. Sequential reads went up (for me) 10-15 mb/sec in my hdtest program. My Atto disk bench went up in reads and writes about 10 mb/s average also. I would assume the DFI would do similar as it is the same chipset.

D

[Patrickclouds]

the chipset cooler is a bit wobbly, but silent
my new gskill 2x512 LA (431) can do 300mhz at 2,5-3-3-6-10 1T
i haven´t tried to push it higher
my cpu (3200+ week33) is so sweat, but weak
i can´t boot at 2700mhz (270x10 and 300x9 is not possible)
so i only did some benches at 260x10, but there will be a little more power on cpu and ram than i´ve tested.





don´t forget, this is not the max power and i´m still a a64 nooby
but theese are the only screenshots i´ve made

i only tested with the boxed cooler, because i was too lazzy to install my watercool setup this evening

[HARDCORECLOCKER]

the chipset cooler is a bit wobbly, but silent
my new gskill 2x512 LA (431) can do 300mhz at 2,5-3-3-6-10 1T
i haven´t tried to push it higher
my cpu (3200+ week33) is so sweat, but weak
i can´t boot at 2700mhz (270x10 and 300x9 is not possible)
so i only did some benches at 260x10, but there will be a little more power on cpu and ram than i´ve tested.


don´t forget, this is not the max power and i´m still a a64 nooby
but theese are the only screenshots i´ve made

i only tested with the boxed cooler, because i was too lazzy to install my watercool setup this evening

Well done- first impressions of OC - und natürlich aus D !!!

[Patrickclouds]

Well done- first impressions of OC - und natürlich aus D !!!

i was very sad about the bad cpu, but you cannot have everything
if i have enough time tomorrow i´ll go on testing

from the dfi-forum:

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I just found 2 shops in Germany that have the DFI Lanparty UT nF4 SLI-D (NOT SLI-DR !!) already in stock !!!!
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Angry_Games:

no you didnt. We have not released the boards at all. No one has them and if they do, they need to be recalled ASAP.

[HARDCORECLOCKER]

A recall of the boards that just been released?

What in hell does that mean? Is Angrygames drunken..........

[Lood007]

if you read the entire thread, you can see that there was a last minute change to the board and its shipping BIOS, i believe.

What Angry_Games is saying is that if indeed the shops have the boards, they are not the changed ones, hence, they should not be sold as official release boards.

He stated the shipping dates of the official release boards somewhere in that thread.

JazzMang Out.

[ominae]

this is going to be interesting - unreleased boards in retail? Wonder what the real deal is...

[GRAFiZ]

I dont think Angry_Games works for DFI... I might be wrong, he certainly knows his stuff. But it's obvious in some parts of the world, this motherboard is out and for sale. So... someone is getting some bad info somewhere, might be the retailers, might be Angry_Games himself. Who knows.

All I know is if I saw one on the street right now, I'd buy it and not worry about whatever the small change was they made.

[jikdoc]

a_g does work for dfi afaik but since he's human, he can make mistakes. if he were cylon, it might be different...

EDIT: yes i meant dfi, not msi

[LowRun]

a_g does work for msi afaik but since he's human, he can make mistakes. if he were cylon, it might be different...

You mean DFI

[dnavarro]

In case anyone is interested....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tem=6739702659


D

[flexy]

AG works for dfi..at least thats what his webpage says.

[Lood007]

yes,
Angry works for DFI. He is a mod and is a very frequent helper over at DFI-Street's forums.

Over at DFI-Street, they are talking about the mobos on ebay as well... many people think that the boards that we are seeing for sale today are the pre-release version of the boards which lack the last-moment modification described by Vivian, who works for DFI (see DFI-Street's NF4-SLI thread).

I wouldn't buy those pre-release boards for that much! I'd rather wait for the real deal myself.

JazzMang Out.

[Mastakilla]

the chipset cooler is a bit wobbly, but silent

can u describe what u mean with "wobbly"?

dont really understand

[Patrickclouds]

can u describe what u mean with "wobbly"?

dont really understand

if you push with your finger on the cooler, below the fan, then the whole cooler moves at this place down to the board and the opposite site moves up

v (finger)
_________________ (cooler)
-------------------------- (board)

now this happens wehen you touch the cooler at this place
it moves up at the other side

________---------- (cooler)
-------------------------- (board)

i think that the feathers aren´t strong enough to reach enough pressure

[Tony]

Guys i can answer a few questions here as my debugging of the board lead to the bios and the mods AG has described.

The boards are having a few components changed to improve ram overclocking and compatibility. A new bios was written to overcome an issue i found working with DFI which is the main reason AG has stated all boards released early are not final release.

I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU TO WAIT FOR OFFICIAL BOARDS they will clock ram better and they come with the latest official bios. if your board comes with 121 or earlier I strongly suggest you flash it at once to the 126 or later.

Now i don't know how these pre release boards are hitting stores, i would wait to see DFI press releases etc and know your getting a latest spec board.


Tony

[cantankerous]

Good to know Tony, thanks. I hope the board I get is an OFFICIAL with the changes.

Is there any way to check to see besides the bios revision?

Could you possibly be more descriptive on which components were changed?

[Tony]

I can't as i don't know all the specs on the changes, I know my board here has half the changes it needs and will be going back for the other half

[BeachKEN]

Guys, maybe a stupid question, but I don´t see any SLI conector with nF4Ultra bundle, I will get this board next week and I´m still thinking about doing it a full SLI board.

Finally good mobo and not piece of junk like the A8N SLI Deluxe, which burned me last week even without any OC´in. The layout of ASUS is the best when compared to other nF4 boards, but that "reliability" really makes me pissed off.