"Official" DFI nF4 Ultra-D / SLI-DR Thread

[DavidK21770]

Originally posted by: DJFearache

Originally posted by: vanvock
What are chipset & system temps? Are you using Cool&Quiet? What did you change in BIOS? Does it still do it when at stock speeds? Have you run MemTest? You might want to use a mem divider.

cpu is idle 32 load 42
pwmic 34°c right now
chipset 45°c (it is a little lower room temp that's why)
on 12v rail I have 11.9v, 3.3v = 3.29v, 5v = 5.08v
I don't use C&Q.
I changed just the boot sequance, enabled SMART (for hard disks) and in the overclock page in the BIOS. I don't remember anything else that I changed.
It doesn't do the beep sound at stock speeds. Worked with mem deviders, again the same thing.
I will run mem-test but I am a little busy right now, I will run it laters and post the results.
tnx.

It really sounds like your MB is signalling something.
Try running prime95 for 8 hours. See if it reports any errors. Seems to be a good program for maximum heating / torture to make sure of stability. It's required by DFI Street to post a stable overclocked configuration. Choose options/torture test/small FFTs.

I'd also get motherboard monitor 5 and set it to log everything. Then, when it beeps, you can see the temps, etc that were there around the time of the beep. I think that the nvidia monitor that comes with the mb will also log.

 

[defghik]

Question: Will DDR500 RAM (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146397) work with the Ultra-D board? Sorry, I know its a n00b question, but I know almost nothing about RAM.

 

[vanvock]

Welcome & yes it should be fine.

 

[DJFearache]

I have good news
I have done a long c-cmos (about 1h!) and it stopped. Wooohooo
btw thanks on the tips

 

[nib95]

I just purchased a DFI Lanparty UT SLI-DR eXpert. Any tips, or nything I should know before I OC / install it?
It's to be used with an Operon 170 and Mushkin 2gb XP4000.

 

[d3lt4]

What is the difference between a lanparty board and a lanparty UT board? this is killing me.

 

[DavidK21770]

Originally posted by: nib95
I just purchased a DFI Lanparty UT SLI-DR eXpert. Any tips, or nything I should know before I OC / install it?
It's to be used with an Operon 170 and Mushkin 2gb XP4000.

Great board. Only thing that got me was that you start with memory slots 2/4, not 1/3. And, it defaults to 1T memory timing (agressive). If you have memory problems, set it for 2T (the default on most other boards).

If you're running SLI, remember to connect the extra power connector by the PCIe1 slot (a floppy connector). I connected it even before adding the 2nd card.

 

[Pens1566]

Originally posted by: DavidK21770

Originally posted by: nib95
I just purchased a DFI Lanparty UT SLI-DR eXpert. Any tips, or nything I should know before I OC / install it?
It's to be used with an Operon 170 and Mushkin 2gb XP4000.

Great board. Only thing that got me was that you start with memory slots 2/4, not 1/3. And, it defaults to 1T memory timing (agressive). If you have memory problems, set it for 2T (the default on most other boards).

If you're running SLI, remember to connect the extra power connector by the PCIe1 slot (a floppy connector). I connected it even before adding the 2nd card.

You really need to connect it no matter what. The guys(DFI Mods) at DFI street are adamant about it.

 

[EXman]

OK OK I admit it I'm a DFI Ultra-D RETARD! I remember days of OCing Celermine 300a's to 450Mhz. But something is not clicking in me melon for this A64?DFI combo

WTF I'm running 9*250 for 2.25 Ghz My ram is not going to much further is their a laymans way to run the memory asyncronus? Which part of BIOS? All I see is 1:1 and stuff that make me go slower? DFI street is information overload and there is too many bells and whistles it seems. There isn't I'm just frustrated and I don't have hours to fart around with this. (3 kids and I usually pass out at night )

I've read nearly everything at DFI street and I am still reading Having a Opty 144 at 2.25Ghz is not knocking my socks off.

Send help I'm an ol school Non-HTT OCer A64 n00bie!

 

[vanvock]

Set the LDT to 4x or 3 if you push the HTT much more & it's OK to use the memory dividers to get a higher OC, that just keeps the RAM from holding you back.

 

[sygyzy]

Building a new system, first in about 4 years, guys. Any recommendations on memory and HSF (quiet please) for this board? Pairing with either a 3700 or an Opteron 148. Thanks in advance.

