Do you guys have any suggestions on what the best board for this would be? I'm rma'ing/returning a DFI Ultra-D because the chipset fried itself for no reason while I was installing it. So I'm looking for a good replacement overclocking board up to 200 bucks.....so any suggestions?
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Best overclocking 939 nf4 motherboard
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If I had money, I woulda opted for the SLI-DR Expert. It has the new layout:
-more room between successive PCI-E slots
-rotated 90degrees, ram slots moved.
It'll run you $180+, which is quite a bit above the <$130 Ultra-D.
If you're planning to do SLI, the DR Expert is your choice, no question.
-more room between successive PCI-E slots
-rotated 90degrees, ram slots moved.
It'll run you $180+, which is quite a bit above the <$130 Ultra-D.
If you're planning to do SLI, the DR Expert is your choice, no question.
This worries me - just how much experience do you have putting PCs together?
Went through the ram with the onboard ram test several times for each stick. I also checked with ram I know for a fact is good from another system. Besides the lan ports were wigging out and refusing to work period. I doubt its the cpu since it was working perfectly fine before I put it into that board and the same with the powersupply.
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best overclocking board tccd ram is ultra-d. best for bh5 or infineon is expert. i'm reading expert is having some probs with psu's. if you dont want another dfi, try epox 9npa series or the tforce.
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another vote for DFI lanparty
I've got a silverstone SLI powersupply. The psu is fine. And my point on the chipset is I built the machine safely out of the case to install and had fans blowing directly onto the chipset and the machine was doing nothing and the stupid chipset still heated to well over 50c in no time. Add in the fact when I managed to get XP installed neither of the nics wanted to work period. Ya know bad boards just happen.
only reason i didnt go DFI is theres no post code window and i NEED it cuz i suck at putting em together. got me an an8 ultra . and why is the ultra-D better for TCCD ram? i have that ram and was wondering maybe i can become a DFI converter. also does DFI have a windows overclocking utility? like abit's GURU?
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tvdang7 said:
i dont know why its better for tccd ram, thats just the way it is. you will get more out of your tccd on the ultra-d than any other board. dfi does not have an overclocking utility like oc guru but on the driver cd there is a copy of clockgen, also a copy of smartspeed. you can use systool also, which will overclock everything thru windows, and allow you to change ram timings while in windows, and run stability tests, and monitor your fan speed, temps and voltages.
Yeah, but A64 Tweaker let's other mobos use the same 143/150 dividers that DFI has. In effect, the only real thing you get a DFI for is voltages and generally OC-ability.
If you only need something like 250-270FSB, pretty much any board will give you that. But when I found out my Opty did 10 x 300 (with not that much voltage), I probably could have gone with another board.
Meh.
If you only need something like 250-270FSB, pretty much any board will give you that. But when I found out my Opty did 10 x 300 (with not that much voltage), I probably could have gone with another board.
Meh.