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11-12-2006, 10:34 AM
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I was able to OC a lot better with the DFI. With the Asrock I got the 165 to 2.1 and at 2.2 wasn't stable, but with the DFI I'm currently at 2.7 and its stable. I've dual primed for more than 8 hrs and have been playing games with no instabilities at all.
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09-01-2007, 07:27 AM
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Well, my two DFI LP B served me just right, till one get killed with the cursed Antec NEO PSU that use Fuhjyyu caps, that burst mine on the board and... 
Yet at least they have working bios and stuff. I moved to Sapphire Grouper (s939) with Opty, power if faster, but the bios just suxx...
DFI support rule, because they send me free of charge a new bios chip, when I by accident load from in the Reload feature to load/safe bios settings the setting from area where they was NEVER stored... Resulting in bios / mobo lockup.
After this I bought BIOS Saviour anyway, but they sill send me the chip - so their support is not that bad...
Later they did not want to tell me even basic distances on the DFI LB 2 mobo I own (!!!), so one have to be carefull with judging them. Sometimes good, sometimes FUBAR. Better that the Sapphire, tough. They just issued me support ticket 8 months ago and no new bios since them... Great. I just throw off money on mobo that is insanely great, yet can't be used much... Amazting...
Come to think, if Epox did not used the cursed GSC crap caps that killed my Epox 8RDA+, I might never need DFI...  Never mind :)
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08-02-2007, 12:56 AM
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My 1st real oc mobo was Abit BH-6 celeron 300MHz @500MHz
But last 3 years i have mostly stucked on Asrock products
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14-02-2007, 02:39 PM
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EPoX 1 vote
actually they make nice boards
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27-05-2007, 05:02 PM
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Definitely ASRock, by far the best price/performance, and also good customer support
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27-05-2007, 06:15 PM
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DFI is the one. i had many different boards but the dfi (Lanparty ultra-d 939) was definitively the best (not counting the chipset fan) I don't like asus that much any more (had a a7n8x deluxe, and m2n-e) my brother has a a8n-e which is very buggy (asus blames nvidia, nvidia blames asus. funny thing because I had my dfi in this time with no problems at all). May by their more expensive board are good but for the cheap ones i would prefer Asrock.
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27-05-2007, 07:26 PM
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EPoX is dead... Long live SuPoX. I don't like them very much, anyway. My 8KDA3J was one of the worst boards I've ever owned. The abit I've got now isn't much better, mind you.
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23-06-2007, 02:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ondersjaak
Definitely ASRock, by far the best price/performance, and also good customer support
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I would have agreed if price was a factor, but when I have the money I'd buy Asus over Asrock any day. (I've owned both)
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23-06-2007, 09:36 PM
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It appears that Abit may be making a comeback.
The last boards I had from them were the NF7-S which died when the gold plating on a stick of RAM fell off and shorted a DIMM slot and the AN7 which is still going strong.
My Epox 9NDA3+ has given good service since Jan 2005 except for one irritating problem - I have to power the system up by holding the start button while I turn on the PSU power switch. Tried a different start switch and tried 2 different PSUs (Antec 480 Neo and Enermax ELT500) with the same results. It will eventually start with the front panel switch after 5 to 10 tries but I have to hold the switch each time for about 10 sec to bleed the caps between tries.
My Soyo KT333 Dragon, KT400 Dragon and KT600+ were all good boards but as we all know Soyo is gone.
My DFI nF2 Ultra-B was possessed by demons but my nF4 Ultra-D has been excellent (once I got it dialed in) since I built it in April 2005.
I'm updating my previous post.
I have to say that my favorite atm is the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2. OCs well even though there aren't a lot of BIOS options and the price was definately right. Of course I've only had it for 10 months so only time will tell. 
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22-07-2007, 12:15 PM
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actually processors are so fast these days. Overclocking is more for the fun. How many of you aactually run your systems in o/c mode all day long.
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