DFI LANParty UT nF3-250Gb: Overclocker's Dream
by Wesley Fink on September 8, 2004 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
Performance Test Configuration: DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb
If you are interested in more information comparing the Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX, LGA 775 Prescott, P4, and P4EE, please see our indepth comparisons in the recent reviews:Intel's 925X & LGA-775: Are Prescott 3.6 and PCI Express Graphics any Faster?
Intel 925X/915: Chipset Performance & DDR2
Socket 939 Chipsets: Motherboard Performance & PCI/AGP Locks
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ and FX-53: The First 939 CPUs
The Athlon 64 FX-53: AMD's Next Enthusiast Part
Intel's Pentium 4 E: Prescott Arrives with Luggage
Athlon64 3400+: Part 2
AMD's Athlon 64 3400+: Death of the FX-51
Athlon64 3000+: 64-bit at Half the Price
| Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor(s): | AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2.0GHz) |
| RAM: | 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3200 EL Platinum Rev.2 2 x 512MB Mushkin PC3500 Level II or 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3500 Platinum Ltd |
| Hard Drive(s): | Maxtor 250GB 7200 RPM IDE (16MB Buffer) |
| Video AGP & IDE Bus Master Drivers: | NVIDIA nForce Platform Driver 4.24 (5-10-2004) VIA 4in1 Hyperion 4.51 (12-02-2003) |
| Video Card(s): | ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB (AGP 8X) |
| Video Drivers: | ATI Catalyst 4.8 |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP1 |
| Motherboards: | DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb Abit KV8 PRO (VIA K8T800 PRO) Chaintech VNF3-250 (nVidia nForce3-250) Epox 8KDA3+ (nVidia nForce3-250Gb) Gigabyte K8NSNXP nVidia nForce3-250) MSI K8N Neo (nVidia nForce3-250Gb) nVidia nForc3-250Gb Reference Board |
Current testing of Socket 754 Athlon 64 motherboards used OCZ PC3200 EL Platinum Rev. 2, which is based on Samsung TCCD memory chips. Earlier tests of Socket 754 boards used either Mushkin PC3500 Level II or OCZ PC3500 Platinum Ltd memory modules. Both these memories use Winbond BH5 chips, which have been discontinued. All benchmarks used 2-2-2-10 memory timings regardless of memory used.
Performance tests were run with the ATI 9800 PRO 128MB video card with AGP Aperture set to 128MB with Fast Writes enabled. Resolution in all benchmarks is 1024x768x32 unless otherwise noted.
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leexgx - Thursday, November 4, 2004 - link
the 939 AMD cpu will only be my upgrade path (unless i wait and some thing els comes out)my NF7-S v2.0 mobo has 2x faster mem speed then an s754 so in my view it be an Downgrade if i whent to it
my upgrade (dream at the mo :)
MSI K8N Neo2 (waiting for the nForce4 ultra to comes out) or something like it (but nf4 chip)
3500+ 939 (mite even wait for the 4000+ or the FX55 to come down in price)
2x 512 ddr 400 OCZ low latency stuff (or other stuff that mite run better then OCZ)
MiLaMber - Sunday, October 31, 2004 - link
HmmWhy on earth bring out this board for s754 NOW??
Do they honestly think ppl would have waited this long for s754? They SHOULD have made it s939.
I see this as lost revenue for DFI.
Fantastic board yes, but for those who are looking to currently upgrade, will there be many who opt for this baord over a s939?
I wish they had brought it out as a s939, as I would forget about buying an MSI K8N Neo2 in an instant.
Its all well and good having the best board, but you need to have some savvy to, and think about when the introduction of your board will result in the greatest revenue!
And thats just plain common sense.
tchuyev - Monday, October 25, 2004 - link
So... using 3 SATA disks in a RAID0 array (using SATA ports 2 & 3 + 1 or 2, along with 2 * 512 OCZ PC-4200), I can't overclock the motherboard any higher than 240 FSB, right ?Using both the nForce & Marvell SATA controlers with the same 3 SATA disks on a RAID0 array : is it more likely to cause a performance drop - comparing to 2 disks on ports 3 & 4 - more than anything else ?
In my case, wouldn't it be thus better to go for a Silicon Image 3114r instead, like on the Asus K8N-E Deluxe ?
Thanx a bunch ;)
GGiovanni - Saturday, October 9, 2004 - link
Is there any detail regarding the memory DDR616 bandwidth since this mb uses on single channel setup? I'm interested on bandwidth when oc , not only low CAS o other tweaks.Happy Buddha - Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - link
Opps! Looks like I have double personality and they bot want to know what RAM have you bought.=:p
Happy Buddha - Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - link
#47 - What RAM stick are you using?!? I have never seen a review on the Net that was able to pull these timing @245mhz Fsb..Happy Buddha - Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - link
#47 - What RAM Stick are you using? I have never seen any review out there that have been able to push these timing at 245Mhz FSB...eva2000 - Monday, September 20, 2004 - link
awesome review.. just got my DFI Lanparty UT NF3-250Gb 3 days ago and posted results at http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=142 with my AMD64 3400+ @ 11x 245HTT = 2695mhz and ram at 245mhz 2-2-2-6 1T !JustAnAverageGuy - Sunday, September 12, 2004 - link
"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."I nearly missed that paragraph. Perhaps you should make it stand out a little better?
Cygni - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - link
If it does come in around that price point, DFI will move ALOT of these things...