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DFI nForce4: SLI and Ultra for Mad Overclockersby Wesley Fink on 2/5/2005 9:30 AM EST
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mob58 - Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - linkI sprang for the Ultra-D following Anandtechs Review expecting great things. Unfortunately my experiences with this board have been miserable. I'm going to try to RMA it. I've built about a dozen systems and have never had so many problems. I suppose I just got a bad board, but this has soured my opinion of DFI a bit. Any recommendations for an altenate? Reply
Quanticles - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - linkThere isnt any talk of a standardized SLI format, is there? Reply
oldbutdumb - Thursday, February 17, 2005 - linkI won't get into the DFI trap again. I worked real hard to get the first Lan Party NFII A to work then rma'd it and got the NFII B Ultra. Same story. Too many issues of incompatibilities between bios versions and other hardware used with the boards. I don't know if it's DFI's fault or Nvideas but either way your left with a defective system Reply
Wesley Fink - Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - link#110 - Any 2-slot bridge will work on the DFI. The DFI, Gigabyte, and MSI are all 2-slot bridge designs and interchangable. The Asus A8N-SLI is a 3-slot design, and is longer than the other bridges.
ALL - As of this date of 2/16 all of the DFI Ultra-D boards in the market are still moddable to SLI. No one has received shipments yet of the new revised nF4 Ultra chipset that can not be modded, but they are expecting the first shipments soon. Reply
mikerand - Sunday, February 13, 2005 - linkthe comment on the review says:
"DFI has advised us, and posted on their website, that they will NOT sell the SLI bridge to buyers of the Ultra board"
does this mean if you buy an ultra board and mod it that without this bridge you wont be able to run it in sli mode?
is dfi the only place you can get this bridge from? Reply
PrinceGaz - Saturday, February 12, 2005 - linkThanks Wesley. Reply
Wesley Fink - Friday, February 11, 2005 - link#106 - YES, the Sil3114 supports SATA drive mode in addition to various flavors of RAID. Yes, the BIOS does have a CAS 1.5 option. Reply
Teleri mm - Friday, February 11, 2005 - linkAnyone know for sure if the boards at Newegg are still modable?
Teleri Reply
PrinceGaz - Friday, February 11, 2005 - linkAnother question (shame you didn't answer my previous ones about overclocking and SATA drives, and whether drive(s) connected to the SiI 3114 controller can be used in non-RAID mode).
Does the BIOS give the option of a CAS 1.5 setting? Reply
amgreenwalt - Wednesday, February 09, 2005 - linkI would like to see a comparison between Asus,Abit,MSI & DFI. My only concern with DFI is the layout. I have a Koolance Case and I like to minimize the amout of cables in the open. Not too sure how that would work in this situation. Is there anyone who has this board with a koolance setup? Reply
chevas - Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - linkDid I miss something? Why do I not see the A8N-SLI deluxe included in these tests?!? Reply
Penth - Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - linkNO SLI Bridge? What am I to do with my Ultra-D now? Reply
beany323 - Monday, February 07, 2005 - linkReply
bigtoe36 - Monday, February 07, 2005 - linkmany companies have applied chipset tweaks with Asus pioneering PAT on 865PE boards from the onset...seems all of a suden the tier ones are being made to tow the line??? Reply
ViRGE - Sunday, February 06, 2005 - linkWesley, that's certainly a very believable story. Though Asus is a very good mobo company, they're also who I would suspect any such complainer to be. They're the most powerful tier 1 last I checked, and most likely to lose SLI sales due to semi-SLI, in part because it wouldn't be like them to release their own semi-SLI board. I'd hate to think that someone is trying to kill the modding community like that though. Reply
bbomb - Sunday, February 06, 2005 - linkNvidia is going to kill off SLI before it even gets off the ground by making it the most insanely difficult and expensive thing for computer users to do. Why cant they make it so that you can just slap in any two nvidia cards and get SLI to work? Why do they have to make it so that motherboards now cost over $250 retail for an SLI version?
