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Returning DFI Ultra-D

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akassasin

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After a weekend straight of struggling with the Ultra-D's memory issues and not being able to get the onboard LANs to work I've decided to send it back to newegg.

Can someone give me a recommendation on a more stable Nforce4 board? Overclocking is not a priority, I just want to be able to slap in my corsair valueRAM and plug in my ethernet without any problems.

Price is not much of an issue.

thanks
 
ASUS A8N-SLI 🙂 Three of my friends have them and not one of them have caused any problems. It may be a little more, but ASUS is typically rock solid. But I am pondering between the two myself. What kind of problems were you having with your RAM?
 
If you look around, especially on dfi-street.com forums you will notice many many people are having compatability issues with this board, it wouldnt take two chips of my corsiar valueram, the computer would crash every time it tried to load windows, so i had to stick with 512 mb.
 
I had problems with the dfi nf4 sli-dr. It would constantly crash in any game, half of the screen would freeze in sli mode, and it would just freeze for no reason.
Took it back and got the msi neo 4 platinum sli.
Within 10 minutes had it up and running smooth as silk. I will never buy dfi again, even though that one MB was probably a fluke.
Now i have a msi neo 2 and neo 4, and they are both as stable as can be.
 
Chaintech/MSI/ASUS

MSI has a bad reputation, but their new NF4 boards look to be real winners. I really think MSI is making a come around.
 
chaintech?

i guess that's your best bet. all of the nf4 chipset mobos are going to have issues, it's what you get for buying new tech 😛
 
Originally posted by: PascalT
dfi's beta bios fixed alot of memory problems.
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Still doesn't fix the LAN problem. Ive been trying to get the thing connected to the internet for two days... too long for me, I need something thats easier to get going for my first build.
I've come to the conclusion that all of these hardcore overclocking boards come with their fair share of problems

i think im going to get the chaintech

Anyone have any experience returning items to newegg? Im thinking of just ordering my new mobo tonight as long as newegg is reliable with returns and crediting creditcards without hassle.

 
Originally posted by: akassasin
Originally posted by: PascalT
dfi's beta bios fixed alot of memory problems.
Click to expand...

Still doesn't fix the LAN problem. Ive been trying to get the thing connected to the internet for two days... too long for me, I need something thats easier to get going for my first build.
I've come to the conclusion that all of these hardcore overclocking boards come with their fair share of problems

i think im going to get the chaintech

Anyone have any experience returning items to newegg? Im thinking of just ordering my new mobo tonight as long as newegg is reliable with returns and crediting creditcards without hassle.
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manually enter the mac address in the bios under genie bios settings , the mac address can be found on the top pci-e slot and a sticker should be located on the left side of the slot or closest the i/o ports
 
Originally posted by: hafa
I'll second the Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9. The epitome of plug-n-play, not plug-n-pray.
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rofl it seems like this new build has been just plug-n-pray. Went through a A8N then onto a DFI UltraD. Ultra works great besides it not letting me use my kingston hyperx pc4000 sticks :|
 
RE:"Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9"

Interesting that this was one of the first NF4 boards. How many revisons are there?
 
I have the MSI neo4 ultra and with no or mild overclock it is great and rock stable. I have had some problems pushing it so I can not say yet if it is the board or other parts. But it went well and as long as I dont push things it has been great
 
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