ASUS vs. DFI

JDwoods[TeamATi] · Jan 9, 2006, 07:07 PM

I am obviously a big time ATi fan and I really want my next system to be based on the Xfire boards, but I really don't know enough about mobo's to pick one of these boards hands down.

Which do you guys like best and why?

Lowfat · Jan 9, 2006, 07:58 PM

The DFI boards are supposedly been killing highly overclocked CPUs, it also uses the poor excess of the ATI chipset, which has horrible USB bandwidth. I also believe it doesn't support SATA2.

Personally I'd take the Asus A8R-MVP as it uses the ULi chip instead of the SB480.

Zelig · Jan 9, 2006, 08:33 PM

I love my DFI board, and have found the DFI forums to be of great help, but I'm running an nforce4 chipset, haven't tried anything with crossfire yet...

JDwoods[TeamATi] · Jan 10, 2006, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lowfat

Personally I'd take the Asus A8R-MVP as it uses the ULi chip instead of the SB480.

Are you talking about the N-bridge? What is the difference between the two?

I like Asus. I currently have an A8V-Deluxe that works great for me. I just wanted to know the major differences between the DFi Xfire board and the Asus. Not having SATA2 is an issue, but I don't typically OC my CPU too much anyway so that doesn't bother.

Thanks for the help guys.

JD