Official DFI NF4Ultra-D/SLi owners thread.

Minstadave · 10 Feb 2005 at 20:06

Modded the arctic cooler to push air onto the chipset, temps are now 36 degrees idle, so a fair bit better there.

Replaced the big jumper block just in case that was causing problems, PWM IM temps are now 44 degrees, which is a huge drop from 59.

Minstadave · 10 Feb 2005 at 20:07

shamus21 said:
hi Minstadave
just a quick one what sort of extra overclock do get with that arctic cooler on your x800.

Haven't clocked far yet, core seems to top out at 550 with ATI tool, haven't tried memory yet, will get back to you when I've pushed it some more.

zixiazhang · 10 Feb 2005 at 20:15

Minstadave said:
Modded the arctic cooler to push air onto the chipset, temps are now 36 degrees idle, so a fair bit better there.

Replaced the big jumper block just in case that was causing problems, PWM IM temps are now 44 degrees, which is a huge drop from 59.

How did you get the PWM IM temps down so much where is that sensor located? And by modded the arctic cooler do you mean you cut a little hole on the side to push air at the chipset cooler?

Down1oader · 10 Feb 2005 at 20:22

hi i have the dfi sli-d, im setting up my pc now ive read through the manual but it doesnt say what pins the jumpers have to be on in order to use one graphics card only, ive looked on the board next to the jumpers and it seems to say i need pins 1-2 on both rows connected to use pcie1 at 16x using just my x850xtpe is this correct?, also ive seen there are multiple power connections on the mother board some ive never seen on a motherboard such as a hdd molex and an fdd molex :S

Minstadave · 10 Feb 2005 at 20:26

zixiazhang said:
How did you get the PWM IM temps down so much where is that sensor located? And by modded the arctic cooler do you mean you cut a little hole on the side to push air at the chipset cooler?

I cut a great big whole in the arctic cooler, any part of the artic near the chipset has been cut away.

My PWM temps have only dropped about 10 degrees but now they're 50 load which is a lot nicer than 60 idle. I have no idea where the sensor is TBH, the airflow from the arctic shouldn't be making much difference to it.

Wingz · 10 Feb 2005 at 21:06

which sata port is best 1/2 or 3/4??

btw... anyone tried the new 2.09 bios?

1 . 2005 02 09 beta performance bios
2 . update nvmm to 4.79
3 . update nv raid rom 4.81
4 . Add memtest86+ 1.5 (under genie bios)
5 . fix serial 1/2 3/4 whendisable serial ata 3/4 , serail ata 1/2 raid array not detect

Link

zixiazhang · 10 Feb 2005 at 21:11

Yup flashed it to 2.09 been good so far

Wingz · 10 Feb 2005 at 21:15

i take it that if you don't use the onboard sound, the audio pcb board does not have to be attached to the board?

platty · 10 Feb 2005 at 21:45

can be left off AFAIK.

surge · 10 Feb 2005 at 21:55

Wingz said:
btw... anyone tried the new 2.09 bios?

Yes - it rocks

see (that's me BTw with different username)

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=706942#post706942

Duff-Man · 10 Feb 2005 at 22:42

Still no joy at CAS2.5 or 3.0 with the new BIOS...

The option to run memtest is pretty cool though :cool:

surge · 10 Feb 2005 at 22:56

Duff-Man said:
Still no joy at CAS2.5 or 3.0 with the new BIOS

What RAM?

Minstadave · 10 Feb 2005 at 23:14

Corsair XL

Down1oader · 10 Feb 2005 at 23:18

anyone else had their pc freeze after it detects a boot device? i cant run xp setup from cd or format my hd!

Duff-Man · 11 Feb 2005 at 00:16

Minstadave said:
Corsair XL

Got some G.Skill LE on order though

Should arrive Monday.

ricco · 11 Feb 2005 at 00:26

Im beggining to think its the SPD thats stopping the Cas2.5 and cas3 on the NF4 with the corsair.

But I will be pleased to see what you manage with the LE.

Duff-Man · 11 Feb 2005 at 00:39

You're probably right...

Any ideas what specifically it could be with the NF4 platform specifically that's confusing it though?! :confused:

Nothing out of the ordinary reported on CPU-z really...

The other timings don't mind me playing around with them, thankfully.

Duff-Man · 11 Feb 2005 at 01:30

Minstadave said:
My PWM is 59 degrees! Chipset is sat at 43 degrees.

Thats in a stacker with a 120mm intake, 120mm outtake, 80mm blowhole and a Freezer 64.

Whats wrong with my temps?

I get up to 60C on the PWM under load, and up to 52C on the chipset, under load.

They're at about 48C / 42C respectively at idle.

I hope this is normal :confused:

Also, I'm surprised by the large delta between CPU core temperature, and evaporator head temp. I can get up to 10C on the CPU core at full load, but the evaporator stays at ~-25C tops. The Core temp drops down below freezing again (where smartguardian can't read) within a second of the load dropping off though...

ricco · 11 Feb 2005 at 03:18

Duffman, will be that stupid warped IHS.

Pull it off

AFK_Matrix · 11 Feb 2005 at 09:52

Minstadave said:
I cut a great big whole in the arctic cooler, any part of the artic near the chipset has been cut away.

My PWM temps have only dropped about 10 degrees but now they're 50 load which is a lot nicer than 60 idle. I have no idea where the sensor is TBH, the airflow from the arctic shouldn't be making much difference to it.

Minstadave i would really appreciate if u could post or send me a picture of what u had to do to ** arctic cooler to get it to work as if the mod isn't to hard will do the same when i get my arctic cool.