DFI LanParty NForce II Ultra Revision B

[Brian]

You may remember our review of the DFI Lan Party KT400a with it's unique looks and numerous accessories. If you frequent LAN parties or like to show off your rig, you might have considered this great board. Sadly, there was one disadvantage, the board overclocks a bit better than a poundcake with a processor jammed in it.. Thankfully, DFI produces a NForce II Ultra based motherboard in the Lan Party series, and if the board makes good use of the NForce II chipset, your overclocking worries may be over. So follow along my friends, as we venture into the mysterious world of... well... umm... motherboards. Yeah.

http://www.thetechlounge.com/review.php?REVIEWDIR=dfi_lanparty_nf2ultra

[MaNiAk21]

Oooooooooo! The colors! The colors! Ermm... look awesome, though I would have liked to see mounting holes on such a high performance motherboard, especially when it is targeted at the enthusiast crowd... but as you said, a later revision may fix that minor problem. The 3D interactive movie was flawless if I might say so myself, I especially liked watching the stands numbers change. :D

[Brian]

Glad you liked it. Talking with DFI revealed a possible Revision B that will fix the mounting hole problems along with a few other things. Nothing for sure, though.

We are working to improve the quality of the 3D animations right now, hopefully we will have an easy solution that isn't too bandwidth intensive soon.

[A Person]

What would you use the dual ethernet for?

[handrail]

" If you want to mount a heatsink with screws, your screwed. That pretty much sums it up."

that your should be you're.

me wants DFI. if i had know it came with all that stuff, i would have gotten that over my a7n8x dlux, oh well se la vive.

la vive.

[handrail]

oh yeah, and the 3d rotat0r animations are the shizz boys. good on ya!

i dig 'em!

[m[X]]

Howcome you didnt include the cpu you used in test system section? ;)

[A Person]

It says on page 10. He was using an Athlon 1700+ and Corsair PC4000.

[ELiTE KiLLaH]

It says on page 10. He was using an Athlon 1700+ and Corsair PC4000.

but it should have been in the specs (i too was looking for this..)

"made this board solid overclocker." (last pg)
maybe an an "a" in there?

i didnt proof read everything, just loooked at the results...lol..

[Brian]

Lol, I can always count on you guys when I don't have spellcheck installed :-D

All mistakes noted are fixed.

[handrail]

my wife is a word nerd, i can't get away with typos at home either.

[PHR34K3R]

I just got this board and I still havn't bought a heatsink for it. What heatsink would you suggest I use with this, The processor is an AMD Anthlon XP 2400+ 2.0GHz 266MHz.

[Brian]

I believe ThermalRight has released a socket mounting heatsink. You may want to look at that.

[Kurtis]

Aero 7+ would be a good choice as well. That's what I use and I haven't had any problems with it. If you haven't already, check out the review I did of it here to see what sort of cooling performance it has

[Guest]

Interesting to read your comments about the SiL RAID controller as most users reckon the 3114 is noticeably slower than the 3112 & certainly not upto the Intel ICH5 (particularly as it passes data via the PCI Bus so it is possible to get bus saturation).

The DFI nForec2 boards have a lot of potential but they also have a no. of "issues"

[Guest]

how does the board stand in comparison with the abit an7?

[dump_it_here]

I dont like the choice of Silicon Image for the SATA RAID in the B version of this board.

There have been a lot of reports of hard disk corruption corruption with Silicon Image.

The A version of this board uses a Highpoint RAID controller and Highpoint (in my opinion) is a far better RAID company then Silicon Image.

[Guest]

OMG thank you so much .. i have been trying for ages to get the mcp port working ... This must be the problem .. trying it right now.