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foxconn nforce4 motherboard

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mrscintilla

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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.
 
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.
 
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)
 
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
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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
 
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
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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.

 
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
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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.
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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

 
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).
 
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.
 
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