Official DFI NF4Ultra-D/SLi owners thread.

Just about to go with a DFI NF4 Ultra D and was just wondering if the NVraid thingy is ide as well as sata??

All my current drives are ide so can I still build a raid with this board?/

Cheers for any answers.
 
smids said:
Have you done test 8, concorde. I once was about 45mins stable test5, but it produced 300 errors on 1 pass of test 8.
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No I havent, OCCT is at 90% tho. During lunch I will set it going for whole loops of memtest for 2 hours.

Concorde
 
Hey guys, I am running a DFI nF4 SLI-D and it seems to be reasonably stable, but sometimes kicks out some memory errors, I am running it with a 3500+ Newcastle and one stick of 512mb of Corsair Value Ram CAS 3.0, can someone give me a link for the 414-3 BIOS and also tell me which slot is the best to put my RAM in.

Thanks
 
Out of interest, why is everyone going for high FSB?

I found sticking with 2-2-2-5 1T timings gave me better benches (3DMark) that high speed, medium latency.

Presumably, you guys are wanting high bandwidth for Sandra or some other benchmark?

I'm almost certain games (and 3DMark) only benefit from the low latency...
 
Oh, in addition, I am STILL having problems with Windows XP and the DFI Ultra D.

In Win2k, I can boot upto 324 HTT (2.9 Ghz CPU) and run Prime for hours and 3DMark.

In WinXP, I can only get upto 270 HTT with the same settings. I posted this partial solution:

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12236

Changing the HAL from Uniprocessor allowed me to get up to 290 HTT, but this is still frustratingly far away from 324.

The board just reboots before showing the Windows XP boot logo. It's fine in 2k and in XP Safe mode.

Has anyone ANY idea WTF is going on? I really don't want to run 2k, but I can get 2.9 Ghz out of the CPU this way. With XP, I can only get 2.6 Ghz, but safe mode is fine.

I could understand it if the difference wasn't so great, but 30 Mhz on the HTT and almost 300 Mhz on the CPU? :(

If it makes a difference, this is an nLite XP SP2 slipstream CD... but then so is the Win2k SP4 and that's fine......
 
Is it possible for you to image your main boot partition (the one that contains XP SP2) and keep it safe some where and install a NON nLited XP? If you went crazy with the slimming down options (removing non essential stuff, like games, some drivers, etc) with nLite then there's a chance you perhaps took out something critical. Just a guess though.

Or was adding SP2 with nLite the only thing you did with it?
 
That's an idea actually.

The difference between XP and 2k in my overclock is so dramatic that it could be that!

I did do other nLite stuff, well, quite a bit I think.

I'll see if I can dig out the non-nLite XP CD...
 
This is about the most confusing setup I've ever seen. 4000+ stock multi I can't break 220fsb, simply wont let me into windows. If I reduce the HTT to 3 I can get 10x275 easily, any multi above this again doesn't let me into windows. 300x10, gets into Windows..... yet 250x12 does not, this is certainly not like anything I've encountered before. RAM has 3.1v going through it now, just working on getting it 3D stable at 300x10. Why on earth can I run this setting yet not any other combo of 2.7-3.0ghz.
 
I assume you are using XP SP2?

Try Win2k. I'm having the same problems with XP, but it might be my tweaked nLite install CD. (I'm hoping!) If you read back a few posts, you'll see I can get 9 x 324 quite happily in 2k, but only 270 - 290 with XP...

Changing the HAL to ACPI rather than Uniprocessor helped get me to 290 (from 270 previously).

Also, try reducing your LDT to 2x or 1x. It really makes very little difference to speed or benches.
 
Concorde Rules said:
oooooh look what I have done :D

http://www.thunder-keep.co.uk/site/hosted/sandeigo/290x10_screen1.jpg
http://www.thunder-keep.co.uk/site/hosted/sandeigo/290x10_screen2.jpg
http://www.thunder-keep.co.uk/site/hosted/sandeigo/290x10_screen3.jpg
http://www.thunder-keep.co.uk/site/hosted/sandeigo/290x10_screen4.jpg

290x10, 2.5-4-3-7, 1.525V + 104%, 43C OCCT load.

2.3 weeks after It arrived, it is 700mhz over stock :D

Concorde
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good news Concord , did you do it on air mate or was it on some other medium
 
Seeing as everyone else is giving out the congrats then I may as well join in...

Nice work on the overclock, and thank god you're not still trying to convince yourself (and everyone else in these forums) that you should be able to get Trcd of 3 stable with 290Mhz and above with your particular sticks :)
 
[timko] said:
Is it possible for you to image your main boot partition (the one that contains XP SP2) and keep it safe some where and install a NON nLited XP? If you went crazy with the slimming down options (removing non essential stuff, like games, some drivers, etc) with nLite then there's a chance you perhaps took out something critical. Just a guess though.

Or was adding SP2 with nLite the only thing you did with it?
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I just installed XP SP1a and it seems fine!

Either I broke my XP CD by messing with it using nLite, or SP2 causes major problems.

:D

Yay!
 
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