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

[TinTin]

Can you see it is a A3 chips? Taken by mobile phone....

[Blindbat]

Can you see it is a A3 chips? Taken by mobile phone....

Barely visible but yes, thank you. CPUZ motherboard tab would show it also.

[uwackme]

Well gotta tell ya, the absolute minimum I'd task with a serious system based on this motherboard series is this PSU...

Fortron 500Watt ATX2.0 24pin

Just my $.02

[GRAFiZ]

People always ask this about nForce4 boards... if the specs says it can do 2.0GTs Hyper Transport there's nothing to worry about.

Do you know if the Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI supports 2.0GTs?

All I can find on thier site is: Processor interface via 2000MT/s HyperTransport bus

Is that the same thing?

Thanks!

[TinTin]

Do you know if the Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI supports 2.0GTs?

All I can find on thier site is: Processor interface via 2000MT/s HyperTransport bus

Is that the same thing?

Thanks!

SLI version must be A3 chips, they support 1GHz Hypertransport (i.e. 2GHz bi-direction)
The Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 nForce4 4X chipset

[GRAFiZ]

SLI version must be A3 chips, they support 1GHz Hypertransport (i.e. 2GHz bi-direction)
The Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 nForce4 4X chipset

Aha!

Thanks friend.

You'll have to excuse my ignorance, I'm used to Intel systems.

[TinTin]

Aha!

Thanks friend.

You'll have to excuse my ignorance, I'm used to Intel systems.

I just hate Gigabyte selling those 4X chips (A2) instead of REAL NF4 ultra chips

[Tony]

Well guys I have a new bios, about to test but indications show a huge improvement on the memory

OPP mail me and i will return mail it to you.

[NoStra]

I found the same when beching my Epox 9NDA3+ for some reason the DFI is giving lower benches. i hit 4k unbuffered sandra on the Epox and came nowhere near on the DFI....email time I think.

here is my Epox unbuffered with the 3500EB, now this is at 290fsb but 10fsb more on the DFI will not give me the 4K the epox is giving.

The epox is nforce3 and the dfi is nforce4....that's the difference. Nf3 gives more bandwith.

[Kunaak]

Big Toe or Opp.

whats under the chipset fan, thermal pad, or paste?

like always, looks like DFI just out did everyone again.

[jrw]

How are the actual voltages compaired to the bios settings?

As everyone says, this board is really tempting for all of us that dont like modding our boards due to the extreme voltage options...

How are the voltages then?

As posted earlier 3.9vdimm results in BSOD. Any other troubles related to the voltages?
Deep vcore drops during load? VTT tracking? Vdimm 3.0->4-0v?

It really seems as we are entering a great chipset era. Ati is gonna spice up the scene!

Now, give us a DFI manufatured board featuring a killer chipset with Dothan support! Wuuuuhaaaaaa!!!

[Holberg]

Using 20pins PSU is totally okay, even overclocking

that is good news, then I can use my 20-24pin converter on the DFI NF4 board.

tintin did you try with a 20-24pin converter?

[Tony]

The epox is nforce3 and the dfi is nforce4....that's the difference. Nf3 gives more bandwith.

Not so my friend...a new bios comes to the rescue





Now Angry Games over at DFI street has some later OCZ TCCD thats doing 310+fsb easy, mine does 303 or so.

I will post settings as i load A64 tweaker etc.

[Feiticeira]

What has changed to give this performace boost and has it changed the max overclock you get with your RAM?

Dave

[Tony]

Here is what settings I was using.

[Tony]

What has changed to give this performace boost and has it changed the max overclock you get with your RAM?

Dave

A whole new bios, bank interleave is inc now also.

[Tony]

To see the difference i ran a quick unbuffered. The old is at 310fsb the new is at 303...seems I may be able to squeeze a little more yet

Anyway....here is the old.



And now the new.



Nice gains here

[eva2000]

nice to see new bios improvements

when you say newer TCCD that you and Angrygames have, which model ?

[mdzcpa]

Wow...nice imporvement. DFI seems to making all the right adjustments to go along with the best in class feature set they already have. This DFI mobo will definitely be in my future. Thanks for all the great info

[Tony]

nice to see new bios improvements

when you say newer TCCD that you and Angrygames have, which model ?

Angry has 4200EL Plat which came later than the build i have here, which means he has much later week codes.

[eva2000]

i see..

btw, whole of Australia ran out of OCZ PC3200 Plat rev2, someone I know rang 30 retailers here and no stock and best ETA is 3 weeks heh.. hurry and ship our Aussie disties some more stock

[Tony]

i see..

btw, whole of Australia ran out of OCZ PC3200 Plat rev2, someone I know rang 30 retailers here and no stock and best ETA is 3 weeks heh.. hurry and ship our Aussie disties some more stock

I will forward the info m8...thanks

[Lood007]

hows the OCZ EB doing with this new BIOS?
and at what voltage do you run them at, tony?

[cantankerous]

A whole new bios, bank interleave is inc now also.

awesome news on the bank interleave. Thanks for that.

[Blindbat]

Darn some serious gains there Tony, thank you for sharing.

Me think 4200 Platinum is the way I will go, cooler and no need to generate heat with the vdimm bridge at 5 volts.

reseller is going to be pissed 3rd time I change my memory choice, LOL....oh well good outcome of that now he' got the entire line of OCZ modules in stock...hehehehehe