foxconn nforce4 motherboard

[mrscintilla]

monarch has it for $99 and in-stock. seems feature-complete
wonder if it's a good board. too bad I already put out $200 for the a8n-sli

sorry, it's not 4x htt. it's even better, a ultra board. thanks for pointing out my mistake.

 

[Sniper82]

I am sure o/cing sucks on it. If I wasnt o/cing I wouldnt care much about brand and would go with the cheapest board out. Its probably a good board at stock settings.

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

I wouldn't be too sure, Foxconn have some boards that are actually quite good at overclocking.

 

[ts3433]

OCing probably will suck on it. 4x HT means it's the slightly crippled NF4 4x. This chipset doesn't support the 5x HT that most S939 processors do.

(Edit: I was just going off of what he said; didn't bother to look. My apologies. NF4U means it should be a decent board.)

(Edit2: D'oh. I must be having yet another bad day... see below)

 

[FastEddie]

Originally posted by: mrscintilla
monarch has it for $99 and in-stock. seems feature-complete w/ the 4x htt.
wonder if it's a good board. too bad I already put out $200 for the a8n-sli

Where are you getting that this is a 4X HT board.

It's a NF4Ultra with S-ATA II support, which isn't on the plain jane NF4 or the crippled X4 NF4 Gigabyte is using.

Serial ATA
Support for SATA 3Gb/s, 1.5Gb/s disk controller standards
Dual controller architecture providing full 3Gb/s bandwidth to each disk
Features 4 integrated SATA 3Gb/s ports ---> CK804K8MA-KS nForce 4

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

And 4x doesn't limit overclock - the best nForce A64 overclocking board to date is 4x (DFI nF3-250Gb).

 

[shira]

Originally posted by: mrscintilla
monarch has it for $99 and in-stock. seems feature-complete
wonder if it's a good board. too bad I already put out $200 for the a8n-sli

Seems I read a review of this board recently. Basically, as you might expect for this price, it's a "budget" board. The only real issue that the reviewer found (again, if I recall correctly) was that the NF4 chipset didn't have active cooling, just a heat sink. The reviewer actually burned out the NF4 chipset while attempting to overclock.

 

[bradley]

Originally posted by: shira

Originally posted by: mrscintilla
monarch has it for $99 and in-stock. seems feature-complete
wonder if it's a good board. too bad I already put out $200 for the a8n-sli

Seems I read a review of this board recently. Basically, as you might expect for this price, it's a "budget" board. The only real issue that the reviewer found (again, if I recall correctly) was that the NF4 chipset didn't have active cooling, just a heat sink. The reviewer actually burned out the NF4 chipset while attempting to overclock.

I believe you're referring to the Chaintech VNF4/Ultra VE, also a budget board. Yes, I read that review as well. I bet the heatsink needs to be lapped and reseated, and perhaps adding a small fan.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articl...chaintech-nforce4.html

 

[bradley]

Seems as if OCWorkbench is stepping up big time lately with the reviews. I just discovered their review for the Foxconn Winfast NF4UK8AA-8EKRS NF4... for the money, not too shabby. It's not a crippled NF4 with an HTT of 5X, only thing missing is a multiplier option and apparently a PCI-E lock.

http://www.ocworkbench.com/200...fast%20NF4UK8AA/g1.htm

 

[DavidHull]

That Foxconn board is a micro ATX board, right?

 

[Zap]

There's an ATX and a mATX version (each with sub-versions for features). The one linked above at OCW is the full ATX version. IIRC the ATX version has more overclocking features than the mATX. About par for the course. I wish companies would stop ignoring mATX board (and cases).

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

I agree.

Believe it or not, ASRock usually has interesting mATX boards. They don't have many OCing features but they have all the same features of their ATX boards.

The K8Upgrade-760GX is one of the few socket 754 mATX boards with working AGP/PCI locks.