DFI LANParty UT nF3-250Gb: Overclocker's Dream
by Wesley Fink on September 8, 2004 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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DX9 Gaming Performance
With our stock 3200+ and ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, the DFI is one of the better 2nd generation 754 boards. Standard performance tests demonstrate the DFI LANParty UT is very competitive with other recent Athlon 64 boards in Direct X 9 games, which is all we would expect. UT2004 and Far Cry include results from Socket 939 and Intel 775 for comparison. Since both the 939 and 775 results were with faster CPUs running an nVidia 6800 Ultra AGP 8X/PCIe, it is remarkable that the scores are as close as they are.
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alex1971 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
alex1971 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
I think its tested with Raid 3+4 that are the two native Ports directly at NF250GB.The Ports 1+2 are native also, but have to use an external PHY.
This Ports 1+2 are finished when HTT > 240 MHZ !!
Try it.....
Remeber: Main S-ATA Problems only at PORT 1+2 because of the PHY .....
Jeff7181 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
Glad I didn't buy a MSI K8N Neo Platinum yet... I'll wait for this board before I go A64. =)SLIM - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
Great article man, but I almost blew by the part where you mentioned that the Far Cry and UT results were with a 9800pro vs 6800ultras. You might consider putting asterisk on those graphs and bold or highlight the huge difference in graphics cards.It might help those who prefer to only look at the pretty pictures.
SLIM
PS: I second the Iwill board review request.
SUOrangeman - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
Review request: http://www.iwillusa.com/products/ProductDetail.asp...Although this is not a 754-pin mobo, the experience should be great nonetheless!
-SUO
at80eighty - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
i second..umm...third...punko's Anantech's "Overclocking for Dummies" idea...i'd LOVE to dig into my rig...but it kinda scares me if i f*ckup : )
Myrandex - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
I think the yellow looks cool, but a UV reactive plastic would have been cool along with it. This does seem a bit more of a 'budget' type board when compared to other LanParty series boards. I sure do like it a lot, and I have considered moving from my old MSI K8T Neo board to this one (so I am kinda happy about it being S754). I do wonder about the two SATA cables near the AGP socket, as they are extremely out of the way, and it brings more cable clutter to the center of the board.Wesley Fink - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
#16 - The test bed had a MaXLine III 250GB SATA hard drive with 16MB of buffer. We first tested with the SATA on Channel 1 between the AGP slot and the CPU -- the plan was to see where SATA failed and then switch to IDE to find the top OC. When we reached DDR600 then DDR616 while running this SATA drive we saw no point in the IDE switch. This board is really stable in OC - even with SATA.rjm55 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
You say on page 6 that you ran the overclocking tests with a SATA hard drive. Can you please confirm that you did DDR616 running a SATA hard drive, because I've read that SATA drives can hold back overclocking.Avalon - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
*drool*