- Excellent Overclocking Ability
- CMOS Reloaded
- BIOS Requires a Lot of Tweaking
- Chipset Fan Below Primary PCI-Express Graphics Slot
- AMD Athlon 64 Sempron Socket 939 Socket
- NVIDIA nForce4-SLI Chipset
- 1000MHz Hyper Transport
- Four 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM Sockets with PC3200 DDR Memory Support
- Two PCI Express x16 Slots for NVIDIA SLI
- NVIDIA RAID 0/1 SATA II Controller and Sil 3114 RAID 0/1/5 SATA Controller
- Realtek ALC850 AC'97 Audio with Karajan Audio Module
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces
- UV Reactive IDE, Floppy and Serial ATA Cables
6/13/05 – If one looks at the DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLI-DR motherboard compared to other nForce4-SLI chipset boards, the CPU and memory layout is quite different. DFI's reason for this was to try and improve the memory interface to allow for better overclocking of the board. And that is the key, this board is not designed for an average user but for those looking to do a lot of tweaking.
The BIOS is a real treat for those looking to deal with overclocking. The range of options is far greater than what most boards offer. This allows for much finer tweaking of the components for higher performance and stability, but it requires a lot more effort by the user. To assist in this, DFI includes the CMOS reloaded to store up to 4 BIOS profiles.
Stability is a bit of an issue with the board at stock settings though. In testing, some memory modules posed problems allowing the system to POST unless they were installed in specific memory slots and sometimes only a single module could be installed before the BIOS settings could be tweaked for it to POST properly with two modules.
DFI's LanParty UT NF4-SLI is a great motherboard for those who have the patience and desire to do heavy overclocking but it is not an ideal choice for the average user. There are a number of minor annoyances that prevent the board from being the best it could be. For a more detailed look at the board, please check out the Product Tour.
