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Seriously considering a dfi lanparty nf4 ultra...

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klonoa

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But I am a bit concerned, as I am somewhat of a newb when it comes to building a pc. Basically, would you guys reccomend this board to a novice pc builder? Also, will my 420 watt antec psu be enough for this mobo? One last thing, is top of the line ram a must for this board? Thanks in advance for the info! And sorry if these questions have been answered before.
 
It can be a bit daunting for a beginner, but on the plus side there is a great community at DFI-street.com that is very helpful.

Post a signature with what you plan to build and they will give great advice.

But it is a lot of info to absorb - like taking a drink from a firehose. The motherboard gives you a heap of control - maybe too much until you know what you are doing.

Dumb question - Are you looking to overclock?


I started with an ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe, which was simpler, yet had a bunch of problems and support from ASUS is crap. The DFI Ultra D I replaced it with was much more complicated, yet because of the better support and the skills I learnt trying to fix all the ASUS dramas, meant I got up and running in no time.

One tip - learn about memory timings, and if in doubt, set them loose while you get things working.
 
Ok, in that case, go for it. it is THE board to get for OC.

My lesson learnt - when you first install you generally do a "load optimised defaults" in the BIOS.

This worked OK - certainly fine for getting up and going, but I was finding my overclocks were good, but failing after 15-20 hours prime95 - which is rare - usually they fail a fair bit quicker than that. And heaps of voltage wasnt helping. It was a kind of long term stability thing versus short term.

I finally paid attention to the lesser RAM timings - not just the headline CAS 2.5, 3,3,7 etc, but the wacky lesser known stuff. The great mods Angry Games had put together suggested RAM timings tables for a bunch of corsair memory, and once I followed those, I was set - I had a few key things a bit too tight, and since then, my OC has been very "honest" it will either fail inside the first hour or two, or be solid for a day.

This might only be a problem for folks like me with 4GB of ram, but anyway - spend a serious amount of time reading at DFI-street, and you will be right.
 
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