DFI NF4 Boards

[sirspotti]

press release

 

[CraigRT]

man, those boards are wicked...

 

[FastEddie]

Originally posted by: CraigRT
man, those boards are wicked...

Looks like both versions, the SLI and the Ultra, support dual graphics cards.

 

[sirspotti]

here's the product links to each board

LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-D

LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR

LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D


my favorite part of the press release was
"Both LANParty NF4 SLI-DR and LANPartyUT NF4 Ultra-D motherboards are currently available in limited quantities through DFI?s authorized resellers worldwide"

at least it gives us hope of seeing these before March

 

[Insomniak]

Yeah, Nvidia made a press release saying NF4 boards would be available by mid-December. I'll believe they're here when I see them here.

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

Any idea when these come out. That Ultra is looking pretty good to me.

 

[hkhawk]

Those look great, look how much room there is around the CPU. But why did they have to put the chipset right behind the graphics card slots!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!??! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargggggggghhh!

 

[Trizzay]

Originally posted by: Insomniak
Yeah, Nvidia made a press release saying NF4 boards would be available by mid-December. I'll believe they're here when I see them here.

Umm...NF4 boards are already here.....just not the DFI boards.

 

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: Trizzay

Originally posted by: Insomniak
Yeah, Nvidia made a press release saying NF4 boards would be available by mid-December. I'll believe they're here when I see them here.

Umm...NF4 boards are already here.....just not the DFI boards.

Umm....you can buy ridiculously overpriced ASUS and Gigabyte boards in LIMITED QUANTITIES right now. There was that one shipment of Chaintech boards to Newegg, but they've been out for about a week now...Bottom line is if you don't want to pay double for a price-gouged SLI board, there's nothing to buy, so no, they AREN'T here yet. When I can buy 4X, Ultra, and SLI boards from all the usual suspects (MSI, Chaintech, Gigabyte, ASUS, DFI, etc.) THEN they'll be here.

Right now, Nforce 4 boards are about as "here" as X800 XTPEs are "here".

 

[Mem]

Umm...NF4 boards are already here.....just not the DFI boards.

I can`t speak for US, but not many NF4 boards out in the UK.
Abit,,MSI are still not in stock,Asus & Gigabyte have only one model available at present,so NF4 models available is still very low,also Epox have one or more coming out,but gods know when we`ll see real NF4 choices available,my best guess would be Feb or even March for a decent selection of NF4 brands/models.

 

[Dug]

Originally posted by: hkhawk
Those look great, look how much room there is around the CPU. But why did they have to put the chipset right behind the graphics card slots!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!??! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargggggggghhh!

I know, that pisses me off too. So many nforce4 boards are like this. Can't they move it down another inch so we can put on our own cooling?

 

[jterrell]

First boards hit foreign shores in 2 weeks.

Which means a month or so til we see the first batch available for like 1 day in the US.

Board is sexy but it wont be really available til March, which Sucks.

 

[Mem]

But why did they have to put the chipset right behind the graphics card slots!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!??!

Yes it`s not a good thing,however most PCI Express cards are not that big,however we know how Nvidia like to make huge graphic cards,guess they`ve to start making smaller video cards .

 

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: Mem

But why did they have to put the chipset right behind the graphics card slots!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!??!

Yes it`s not a good thing,however most PCI Express cards are not that big,however we know how Nvidia like to make huge graphic cards,guess they`ve to start making smaller video cards .

It's not like it's blocking anything, it will just be radiating heat towards the graphics board.

 

[Mem]

It's not like it's blocking anything, it will just be radiating heat towards the graphics board.

There are a few factors to consider,if the PCI Express card overlaps the chipset fan(where fitted),you know sooner or later the fan will die and you`ve to remove the PCI Express card to replace it,also like you`ve stated cooling wise it`s not ideal.

The size of both heatsink and fan(where fitted) on the chipset will play an important part ,considering any PCI Express card that overlaps it,we know some companies don`t always conform to specs,remember the big capacitor that was in the way on the old Epox 8KHA+ board near the AGP slot that caused installing problems with certain Nvidia cards?

 

[Dug]

Originally posted by: Insomniak

Originally posted by: Mem

But why did they have to put the chipset right behind the graphics card slots!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!??!

Yes it`s not a good thing,however most PCI Express cards are not that big,however we know how Nvidia like to make huge graphic cards,guess they`ve to start making smaller video cards .

It's not like it's blocking anything, it will just be radiating heat towards the graphics board.

Yes it is. With any graphics card it will be covered.
You can't put on your own heatsink.
If don't want to listen to the high pitched whiney sound of the fan they put on, your out of luck.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

looks like all three versions will support dual graphics but that doesn't mean that all three will support SLI. And why is it that only the non-ut SLI has the extra four sata ports, there just not there on the others. I wonder if a consumer could solder them on and update the bios?

 

[Zebo]

This will be best mobo ever. 2.1Vcore, 4.0Vdimm better than nforce sound...

Check out the server board level aluminum caps on the board


Check out fat mosfet aluminum HS.

I can't wait...

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To provide rock solid stability, both nForce4 chipset based motherboards feature Japanese aluminum electrolytic capacitors, magnetic levitation north bridge cooling fan with fan speed control, and all aluminum heat sink on mosfets. The conductive polymer (electrolytic) aluminum solid capacitors provide high resistance to over-voltage and reverse voltage as compared with other capacitors, making them the ideal choice for overclocking and mission critical motherboards.

 

[boatillo]

I'm through waiting for their s939 AGP board

I think they have abandoned that project in favor of SLI boards they can sell at tremendous prices heh

 

[btpenterprises]

Any ideas on how much the DFI NF4 boards will cost???

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: boatillo
I'm through waiting for their s939 AGP board

I think they have abandoned that project in favor of SLI boards they can sell at tremendous prices heh

They'll have two 939 agp boards according to DFI rep.

 

[boatillo]

Yea I saw angry_games mentioned that they were working on 3 types of new AMD boards (s939 AGP, s939 PCIE, s939 SLI) but the fact that they havent made a peep since and their SLI boards are going to come out relatively soon makes me wonder.

I saw mention of a thread on dfi-street awhile back saying they were pulling plans for the AGP model and were sorry ~ but its prolly all hearsay.

 

[Zebo]

Well I better sell my GT quick then...

 

[AnnoyedGrunt]

Personally, I'd rather have a single GFX card and a passive chipset cooler than SLI and a cooler with a fan.

I really want to like the Chaintech board, but I'm bummed that it doesn't have 1394 support.

I also really want to like the Gigabyte NF4-4X based board (since it has 1394b), but it has the fan on the cihpset cooler.

Do any of you know if DFI will also release a board with a single 16x slot and a passive chipset cooler?

I sure hope someone can get all these good features in a single board.

I guess I'm just not too interested in SLI right now.

-D'oh!

 

[Zebo]

they have 5 models.. two are single pcie.

Passive HS you can buy.