When will the DFI Lanparty mobo for the A64 be available?

[Maximus96]

the A64 3200+ and a mobo are the final pieces of my new build that i still need to purchase. does anybody know when the DFI board will be available? I'm also debating if i should wait for the DFI board or go with the Asus K8N-E Deluxe board right now instead.

 

[BW86]

the DFI board should begin shipping very soon

 

[Mik3y]

patience dude 🙂

 

[Maximus96]

so its the general consensus that the DFI board will be better than the Asus?

 

[JBT]

Zip Zoom Fly had some instock the other day. Obviously sold out quick. It cost $134 shipped BTW.

Yes it is spose to be better than the Asus.

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: zaku
so its the general consensus that the DFI board will be better than the Asus?

its supposedly the best athlon 64 socket 754 mobo out.

it's got best stability, highest overclockability, most features, etc.

 

[Bar81]

Originally posted by: zaku
so its the general consensus that the DFI board will be better than the Asus?

Depends on your definition of "better" If by better you mean more tweaking options, then yes the DFI is a "better" board. If you're asking whether it's as stable and unproblematic then no, it's not better until enough people get it and we discover if the DFI has any problems. The Asus K8N-E Deluxe, outside of IDE problems which are a problem for ALL nVidia boards, has zero problems and is rock stable.

 

[Maximus96]

what kind of IDE problems is there? i don't recall reading about any. Please let me know. thanks

 

[Maximus96]

my definition of 'better' is allowing a higher overclock of the 3200+ with a Zalman 7000A Cu and also stability.

 

[Bar81]

Allowing a higher overclock the DFI will not do as you can get to the ~2.5Ghz max of CG revision core A64s on air with pretty much any nForce3 250 based mobo thanks to the universal AGP/PCI lock. If you're using more extreme cooling then the DFI is certainly quite attractive. As to stability no one knows yet, but DFI is *far* from renowned for stability, in fact just ask people using their nForce boards and you'll hear the cavalcade of problems. The Asus is rock stable and is perfect outside of the limited vDimm, crap Silicon Image RAID controller for 4 of the SATA ports, and IDE problems (go to nForce HQ or any of the other nvidia fansites or motherboard tech support sites and you'll hear all about the IDE problems) but as I said the IDE problems are universal across all nVidia based boards.