The official LANparty NFII Ultra B motherboard discussion thread.

[Massman]

I just love this mainboard!

 

Just booted the board after at least a year and a half of inactivity, loaded a saved bios config dated 21/10/2008 and was running 260MHz FSB 1:1 CL2-2-2-5 again

[Mr.Scott]

Hmmm......gonna try to put a dent in some CP points I see.

It's a very nice board. What/who's bios do you usually run?

[Massman]

I have to check what bios I'm running right now, but I haven't found that big of a difference with the lanparty. The board is just tuned perfect ... the only thing you need is BH-5 memory to run the FSB 1:1 .

[Mr.Scott]

That's probably correct. Most bios modders, including myself, usually "borrow" the DFI's 6-19 romsip table for our other boards bios'. I run a fully modded AN7 and I can only get to around 255-260 on the FSB. There are a couple others at CP who can go to around 280. BH-5 and the voltage to use it are a must though. Take care of that board my friend. It is an almost un-replaceable icon in the OC'ing community.

[Oj0]

Why can yours do profiles but my NF3 250UT can't? And yeah, it's an awesome board. I haven't got any personal experience but I've seen them in use. My Abit NF7-s can compete though, 270MHz without mods

[Massman]

That's one hell of an NF7 ... mine only did upto 215 with Abit bios and 255 with merlin/tictac bios.

[Mr.Scott]

That's one hell of an NF7 ... mine only did upto 215 with Abit bios and 255 with merlin/tictac bios.

I'll say. I also have a fully modded NF7-S, and that will only go 265 max.

[Turrican]

my abit nf7-s rev 2.0 does 255 without mods on air so far.

time for some mods.

[Massman]

Does anyone have a good external thread about the Lanparty board? I need to figure out whether doing the cap modifications, ocp and vdroop is worth it.

[Bones]

That's probably correct. Most bios modders, including myself, usually "borrow" the DFI's 6-19 romsip table for our other boards bios'. I run a fully modded AN7 and I can only get to around 255-260 on the FSB. There are a couple others at CP who can go to around 280. BH-5 and the voltage to use it are a must though. Take care of that board my friend. It is an almost un-replaceable icon in the OC'ing community.

 

Trying to find one is next to impossible nowadays so do take care of it. If you do see them now, you'd have to shell out major $$'s just to get your hands on it and you have to hope it's not something that's been thrashed to the point it could actually be "Worn out" since most hang onto these if they are any good at all. I'm lucky to have the DFI Infinity NF2 I have and it's not a great performer in comparision (So far).

 

Good luck with the LanParty Massman.

[Mr.Scott]

my abit nf7-s rev 2.0 does 255 without mods on air so far.

time for some mods.

Mine did 250 out of the box. VDD mod is a must have, and the Vdimm mod as well, if you don't have an OCZ DDR Booster.

[Turrican]

Mine did 250 out of the box. VDD mod is a must have, and the Vdimm mod as well, if you don't have an OCZ DDR Booster.

jup, vdd mod is really a must. maybe also some vdrop mods.

luckily i got my hands on a ocz ddr booster years ago. it served me already very well.

[Mr.Scott]

luckily i got my hands on a ocz ddr booster years ago. it served me already very well.

I already figured you did, by looking at some of your entries. You truly are a "hardware king".

I have a fair amount myself.

[Massman]

Why the DDR Booster? Vdimm physical modification isn't that difficult in most cases.

[Antinomy]

Because it's not always that easy when you want to go over 3.3V. The Vdimm is often being powered from 3.3. This can be overriden like on the DFI UT NF250GB Vdimm mod but OCZ booster is easier.

But some of my thoughts tell me that maybe a Vdimm is not required at all.

[Massman]

If you want 285 CL2-2-2-5 ... you need more vdimm

[Antinomy]

Yes, Winbonds say that 3.3 is for kiddies

But I'm going on an experiment that would be more useful on A64 but can make a nice work on A-XP. Don't know other platform that requires high speed DDR.

[Turrican]

yep, with the booster i can give up to 4.0V. im always using ~3.5V for 250+, but it's always good to have some room left.

[Massman]

For A64 I'd opt for TCCD, I think, not sure why ... probably because it's easier to find a well-working 2x512MB kit. NF2 doesn't cope all too well with TCCD, so BH5 is the only way to go

[Antinomy]

NF2 doesn't cope all too well with TCCD

Why, maybe the subtimings?

 

And besides, Massman - I hope you know that the DFI board (and Epox 8RDA3+) are a bit slower, than Abit, Soltek, Asus for example? And that the rev2 Nforce2 (the one with official 200FSB) are all slower to get more FSB frequency.

Edited December 27, 2009 by Antinomy

[Massman]

I may have expressed myself incorrectly: NF2 doesn't benefit from TCCD because the northbridge is the limiting factor. So, switching to CL2,5 for TCCD doesn't help you to get higher FSB. And CL2 > CL2,5 if FSB remains equal.

 

Further more, if you can do 280CL2, you need like 330CL2,5 for same performance.

[Antinomy]

Well, high FSB is a must only for Thoroughbreds and Bartons. Some CPU's have FSB fear - the begin to crash even far from 200.

[Massman]

High FSB is needed for the entire platform ... the bus is so inefficient I could cry.

 

You can already see the difference in SuperPI 1M: increase the CPU multiplier and the result is so much worse

[Antinomy]

Yes, high bus is needed but not available on every CPU. The old ones don't like high FSB in means of stable frequency.

[Oj0]

That's one hell of an NF7 ... mine only did upto 215 with Abit bios and 255 with merlin/tictac bios.

 

Here's a 265MHz validation, 270MHz was do-able but not validation stable