Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 WARNING!!!

[Trente]

Originally posted by: Megadeth2
If the people on here would just read in the detailed sections of Giga-Byte's website about this board. The HTT multiplier is preset to 4x, but it is adjustable via BIOS to 5x/4x/3x/2x/1x. If anyone would read on AMD Tech Forums (a thread on HTT), everyone acknowledges that 1600 vs 2000 on Socket 939 doesn't effect performance very greatly. If anyone reads on AMD Tech Forums other thread about the nForce 4, most people acknowledge that the HTT will be preset to 4x. They say that it is a good thing because then it is one less thing to change to get a decent initial overclock; suppose you have a 3200+ and are trying to oc. You can get 4x250=1000/2000HTT and 250x10=2500MHz. As far as overclocking goes, it looks very nice. There is a clockgen version that is compatible with all nForce4/nForce4Ultra/nForce4SLI boards so you know might be a very nice board after all and it is only $125. At least it has more features than that crap looking Chaintech VNF4 Zenith Value Edition...think about it...you're gonna pay for 2000 HTT when maybe the 1600 HTT will help you out more if you are an ocer...I wouldn't...you'll have to pay at least $100 more because that GA-K8NXP-9 on NF4U is $235 least I've seen it...think about it....

:thumbsup:

My GA-K8NF-9 is due to arrive this week. I hope everything turns out fine...

 

[bobalong]

Originally posted by: Trente

Originally posted by: Megadeth2
If the people on here would just read in the detailed sections of Giga-Byte's website about this board. The HTT multiplier is preset to 4x, but it is adjustable via BIOS to 5x/4x/3x/2x/1x. If anyone would read on AMD Tech Forums (a thread on HTT), everyone acknowledges that 1600 vs 2000 on Socket 939 doesn't effect performance very greatly. If anyone reads on AMD Tech Forums other thread about the nForce 4, most people acknowledge that the HTT will be preset to 4x. They say that it is a good thing because then it is one less thing to change to get a decent initial overclock; suppose you have a 3200+ and are trying to oc. You can get 4x250=1000/2000HTT and 250x10=2500MHz. As far as overclocking goes, it looks very nice. There is a clockgen version that is compatible with all nForce4/nForce4Ultra/nForce4SLI boards so you know might be a very nice board after all and it is only $125. At least it has more features than that crap looking Chaintech VNF4 Zenith Value Edition...think about it...you're gonna pay for 2000 HTT when maybe the 1600 HTT will help you out more if you are an ocer...I wouldn't...you'll have to pay at least $100 more because that GA-K8NXP-9 on NF4U is $235 least I've seen it...think about it....

:thumbsup:

My GA-K8NF-9 is due to arrive this week. I hope everything turns out fine...

Could you please keep me informed of the GA_K8NF-9 as I'm thinking of purchasing as it's the cheapest NF4 ,PCI-x, 939 board out.

Also confirm if it is locked down to prevent Oc'ing

 

[bap4201]

thanks

 

[Trente]

Hi bobalong!

My K8NF-9 will arrive later this week. In the meantime, you can obtain answers to all your questions by running a search here on AT forums.

Also, check this link:

http://www.rhcf.com/sisubb/ultimatebb.php/forum/41.html

AFAIK, the board has all the OC features of its bigger brother, the K8NXP-9/SLI. It has the same footprint as Gigabyte's flagship Ultra&SLI boards which have been reviewed here on AT, OCWorkbench and tbreak and were found rather successful boards all-around! The only "downside", is the inability to work at the full speed of 1000MHz HTT, but that has little to no impact on performance. a great value IMHO.

 

[rhwimmers]

Anyone with the K8NF9 have 2 capture cards they can put in and see if they can get 2 of them to work?

Thanks

 

[Martok]

I own a GA-K8NF-9 for 4 weeks now.
It runs perfectly stable on HT 1000/2000 same as the ULTRA version.
Performance is the same with HT 800 or 1000 thou.

I run my system at 10X250 for 4 week almost continuously and so far it's stable as a rock!

 

[shira]

Originally posted by: Martok
I own a GA-K8NF-9 for 4 weeks now.
It runs perfectly stable on HT 1000/2000 same as the ULTRA version.
Performance is the same with HT 800 or 1000 thou.

I run my system at 10X250 for 4 week almost continuously and so far it's stable as a rock!

This doesn't make sense. Are you sure the board isn't somehow automatically lowering the FSB frequency to 200MHz (to maintain the HT speed at 4x200 = 800MHz)?

 

[narcotic]

shira, I don't know if this link has been posted allready on this thread or not, but maybe you should read it, and be convinced that this board can actually run at 5x / 1000 MHz and stable.

 

[shira]

Originally posted by: narcotic
shira, I don't know if this link has been posted allready on this thread or not, but maybe you should read it, and be convinced that this board can actually run at 5x / 1000 MHz and stable.

Thanks, Narcotic. Who'd a thunk it? I learn something new (and usually many things) on AT every day.

 

[DrCrap]

are all the boards of the same A02 version?

 

[acadia111]

Originally posted by: travd
What other features are missing, if overclocking isn't important. SATA300 only going to run at 300 with expensive HDs.

In this price range would it still be better to get a nforce 3 mobo (Neo2platinum etc) to have 2Ghz HT with AGP graphics?

Expensive or not, there aren't going to be any single hard drive that can use 300MB/s worth of bandwidth. With two of the fastest SATA drives Western Digital Raptors 740 you'd still only use 140MB/s at maximum sustained transfer rate. Furthermore, the price from a 150MB or 300MB version of the same drive will be minimal, it's more a natural evolution, than a quantum leap in performance. All it means is you pack more drives on the SATA channels before you run out of bandwidth.