DFI or MSI nForce 4 Ultra?

[Chinoman]

I'm going for whichever one has better features and stablity. Is the DFI still good?

 

[thanatos355]

the dfi ultra-d has been nothing but stable for me.

 

[Sniper82]

Originally posted by: thanatos355
the dfi ultra-d has been nothing but stable for me.

same so far

 

[manisero]

msi's been very stable for me, both great mobos get the cheaper, or whichever one you think looks better (pst MSI!!! )

 

[Gikaseixas]

Go for the DFI, mine is doing great, very stable and if later u decide to overclock this is the best board.

 

[thanatos355]

Originally posted by: manisero
msi's been very stable for me, both great mobos get the cheaper, or whichever one you think looks better (pst MSI!!! )

nah, who wants all that pastel purple on their board?

 

[Cares]

DFI is awesome and perfect for the future with 10000000 SATA ports ...

 

[imported_Kensai]

They're both nice boards. I personally like the MSI.

 

[DfiDude]

which one faster w/o overclocking?

 

[mdchesne]

MSI, DFI is mainly used for memory and cpu overclocking. You'd actually see the diference of which one is made for overclockers in the BIOS. DFI has like 8 settings for the memory voltages alone.

 

[thanatos355]

not to mention the dram timings! it's just crazy!

 

[DfiDude]

o0o0o thats crazy 8 setting just for memory. Well i have a question for the msi, can it go up to 2.6 easily with some Geil Ultra X?

 

[DfiDude]

sorry to say what type of cpu, say if you a amd athlon 3500+ winnie can u make it go up to 2.7/2.8?

 

[mdchesne]

likely, yes. stable, probally. MSI is good for some overclocks. but you have to disable the DOT feature that coems with it (Dynamic Overclocking T...soomething)...it seems to screw up major overclocks. 5-15%, no prob, but puching it manually past that, disable.

 

[DfiDude]

ooo ok thank you for telling me im planning on getting the msi neo4 in the summer with the rest of the computer parts im getting. What ram do u suggest getting for the msi neo 4 platinum?

 

[mdchesne]

i'm just using crucial value select. ram doens't really affect AMDs that much. in fact, alot of the forums on this site about "should I upgrade to pc-4000" seem to come back "the differences will be negligible"

check MSI's homepage for tested-true ram. I know the crucial work for a fact, but if you want something a little more performance-savy, take a look at the compitibility list. GL

 

[DfiDude]

thank you very much

 

[slash196]

It's a great board. Just do yourself a favor, and buy RAM that is on the approved list. COrsair Value...don't go there.

 

[mdchesne]

corsair value IS on the approved list and it works just as fine as the XMS series

 

[Sniper82]

Yeah my 1gb Corsair Value works prime and memtest stable for hours.

 

[DragonClaw]

DFI

 

[Chinoman]

Which has better features?

 

[DfiDude]

MSI

 

[Snowice]

dfi is a better board, but if u need more than 4 sata connectors, go for msi...

 

[anarchyreigns]

....or in that case, you could go with the DFI Ultra DR, which has an additional 4 SATA connectors, for a total of 8.