 

[Pens1566]

OCZ, GSKILL ram should be ok. SI-120/Ninja would work for the HSF. See examples in my sig. I went OCZ because they have some pretty awesome support in the cpu forum. SI-120 cools almost as well as the ninja, just easier to install and smaller.

 

[EXman]

Originally posted by: mooncancook

Originally posted by: ToeJam13
Looking at this picture, has anyone else noticed that the northbridge chip is directly in line with the 16x PCIe slot? So much for replacing the 40mm HSF with a good passive solution.

that's true. Hope that fan is not too noisy. I guess you can replace with water cooling solution, but that's too costly for me.

Anyone knows what those PCI-e 1x and 4x slots are for?

No but did you notice his Power connectors are not plugged together? :evil:

 

[Vitaminous]

Originally posted by: mooncancook

ComputerHQ (California, United States RR)
SLI-DR $299.00 Preorder
Ultra-D $249.00 Preorder

That's 57% higher than ZZF!
C'mon we need to boycott this kind of rip-off business practice

57%? Who the ****** taught you mathematics?

 

[Bonesdad]

Originally posted by: MrX8503
the dfi ultra d has a psu requirement of 485w. Does this value really matter? Because i plan to purchase a fortron fsp 450w with it. Will this be compatible? I'll be running 1hd, 1burner, 1 floppy.

I use a 400W Seagate drive with my Ultra-D (about a year now)...not a single problem. 2 HDD, 1 DVD burner, TV Tuner and 6600GT on board. Just make sure you get a good PSU if you are going lower wattage...actually...get a good PSU if you are going higher wattage too.

 

[xtreme26]

I didn't build a computer for about 3 years now, and I'm going over to the AMD side. So what common problems/issues are there with the ultra d, sli-d, sli-d or sli-dr expert? I just want to make sure I'm getting a user friendly board that doesn't have too many issues, and yes I'm planning to overclock.

 

[DavidK21770]

Originally posted by: xtreme26
I didn't build a computer for about 3 years now, and I'm going over to the AMD side. So what common problems/issues are there with the ultra d, sli-d, sli-d or sli-dr expert? I just want to make sure I'm getting a user friendly board that doesn't have too many issues, and yes I'm planning to overclock.

Check out DFI street. A great support forum just for DFI boards. I have the DFI Lanforce UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert and love it. Great board with lots of flexibility for overclocking. No problems at all. However, the flexibility means that there're lots of BOIS settings that can be tweaked -- and can be confusing -- and there is risk in tweaking some of them (like CPU and Memory voltages). Before I bought this board, I was warned about the large number of jumpers that needed to be set for DFI boards, but the expert has moved all of that to the BIOS. I can't speak for the SLI-D or ULTRA-D.

 

[imported_scoobydoo]

Hi, I'm trying to get the secondary PCI-E slot working and it just won't work. I've had zero help from DFI-Street, where they just closed off my thread because I#m not using the right power supply. How gay is that? The thing is that everything works on the primary PCI-E slot, just not the second one. And they didn't even give me a chance to reply to say that I now have a different PSU I'm using to test things out with exactly the same results. CAn anyone else here help who has their lower pci-e slot working with either nothing in the primary pci-e slot oor both slots and using the Dual Xpress Graphics feature that I'm trying to get working?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Here is what was said in the original DFI-Street thread:

Hi,

I can't for the life of me get the lower pci-e slot working to recognise a secondary graphics card. If I leave the sli jumpers alone, I can use either X300 pci-e graphics card in the top slot. If I plug in both, the card in the lower slot doesn't seem to get detected at all.

If I hae no card in the top slot and either graphics card in the lower slot, the system will show no display (gives some beep code message about no video card).

If I move all sli jumpers down one (all 6), I can't get any display fullstop.

What am I doing wrong? All I want to do is to get both these X300's working so that I can utilise the DVI outputs on each card. I'm ot bothered about SLI or crossfire.

Thanks

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No one is using their graphics card in the lower x16 PCI-E slot?!

