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

[kraggy]

The word i have is boards are being modified and have been for 2 days or so. So the situation is this....if you jump now and get a board with 121 or earlier bios you got an old one.If you get a board with 126 bios and the package is sealed you got a fully finalised board which is good to go. Most boards will hit the stores in a few days so again i would look for the official stores to have official boards.

If you have a board that came with 119 bios etc that will probably not have all the hardware changes etc....once you flash you will have a good board but it won't be as good as the later ones.

Lasly you must flash to the 126 bios to get the board overclocking better.

Tony, does DFI use Winflash or its own inhouse equivalent? Or do we use the old floppy>boot>exe.>bam method?

[cantankerous]

I'm going to wait awhile before I buy a board. Make sure the initial ones are sold out so the next shipment will definately be the finalised board. I just know I will buy one and it won't be the latest. I'd be pissed.

[Tony]

I'm going to wait awhile before I buy a board. Make sure the initial ones are sold out so the next shipment will definately be the finalised board. I just know I will buy one and it won't be the latest. I'd be pissed.

wise words

[Tony]

you can use winflash or awdflash...i flash off a cdrom now and its all good

[BeachKEN]

THNX for the info, but, if someone mod the Ultra board to full SLI, there should be some SLI improvement, the question is, how can this board handle full SLI potential, if the bridge is needed to connect 2 cards into the full SLI system, there won´t be any improvement at all and it shouldn´t work, right?

Or just to buy or get anywhere the SLI bridge?

any ideas ?

Tony, are you able to try the DXG ?

[Tony]

Your board maybe ok here, the 126 is a very good bios and does improve the ram overclocking.

I don't think many boards are out there that are not finals so we are probably being paranoid here.

[HARDCORECLOCKER]

What a crazy kind of panic - I never heard of something else like this.

So it's good to know we're at a point we all can identify the boards we will get - nice !!! THX all people who worked out !!!

But one question will be unanswered: Who will loose his job at DFI for sending away boards which should have never come into the stores......

[cantankerous]

I know I am.... being paranoid that is. Tony, to get 3.5v on your VX like you stated in your tests what did you need your 3.3v rail at at your psu? Does it fluctuate or dip at all? I ask because unlike others powerstreams that seem to get 3.8+v on their 3.3v rail mine maxes out at 3.67 and even that is borderline. The psu is shutting itself down at those volts. =(. I was hoping for more to get at least 3.6v on my VX.

I thought the 3.3v-3.8v was part of the specs? Why is mine undercutting?

[HARDCORECLOCKER]

I know I am.... being paranoid that is. Tony, to get 3.5v on your VX like you stated in your tests what did you need your 3.3v rail at at your psu? Does it fluctuate or dip at all? I ask because unlike others powerstreams that seem to get 3.8+v on their 3.3v rail mine maxes out at 3.67 and even that is borderline. The psu is shutting itself down at those volts. =(. I was hoping for more to get at least 3.6v on my VX.

I thought the 3.3v-3.8v was part of the specs? Why is mine undercutting?

Hm, maybe I don't understand but why don't Ya use the 5-V-rail to get 3,6 for Ya RAM - Ya know the jumper ???

[cantankerous]

Well everyone is saying it gets mega hot. If something doesn't fail at first it may down the road and positioning a fan in the needed area would be hard.

[HARDCORECLOCKER]

Well everyone is saying it gets mega hot. If something doesn't fail at first it may down the road and positioning a fan in the needed area would be hard.

Nah - MOSFETS only get extremly hot if Ya use the 5-V-rail and give less than 3,3 to Ya RAM, 3,6 will be O.K.

I use the booster on a NEO2 and pluged in my BH-5 3 days ago, they're running with 3,9 Vdimm for that time. Booster uses the same tecnology than DFI on it's boards.

Have a 120mm fan blowing to the RAM area - try to mount it with a clip at one of Ya HDD cases. I use a clip which Ya find normally in restaurants to fix the papers on the tables, that clip Ya can mount with a screw to Ya fan and then Ya can clip it at the wall of Ya HDD case.

There are two kinds of that clips - the better ones have a feather of steel in it so they can fit tighter than the plastic clips.

Try it - it works !!!

[xs64]

I wonder 1 thing :
Can the Ultra-D final released mod to turn SLI ?
Maybe DFI delay the release day to modify the Ultra chipset and cant mod to SLI anymore ?

[HARDCORECLOCKER]

I wonder 1 thing :
Can the Ultra-D final released can mod to turn SLI ?
Maybe DFI delay the release day to modify the Ultra chipset and cant mod to SLI anymore ?

That might be - but if the old MOD doesn't work anymore someone will find a new........

[xs64]

That might be - but if the old MOD doesn't work anymore someone will find a new........

Hope so

But without the SLI-Bridge ( from Bigtoe ) can we still run DXG

[HARDCORECLOCKER]

Hope so

But without the SLI-Bridge ( from Bigtoe ) can we still run DXG

Don't get mad on that SLI bridge - after a while I guess You'll be able to buy it in the shops.

[[G.N.U.]Fragman]

nice they have improved the board for hynix ram also...properly the manufactor that listens most to testers and forums.....

[[G.N.U.]Fragman]

@ patrickclouds is there a 2*molex >6 pin pci-e gfx card adaptor inkl...or has any1 seen any with either board or pci-e graphics card????
i have ordered a 6800GT for pci-e and it properly will need additional voltage beside pci-e .....and my psu isnt that fancy

[jikdoc]

newegg has one, do a search for e-power vga adapter on their site.

[Patrickclouds]

@ patrickclouds is there a 2*molex >6 pin pci-e gfx card adaptor inkl...or has any1 seen any with either board or pci-e graphics card????
i have ordered a 6800GT for pci-e and it properly will need additional voltage beside pci-e .....and my psu isnt that fancy

no sorry, there are no pci-e adatpers included.
only a molex>2xs-ata adapter you m can have a look here:

[xs64]

@ Patrickclouds : where did u buy this mobo ? And the stock Bios is 125 or 126 ? Thx

[Patrickclouds]

@ Patrickclouds : where did u buy this mobo ? And the stock Bios is 125 or 126 ? Thx

i bought it from hpm-computer.de
and the stock bios was from 19th january 2005

[xs64]

i bought it from hpm-computer.de
and the stock bios was from 19th january 2005

Thx for your reply

You seem to be the first one in Germany who have this board soon

I odered one from HPM too , will report when the board coming

[FallenAngel]

Patrick can you make a photo of the rev nr it's R.A0x or something else, thanks I wanted to buy from them too, waiting for money though

[Patrickclouds]

Patrick can you make a photo of the rev nr it's R.A0x or something else, thanks I wanted to buy from them too, waiting for money though

yes it´s R.A00

edit:
an now the pic

[FallenAngel]

thanks, very appreciated

EDIT: I must buy it asap, I'm really anxious...