Which nForce4 Ultra Board?

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customcoms

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Now that most all the boards are available, what would you reconmend? I have had bad experience w/ MSI's S754 K8N Neo Platinum, so unless their new board is so great I have to buy it I am avoiding it, for now. I am seriously considering the Epox, since I had GREAT results using their 9NDA3+ and a 3000+. The biggest factor is a Zalman 7700+ AlCu has to fit; the DFI and Chaintech meet those requirements. I would like the board price to be under $150. What would you buy???

Sam
 
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thanatos355

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what i would recommend and what i DID buy last week is the dfi nf4 ultra-d. great board. just dont skimp on quality ram. though i was SERIOUSLY considering the msi sli board.
 
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What ram would you reconmend? It seems that many people are using Corsair Value select w/ success. Its that or I look for some twinmos speed premium at a good price.....

Sam
 
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thanatos355

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well, i went for a gig of g.skill F1-3200DSU2 LC. hasnt given me ANY problems. installed both in slots 2 and 4, booted without a prob. installed windows without a prob. running at 2-2-2-5-1t at ddr400 without a prob. great stuff this gskill.
 
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I'd like to know if the Corsair Value Select works well in the DFI Ultra D as well. I am not spending obscene amounts of $$ on RAM.
 
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thanatos355

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well, you get what you pay for. anything more is just gravy, but it's the chance you take. i wanted to be SURE that my ram wasnt going to limit my systems performance, so i shelled out the extra cash. sure, i could have bought some cheap stuff for $100 less and skipped the audigy 2 zs gamer and upgraded my vid card to a 6800gt or X850xt (at the time it was going for $495 @ newegg), but i can get a top of the line vid card next time, and still be running the crap out of this ram. it's all about choices, top quality ram was mine.
 
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customcoms

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Getting some cheap Twinmos seems to be the best bet; its around $80 for 512mb on newegg, plus if you get lucky it can hit nearly DDR-540, or a FSB of 270. Otherwise, it is more compaitable than the Corsair and works just as well stock.
 
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MTSteel

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So maybe the board isnt for me then....all I hear is how damn good DFI is, yet it cant take one of the more popular Value Ram?
 
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The Abit AN8 is supposed to be very good. The Fatal1ty AN8 is a great board from what I hear, but it sells for $200. The regular Abit
AN8 is the same thing, except without the trinkets of the Fatality version.
 
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MTSteel

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I am sure it will get worked out, maybe some more time sitting on the sidelines, playing CS:S with a 8500LE and a 1600+ haha!! :)
 
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thanatos355

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dont talk to me about sitting on the sidelines man, i just upgraded from a 1.4ghz t-bird with 512 pc133 and an fx5200!!
 
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customcoms

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yeah, I'm moving from a 1.3 ghz Duron, 608 mbs ram available to the system and ONBOARD graphics. Previously, my burning system now, a Pentium 3 at 500 w/ 196 mb ram. So, its looking like a DFI is in my future. That or an Epox, but their not in stock :).
 
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MTSteel

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I too am interested in that Epox.... one big thing that keeps me looking at the DFI, even though it seems to cost me more, for better PSU and different case(was planning on Sonata, but the PSU is not recommended for the DFI), is DFI Street, lots of help there.
 
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ChineseDemocracyGNR

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To be picky...

Originally posted by: thanatos355
sounds like a good bet. plus you can always run the ram on a divider if you HAVE to.
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You're always running a divider. CPU Clock / X = RAM clock. On a 3000+ the divider is 9 for DDR400.

Someone mentioned quality RAM... Corsair Value IS quality RAM, it's just not as fast as Corsair's more expensive stuff. Personally I think the performance difference is not enough to justify the cost for most cases, and upgrading the video card is a more effective way to get better performance.
 
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I got a DFI NF4 Ultra-D coming and am gonna use 1gb of Corsair Value. I've seen several ppl use this stuff and report it works fine. Also there newer beta BIOS's was suppose to fix alot of memory problems. All NF4 boards has some issues here and there so I decided to just go with the best looking and o/cing board which IMO is the DFI. I'll probably have some issues but hopefully they will be minor and fixable.

I've owned a few Epox boards and a side from leaky/buldgy caps(once) I've never had any problems with them. Most all companies have had this problem though so I don't hold it against them. But for some reason every Epox I've owned seemed like it was missing something. Just can't figure out what though. They just seemed plain compared to other boards.

My vote goes to DFI,Abit,Asus,Epox then MSI(because I've never owned one).

BTW I would have considered the Abit AN8 Fatal1ty but its $200+
 
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customcoms

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I have narrowed it down to the DFI, Epox and the Chaintech. The last Epox board I used was GREAT, it was on a friends S939 build I did for him, overclocking was SIMPLE, topped his 3000+ out at 2.6 w/ a Zalman 7000+ and 1.55 volts. All the recent Epox reviews say it will clock like a dream! I would buy the DFI right now if anyone knows if Nvidia have modded the chipset to prevent the SLI mod...the Intel SLI chipset still seems to have easy access to the conductors, but they are pre-release chips that might be built like this on purpose. So, is the DFI still moddable?

Sam
 
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