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

[HARDCORECLOCKER]

Do You all still believe in St. Clauss ???

If it only were a BIOS bug there is no need to stop release - BIOS can be flashed easily, someone here can tell the truth ???

[H2OGun]

The DFI boards were out for sale since 2 days ago in Hong Kong and I think they all came with BIOS dated Jan 19. The latest beta BIOS dated Jan 26 does give huge improvement in terms of RAM clocking. Managed to go beyond DDR600 which was not possible with Jan 19 BIOS while I know for sure my RAM can handle that on MSI K8N Diamond. LOL, the latest BIOS rocks!!!

[Alexwai]

The DFI boards were out for sale since 2 days ago in Hong Kong and I think they all came with BIOS dated Jan 19. The latest beta BIOS dated Jan 26 does give huge improvement in terms of RAM clocking. Managed to go beyond DDR600 which was not possible with Jan 19 BIOS while I know for sure my RAM can handle that on MSI K8N Diamond. LOL, the latest BIOS rocks!!!

Yes, it is truth and thanks for you link.

[Tony]

The DFI boards were out for sale since 2 days ago in Hong Kong and I think they all came with BIOS dated Jan 19. The latest beta BIOS dated Jan 26 does give huge improvement in terms of RAM clocking. Managed to go beyond DDR600 which was not possible with Jan 19 BIOS while I know for sure my RAM can handle that on MSI K8N Diamond. LOL, the latest BIOS rocks!!!

Those boards will not have the hardware changes to make them even better....why do boards always leak out early

[Patrickclouds]

on dfi-street.com:

[QUOTE]In response to questions from your Forum readers I am posting the latest info I have from DFI on the release of the new nF4 boards:

"I have just received the final revisions to both boards and DFI has not altered the Ultra design - it still includes 2 x16 PCIe slots and is still the same PCB as the SLI design. The AnandTech review is scheduled to appear on Tuesday, February 1, and New Egg and others should start receiving retail boards on Tuesday or Wednesday also.

DFI did change some 20 components on the board that greatly improves memory compatability. Testers found the initial board was very good with Samsung TCCD but not so good with Hynix and some other memories. The new revisions work well with any of the common memories in the market and the board also overclocks even better than the initial release. We are told DFI has modified all boards, so only the new revision will appear in the retail channel."QUOTE]

[H2OGun]

Those boards will not have the hardware changes to make them even better....why do boards always leak out early

Don't know about that. And please don't take this the wrong way, Tony. I don't doubt you, okay? FYI: I learned from the local Authorized Distributor that the second batch of shipment is going out from DFI Taiwan today and will arrive early next week. Why on earth DFI keeps shipping out the boards if there will be hardware changes required?

[dnavarro]

Tony, if we get a board with bios 1.25 or 1.26 will we be ok? Does that mean we will get an "official board"? Anything ealrier (bios wise) means it wasn't updated? Just clarifying. Thank you,

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[HARDCORECLOCKER]

What about the serial number, a from - to for non official boards would help !!!

[dnavarro]

Guys, I emailed tech support at DFI and Mr. Frank Wong gave me some good info. If you can check boards available in your area for what he states. Here's his reply...

XXXX,


Please check the bar code sticker on the edge of the last PCI slot when you receive the board. On the bottom right of the sticker, there’ll have something like R.A00, R.AB0…to indicate the revision of the board. The R.A00 or R.AB0 stands for the revision A. that’s a final release board. If it lists R.PR22 or R.PR with different #, that’s an engineer sample. We are not allowed to sell engineer samples to customers.



Frank


Frank Wong
Technical Support Manager
DFI San Jose




I want to thank Frank for his clarification. Now anyone with a board check it!


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[Tony]

Do You all still believe in St. Clauss ???

If it only were a BIOS bug there is no need to stop release - BIOS can be flashed easily, someone here can tell the truth ???

Read my post m8, i just said there are component changes to be made...this is the truth. If you want to make more of it then go for it...i know the truth as I was part of why the boards are being altered.

[HARDCORECLOCKER]

Read my post m8, i just said there are component changes to be made...this is the truth. If you want to make more of it then go for it...i know the truth as I was part of why the boards are being altered.

SRY man - my eyes ran to fast, did't see that part of Ya post.

So we're talking about hardware modifications - nothing to do with BIOS - how can I recognise if my board is a modified ?

I mean if I get a "before release board" and flash BIOS to 1.26 it will be not the same as I'd get a modified board.

So BIOS version is not the right tool to see what board I'll get.