DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: This is the best motherboard of them all if you want to overclock your system AND you are using water cooling. It has all the latest technology and is loaded with features. Probably has the most BIOS settings for tweaking your memory timings than any other board out there.

Cons: The chipset fan is louder than any other component in my system. It whines and rattles like the sound the wind makes blowing on your window panes and screen door during a noreaster (no exaggeration). It is also very inconveniently located. Most new graphics cards are very long and will extend over the chipset fan, in some cases cause the fan to malfunction. The chipset gets way too hot on air regardless of this and requires modification or water cooling to correct. Problem with this is that if you put a bigger fan on this chipset, you won't be able to use that PCIx slot, making the SLI portion of this motherboard useless. This motherboard is also VERY picky about power supplies and memory as you will find out from their forums. These problems are more headache than they are worth for your average builder. Make sure you have plenty of spare parts for troubleshooting.

Overall Review: This is definitely not an average builders motherboard. If you aren't planning on overclocking, you have no business buying this thing. There are boards for half the price with the same exact features.

Pros: I've had the pleasure of running this motherboard for about 7 months now, and it still chugs along beautifully. Of all the motherboards I've used (KT7-RAID, Soyo KT333 Plat Dragon, MSI Neo 2 Plat, ECS KN8-SLI, and a few others) this one has had the most features I've ever seen without a 3rd party BIOS. Luckily, I bought 1GB of Mushkin XP 4000 Redline ram (the 3.3v-3.5v) and actually had a chance to overclock to heaven and back. At CL2.5-3-3-8 T2 3.5v with a A64 3000+, I saw an HTT OC of 310, @ 1:1 CPU:RAM. Insanity. My Gigabyte 7800GT, this system screams. Only thing it's lacking now a days, is another GB of ram. Although, it's truely NOT a perfect motherboard....

Cons: I've had very few, minor, and far between issues with this motherboard. 1) The PCI-E slot seems to not like a perfect 90 degree connection with the video card. Im not saying i had to bend the card's connector or anything, but it has to sit about 1-2 degrees off in order to POST. 2) Incredibly RAM picky. And I'm not talking value ram either, I'm talking among the high end stuff. I've tried... 2GB (2x 1) of OCZ Plat, 1GB (2x512) Corsair XMS, and my Mushkin 1GB (2x512) XP 4000 redline. Only the redline has worked. Slightly miffed. I think its some sort of user error, but I'm not sure what I could be doing wrong (Been doing this sence the P66 days, its not that i dont know what im doing). 3) NV4 Chipset placement. Sure the fan deck height allows for about a 80% Video card compatibility, but who the heck would really put it there?! 4) SLI jumper blocks. my previous KN8 Extreme SLI had a switchless setup... why not DFI? :( 5) POWAR!!!! I highly suggest a 550w or higher PSU.

Overall Review: I could drone on and on and on and on about this mother board, but, in the end i can only do one thing, suggest you get the Expert version insted. Many goofy bugs have been fixed, and the RAM has been placed above the CPU socket. truely a superior motherboard to an already excellent one. Personal question to DFI: why so picky on even the high end ram?!

Pros: This mobo is the best. Easy set up. Lots of options. Made to overclock. Booted up the first time without a hitch. Love it.

Cons: NONE.

Overall Review: Though other people had problems with Corsair ram I had no issues at all. SLI was a breeze to set up unlike my ASUS mobo.

Pros: It's BIOS save area is great. Works like it says, but not so with SATA on Windows x64.

Cons: I've been in touch with level 1 and 2 of tech support. They cannot seem to get Windows XP x64 working with SATA. It keeps registering in the BIOS as 133Mb/s instead of 3Gb/s.

Overall Review: It's why I spent the extra bucks on SATA.

Pros: Excelent component quality Excelent support through dfi-street.com Can overclock, or not. Stable either way. Plethera of I/O options Dual Gigabit :) 8 SATAs CMOS Reloaded

Cons: Might be a bit overwhelming for a newbie

Overall Review: This is a great board for someone who wants to break into the world of overclocking (like me), but doesn't necessarily need the added bios features of the expert model. CMOS reloaded makes it a breeze to recal stable settins while you're tweeking. It might seem like a bit too much at first, but give it some time and this board will become your best friend. -HEIMDALL- (built with NewEgg) DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR AMD 4000+ @ 2.76 GHz Zalman CNPS9500 4x 512MB Patriot +XBLK TCCD @214MHz 2x eVGA N516-AX GeForce7800 GT Antec TP-II 550 SLI 2x Segate 250GB Sata (Raid 0) NEC ND3540-A DVD+/-RW DL Sony DW-Q30A BK DVD+/-RW DL Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000BWA Samsung 204-T 20.1" LCD Saitek Eclipse, Logitech G5

Pros: Best motherboard I have ever owned. Wasn't difficult to set up at all despite what some reviews have stated. Great layout, great BIOS!!! More options and flexibility than I will ever need. EASY to overclock with this board!!!

Cons: None that I have found yet!!!

Overall Review: Read the manual and follow the directions for setting up this motherboard. Also pay attention to the requirements for the necessary power supply. Works well with high performance low latency Mushkin and OCZ memory.

Pros: its a rare board now a days... not too many options for you if you want ddr 1 184 pins ,with a dual core athlon, and be able to have dual video cards ... it also has plenty of usb slots and a fire wire slot

Cons: supports up to 4 gigs but they dont tell you you need to change the jumper settings and mess around with the bios to this point i can only get 3 gigs .. i been in touch with tech support they have a bit of a know it all attitude .. maybe they should make their products work as advertised out of box .any way the main problems are gone .. i still want a 4th gig even tho xp wont support it i am thinking about vista...the manual says when you enable all 4 memory slots that you run chance of burning out the board which is hilarious .. cuz i do audio video editing and need at least 3 gigs ..

Overall Review: its not a horrible board you just need patience if you want the most out of the board ..if ou are happy with 2 gigs .. then buy this .. if you can deel with the jumpers and can do with 3 gigs .. get this .. but i if you need the whole 4 gigs .. then go towards asus or somthing .. i wish i did but oh well .. its not horrible

Pros: This motherboard is awesome, no issues whatsoever! Installed easily, instructions were adaquate, and more detailed ones were on DFIs website when I needed to find out what slots this board likes memory in.

Cons: NONE!

Overall Review: get this board