I pray to god that ATI's version is half the price of Nvidias and allows any two ATI cards to work in an SLI fashion just top put Nvida back in their place. I bet the Nvidia prevents any ATI cards from working in SLI mode on any Nforce chipset should ATI get that to work.
This is what happens when graphics card companies use their chipsets to restrict what computer users can do with that companies video cards. I do belive that Nvidia said that they were two separate businesses but now they must have combined them to place the most restricitons possible through drivers to prevent affordable solutions from coming out.
F you Nvida it's all ATI and Via for me now.
Wesley Fink - Sunday, February 06, 2005 - link#93 - There was no press at all on the MSI "semi-SLI" Ultra - just a couple of posts on Forums - and nVidia was all over it. MSI said they canned the idea and the nVidia drivers were quickly changed so "semi-sli" would not work with current drivers on the Ultra.
I doubt it was the press that caused this to happen. Ultra chip shipments were still going to all the manufacturers after the "mod" article went up on January 18th and there was not one word from nVidia until Friday February 4.
The best we can figure is that a powerful tier 1 manufacturer complained loudly to nVidia late this week that they were losing SLI sales to DFI because of the "illegal" SLI. nVidia was forced to act due to the political clout of this manufacturer.
Of course nVidia had other options as well. They could have decided to lower the price of SLI and discontinue Ultra, which is what we thought would happen. Reply
bigtoe36 - Sunday, February 06, 2005 - link#93
It was all over the forums MSI had a semi SLI board and NV came down on them hard...nothing was in the "official press" though.
I have a feeling a tier 1 has moaned here as DFI are tier 2 and probably had no help designing the board...so pretty much went it alone and designed the board how they wanted to.
I would have thought the best move would have been to lower the cost of SLI and remove the "branding tax" and drop the Ultra chipset.
Still NV make the decissions here not us. Reply
arfan - Sunday, February 06, 2005 - linklikes what i say, nvida is not stupid, i hope via can make sli mobo with cheap price Reply
stephenbrooks - Sunday, February 06, 2005 - linkIt's time for another "The message is clear:" thing.
If chip manufacturers want to sell different products at different prices they should make sure they use DIFFERENT CHIPS! Nobody can pencil mod across a submicron trace. Why oh why do they do this and then put the lock in software?! I suspect it's because they wanted to be able to make a load of generic chips and brand them as the market demands.
Still... it's stupid! I remember reading AT's article on that pencil mod and had to blink a few times to make sure I was reading it right... :) Reply
xsilver - Sunday, February 06, 2005 - linkIs there already performance benchmarks for ATI's SLI option?? -- it would hardly be surprising that it beats nvidia's solution as it is 6months if not a year after (I did read that they were using differing approaches to SLI) -- I was only stressing that if ATI were in the same position nvidia is in now, they would do the same thing of price gouging, stopping such easy mods etc...
when ATI's solution comes out nvidia will respond with either lowering their price below ATI or developing their own next gen product -- and the cycle will continue || LATEST = GREATEST - usually :) Reply
bob661 - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - link#89
They probably wouldn't have bothered if there wasn't so much press about it. Reply
PrinceGaz - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linkIt's only a few tens of dollars difference between an Ultra and official SLI board, given how much you'd be spending on two high-end graphics-cards if you go SLI, why would you even risk saving a few dollars in the first place and sourcing the bridge afterwards?
The only people who are probably bothered about the Ultra to SLI mod being disabled, are those would would never buy two 6800GTs (or better) anyway. Reviews elsewhere have shown a 6800GT outperforms the 6600GT SLI in almost every game, so using SLI for 6600GTs is stupid.
DFI would be fools to allow the Ultra to SLI hack to be continued if as a second-tier mobo manufacturer they expect to continue nVidia supplying them with chipsets. Even considering selling the bridge to Ultra owners struck me as foolish in the extreme for them.
