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Originally Posted by 4runner
NIce seeing some dam nice rigs!!! Dfi lanparty Mobos, those boards are gettin very popular any reason why? Just curious how thet stack up to Asus An8 series..
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Because they're the fastest, most over-clockable, most stable, and most feature-rich motherboards you can buy. I was going to get the new one (DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert), but it's still $200-$250 and I don't overclock anymore, so I got an equally good (for my purposes) and cheaper board.
From 2001 to 2003 Abit came out with some absolutely incredible high-end motherboards. They were all the fastest around, had amazing overclocking capabilities (and really established the idea of jumperless overclocking a la SoftMenu), and had every feature an enthusiast could want. Suddenly toward the end of 2003 Abit started losing steam and there was a new overclocking contender: DFI. The reason? A guy named Oskar Wu, the guy who's designed some of the best motherboards of the past 5 years. In 2003 Oskar left Abit and joined up with DFI. Since then DFI's LANParty series of motherboards have been some of the best around.
How do the new LANParty boards stack up? At the top of the stack. I made a concious decision not to buy one for many reasons (price, wanted more legacy support, don't overclock, etc.), but they are consistantly rated the highest on hardware review sites and such.
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Here's a head-to-head review if you're interested. It's not the newest LANParty board, though, which is somewhat better than the one reviewed...
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=1009