Motherboard dilema

Thanks guys, I'll give the infinity a look. The NF7 is so tried and tested though. Is the package as good with the infinity as the lanparty?

 

Dragging this up again....

I can't believe the Lanparty dosen't have mounting holds for waterblocks, etc...

That may well swing it in the direction of the NF7, I'd almost convinced myself to go and blow £105 on Lanparty from PC World tomorrow as well. Yyes PC World, much as the place sucks sometimes I just want it in my hands without having to wait for the knock at the door!

 

But im sure bigZ is getting one. surely he will need mounting holes??

[yoda]patience must you learn young jedi[/yoda]

 

I've ordered an infinity, it's arriving tomorrow

I can tell you that the DFI Infinity and the LanParty rev B have the mounting holes, it's only the Rev A LanParty which doesn't have the mounting holes

 

God this is getting worse now, I am torn between the nf7 and the DFI infinity...

I think I might just give the DFI a try for a change, I can always get rid of it and get the nf7 if we don't get on. PC World have the DFI for £64 atm which seems like a bit of a steal!

Murdoc - what are you going for?

 

I've not even run the infinity yet... lol

but the NF7 is a tried and tested motherboard, well worth considering; there are a few probs with the infinity and they don't make new bios's very often... their last release was november time.

You have to run beta/alpha bios's if you want speed; however they void the warranty. Getting a bios savior would be a good idea IMHO

 

What sort of problems? I can't really find any volume of reviews to speak of. I'm not frightened of a bit of a learning curve but I don't really want a battle on my hands... What'd you reckon?

 

I think will go with the infinity tbh, the nf7-s is getting on a bit and i can only see the infinity going up where the nf-7 has maxxed. £64 at PCWORLD bloddy hell *gasps* i may swing over to the one at merry hill on thrus or summot. Want a Artic VGA silencer too.

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EDIT: the only DFI i can see at pcworld is the lanparty :/

 

I saw it mentioned in another thread yesterday and went up there last night and they had about 5 of them.

I think I'm going to get one too - might as well give it a try at that price!

Are you on yahoo messenger or anything? Might need som help getting it full sorted, bios' etc...

 

Was that that the pcworld up merry hill?

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Sure was. You gonna get one? I think I might too - although the whole bios issue seems a little confused. Some helpful information over at xtremesystems.

 

yer might take a trip over in a few, need a new power supply asap too, my comp keeps crashing.

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good luck guys

 

Do you reckon we're going to need it?

 

I dunno, I've not fired up my own board yet

It's deffo the fastest board around, it's just whether it can hold up

 

I just got hold of mine what BIOS's are their about? im about to do the change over, just had to fabricate a p4 power connector, i have a new supply coming on monday

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this thread might be of use to you: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31703

 

Thanks got it running, 2 mins of tweaking and i have already too 3 secs off my super pi time without any os tweaking yet

now i just need to put it in my case :/

proc at 2.380GHZ (2400+ thorton)

170x14 (512k cache)



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have you tried getting past 200Mhz fsb yet?

There's a "bug" with some of the boards at 200Mhz fsb where you can't cold boot.

 

I only have PC2700 so i will set the devider back a bit, running nice atm 2.45Ghz 1.8V 14*175 ram at 2.7v

whats a safe voltage to go on the ram?
its crucial PC2700LL 2-2-2-2-6

one very pleased

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