A Blast To The Past

kitfit1 · 22 Sep 2018 at 17:45

I was going through benchmarks and various things in the past on a lot of old HD's this morning and came across the pic below. Yes, i is a sad old git that does keep old HD's, especially if they have bench results on them. Anyway, having done that, i was wondering if there was anyone on the forum that still remembered the NF2 days ? More importantly, did any of you get awarded a "Toaster" from DFI Street at the time ?
I know for a fact there were 100's and 100's of us on OCUK that were also on DFI Street at the time. If you did, Then post up your Toaster if you still have a copy of it.

Rroff · 22 Sep 2018 at 17:51

No toaster/NF2 but I had a pretty sweet setup around a DFI board back then:

OCZ XTC Gold complete with the voltage booster

and the GPU is a 6800 ultra extreme strapped onto an AGP board heh.

(The soundcard isn't actually the one I ran in that setup as I couldn't find it at the time I took the picture - I had the slightly higher spec gold version rather than the 5.1 digital in that system).

kitfit1 · 22 Sep 2018 at 18:26

What mobo was that then Rroff ? it defo wasn't a Lanparty.

Rroff · 22 Sep 2018 at 19:17

865pe Infinity I think - can't remember now but the board before or after that was a Lanparty then I had the DFI 975X before they disappeared from the market.

DFI really knew how to innovate especially with those Lanparty boards - a lot of BIOS features like saveable profiles they pretty much pioneered.

kitfit1 · 22 Sep 2018 at 19:45

Rroff said:
865pe Infinity I think - can't remember now but the board before or after that was a Lanparty then I had the DFI 975X before they disappeared from the market.

DFI really knew how to innovate especially with those Lanparty boards - a lot of BIOS features like saveable profiles they pretty much pioneered.

Ahhh, makes sense. Never did have an Infinity myself....... that's why i didn't recognize it. You is 100% right on saveable bios profiles as well. They never existed before DFI came on the scene. I also remember DFI being the first mobo manufacturer offering swapable bios chips. I used to have at least 3 or 4 bios chips flashed with different bios's depending on what sort of clock and bench i was going to run

Hades · 24 Sep 2018 at 09:48

Yes I remember the NF2 and did have one

Mik3 · 24 Sep 2018 at 10:13

I've still got a old NF7S under my bed I went through 3 chips on this board, a Athlon XP, then one of those super clocking mobile Athlon XP and then one of those super clocking Bartons. I remember after I upgraded this board I was searching the internet to see if Nvidia had made a NF2 sound card as I wanted that incredible sound back, fond memory's indeed. Its a bit dirty as its been collecting dust for years.

KentMan · 24 Sep 2018 at 14:41

I had a DFI Lanparty NF2 Ultra i think it was? was an awesome board, i remember the box for it was huge and had all sorts of gubbins in it and add in boards etc, probably the best looking kit i ever owned

was running an AMD CPU and GPU card back then, one of the 1900XT or 1950XT Or something along those lines? i cant remember what it was called... anyhow it was an all AMD rig and it was pretty decent, i think the last time i had an all AMD PC, i moved to a Q6600 from that if i recall and from there to i5 2500k and then a 4770k to my now R7 1700.

Hagar · 24 Sep 2018 at 19:51

Mik3 said:
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Snap.

NF7-S with a bundle of SCSI and IDE drives. Sadly no longer in my possession but a fine board.

Saftlad · 24 Sep 2018 at 20:20

I had a voltmodded DFI lanparty back in 2004 with a 2500 mobile, cooled with a mach 2. Was a beast back in the day. No idea where any bench results are now.

kitfit1 · 24 Sep 2018 at 21:12

I think that most of us did various volt mods back in the day

I remember using a pencil volt mod at some point.

Found this earlier:

Rroff · 24 Sep 2018 at 21:15

Sadly don't think any of my Super PI screenshots have survived older than the E6600.

Miss those days when you could buy some really special, innovative bits of kit rather than today where its just ever increasingly more expensive versions of the top end kit without anything really special/different. (Though it has saved me spending a lot of money lately on the other hand).

easyrider · 24 Sep 2018 at 21:18

When pc building was fun.

kitfit1 · 24 Sep 2018 at 21:24

Rroff said:
Sadly don't think any of my Super PI screenshots have survived older than the E6600.

Miss those days when you could buy some really special, innovative bits of kit rather than today where its just ever increasingly more expensive versions of the top end kit without anything really special/different. (Though it has saved me spending a lot of money lately on the other hand).

Havn't found any of my E6600 Pi screenies, but did find this:

easyrider · 24 Sep 2018 at 21:27

2007

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/easyriders-journey-into-phase.17683932/

That poor E6400 chip

Rroff · 24 Sep 2018 at 21:30

kitfit1 said:
Havn't found any of my E6600 Pi screenies, but did find this:

Nice don't think I got my E6600 above 4GHz @ 1.576v? or whatever it was I hit the max voltage table and only voltmodded the Q6600. Highest I can find off the top of my head.

kitfit1 · 24 Sep 2018 at 21:32

Mine was under Phase 24/7 at the time

easyrider · 24 Sep 2018 at 21:33

kitfit1 said:
Mine was under Phase 24/7 at the time

Yeah I remember

Socket 775

kitfit1 · 24 Sep 2018 at 21:40

easyrider said:
Yeah I remember

Socket 775

Yep

I was using a Lanparty P35 then as well. Kept the same mobo and dropped an E8500 and then an E8600 when they were released.

Hagar · 25 Sep 2018 at 01:58

kitfit1 said:
I think that most of us did various volt mods back in the day I remember using a pencil volt mod at some point.

A useful site for pin modding voltages and fsb on Athlon / Barton. :cool:

Abit (and DFI) had good bios but this was still useful although small pieces of wire or silver paint were fiddly and cutting bridges was worse.

https://www.ocinside.de/html/workshop/pinmod/amd_pinmod.htm