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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Performance Test Configuration: DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb
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| Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor(s): | AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2.0GHz) |
| RAM: | 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3200 EL Platinum Rev.2 2 x 512MB Mushkin PC3500 Level II or 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3500 Platinum Ltd |
| Hard Drive(s): | Maxtor 250GB 7200 RPM IDE (16MB Buffer) |
| Video AGP & IDE Bus Master Drivers: | NVIDIA nForce Platform Driver 4.24 (5-10-2004) VIA 4in1 Hyperion 4.51 (12-02-2003) |
| Video Card(s): | ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB (AGP 8X) |
| Video Drivers: | ATI Catalyst 4.8 |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP1 |
| Motherboards: | DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb Abit KV8 PRO (VIA K8T800 PRO) Chaintech VNF3-250 (nVidia nForce3-250) Epox 8KDA3+ (nVidia nForce3-250Gb) Gigabyte K8NSNXP nVidia nForce3-250) MSI K8N Neo (nVidia nForce3-250Gb) nVidia nForc3-250Gb Reference Board |
Current testing of Socket 754 Athlon 64 motherboards used OCZ PC3200 EL Platinum Rev. 2, which is based on Samsung TCCD memory chips. Earlier tests of Socket 754 boards used either Mushkin PC3500 Level II or OCZ PC3500 Platinum Ltd memory modules. Both these memories use Winbond BH5 chips, which have been discontinued. All benchmarks used 2-2-2-10 memory timings regardless of memory used.
Performance tests were run with the ATI 9800 PRO 128MB video card with AGP Aperture set to 128MB with Fast Writes enabled. Resolution in all benchmarks is 1024x768x32 unless otherwise noted.
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ciwell - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
"Overclocking for Dummies"I like the sound of that! :D
punko - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
Impressive Article !Can't wait for the first edition of Anantech's "Overclocking for Dummies"
as the whole concept of FSB and memory tweaking both interests and scares me.
Now if only I could justify to the wife retiring my current rig . . .
gimper48 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
So when is the next overclockers guide? Can we expect to see this board in it?Wesley Fink - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
#1 - The Asus K8N-E will be included in a roundup of new 754 boards in the next week.#2,#4 - Corrections made
#7 - The final correct name of the series is LANParty UT, as you point out. The name has been corrected in the article. DFI considered many last minute changes - from full LANParty to bargain board. Final decisions were quite recent.
#9 - We received this production board by Express shipment direct from Taiwan on September 1, after several delays. We are told by DFI that this is the production board. DFI, like other manufacturers, will likely make further improvements during the production run.
mikedustin - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
I've been waiting for this board for a long time, only one problem I have with it, why did they pick yellow? I was wanting UV green. :(Oh well, I hope it will match my green case anyway.
DFI is on the right track as a mobo maker, this board is just another big win for them.
tomati - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
I have read in other forum that DFI have postpose the 2 september to the 9 because of last change in the design board , so can I expect the same result as yours ?(you told about the pre version , right?)
tomati - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
geoff2k - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
Any reason that the review calls the board the "Lanparty UL NF3 250GB" and DFI's own site calls it the "Lanparty UT NF3 250GB"?Ecmaster76 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
Talking about weak SATA connectors...I just built a Shuttle XPC for a friend and it had custom SATA connectors on the board and (slightly) custom cables that make things a lot better. The board connector is a lot like a USB socket, it has an outer support ring with the original SATA data pins in the center (its backward compatible). The cable has added bits on it that make it snap into the board connector. No more accidentally pulle cable. I wish the SATA mechanical specs would be revised to such a system or something similar. The electrical aspects of SATA are awesome but they didn't put much though into the connectors.
kmmatney - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
"We were also able to complete stress testing at 300x8 with 2.5-3-4-10 memory timings. At that speed of 2.4Ghz at DDR600, we achieved the following results:Quake 3 - 474.0
Return to Castle Wolfenstein-Enemy Territory-Radar - 104.3 "
So...with overclocking the you saw the following increases?
Quake 3: 411 up to 474
Wolf-ET: 70 up to 104.3
Wow....