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looking for suggestions - nF2 board

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NogodZ

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I tried searching, but "Search feature disabled by admin...."

I know this has been asked a lot, but:

Looking for a replacement board (seems like my Epox 8RDA+ got killed by a Northbridge voltage mod).

System is 2700+, watercooled CPU, Northbridge, and Video card.
Looking for something with all the tweaks, especially Vdd, and capable of high FSB speeds (225+, stable)

Don't care about other extras, but integrated sound and LAN would be nice. Also would need the 4 CPU mounting holes!
Read some recent reviews on the main page, and nothing is juming out at me, as far as being a great overclocker..

Thanks for any advice!

S
 
as always, the nf7 is a good bet. theres also the dfi infinity which looks pretty cool.
 
I personally enjoy my Shuttle AN35 Ultra. The only thing is it doesn't have onboard SATA.
 
Abit NF7-S rev 2 from NewEgg. Got the integrated sound, Lan, Firewire, xtra USB ports, and SATA. O/C features you want too! It's the $hit!
 
Thanks for the replies. For some reason, even though I have email notification on, I got none. And if I try to search, it still says it has been disabled by the admin.
Does anyone else have this problem?

In any case, I ended up trying a DFI Ultra (not the Lanparty) and was initially impressed with it.
I was able to boot into XP at 245MHz FSB, and run stable benchmarks at around 230 (with PC3200@CAS2.5). Then things got weird. Really weird.

The 245MHz FSB speeds were attained with minimal voltage increases (0.1 at most on CPU, DIMM, and chipset). I have CPU, northbridge, and Video water cooled. Everything was nice and cool.
I left UD running overnight, after determining that that max stable FSB my RAM would run was around 230 (done with CPU multiplier set low, so FSB was the limiting factor). I felt that was a good stopping point, then I would continue with finding the max stable overall speed with various voltages, etc, later on.
(this is me)
http://www.grid.org/services/teams/...07082E-0CDE-4E2C-935D-62062F6552BC&ord=POINTS

Anyway, the next day, things were running fine.
All the previous testing was done at CAS2.5, and it occured to me that I should try 3 before writing the RAM off at 230MHz.

The board would not POST. I reset CMOS. No POST. Pulled all the power, reset CMOS again, no POST. At this point, I didn't know what to think. I was sure nothing was damaged by heat or overvoltage, because I barely raised voltage, and everything was cool.
Long story short, I was able to get the board to POST, but intermittently. Meaning for no apparent reason, it would POST/boot up fine. Then, for example, with everything at default speeds, and FSB at 166MHz, with one stick of RAM, I powered down to put the other stick in. Put it in, no POST.

I checked all components, CPU, Video, RAM, in another machine, they are all fine. I checked everything for a short.
I'm left thinking it has to be something with the board, some kind of hairline defect, etc. When the system is running, I can press on the board, very firmly, or jiggle the RAM, and it's rock solid. Power off, and power on, no POST, no nothing.
So, it's getting RMA'd. I think I've made my best effort to make it work.
Next on the list will be the NF7 I guess!

p.s., I still have the DFI, if anyone has any suggestions before I send it back, I'm listening.

NogodZ
 
Originally posted by NogodZ
Thanks for the replies. For some reason, even though I have email notification on, I got none. And if I try to search, it still says it has been disabled by the admin.
Does anyone else have this problem?

NogodZ
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Yes, everyone has this problem. The search is turned off for the time being:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=698688

Also, I don't really know anything about the DFI board you bought, but I just recently bough an NF7 (not the NF7-S, cause I don't need the SATA, and such) with a 2500+and I am wholly impressed with it. Worked right out of the box just fine. It started up at 197 mHz FSB with stock cooling on that processor too, which I was fairly impressed with (granted, its not stable there, but I'm still waiting for my water pump to get here, so we'll see then).

So yes, the NF7 gets a good review in my book. Get that, or the NF7-S v2. :)
 
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