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Cathar · 04-24-2004, 10:22 PM

Regarding your overclocking issues, having now owned and experienced what a DFI LanParty UltraB has to offer, I can honestly say that it's the motherboard's totally crap CPU power regulation that is holding you back from pushing the CPU further.

Best I was able to achieve on my board, stable, was a whopping 300MHz lower than what I could achieve stable on the Abit NF7-S. Unstable I could get to within 80MHz of the NF7-S.

The DFI's are great for high FSB shenanigans, no doubt about it, but for pushing the CPU hard they suck donkey balls.

04-24-2004, 10:22 PM	#14
Cathar Thermophile Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 2,538	Regarding your overclocking issues, having now owned and experienced what a DFI LanParty UltraB has to offer, I can honestly say that it's the motherboard's totally crap CPU power regulation that is holding you back from pushing the CPU further. Best I was able to achieve on my board, stable, was a whopping 300MHz lower than what I could achieve stable on the Abit NF7-S. Unstable I could get to within 80MHz of the NF7-S. The DFI's are great for high FSB shenanigans, no doubt about it, but for pushing the CPU hard they suck donkey balls. Last edited by Cathar; 04-24-2004 at 10:29 PM.