Myself I'll probably get an SLI board even though I'll never use two graphics cards, just because the price difference is so small compared with the other components that go into the system, and a mobo with all the bells and whistles is always nice to have "just in case".
nVidia have made a great chipset in the nForce4, le's not deprive them of the revenue they deserve by not buying SLI boards if that's what you intend to do, or getting a lower cost board if you don't. Everyone who knows they'll never want to use SLI benefits from the price differential which allows Ultra chipsets to be sold slightly cheaper. Reply
Zebo - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linkword on the street is buy your ultra board before 2/20 if you want to use Wes' SLI discovery...still does'nt help you find a bridge..
xsilver- Bullheads about to beat NF4 like a drum, hold your tounge. I don't blame nvidia but I also belive in the FREEDOM of mobo makers to do what they will with a chipset they purchased...not to be lorded over by nivida on the back end.
erios666 - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linkWell, that update freaked me out. Ultra-D on order. ZZF seems to be the cheapest that's in stock. I'm still hoping to be able to play my vids in a surround gaming mode 3840x1024. We'll hafta see. Reply
Locut0s - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linkIt's a disappointment that Nvidia has decided to making modding these boards harder but hardly a surprise. If anything it's surprising they didn't do this earlier. Reply
bupkus - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linkCompetition from ATI is the only answer to this price gouge. Do you remember back before AMD's Athlon when it was just Intel with AMD and Cyrix trailing far behind? Reply
xsilver - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linklol -- bullhead will also be bullshit if ATI were in the same position -- nvidia is losing $30 per modded chip -- they want to reduce the possibilities of this --- duh! -- other mods were not 100% guaranteed - eg. opening pipes etc. but this was -- Reply
Zebo - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linkThe more I deal with nvidia scum (PVP on my $450 card anyone?) the more I think I'm waiting for bullhead (ati's chipset).. Reply
CrystalBay - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linkKeep up the good work oldman :)
Signed another oldman... :0 Reply
Avalon - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linkIf you don't like the exclusive, wait for the NF4 roundup. It's that simple. Just because you feel enough data wasn't included in an ARTICLE, doesn't mean that Anandtech does not have such data in their LABS waiting to be released. Again, wait for the roundup. Reply
overclockingoodness - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linkJustimann: Like others pointed out, Wesley is one of the most respected journalists in this industry. And AnandTech is one of the best sites as well, so I doubt they will be putting their integrity on line just to get a damn exclusive. AnandTech is just like any business but I am proud to say that I have hardly seen any bias on this site (the only bias may be disagreement between my interpretion of the reviwer's words).
AnandTech would never recommend anything unless they are confident about it and even if the data is not on the graph, we trust AnandTech's editors. Reply
DEMO24 - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linkI dont remeber if people have asked this yet(having a feeling they have, but I dont want to read 5 pages of replys;)) but do you guys at Anandtech still have some Winchestor CPUs lieing around? Would be nice to see how far you could get one :) Reply
bersl2 - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - link#79, #80: It's got nothing to do with any of that. SLI nForce4 chips have a price premium on them. Every Ultra sold instead of an SLI means less money for nVidia. Reply
joe4324 - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linkIts more likely that nvidia doesnt want to deal with supporting hardware running out of spec AND beyond its intentions, There not stupid, they know how people are. Even if this board preformed perfectly in all ways, UNTILL you modded it. then it caught fire. They would be slamed for being unreliable and unsafe, and thus not worth buying. even though it was the best mobo out at the time, when NOT modded. Reply
rjm55 - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linkI don't get it. Why did nVidia do this? If anybody did a mod to SLI they had to buy two nVidia video cards to use SLI. So nVidia got more profit. Looks like they couldn't lose with SLI only working with nV cards.
