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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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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rjm55 - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - link
Saw the DFI at www.gameve.com for $130. ZZF had them for a bit at a similar price. It looks like it will be affordable.deathwalker - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - link
Sweet Mobo...sounds inviting for my planned system upgrade from my Abit NF7-S with my O/C 2500 mobility proc...only concern...will I have to mortgage my home to be able to afford this board...afterall..these goodies do come with a price tag.rjm55 - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - link
Which is the better overclocker - the 2.0 1024k 3400+ or the 2.2 512k 3400+? Has anyone tested both?Wesley Fink - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - link
#40 - Both versions of the 3200+ are now mentioned at the bottom of page 9 - 2.0GHz with 1024k cache and 2.2GHz with 512k cache. Our test 3200+ was a 2.0GHz 1024k version.Jedi2155 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
did anyone else noticed the error about the 3200+ @ the bottom of page 9 :-).rjm55 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
I'm releived to know 1GB dimms work fine. It didn't make sense that other 754 had no problems with 1GB dimms and this one did. I'm glad DFI cleared up the confusion.Wesley Fink - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
I just spoke with Oskar Wu, the board's designer. Oskar says they have 1GB dimms from Samsung that work fine on the LANParty UT, and that the Samsung 1GB dimms use 512MB chips in their construction. He said the only reason for the caution on 512MB chips (not dimms) was because they have not verified operation with dimms made with 1GB chips. All of the 1GB dimms I have here for testing use 512MB chips in their construction.Oskar also stated that 2 dimms work best in dimm slots 1 and 2, and not 1 and 3. He said try 1 and 2 and you will get better performance with 2 dimms.
Bozo Galora - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
I just went there to check it out - #33 was wrong.It supports 512 MegaBIT DEVICES - DRAMS, not sticks.
cnq - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
Yeah, I saw that too. I didn't know that any 754 motherboards forbade using a 1GB DIMM. Who knows, maybe it's a misprint on DFI's part...we can always hope.laxxy - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
where does it say it supports only 512M?here:
http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_deta...
it states that it
> Supports up to 3GB memory when using DDR333
> Supports up to 2GB memory when using DDR400
???