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DFI LAN Party UT nF3 Ultra-D Review
by Prem on Thursday 27 October 2005




Conclusion

Overall the DFI LAN Party UT nF3 Ultra-D is a very powerful socket 939 AGP motherboard. While it may seem to tail the K8N Neo2 Platinum in terms of performance, the potential of the nF3 Ultra-D is unlimited. The overall board layout is superb and the BIOS offer plenty of memory tweaking options that the Neo2 lacks. The nF3 Ultra-D also works up to 3.6V with a DDR Booster as opposed to the Neo2 at just 3.4V with the Booster. Users who are looking into the 300HTT range with 1:1 ratio would love this motherboard as we had no problem exceeding DDR600 at 1T with 2x256MB sticks. However, there seems to be a problem with this board doing DDR600 at 1T with 2x512MB modules. We hope that DFI would resolve the high capacity DDR600 issue and hopefully bring back better stability for Venice based cores with the newer BIOS.

When it comes to stability, the nF3 Ultra-D passes days of stress testing without any restarts or system failure. Although the nF3 Ultra-D is a great motherboard for overclockers, novice users may want to look else where because there’s no point getting this motherboard if you want to run it at default setting. However if you have a very fast AGP graphics card and looking to do some serious overclocking, the DFI LAN Party UT nF3 Ultra-D is the best socket 939 AGP motherboard in the market. This motherboard will also last you for the coming years as it supports Dual Core X2 processors and we heard that ATI is planning to release their new AGP line of graphics cards. From what we can see, it is clear that the nF3 Ultra-D is the best socket 939 AGP motherboard ever built by DFI. This is definitely the best nForce 3 s939 AGP motherboard we have tested up to date and it is going to stay that way because this is also our last nForce 3 motherboard review.


Pros:

* Overclocks like charm
* 1:1 overclocking at its best
* Decent board layout
* AGP at its best
* Rock solid stability
* Works up to 3.6V with DDR Booster




Cons:

* SATA 1 & 2 are unlocked
* Problematic chipset fan
* Price