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Saturday, January 27, 2007
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DFI has brought the world of the super insane volt modding overclocker within reach of the average overclocker. Add a spec of good engineering, a touch of awesome voltage options, and a little of DFI's special magic and you have a platform that is killer fast right out of the box! The latest gear from those tweakers at DFI is the LANPartyUT NF590 SLI-M2R/G motherboard, and it's looking like a real gem too. The Socket AM2 motherboard supports single and dual core AMD Athlon64, X2 and FX as well as budget Sempron processors. DFI have based the LanpartyUT NF590 SLI on nVIDIA's extremely competent nForce 590 SLI and MCP55PXE southbridge chipsets.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
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DFI's LANParty UT ICFX3200 T2R/G is mostly a motherboard for enthusiasts that want to get serious about overclocking. It's for those of you that took stuff apart as a child, then played with those bits for longer than they had when the toy / remote / Dad's new phone was in one piece. For around £180 including VAT, the ICFX3200 T2R/G requires some serious investment, especially given that the heavily overclockable P965 boards top out at around the £140 mark and the promising nForce 650i boards are even cheaper. However, it's still cheaper than most of the problem-free nForce 680i SLI mobos that are £200+. In that respect, the board falls into a bit of niche, where it's still an expensive motherboard (even more so considering it's the UT version that comes with a meagre bundle), but it's still not as serious of an investment as some boards on the market. So yeah, it's just like a Ferrari.
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Monday, January 8, 2007
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This left us wondering on the Intel front, would RD600 ever make it to the market potentially being an AMD owned chipset for an Intel CPU. First there were rumours of it being scrapped, but now we have finally seen the first board based on this chipset cross our path, and by the looks of it possibly the only one that you will ever see. DFI has taken to the market and with courage decided to face whatever Intel does to them further on down the track, after all, why be afraid these days? There is still the AMD market if DFI gets shafted by Intel. Nevertheless, it's good to see a company like DFI stand up and be strong and give the consumer what they want.
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
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While we did use the DFI LANParty UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G motherboard in our last article discussing the NF5 chipset, some might be asking, why we are doing another review? The answer is simple - we only used the DFI board for its 590SLI chipset. The focus of that article was the chipset and not so much the motherboard itself ? this time we?ll be focusing more on the board and its features to work out if it is actually worth buying.
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Friday, September 22, 2006
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There is nothing particularly bad about DFI's Infinity 975X/G motherboard, but DFI is a household name when it comes to overclocking. Sadly, the Infinity 975X/G doesn't live up to that reputation and those looking for a board to overclock their Core 2 processor should look elsewhere. If you absolutely need CrossFire to complement your Core 2 Duo but are on a budget, the Infinity 975X/G is worth consideration.
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Monday, September 18, 2006
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DFIs highly anticipated AM2 enthusiast board is finally here, after months of development. Like previous LanParty boards, this one caters to the overclocker, and simply checking out the BIOS screams that fact. Does it please this enthusiast?
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Tuesday, September 5, 2006
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Continuing with providing high quality products, this new board from DFI use a six layer PCB with 100% Japanese capacitors. DFI is also the first Motherboard manufacturer to implement a five phase Digital PWM solution. As per DFI, Digital PWM provides stable voltage for CPU and avoids damage for capacitors along with improving cooling properties of the motherboard. Each signal phase of PWM provides 30A; 5 phase PWM, with a total of 150A for CPU- great for extreme over-clocking
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
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It has taken DFI about 2 months since the Radeon Xpress 3200's initial introduction to bring us its take on the chipset - the LANParty UT CFX3200-DR. Being the last board manufacturer on the market with a Radeon Xpress 3200 based motherboard, has the wait been worth it? Read on to find out as we put DFI's LANParty UT CFX3200-DR through our test suite...
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Sunday, April 23, 2006
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If you're looking for the ultimate overclocker's motherboard based on ATI CrossFire technology, then CFX3200-DR might be just the right one for all your needs. The board is solid, well built, reasonably stable and is pretty overclockable too. The BIOS is great and is a tweaker's heaven. We feel that it needs to mature a little to allow for more overclocking headroom. You should start to see more of this board's potential ooze out in the bucket load as more BIOS revisions come out...
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
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DFI has once again developed a motherboard that caters to the enthusiasts but also carries riches needed in a fully-fledged multimedia PC. The overclocking potential is simply marvelous with my 3000+ Venice breaking 300*9 and even posting at 315*9! Read on...
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Sunday, March 19, 2006
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We were left conflicted about the DFI RS482 Infinity. While it is loaded with an overclocking friendly BIOS and performance comparable with standard ATX Socket 939 motherboards it is left with the ATI SB450 south bridge and an inconvenient layout. While the inconvenient layout can be easily forgiven the ATI SB450 south bridge isn't. While the SB450 supports plenty of PCI-E, PCI slots, and SATA connections they're all SATA150 ports without support for Native Command Queuing. There's also the abysmal USB performance. Both of these small details can easily have been remedied by pairing the Radeon Xpress 200 with a ULI M1575 south bridge...
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006
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The DFI RS482 Infinity gives you all the options that a full size DFI motherboard would. DFI give us all the same overclocking and tweaking that they are known for. Going into the BIOS without knowing what board you were using would make you think that you were on a LanParty edition board. The overclocking of the RS482 is not as high as the other series, but is not shabby at all. Obtaining a 290MHz HTT is nothing to squeeze at when working with a board that most will use as a LAN box or a HTPC system. The inputs are all that anyone would need if they intend on building a media system. The sound quality from the Realtek 7.1 is great and the video quality is great on TV playback. The audio scenes in the movie in Hustle and Flow never sound so good...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
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The DFI LANParty UT LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR was simply a joy to use. It has a lot of features that would undoubtedly satisfy any enthusiast. The plethora of DRAM settings in its BIOS alone will occupy you for quite some time to come! This motherboard is, of course, a LANParty board, so it comes with UV accents that would appeal to case modders and fans of UV lights. But these superficial feature should not detract you from its main appeal - its overclocking capabilities. As far as overclocking is concerned, this motherboard is a pack leader. It offers an extremely wide range of voltages, and a wide range of clock speed options to choose from. Those features will clearly appeal to the computer enthusiast who seek to push their hardware to the absolute limit...
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Thursday, January 12, 2006
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Everyone knows that DFi is the king of the hill when it comes to AMD 64 overclocking. There is no other motherboard out there that offers you the controls over the voltages and timings. When DFi brought the LanParty line of boards to the market, it offered all the goodies that would make the inside of your case look as good as it would run. But some of us enthusiasts don't need all that added flare, so DFI gave us the Infinity line...
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Friday, December 16, 2005
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There is so much to love about the DFI RDX200 CF-DR. With a better developed BIOS over that of their NF4 boards and excellent overclocking potential, the RDX200 CF-DR is better than some companies flagship motherboards. While the board has its strong points it also has several flaws that are of concern. The RDX200 is simply a very good board, while the DFI NF4 LANParty SLI board is still the great board...
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