DFI NF II vs DFI NF II Ultra AL

Johnbear007

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It's quite a bit cheaper and I dont need Raid or sound. Are these the only real differences?

Also how does it stack up to nf 7s with these considerations
 

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John,

DFI accidentally shipped out their stock of boards before they remembered to forward one to me. There is a customer at AMDMB forums that has one, and one at OC forums that has one. Other than that, none others have come forward for help or to brag about it heh. I should be getting mine within the week, or possibly next week if you can wait that long. Its mainly a scaled down LP board, but dont quote me on that until I have had a day to spend with it in my case =)

Travis
 

Johnbear007

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Originally posted by: AngryGames
John,

DFI accidentally shipped out their stock of boards before they remembered to forward one to me. There is a customer at AMDMB forums that has one, and one at OC forums that has one. Other than that, none others have come forward for help or to brag about it heh. I should be getting mine within the week, or possibly next week if you can wait that long. Its mainly a scaled down LP board, but dont quote me on that until I have had a day to spend with it in my case =)

Travis

Thanks, the one thing I cant seem to determine about it, is if it is soundstorm, or not.... mcp or mcp-t?

let me know what you think

Thanks!
 

AngryGames

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its just an MCP, not the MCP-T

no SS audio, but it does have 6-channel with digital SPDIF.

If you want the pdf feature sheet (about 10k or so), please PM me with your email address and I will send it to you ;)

Plus I'll let you know when I actually have the board heh.

Travis
 

Johnbear007

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Originally posted by: AngryGames
its just an MCP, not the MCP-T

no SS audio, but it does have 6-channel with digital SPDIF.

If you want the pdf feature sheet (about 10k or so), please PM me with your email address and I will send it to you ;)

Plus I'll let you know when I actually have the board heh.

Travis

Ok thanks, I think I am going to go with that Soltek single channel board this time aournd as I want to order now, but I am still interested in this board for my next build. Let me know your thoughts after you have tested it thanks! :)
 

AngryGames

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np =) seems to be popular board, as newegg sold out within a day I think. Still waiting for more reports to come in...but for the price and feature set...looks pretty good.
 

Johnbear007

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Originally posted by: AngryGames
np =) seems to be popular board, as newegg sold out within a day I think. Still waiting for more reports to come in...but for the price and feature set...looks pretty good.

Yep. There seem to be alot of underated boards out there. The Ultra-AL looks like a GREAT board, and I would have waited but I am thinking that I want to go single channel for now, as I have no money to buy 1 gb of pc3200 :p I already have a gib of mixed pc21-- / pc2700 and that is going to give me fits (possibly) in dual channel.


I am sorry that it seems like most manufactures decided to ignore the nforce2 400 and only make dual channel ultra boards. From the looks of the Soltek it is a great and fast chipset. I really like the looks of that soltek board but a couple things worry me:

They dont sell in north america anymore, they pulld out so does that mean I would have to ship internationally for an RMA?

And second it is almost a little too barebones :p but I do love the purple color. no retention clip on the AGP slot. How big of a deal is that?

 

AngryGames

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hrmm..i didnt notice there wasnt an AGP clip =( Ill check that out when I get it heh.

They do make single channel NF2 boards...I just read a reveiw about the difference between the ASUS A7N8X (Dual Channel) and the ASUS A7N8X-X (single chan).

mostly the DC board wins by a few frames per second or percentage points...but most of the tests are dead even! And the -X is cheaper, and should not have the problems of dc boards. Should is the key lol.

I don't know much about solteks =( Other htan the Purple-Ray boards were very good, and really started this whole 'lets make our mobo's pretty and fast!' thing =)
 

Johnbear007

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Originally posted by: AngryGames
hrmm..i didnt notice there wasnt an AGP clip =( Ill check that out when I get it heh.

They do make single channel NF2 boards...I just read a reveiw about the difference between the ASUS A7N8X (Dual Channel) and the ASUS A7N8X-X (single chan).

mostly the DC board wins by a few frames per second or percentage points...but most of the tests are dead even! And the -X is cheaper, and should not have the problems of dc boards. Should is the key lol.

I don't know much about solteks =( Other htan the Purple-Ray boards were very good, and really started this whole 'lets make our mobo's pretty and fast!' thing =)

Oh sorry to confuse you, I meant that the Soltek NV400 didnt have an AGP clcik :p Sorry for mixing it up for you And I meant it was a shame that DFI didnt mkae the -AL on the single channel chipset.
 

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When I looked at the DFI page before, it said just MCP, but where they talked about the LAN, they say it is the Nvidia provided LAN.

" LAN

nVIDIA® nForce2 MCP and ICS1893 Phy chips
Integrated IEEE 802.3, 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX compatible PHY

"

It was the MCP-T that had LAN, I thought. MCP-T has both LAN and sound. You get both or neither. Of course they don't have to use the Nvidia sound. But since they do use it on the LAN Party, why would they do that?

Nvidia Soundstorm Table

According to this link (which I just picked up from another thread) the DFI NFII Ultra-AL has MCP-T and SPP. It also seems to be Soundstorm certified because it has an x in the column just like the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe does, which is known to have Soundstorm. So which is it really?


If somebody has this motherboard, it is easy to see the markings on the chip. (The other big, square one, the SPP, is covered with a heatisink.) I know the LAN Party version of the motherboard, which I have, has the MCP-T.

 

Johnbear007

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Originally posted by: KF
When I looked at the DFI page before, it said just MCP, but where they talked about the LAN, they say it is the Nvidia provided LAN.

" LAN

nVIDIA® nForce2 MCP and ICS1893 Phy chips
Integrated IEEE 802.3, 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX compatible PHY

"

It was the MCP-T that had LAN, I thought. MCP-T has both LAN and sound. You get both or neither. Of course they don't have to use the Nvidia sound. But since they do use it on the LAN Party, why would they do that?

Nvidia Soundstorm Table

According to this link (which I just picked up from another thread) the DFI NFII Ultra-AL has MCP-T and SPP. It also seems to be Soundstorm certified because it has an x in the column just like the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe does, which is known to have Soundstorm. So which is it really?


If somebody has this motherboard, it is easy to see the markings on the chip. (The other big, square one, the SPP, is covered with a heatisink.) I know the LAN Party version of the motherboard, which I have, has the MCP-T.



Hmm thats interesting. If this motherboard did in fact have the MCP-T it would be one heck of a deal for it's going price.