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DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Review

Date: 2005-3-2

[Abstract]
   PerformanceIn an era of AMD motherboards where performance is going to differ less than a couple of percent from platform to platform, all else being equal, the DFI LanParty SLI-DR motherboard...

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Because SLI installation methods will be slightly different from manufacturer to manufacturer, its important to take a look at the process on each board and see if its too complicated or causes any problems.

DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Review

The naked NF4 SLI-DR motherboard.

DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Review

After installing the first NVIDIA 6800 Ultra GPU, its obvious that we are going to have to UN-install it to make the necessary SLI adjustments to the jumpers underneath the GPU heatsink. 

DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Review

Using the jumper removal tool provided by DFI, you have to go through each of the banks of jumpers and move them one position in order to enable the SLI mode on the PCI Express slots.  There are six banks of jumpers to do this to and should take you less than a minute to complete. 

DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Review

And now they are all shifted, ready for the graphics cards to be installed.

DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Review

That is two 6800 Ultras, with the DFI SLI connector attached to the cards for data transfer and card stability.  Notice that you do in fact lose one of the standard PCI slots to the massive GPU heatsinks. 

DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR Review

Note how close the PCB on the graphics cards comes to the top of the heatsink covering the nForce4 SLI MCP.  This is not a trait of this motherboard, rather a trait of the entire chipset.  Maybe this explains the move BACK to two chipsets with the upcoming Intel nForce platform? 




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   Last Page
   [1]· Summary
   [2]· Introduction and Specifications
   [3]· Board Layout and Features
   [4]· Included Software and Extras
   [5]· SLI Graphics Card Installation
   [6]· BIOS Features
   [7]· BIOS Features (cont'd)
   [8]· System Setup and Testing Methods
   [9]· Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra, AIDA32 and Cachemem
   [10]· Gaming: Quake III and UT2003
   [11]· Gaming: X2 and 3DMarks
   [12]· Gaming: Doom 3 and Far Cry 1.3
   [13]· Application: Winstones and World Bench 5
   [14]· Application: DivX, MP3 and Data Compression, PCMark04
   [15]· Professional: CineBench 2003 and KribiBench 1.1
   [16]· Professional: SPECviewperf 7.1
   [17]· Scientific: ScienceMark 2.0 Beta
   [18]· Issues and Conclusions
   Next Page


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