What are your thoughts on these two motherboards? Thanks!
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Read through that article ^^
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DFI ONLY if you are experienced in building pc's, and are willing to struggle for a couple of hours to get your rig stable... its a tough mobo, but pays off.
EPoX for a more kind of... plug and play type mobo.Comment
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My experience with these boards:
The Epox is cheaper, while still being very good quality. The DFI seems to do better in terms of supporting extreme (let's emphasise extreme) overclocks. It also has some jumpers to run your memory at 5V... if you feel you need to make some toast between your dual channel RAM at 280+MHz. :)
The DFI board has a slightly better BIOS on it too. They are almost identical, except the DFI has Memtest86 built in, plus allows you to save a couple of different BIOS "profiles", that can then be selected on startup.
The Epox has the cool P80 LED diagnostic readout (as usual) and then adds some funky blue surface mount voltage check LEDs around the board for added coolness. I'm still a sucker for blue lights on hardware. The DFI on the other hand has their trademark yellow UV activated sockets on it. Yellow isn't my favorite colour. :)
Just FYI, That DFI board has a funny bug with some power supplies (Antec NeoPower for example) where you will need to plug it in, and allow the standby power to run through it for a couple of minutes before you can switch it on. My friend learnt this the hard way, plugging it in, it doesn't switch on, so completely rebuilds it, thinking there is a short or bad connection...Comment
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When you say tough do you mean to overclock? I have never built a computer before but I don't plan to overclock too much in the beginning. Would it still be hard to set up if I am planning to just use with no mod initially? Also is the DFI SLI board overkill if I don't plan to run two graphics cards initially? New Egg seems to have a good deal on the DFI UT nF4 Ultra-DOriginally posted by evogre3nComment
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no no
If you have never built before, get a A8N, or something... the DFI nf4 utlra-d is jam packed of stuff you wont need most likely, it will be tough to overclock, but as far as Ive personally experienced, its the best overclocking board available right now. (same shipset as SLI-d and SLI-DR.
Id recommend you dont get the DFI, it will take a long time to setup, and it will be very difficult if its your first time (not physically, but it will take a long time to get it stable and optimized, if BF2 is your need, dont get this board unless your prepared to fight it)
The upside is, if you do get it optimized and set to the best settings, you will find yourself with an unstopable board.. so... choose :PComment
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This is utterly ridiculous.Originally posted by evogre3n
I installed this board in my system and had no problems at all.
Unless you've actually used the board yourself please don't post opinions like you have.Comment
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that was my experience with the board, you cant debate wether or not I should have an opinion because your assume I dont have it because I didnt have the same experience as you.
Kudos to you on having an easy system install
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Well unfortunately for me I should've checked your sig before making a reply.Originally posted by evogre3nthat was my experience with the board, you cant debate wether or not I should have an opinion because your assume I dont have it because I didnt have the same experience as you.
Kudos to you on having an easy system install
Point taken.Comment
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