[anothermbdusted]

Hey i was just wondering if this is a good deal and if anyone that has this board can tell me if its any good or not because im really thinking hard about buying this for my system since the x800gto went south for the winter...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130238

the only thing im wondering about is if my system will handle a sli setup in the fututre or not i have a ocz 520w modstream PS..
thanks

 

[pjlietz]

Its a good setup, but I found that the mobo ran a little warm and it was not a great o/c'er.

edit: Ya you psu should be good enough for SLI

 

[anothermbdusted]

well i have great cooling the cpu is watercooled and the case has 1 120mm intake and 2 120mm's exhaust(1 top ,1 back 78F) do you know if it happens to have a tempreture monitor on the board like the abits do?

 

[pjlietz]

Ya it has temp sensors on the board, if thats what you mean? I would bet that you'll see an increase in temps with the board, but not a big one.

 

[FoRmEd]

It looks very similiar to DFI nF4 SLI-D, with the exception
that the RAM slot are located differently...

But the only problem with heat will be the Chipset...
Keep in mind that the Chipset Temp Threshold is very high...

I have the DFI, w/watercooling on CPU.
My Chipset hovers around 48C under load...

So if I were looking at buying this combo, I would jump
on the opertunity!

 

[anothermbdusted]

can you veiw the temps inside windows? or do you need to download something like motherboard monitor? im not picky about overclocking to be honest as long as i can get my 3200(2.0)-2.4ghz im happy..

 

[pjlietz]

You should be able to do that. When I had mine I could not find any reliable software to monitor my temps so I picked up some temp probes. There are a ton of o/c'ing options in the bios though. I would say go for it.

P.S. They are very reliable boards to, we have sold loads of them at work and only one came back and it wasn't even defective.

 

[FoRmEd]

The best program to use is SpeedFan...

It is usually the 4th or 5th temp down...

When you get it running just post a screenie and I will tell you
which one it is...

 

[anothermbdusted]

k shall do im just waiting on newegg to process my refund they got it friday and well still yet to be processed going to call and complain today about it...so hope to have it here by sat....and thank you for your kind responses

 

[anothermbdusted]

well i ordered it and should be here today according to ups website....am i going to need to reinstall windows?if so can i just do a repair only?

 

[FoRmEd]

Its better to reload Windows when installing a major component..