Hayward, CA (March 2, 2005) – DFI, a worldwide leader in performance motherboard design and manufacturing, is excited to announce our most recent achievement with the new NF4 SLI motherboard. Taking home the dual awards, the HEXUS Xtreme Innovation Award and the HEXUS Editor’s Choice Award, the new DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-D surpassed even the editor’s expectation for this platform. UK-based HEXUS.net compared the DFI motherboard against the ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe in a head-to-head shoot out. While the two motherboards performing at almost an equal at stock speed, the DFI LANPartyUT motherboard emerged as a clear winner when it outperformed significantly in overclocking.

“The performance of both boards considered, you'd be surprised that two boards with the same feature sets could turn out so differently. The ASUS is the board for the user that wants a bunch of features, stock performance and has no real desire to get his or her hands dirty. The DFI for those that don't care about 10 USB2.0 ports (although you get them) and the like, rather they want to tweak the last frame per second out of their system, running as much out of spec as they can.

I mentioned earlier than the ASUS stops around 270MHz dHTT for me, whereas the DFI will run to 340MHz before running out of stability. For the user that wants to crank up to around 300MHz with a memory clock to match, your choice is clear.

Once or twice I've been tempted to write that the DFI is the best enthusiast mainboard ever created, and in many respects it is, giving you the platform for some serious out-of-spec running, at high stability. The power circuitry has been designed with that in mind, giving you that easy high dHTT, those large voltage ranges, which paired with the plethora of options for adjusting the memory subsystem will have many frothing at the mouth. SLI works fine as expected and in terms of testing with the latest BIOS release never put a foot wrong. It also has a flexible PCI Express slot configuration that can free up plentiful bandwidth to the non-PEG16X slots in non-SLI mode.

Both come recommended, but the DFI has strings to its bow that you will not find elsewhere. Go forth and purchase, there's absolutely no finer Athlon 64 mainboard at the time of writing.”

For the complete NF4 SLI shoot out article on HEXUS.Net, please go to http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD0xMDA5

For more information on the DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR motherboard, please visit http://www.dfi.com.tw