DFI nF4 Ultra-Infinity for overclocking?

[Tacoboy]

Looking getting the DFI nF4 Ultra-Infinity Socket 939 motherboard.
With AMD 3500 (overclocking).
Patriot PC4000 2GB
How do you like your DFI nF4 Ultra-Infinity?

[Lurid]

You should have a high enough CPU multiplier, that even if the board doesn't like high HTT's you'll be fine.

[Ozz81]

I have that board and got it up to 280HTT...so far, best $117 I spent really nice features for a budget OCing board

[sigurd]

ive got the 754s version of that board and its great aswell. All the options you could want. running 278x9 right now no probs.

[Tacoboy]

Ordered the DFI, AMD 3500 Venice (E4), 2GBs PC4000,
X1600 Pro PCI-Exp, DVD burner, DVD player, Arctic Cooling 64
Win XP Home OEM, 600 Watt power supply.
Hopefully will be able to pick up a case this weekend at a parking lot sale
for $5-$10, going to get lots of LED fans
And maybe in a month or 2, get a dual core after the price drop in late July.
And ask for a 16 pipeline graphics card for christmas.
I'll be ready when Command & Conquer 3 come out in 2007

[sigurd]

Originally Posted by Tacoboy

Ordered the DFI, AMD 3500 Venice (E4), 2GBs PC4000,
X1600 Pro PCI-Exp, DVD burner, DVD player, Arctic Cooling 64
Win XP Home OEM, 600 Watt power supply.
Hopefully will be able to pick up a case this weekend at a parking lot sale
for $5-$10, going to get lots of LED fans
And maybe in a month or 2, get a dual core after the price drop in late July.
And ask for a 16 pipeline graphics card for christmas.
I'll be ready when Command & Conquer 3 come out in 2007

Good luck with the new system! heh and good luck with the graphics card christmas thing. And good choice on the cpu cooler I have one they are great.

[op1e]

I just got the SLI Infinity off of B/S and set up last night. Any idea on the HTT ceiling I might get. My Venice is 10 multi.

[Tacoboy]

My DFI board arrived six days ago, looks like a defective board.
Seems common with this model INFINITY NF4 ULTRA.
Keeps getting error messages while trying to install Win XP.
What other brand should I try?

[sigurd]

ugh that sucks... my 754s version of that board is wonderfull.

hmm I would personaly just get a different DFI board but if you want to change um Asus maby?

[VeoDigital]

I went through 2 RMA's with the NF4 Infinity SLI. My only gripes about the board once I recieved a working board was, the 8x - 8x pcie slots and temperature monitoring. There isnt a jumper or option in bios to set the first pcie slot to 16x and motherboard monitor wont work properly. This thread describes why there is an issue with MBM5 and the Infinity Series.
http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/show...rboard+monitor

So basically if you have the SLI version of the NF4 Infinity, you should have two cards, which I did. Hardware monitoring is a problem too.

[sigurd]

the ntune monitor works fine for me... Speedfan works fine also.

i use ntune though because I like to see graphics card and cpu temp on the same program.

agreed though the smartguardian is kinda crapy. Ive heard you can customize it and it works better but I personaly just use the nvmonitor.

[Tacoboy]

I can get the Asus A8N-E locally for $92, 20 minute drive.
Other brands I have to mail order, or pay higher local retail prices.
It's already going to cost me $14 to ship the defective DFI back to Newegg.
I just want a working system for now & dual core in a few months.

[Luke]

From all I've read and heard from friends Asus is in many ways not a step down from DFI in the least. You could think of Asus as being the slightely more conservative (although many have had great oc'n success) overclocker with tried and true setup and design while the DFI's are the guys screaming on the edge where when it works it works great,but with that potential for killer performance comes an inherent risk of instability.

So I'd say if you're not really feeling the DFI just go ahead and grab that Asus since it's close. My 2 cents

[Tacoboy]

Picked up the Asus localy, but cost me $105.95.
Now to study overclocking guides.

[XFxGeforced]

Originally Posted by Tacoboy

My DFI board arrived six days ago, looks like a defective board.
Seems common with this model INFINITY NF4 ULTRA.
Keeps getting error messages while trying to install Win XP.
What other brand should I try?

I know you got a new motherboard or are already getting one, but did you by any chance try switching out the ram when the xp install would crash? Sounds like it could just as well be defective ram.

[Tacoboy]

Ran memtest, showed no problems with memory,
Memory works fine in the Asus A8N-E.

[XFxGeforced]

Originally Posted by Tacoboy

Ran memtest, showed no problems with memory,
Memory works fine in the Asus A8N-E.

well that's good, good luck with the oc, make sure to post results!