Anyone remember DFI Lan Party Motherboards?

[freeagentt]

I had a Celeron 600 that I dailyed at 1080. Things will never be the same again, so much untapped potential.

More than half of my cores boost to 5850ish, from a base of 4400, that is about as good as things will get for me on this setup.

Just wait till they take tuning away.

 

[M76]

Just wait till they take tuning away.

They already did. "Boost" headroom is what used to be overclocking. Sure you can squeeze a few extra out of it, but it's just not worth the time, the heat load and power consumption.

 

[skiddy]

This thread got me to pull this out of my garage. I had fond memories of DFI - they overclocked great but were quite quirky. This board in particular, I remember it not posting if I can case fans plugged into the mobo chassis fan headers. Drove me nuts for about 48 hours trying to troubleshoot it. I think this was their last flagship board before they exited the consumer market. They were usually cool looking, sometimes in a hideous way:

 

[Dan_D]

This thread got me to pull this out of my garage. I had fond memories of DFI - they overclocked great but were quite quirky. This board in particular, I remember it not posting if I can case fans plugged into the mobo chassis fan headers. Drove me nuts for about 48 hours trying to troubleshoot it. I think this was their last flagship board before they exited the consumer market. They were usually cool looking, sometimes in a hideous way:

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I used to own that one too. I think its the very last DFI motherboard I reviewed for [H]ard|OCP back in the day.

 

[freeagentt]

They already did. "Boost" headroom is what used to be overclocking. Sure you can squeeze a few extra out of it, but it's just not worth the time, the heat load and power consumption.

To me it is lol. 200MHz is 200Mhz

My 9900X is fairly easy to cool considering the clocks it hits. They respond well to power, they do not like weak cooling that is for sure.

 

[chameleoneel]

I had a DFI board with an AGP slot, for my socket 939 Athlon 64. But it died after less than a month.

PCI Express had released.....so I got an Albatron K8SLI. Which I will never forget, due to the double-barrel tank for the box art:
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/albatron-k8sli/2.html

I sold my AGP Geforce 6800 and got two of the PCIe version of it. To be exact, it was two Dell System pull Geforce 6800 PCIe version, I got on Ebay.

The Albatron board was great. But, SLI was messy. So I eventually got rid of that, and I went MATX with an BIOSTAR TForce6100-939 (great board) and an ATI Radeon X800 XT. Which I of course, built into an Aspire X-Qpack case. And I haven't built a full ATX system, since.
And I've been ITX, since 2016.

 

[Maxtor]

Socket 939 Athlon 64 was for the first time AMD beat intel in CPU performance ?

 

[chameleoneel]

Socket 939 Athlon 64 was for the first time AMD beat intel in CPU performance ?

Solidly beat.

However, Athlon XP was neck and neck, IIRC.

 

[Gillbot]

Had a DFI NF4 SLI-DR Expert, tried to upload a pic but my iPad sucks.

 

[wicktr0n_]

Had a DFI NF4 SLI-DR Expert, tried to upload a pic but my iPad sucks.

Man, I loved the nForce platform.

 

[DrezKill]

Back in 2004 I helped a friend build a secondary PC that was built around a DFI LANParty nForce 2 Ultra B motherboard (his primary PC was an Alienware with nForce 3 and Athlon FX-51 and SATA-1 RAID 0). These are the only pics I found:

 

[DrezKill]

In 2006 I built myself a new PC with a DFI LANParty nForce 4 Ultra-D. I ran an overclocked Opteron 165 on this board. That CPU was my first 64-bit CPU, my first dual-core CPU, and the first CPU I ever overclocked. Using the stock cooler I was able to go from 1.8 GHz to 2.4 GHz (I was afraid to go higher cuz I didn't wanna fuck with the voltages), and two of my friends (one of which who was using the same motherboard) got to 2.7 GHz. This motherboard was my first board with PCI-Express. The northbridge cooler died within a year and I replaced it with an all-copper one.

 

[Dan_D]

God those boards were hideous. That being said, some of the other boards on the market were much uglier.

 

[skiddy]

That was my last board before I switched to Intel for 12 years in 2007/2008. Had it paired with an Opteron 165 if I recall correctly. Would have likely kept it, but I sold it to a coworker

 

[DrezKill]

That was my last board before I switched to Intel for 12 years in 2007/2008.

I switched to Intel in 2008 with X38. Then I went to X58 then X99. Finally came back to AMD with X470.

 

[DrezKill]

God those boards were hideous. That being said, some of the other boards on the market were much uglier.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I used to like the look of that LANParty nForce 2 board! The nForce 4 board not so much. Now I look back on both and I'm like "ugh, that is too much!" Some garish-ass shit if ever I've seen such. I still really like blacklights and UV-reactive stuff though. Even my current PC has blacklights in it (but no UV-reactive stuff). But back in the 2000s, yyeeaahh I was all over that shit. Back then I was always sad that more motherboard makers (or PC part makers in general) didn't have UV-reactive stuff.

 

[Dan_D]

There was a lot of garish shit back in the day.

 

[David-Duc]

DFI wasn't as expensive as say ASUS or ABIT boards were. Not that I recall anyway. They certainly were more expensive than say EPoX (another shitty brand people loved for some reason), FIC and the like.

Have you ever touch any Soltek boards? IIRC they were the first one to come out with a white motherboard.

 

[Dan_D]

Have you ever touch any Soltek boards? IIRC they were the first one to come out with a white motherboard.

Yes. Back in the early 2000's I worked in a tech shop repairing and building computers, printers, monitors and laptops. I've had to deal with just about every brand and OEM you can imagine. Most of which aren't even around anymore.

 

[pendragon1]

IIRC they were the first one to come out with a white motherboard.

and one of the first with black, and i cant think of another that did purple... built the boss' work machine(early athlon 64) with one of the black ones with purple slots. (a K8AN variant i think)

 

[Starfalcon]

and one of the first with black, and i cant think of another that did purple... built the boss' work machine(early athlon 64) with one of the black ones with purple slots. (a K8AN variant i think)

Soltek was the one with the purple socket 754 board, still have mine sitting in a purple alienware cheiftec case.

 

[pendragon1]

Soltek was the one with the purple socket 754 board, still have mine sitting in a purple alienware cheiftec case.

yeah thats the brand we're currently talking aboot. i just dont remember if it was the k8an or k8an2, was 20 years ago...
something like this one:

 

[Starfalcon]

yeah thats the brand we're currently talking aboot. i just dont remember if it was the k8an or k8an2, was 20 years ago...
something like this one:
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Yup, thats the board I got Soltek SL-K8AN2E-GR. It was my main torrent box back in the day, and just kept chugging away 24/7 getting those distros for about 5 years or so.

 

[Eivind68]

Still got a DFI Lan Party mb in a box somewhere, with an Opteron 165 IIRC. Loved it, may be the foundation of a retro build sometime, as I have a Thermaltake Khandalf cabinet, disks and some other parts lying around too.

 

[KazeoHin]

I remember in the early 2000s when I was in high school I built a few PCs with this brand. Whatever happened to them?

Remember them...?


... How could I forget them?​

 

[daglesj]

Always remember the "yes you DO need to plug the MOLEX in!" on the forums.