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

[Tony]

[computersmsa]

3200VX = ?
OCZ don't knows ? lol
Winbond UTT

[Tony]

[Tony]

3200VX = ?
OCZ don't knows ? lol
Winbond UTT

you really think i don't know...LOL. Isssue is not not officially allowed to say what it is.

[Tony]

[=[PULSAR]=]

4.0VDimm did you try that voltage with the VX

[ominae]

heya bigtoe, those bios settings you posted, would you/are you going to use those settings for ocz3200 Plat. R2's too?

[Tony]

3200Plat rev2.

I have a feeling my CPU is limiting my ram overclock here so i may play again with my FX53. for now i will post the best i could do with agressive 1T timings 2.5-3-3.

Now all please remember that memory controllers play a big part in ram overclocking on A64 and i actually did a little better with my old TCCD on this DFI than any board i have used before with 1T settings.

sandra is on a par with the EB and VX pretty much although they were at a lower fsb due to tighter latency.


Everest again shows similar numbers.


finally the settings i used.



Im still working on tweaking the Hynix based modules and will update the thread as i get more info on these modules.

[Tony]

4.0VDimm did you try that voltage with the VX

Read back a bit m8, you will see why 4V was not so good for me.

[eva2000]

Tony tried testing on winchester cpu ?

[reject]

yeh after looking i saw the hw central one, pretty good price, if i can sell these adatas then ill get some.

It seems that bank interleave is disabled, is there a bios option for that? i know dfi said that they didnt want to use it for the 250gb, and if its not on this board then it might be slower than other brands
i think that interleaving works best on dual channel, did little for 754 boards but it could give a nice boost in a dual config

EDIT: no advertising/selling outside the classies!
-saaya

[Minnyboy]

Bigtoe, that's a lot of options there in the bios... Now I can see why the DFI bios is regarded as having the best bios for ram ever...

I wonder why DFI even bother putting in Cas Latency above 3?? Already thinking ahead for DDR2 & AMD??

All i gotta do now is wait for the board to hit Aussie shores & I'll be giving the DFI a shot based on the input I have seen so far... Not just from the NF4 but the NF3 as well... DFI have had the enthusiast market by the balls now...

Just waiting on one of the big players to put up some WR's with this board...

The only problem I can see with WR's falling is the PCI-E video cards, haven't seen anything special lately other than SLI or sky-high price-gouging for the X800XT/X850XT PE....

I await more goodies from this thread...

eva2000, gotta look up & see what I can get those VX's for down here... AUD$430 is still a bit high to me... IIRC, I could get them for under $400... Just can't get to my specialised price list atm...

Cheers,
Minnyboy

[L0$t Pr0PhEt]

I knew I should have waited before buying a MSI mobo that doesn't work

[cupra]

bigtoe im curious

if you work with the ocz vx you need a high dram voltage like 3.5v +-
the dfi mainboard can go over the voltage control up to 3.5v but the cpu (mem controler is inside) can be damaged ?
or its like the ocz booster that cant damaged the cpu mem controler .

and if so,what better to use if you want 3.5v to the rams ?
1) the dfi voltage control
2) ocz boosetr

[FallenAngel]

I knew I should have waited before buying a MSI mobo that doesn't work

Sell it like I am doing for my all old rigs

[Minnyboy]

Sell it like I am doing for my all old rigs

Off Topic:
I was going to say the same thing but there's a few issues when doing that...
It would be wrong morally if you sold a mobo that don't work...

I could be wrong & the only problem is that it doesn't work with the Winnie but something tells me I might be in the right here...

RMA the board with your supplier & maybe ask them if they'd do a swap for the DFI board when it comes out...

On Topic:
Looks at his 4 x 256MB & 2 x 512MB BH5's... Oh heck... Gotta try something new & different soon...

Cheers,
Minnyboy
BTW, If I took this thread way, way off topic; let me know & I'll edit it to something more in the lines of this thread.

[DaWaN]

One little question, does cool'n'quiet works on this board?

[situman]

god damn all those options starting to scare me. Intel boards doesnt have nearly the tweaking options. Sigh, looks like I will actually need to read the manual before I can start tweaking when i switch over.

[googles]

lol...exactly my thoughts...ive read some amd mobo manuals but not much help...guess ill just have to rely on posted screenies

[reject]

you cant use it for overclcking so i doubt they try to hard to get it working. maybe like the 250gb it will come in a later bios
at that hardware central place, the ultra is 270, the SLI is 370 and for 20 bux more you get the bundle. i would go the whole way if i was one who spend over 300$ on a mobo.
http://www.hardwarecentral.com.au/pr...e4f74c6882c78b
says it doesnt do SLi but DFI press release says it even comes with the bridge
ok it seems they updated it, and it does DXG. how does that relate compared to SLi and AMR? if its good then i might not wait for ATi boards and go for one of these in about 3 months

[MarilynMX]

bigtoe have you tried memory divider(s) on this board? especially 166 divider.
Another question is, if active cooling is applied, will this board be stable at VDIMM above 3.4V? Booster stability fluctuants pretty much at high temperature so I'm quite worried about if same problem would happen to DFI's board.
Thank you

[psycho303]

@bigtoe

real great job you did here, thanks ! this board sucks ! cant await checking my vx / bh5 / tccd arsenal on that mobo :-) minimum vcore is 1.375v ? or is less possible ?

psycho

[Mrki]

3200Plat rev2.

I have a feeling my CPU is limiting my ram overclock here so i may play again with my FX53. for now i will post the best i could do with agressive 1T timings 2.5-3-3.

Now all please remember that memory controllers play a big part in ram overclocking on A64 and i actually did a little better with my old TCCD on this DFI than any board i have used before with 1T settings.

sandra is on a par with the EB and VX pretty much although they were at a lower fsb due to tighter latency.


Everest again shows similar numbers.


finally the settings i used.



Im still working on tweaking the Hynix based modules and will update the thread as i get more info on these modules.

bigtoe ...

here my results. exact same settings like yours

3500+ Winchester
MSI K8N Neo2
2x512 OCZ EL Rev.2

hmm dfi was much slower?

i dont think thats beacuse winni?!?!

[apu673]

How much is this board ganna cost when it becomes retail?

[OPPAINTER]

Bigtoe,

Maybe I missed it, does the OCZ booster work on this board??
Thats if the board has problems at 3.7 mem voltage, I'll need 3.7V for my VX on this board.

OPP