Official DFI NF4Ultra-D/SLi owners thread.

Livestrong said:
i just tried what you said step by step and it worked been looking for a simple guide all day and couldnt find one until i saw your post thanks mate
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Your'e welcome :)
 
surge said:
I'm not sure TBH- I'll have to find out cos I'm getting an SD 4000 next week ;) . Seriously its usually a matter of playing around with the values until you find one that suits your mobo/ram/cpu combo

Here is a list of all Trefs and what they correspond to in A64 Tweaker

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If I were you I'd try the 15.6 musec ones first- unless the auto setting works!. If you've got the wrong one Memtest usually fails Tests 2 or 3. Or your bandwidth will be horrible!
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I have heard that 3072 is ment to work ok for the SD
 
Still not having much luck with my memory timings so I thought some nice people here could advise on what to adjust.
At these settings my pc is 100% prime stable for 14+ hours so I know the cpu is running fine at least. Im using bios version 4.14-1. I have been trying several guides on extreme systems but I have not been having much luck tbh. So if anyone else is running the same mobo and ram combo can you advise me on what to do!

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:)
 
Scoobie Dave said:
Still not having much luck with my memory timings so I thought some nice people here could advise on what to adjust.
At these settings my pc is 100% prime stable for 14+ hours so I know the cpu is running fine at least. Im using bios version 4.14-1. I have been trying several guides on extreme systems but I have not been having much luck tbh. So if anyone else is running the same mobo and ram combo can you advise me on what to do!

:)
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What RAM is this? Does it fail with TRP =3 in memtest at 280- if so which test number?
 
It's actually better to see if you can do at least 20 runs of test #5 initally. To do this, startup Memtest then press these keys in order....

C
1
3
5
Enter
0

It should take around 10-15mins to complete 20 runs with 1Gb of memory. If you don't get any errors then you can move onto P95 and/or SuperPi testing in Windows. Usually for P95 I only leave it on Torture Test - Blend mode for 20mins. This is long enough for it to do the first lot of 4 or 5 tests. If that completes successfully then I move onto SuperPi 32Mb.

*However*, if you're only interested in tightening the settings for your current mem overclock then just stick to the 20 runs of Memtest #5 for now. Other people sugguest doing multiple runs of test #8 as well however I've got by just fine with #5 and currently run 300HTT with no issues.

Remember, you can change some of the mem timings whilst still inside Memtest. At any time whilst it's running, just press C and then 9. You can chance the last 3 settings of out of the 4 basic ram timings settings and you can also change some of the more advance settings by going into a sub menu, press C, 9 and then 5 instead of the previous C and 9 :)
 
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Scoobie Dave said:
Right with TRP set to 3 I ran memest for about 8 mins and it was on test 7 so I suppose thats a good start. What next?
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Just back from lunch ;)
I see you have twcl set to 5. That's very strange. Really should be set to 1

2 other values which are important are trc and trfc. trc of 7 may be too low for high HTTs (e.g. 300- see the A64 tweaker settings in my earlier post)

Above 300 you may need to set max async latency to 9. You should be able to get to HTT of 300 at 2.5 4 3 7 with that ram
 
Well this is typical!

Strip down my Watercooling & Phase change ready to set up my SLI system with this mobo & I've ran into problems already.

Why can't an upgrade just go simply for me?

I set up this mobo with just my 3700+ SD with reatail HSF, one stick of my Ballistix Tracer RAM in 1st Orange slot & one of my POV Ultra GFX cards connected.

I slide my mobo tray into my case & connect up my OCZ 520W Powerstream PSU. I switch the switch on the PSU & the RAM standby power LED & mobo standby power LED light up.

I then press the EZ touch power button & pop! All the lights dissappear & dead! Fan does not start up, no boot up or anything.
I had my hard drives & optical drives connected to the PSU but not to the mobo. I also did not have my water pump connected or my phase change, or even the 2nd POV Ultra. Yet it looks as if the PSU couldn't handle the load. I had all the power connectors hooked up to the board.

I'm taking it that the PSU gone t**s up.

Opinions anyone?

I changed the fuse in the plug & it blew the next fuse straight away. I hope it has not cooked my mobo, CPU or GFX card.

I've ordered a PC Power & Cooling 510 SLI PSU as it says on the nVidia website that this PSU is certified to work with SLI.

To say I'm miffed is an understatement!!! :mad:
 
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SiDeWInDeR said:
Hey.

Hopefully you can help me. On a first build and i think i have every cable done except this one:

http://www.dfi.com.tw/Upload/Product_Picture/LP UT nF4 SLI-D1.jpg

Okay i'm looking at the white rectangle which is about 1cm below far right PCI slot. (One with the forks). Stuck on whether i use it/What it goes into on this PSU:

http://www.frozencpu.com/images/products/detail_hires/psu-145.jpg

Stupid i know. :o

Thanks.
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that is needed for you pci-e vid card and uses a floppy connector.
 
On the board there is a 4pin HDD connector, 24pin BTX main power conector, 4pin 12v connector, and a floppy disk drive connector.

You do not need them all connected. The 4pin floppy is for extra power when running in SLI configuration. Though it is advisable to plug them all in.
 
Aurhinius said:
perhaps you have a short. The PSU should handle the load and will simply not power up if it is overloaded.

Did you move the jumpers into the sli position?
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I wasn't testing SLI at the time so no.

I just had one card slotted in to test to make sure it wasn't duff. With the intention of slotting the 2nd card into the same slot to check the same.
 
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Aurhinius said:
On the board there is a 4pin HDD connector, 24pin BTX main power conector, 4pin 12v connector, and a floppy disk drive connector.

You do not need them all connected. The 4pin floppy is for extra power when running in SLI configuration. Though it is advisable to plug them all in.
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They were all plugged in.
 
SiDeWInDeR said:
Oh right, how certain are you..+ Would the PCI-E card come the floppy connector?
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i read on the DFi forums thats its needed for stability but some people don't use it. my card did not come with the floppy connector but you psu should have one.
 
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