Anyway, I've changed the bios to 623-1, and I've tried this:

All jumpers on 1-2 -- graphics card in UPPER pci-e slot -- boot + display

All jumpers on 1-2 -- graphics card in LOWER pci-e slot -- no display, 1 single red led remains on, indicating no VGA detected

All jumpers on 2-3 -- graphics card in UPPER pci-e slot -- no display, 1 single red led remains on, indicating no VGA detected

All jumpers on 2-3 -- graphics card in LOWERpci-e slot -- no display, 1 single red led remains on, indicating no VGA detected

Jumpers 11,13,15 on 1-2, Jumpers 12,14,16 on 2-3 -- graphics card in UPPER pci-e slot -- no display, 3 red leds on

Jumpers 11,13,15 on 1-2, Jumpers 12,14,16 on 2-3 -- graphics card in LOWER pci-e slot -- no display, 1 single red led remains on, indicating no VGA detected

Jumpers 11,13,15 on 2-3, Jumpers 12,14,16 on 1-2 -- graphics card in LOWER pci-e slot -- no display, 1 single red led remains on, indicating no VGA detected

Jumpers 11,13,15 on 2-3, Jumpers 12,14,16 on 1-2 -- graphics card in UPPER pci-e slot -- no display, 3 red leds on

Ok, I think that I have exhausted all possible combinations. What to do now?

Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Oh, if I didn't make it clear enough in the first post, the grpahics card I'm using is a Powercolor Radeon X300 with 128Mb RAM.

Edit: forgot to mention my system specs:

DFI LanpartyUT nF4 Ultra-D (BIOS 704-2BTA)
AMD Opteron 165 Toledo
2x G.Skill HZ 1GB PC-4000
Powercolor Radeon X300 128mb PCI-E x16
Asus Radeon X300 128mb PCI-E x16
Samsung 250GB SATA
NEC Black DVD+/-RW ND-3550A - IDE 1/0
Seasonic S12 430W Rev. A1

However, I now have access to two different DFI NF4 Ultra D boards, both exhibit the same behaviour with a variety of different system components. I have tried with an Enermax Noisetaker 470W in a setup with Athlon64 3000+, single X300 and 1 GB stick of ram. Also tried with a shuttle 250W silentX power supply(!), they all boot with a display.. but only in the primary pci-e slot. I have connected up all the power sockets on the board too.

 

[vanvock]

I use the 2nd slot with jumpers set for sli to make it 8x with no prob, but I'm just running the 1 card.

 

[trexmgd]

Anyone running a Zalman CNPS9500 LED on their DFI NF4 Ultra? I bought a boxed X2 4200+ BUT: 1) It came with the older AMD 2 pipe heatsink and smaller fan and 2) The green "foam" packaging it came in has shed all over everything and I have green dust everywhere, even in the thermal pad!

I'm worried that the Zalman CNPS9500 LED won't fit in the right way; it's one of those that has the fan perpendicular to the board and I read a review on the Coolmaster Freezer Pro that said it mounted so that the fan was blowing up or down, not front to back.

 

[jose]

Looking to get the DFI SLI-DR Expert w/ a Opt. 170 & 2 gigs of ram.

I've used Patriot brand on 3 diff builds, Any diff w/ the 1 gig modules ? pc3200, pc3500 & pc4000 ?

Just get the cheapest or the fastest Dimms ? I previously got the cheapest pc3200 patriot 1gig dimms, but that was for my server and I didn't overclock.

This will be my workstation computer to replace my P4C nothwood system and I'd like to overclock on this system.

Thanks for the advice.

Regards,
Jose

 

[Navid]

This description table, for DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D, under "Memory Channels" has "Single".

This motherboard can run 2 memory modules in dual-channel mode, can it not?

http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/mothe...s_d/DFI/LANPARTY%2BUT%2BnF4%2BUltra-D/

 

[Pens1566]

Originally posted by: Navid
This description table, for DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D, under "Memory Channels" has "Single".

This motherboard can run 2 memory modules in dual-channel mode, can it not?

http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/mothe...s_d/DFI/LANPARTY%2BUT%2BnF4%2BUltra-D/

All the NF4 DFI boards can run dual channel.

 

[HoldenMan]

Ack....just building my system, Infinity NF4 Ultra...keep getting the PXE-E61 media test failure, check cable error message, followed by 'exiting nvidia boot agent' or something like that......then DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK ANC PRESS ENTER

Any reason why this would be?

The HDD, floppy and optical drive all appear in BIOS.....

is it normal to have this occur during building until windows is installed?

Any idea what it is?

Even tried booting with just the bare minimum connected, still the same deal.

Maybe just try installing windows then see what happens?

 

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