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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General Performance and Encoding
The DFI is one of the better performers among the Socket 754 boards in Content Creation, Business Winstone, and PCMark 2004. All of the boards are close at stock speeds. AutoGK is a newer benchmark at AnandTech, so the comparisons to the socket 939 FX53 were the only results available. We would expect encoding results with the 2.0GHz single-channel 3200+ with 1024k cache (or the 2.2GHz 512k alternate)to be much lower than the dual channel 2.4GHz FX53 with 1024k cache.
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Bozo Galora - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
#33 - yeah whats up with thatbest perf with one stick, but only 512
and BTW:ZZF had them $135, went out the door fast
ukDave - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
Also, i've just been checking DFI's site and it says it only supports 512MB DIMMs, bit of a bummer cos i was thinking of getting a single 1GB stick, sux0r.ukDave - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
Great article Wesley. Lucky for you guys in the states DFI's RMA process is actually good, here in Europe (UK) we have to deal with DFI NL (Netherlands), and they tbh are crap. So bad in-fact some retailers are debating whether to carry future boards from DFI. I certainly hope they do though, as this board sure looks like a belter, and it WILL be replacing my Asus K8V-SE Deluxe which has no PCI lock (although its still a great board).cnq - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
For everyone looking for "754 overclocking for dummies" guide: it's already been written. Check outhttp://www.dugu9tweaks.net/guides/a64oc/index.html
8NP4iN - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
/me wants oveclocking for dummies guide 2 :]sprockkets - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
No UV reactive green like the other boards? :(JBT - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
Wow looks like a sweet board maybe I can pick up one of these instead of my weak OCing 8KDA3JWesley Fink - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
#23-#26 -You are correct. Since the board was sent without the usual manual, I assumed the SATA ports between the AGP slot and CPU socket were SATA 1 and 2. I now have the manual file, and in fact those ports are identified as SATA 3 and 4.
The 250GB SATA drive was connected to SATA 3 for the overclocking tests.
alex1971 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
S-ATA 3+4 are OK for HTT > 240 MhzS-ATA 1+2 finished at HTT > 240 Mhz because of the external PHY !!!!
alex1971 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link