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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rjm55 - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - link
Saw the DFI at www.gameve.com for $130. ZZF had them for a bit at a similar price. It looks like it will be affordable.deathwalker - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - link
Sweet Mobo...sounds inviting for my planned system upgrade from my Abit NF7-S with my O/C 2500 mobility proc...only concern...will I have to mortgage my home to be able to afford this board...afterall..these goodies do come with a price tag.rjm55 - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - link
Which is the better overclocker - the 2.0 1024k 3400+ or the 2.2 512k 3400+? Has anyone tested both?Wesley Fink - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - link
#40 - Both versions of the 3200+ are now mentioned at the bottom of page 9 - 2.0GHz with 1024k cache and 2.2GHz with 512k cache. Our test 3200+ was a 2.0GHz 1024k version.Jedi2155 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
did anyone else noticed the error about the 3200+ @ the bottom of page 9 :-).rjm55 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
I'm releived to know 1GB dimms work fine. It didn't make sense that other 754 had no problems with 1GB dimms and this one did. I'm glad DFI cleared up the confusion.Wesley Fink - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
I just spoke with Oskar Wu, the board's designer. Oskar says they have 1GB dimms from Samsung that work fine on the LANParty UT, and that the Samsung 1GB dimms use 512MB chips in their construction. He said the only reason for the caution on 512MB chips (not dimms) was because they have not verified operation with dimms made with 1GB chips. All of the 1GB dimms I have here for testing use 512MB chips in their construction.Oskar also stated that 2 dimms work best in dimm slots 1 and 2, and not 1 and 3. He said try 1 and 2 and you will get better performance with 2 dimms.
Bozo Galora - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
I just went there to check it out - #33 was wrong.It supports 512 MegaBIT DEVICES - DRAMS, not sticks.
cnq - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
Yeah, I saw that too. I didn't know that any 754 motherboards forbade using a 1GB DIMM. Who knows, maybe it's a misprint on DFI's part...we can always hope.laxxy - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
where does it say it supports only 512M?here:
http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_deta...
it states that it
> Supports up to 3GB memory when using DDR333
> Supports up to 2GB memory when using DDR400
???