DFI nForce4: SLI and Ultra for Mad Overclockers
by Wesley Fink on February 5, 2005 9:30 AM EST- Posted in
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The DFI nForce4 is competitive with other Athlon 64 boards in Business and Multi-Media Winstones, but it is hardly a standout performer as it is in gaming benchmarks. The DFI does, however, perform exceptionally well compared to the nForce4 Reference and other Athlon 64 boards in PCMark 2004 and the 2-pass Auto GK Media Encoding benchmark. It is clear that DFI is continuing to tweak stock performance as the stock scores in these benchmarks are much improved over results that we have seen from DFI in the past.
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Jynx980 - Wednesday, February 2, 2005 - link
Eh..whats the molex connector for? (4 picture, page 3, next to the fan connector) Just more power to the mobo? Havent put a new system together for awhile..TheInvincibleMustard - Wednesday, February 2, 2005 - link
Also, does anyone know if the SI3114 chip does on-chip parity calculation for its RAID-5 or is that shoved off to the CPU? It's sad to see that the SI3114 doesn't support SATA-II, either.ChineseDemocracyGNR - Wednesday, February 2, 2005 - link
#6,the first pics had the connector, but they have updated them since.
#8,
when nVidia says "top board maker" they don't care about quality, they care about how many chips the company buys from them. As an example I can mention Gigabyte and their nF3-Ultra boards.
#9,
I'm afraid that won't be possible until a new revision of the A64 is out.
#10,
24-pin.
reactor - Wednesday, February 2, 2005 - link
i count 24 pins..johnson - Wednesday, February 2, 2005 - link
Is it an atx 24 pin + 4 pin or the stated 20 pin + 4 pin?TheInvincibleMustard - Wednesday, February 2, 2005 - link
Looks like a fantastic board, but just sad that it can't handle 4 DS DIMMs at 1T. I was really looking forward to having 2GB memory and still great response times. Oh well.DFI's on my shortlist for my next purchase! (that is, if I can find them in stock ... they were at ZZF but sold out in about an hour (SLI) to two hours (Ultra) :`(
arfan - Wednesday, February 2, 2005 - link
Great Job 4 DFI, now they are not bad or middle board maker but in the top board maker. I afraid what nvidia will do with this ??? They will not keep silence see this DFI board :(Googer - Wednesday, February 2, 2005 - link
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=LANParty%20nF4...Penth - Wednesday, February 2, 2005 - link
I've already placed my order for one. I did see the SLI PCB connector in the box in all the pictures I saw, so I am disappointed to read that I won't actually be receiving one. I hope it isn't too difficult to get my hands on one.Avalon - Wednesday, February 2, 2005 - link
This board is perfect for PCI-e users. Hot damn.