"Official" DFI nF4 Ultra-D / SLI-DR Thread

[Tripp17]

I have a good question.....i now have a A8N-SLI board, will i be able to just hook up this DFI board to my harddrive or will i have to restart from scratch? Basically, can i just take my motherboard out and put this in and act like nothing happened? They are both nforce 4 boards so........thoughts?

 

[wmansfield]

Originally posted by: Tripp17
I have a good question.....i now have a A8N-SLI board, will i be able to just hook up this DFI board to my harddrive or will i have to restart from scratch? Basically, can i just take my motherboard out and put this in and act like nothing happened? They are both nforce 4 boards so........thoughts?

You might have to reinstall some of the drivers for audio and such, but if you have Windows XP you should not have any problems. I don't trust 2000 with anything, and if you still use 98 you are on your own..

 

[unpossible]

Originally posted by: wmansfield

Originally posted by: unpossible
Anyone know if the Thermalright XP-120 fits on this MB?

It does.. think that was discussed earlier in this very thread...

d'oh. not sure how i mised those messages. sorry!

 

[Demo24]

Just ordered mine man what luck. I wasnt expecting to beable to see one in stores for sale until AT least next week WAHOO! Im guessing will be here next week sometime. Mondya or Tuesday Ill keep ya updated

 

[Vedder323]

so, will SLI users with the -D version be able to use current Nvidia drivers???

 

[CheesePoofs]

After so many paper releases, seeing this motherboard actually in stock is an amazing thing. for DFI.

 

[Waylay00]

So what RAM for this board? Besides G. Skill and OCZ VX

 

[Vedder323]

Zip zoom fly has Ultra-D back in stock!

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=246486

 

[mooncancook]

Originally posted by: Vedder323
Zip zoom fly has Ultra-D back in stock!

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=246486

They raised the price to $165 from $155 earlier. They probably saw new egg's pricing and then change theirs. where are the honest business men?

 

[Demo24]

lol I could have saved 9 bucks if I had waited till 10pm oh well I dont care anymore

 

[JerryT87]

Originally posted by: Vedder323
Zip zoom fly has Ultra-D back in stock!

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=246486

Yep, got mine on order Woot!! :beer:
The ol' T-Bird 1.4 gig is a bit long in the tooth.

 

[Tab]

HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT XP-120/Zalman 7700 SUPPORT

DIMMS under 40mm will fit with the XP-120 Picture

Zalman 7700 Support is unknown at this moment... Someone buy one!!!!

 

[Waylay00]

That's an XP-90 isn't it?

 

[Waylay00]

Nevermind, it is an XP-120, my error.

 

[TheInvincibleMustard]

Originally posted by: Tabb
HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT XP-120/Zalman 7700 SUPPORT

DIMMS under 40mm will fit with the XP-120 Picture

Zalman 7700 Support is unknown at this moment... Someone buy one!!!!

Thank-you for reposting what was already in the OP ... :roll:








Seriously, though, I've posted some speculations about how the Zalman coolers would fit, so it's not entirely unknown ...

 

[flexy]

Higher overclocks are achieved with the RAM in DIMM slots 2 & 4 (I can't for the life of me find this info, but I'm sure I read it (elsewhere than the AT review) ... any help from the forumgoers?)

in a thread on xtremesystems.org. I was just browsing but i gave up...too many postings. I even once cited this statement because someone else wanted to know.

I am almost positive OPP said it, he said he had a conversation with Oscar (i am quite certain he referred to him) who told him that for performance reasons it's certainly better to put the two sticks in Dimm2 and Dimm4.

OMG i found it :

***********
DoS..
here is the minor update :
I talked to Oskar yesterday, he told me that, the LP nf4 is a bit different from most 939 boards in terms of the way you plug in your ram sticks in as dual channel.
** Make sure you plug in 1,3 or 2,4. And if you don't mind, I would say 2,4 will get greater performance than 1,3!

I will have complete test on this Thursday or Friday for sure.
*******************
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=665268#post665268

Edit: Now, afterwards, it looks that Oscar himself did NOT say this..instead it might be a comment by OPP after mentioning the memory slots arrangment ?! Its not really clear.

Well...

 

[TheInvincibleMustard]

Aha. Yes. Thanks flexy ... and you're right ... in retrospect it does appear to be a comment by OPB. I'll mark it as a comment in the OP of this thread and we'll go from there.

 

[mooncancook]

got my fedex tracking number from new egg!! they are fast!

 

[tmchow]

can someone tell me how loud the chipset fan is on this board? I'm planning on building an HTPC around a socket 939 motherboard and have been waiting for the Auss A8N non-SLI board since the chipset is passively cooled. But who knows when that's going to come out... I"m getting a bit sick of waiting.

The DFI reviews are very good and people's experiences seem to be mirroring that. So I'm considering basing my HTPC aroudn the DFI NF4 UT board isntead of the Asus, but need to know:

1) how loud the chipset fan is?
2) will it fit an XP-90, XP-120 and/or Zlaman 7700AlCu?

 

[Bertzmaru]

on newegg it show that the ultra comes with a bridge....

can anyone confirm this????

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Man oh man is it tempting to buy now even though it should be cheaper. Just making sure I have the board when I get my video card, it'd suck to have to wait for a new shipment to get in if they sell out, or worse the price inflates even more. What to do, what to do...

 

[dababus]

I just noticed that dfi sli-dr comes with an orange uv sleeving kit.

 

[ryant]

Just ordered my DFI Ultra-D from Mittoni (Vic, AUS) for $330 AUD incl delivery.

Just for the record there are other cheaper places (but i dunno if theyre any good) you just have to scour google.com.au with "Search for pages from Australia" enabled.

http://www.hardwarecentral.com.au/

Ultra-D for AU$279.00 - Backorder (12th Feb)
SLI-DR for AU$389.00 - Backorder (18th Feb)

Cant find any reviews about this store, so i didnt really trust em - went with Mittoni AU$20 more but reliable.

Secondly - Just pays to wait. In this case the wait wasnt entirely my choice... I couldnt find the Gigabyte K8NXP-9 anywhere - and not being into SLI at the present time - didnt want to buy the Asus A8V-SLI. So when the DFI review came out ... well, you know the rest of the story.

Having an nf4 board that can be modded for SLI when the time is right is... just so .. very.. perfect.

Thirdly - I suppose im gona be the first to Run WinXp 64bit on this so ill let ya all know how it handles. Cant wait.

Finally - If all goes well by next Wednesday at the latest i should be running:

Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000BWA
400W Thermaltake Silentpower PSU
AMD64 3200+ Retail with Fan
Leadtek 6600 GT TDH Extreme
2 x 512MB Generic DDR 400 RAM
2 x WD 160GB HDD
Pioneer DVR-109 DVD Burner

Not an utter beast, but for the $1630 AUD ($1255 US) - damn thats good moolah pwnage.

Ill keep ya informed

 

[imported_Underpar]

just ordered mine from Zip also! can't wait to get it.

 

[TheInvincibleMustard]

Originally posted by: tmchow
1) how loud the chipset fan is?
2) will it fit an XP-90, XP-120 and/or Zlaman 7700AlCu?

1) From reports over on XtremeSystems, the chipset fan is actually pretty quiet, though there's no way to install an aftermarket one due to the placement.

2) This question is answered in the original post, to a certain extent. The XP-90 fits fine, the XP-120 fits, but blocks access to DIMM4, and I've posted some speculations about the Zalman coolers, since I haven't found anyone that confirms one way or the other.