DFI LANParty UT nF3-250Gb: Overclocker's Dream
by Wesley Fink on September 8, 2004 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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Performance Test Configuration: DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb
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| Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor(s): | AMD Athlon64 3200+ (2.0GHz) |
| RAM: | 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3200 EL Platinum Rev.2 2 x 512MB Mushkin PC3500 Level II or 2 x 512MB OCZ PC3500 Platinum Ltd |
| Hard Drive(s): | Maxtor 250GB 7200 RPM IDE (16MB Buffer) |
| Video AGP & IDE Bus Master Drivers: | NVIDIA nForce Platform Driver 4.24 (5-10-2004) VIA 4in1 Hyperion 4.51 (12-02-2003) |
| Video Card(s): | ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB (AGP 8X) |
| Video Drivers: | ATI Catalyst 4.8 |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP1 |
| Motherboards: | DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb Abit KV8 PRO (VIA K8T800 PRO) Chaintech VNF3-250 (nVidia nForce3-250) Epox 8KDA3+ (nVidia nForce3-250Gb) Gigabyte K8NSNXP nVidia nForce3-250) MSI K8N Neo (nVidia nForce3-250Gb) nVidia nForc3-250Gb Reference Board |
Current testing of Socket 754 Athlon 64 motherboards used OCZ PC3200 EL Platinum Rev. 2, which is based on Samsung TCCD memory chips. Earlier tests of Socket 754 boards used either Mushkin PC3500 Level II or OCZ PC3500 Platinum Ltd memory modules. Both these memories use Winbond BH5 chips, which have been discontinued. All benchmarks used 2-2-2-10 memory timings regardless of memory used.
Performance tests were run with the ATI 9800 PRO 128MB video card with AGP Aperture set to 128MB with Fast Writes enabled. Resolution in all benchmarks is 1024x768x32 unless otherwise noted.
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rjm55 - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - link
Saw the DFI at www.gameve.com for $130. ZZF had them for a bit at a similar price. It looks like it will be affordable.deathwalker - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - link
Sweet Mobo...sounds inviting for my planned system upgrade from my Abit NF7-S with my O/C 2500 mobility proc...only concern...will I have to mortgage my home to be able to afford this board...afterall..these goodies do come with a price tag.rjm55 - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - link
Which is the better overclocker - the 2.0 1024k 3400+ or the 2.2 512k 3400+? Has anyone tested both?Wesley Fink - Thursday, September 9, 2004 - link
#40 - Both versions of the 3200+ are now mentioned at the bottom of page 9 - 2.0GHz with 1024k cache and 2.2GHz with 512k cache. Our test 3200+ was a 2.0GHz 1024k version.Jedi2155 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
did anyone else noticed the error about the 3200+ @ the bottom of page 9 :-).rjm55 - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
I'm releived to know 1GB dimms work fine. It didn't make sense that other 754 had no problems with 1GB dimms and this one did. I'm glad DFI cleared up the confusion.Wesley Fink - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
I just spoke with Oskar Wu, the board's designer. Oskar says they have 1GB dimms from Samsung that work fine on the LANParty UT, and that the Samsung 1GB dimms use 512MB chips in their construction. He said the only reason for the caution on 512MB chips (not dimms) was because they have not verified operation with dimms made with 1GB chips. All of the 1GB dimms I have here for testing use 512MB chips in their construction.Oskar also stated that 2 dimms work best in dimm slots 1 and 2, and not 1 and 3. He said try 1 and 2 and you will get better performance with 2 dimms.
Bozo Galora - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
I just went there to check it out - #33 was wrong.It supports 512 MegaBIT DEVICES - DRAMS, not sticks.
cnq - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
Yeah, I saw that too. I didn't know that any 754 motherboards forbade using a 1GB DIMM. Who knows, maybe it's a misprint on DFI's part...we can always hope.laxxy - Wednesday, September 8, 2004 - link
where does it say it supports only 512M?here:
http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_deta...
it states that it
> Supports up to 3GB memory when using DDR333
> Supports up to 2GB memory when using DDR400
???