Guess nVidia has now totally forgotten their gaming and enthusiast roots and they're just another big company throwing around their weight. Maybe ATI will do better. Reply
Wesley Fink - Saturday, February 05, 2005 - linkThe following Update has just been added to the front page of the review:
"UPDATE 2/05/2005: nVidia has acted to prevent, or at least make it more difficult, to mod the Ultra board to SLI. First, DFI has advised us, and posted on their website, that they will NOT sell the SLI bridge to buyers of the Ultra board. Second, nVidia has advised us that future shipments of the Ultra chipset have been modified so that the mod to SLI will no longer be possible. An additional side effect of this second action is that the "Dual Video" mode, which performs at about 90% of SLI performance levels, will only work with early nVidia drivers 66.75 or earlier. If you do a quick check of web driver postings you will see it is now very difficult to find 66.75 drivers. With a chipset modded to SLI the "Dual Video" mode worked through 70.xx versions of the nVidia driver. nVidia also made it clear they will continue to make driver changes to prevent operation of any "non-standard" (8X/8X) operation of their SLI driver. This also throws into question whether the VIA "dual graphics" mode on the 894 Pro chipset will ever work with nVidia graphics cards. If you are interested in the current UT Ultra-D we suggest you buy one now if you can find it. Future versions of the UT Ultra-D will not have the same capabilities as a result of these actions." Reply
ImJacksAmygdala - Friday, February 04, 2005 - linkI guess beauty is hard to quantify. Like Wesley said he has saved the Editor's Choice Award for the SLI board review that will provide more hard data to support his opinion on the DFI board. Reply
justinmann - Friday, February 04, 2005 - linkDear Gerbil, I am not wasting my time. I read the article, and like any good scientist I looked at the data. The data do not support the conclusions, therefore I felt it necessary to ask why he did not perform an experiment that backed up his proclamation. It's really a pretty simple concept.
Justin Reply
Happy Buddha - Friday, February 04, 2005 - linkHey Wesley,
You did use a IDE HDD for benchmarking so the question about SATA and overclocking pop right to my mind: Is Overclocking as stable with SATA drives?!?
I know that the NF3 250GB was, but sometime engineer can make silly mistake. ;)
An can you or DFI confirm that the low end (Utra-D) will have as much success with OC? Thanks... Reply
Gerbil333 - Friday, February 04, 2005 - linkjustinmann, why are you wasting your time at this site? There's nothing wrong with the review, so if you don't like it, then don't come here. Reply
Wesley Fink - Friday, February 04, 2005 - link#71 - We also did exclusive reviews of the MSI SLI at http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2258... the Gigabyte Ultra at http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2273, the Gigabyte SLI at http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2285, and the Asus SLI at http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2284...
However, the focus in those reviews varied from video to chipset to motherboard, and the previous testing was therefore not conducive to comparison in this review. That is why we are doing an SLI roundup to bring all these boards and information together in a consistent head-to-head roundup. Reply
Wesley Fink - Friday, February 04, 2005 - link#71 - We are always "boning for" exclusive coverage of new items. It is one advantage a major site like AT has over smaller sites. An exclusive also does not make any of us one dime at AT, but it can increase readership if it is a much anticipated item, like this DFI board. It is a matter of honor and respect, and we are flattered so many manufacturers have enough respect for our Editorial integrity and readership that we are often offered exclusive reviews.
I stated my opinion in the article, which I stand by. I did not award an Editor's Choice since those should be reserved IMO for roundups or onging review series where there is much more comparative data. I will likely award an Editors Choice for best SLI board when that roundup appears. Reply
justinmann - Friday, February 04, 2005 - linkOf course, that was not the bulk of my complaint Wesley. If you had read my post, which was much more concise than your article, you would have seen that I was asking why no other retail NF4 boards', which have been available for quite some time, benchmarks were included. Your response to my question points even more strongly to an apparent lack of journalistic integrity on your part. Are you boning for more exclusive coverage deals Wes?
If you imply that this is the best nf4 board, which is what you did, you should provide ammunition to back it up. You failed to do that, and now have failed to justify why you failed to do that. Reply
Wesley Fink - Thursday, February 03, 2005 - link#68 - Retailers can charge whatever they wish for the DFI boards or anything else. The $140 and $200 are expected street prices once the pricing settles down. It took quite a while for the new video cards to reach "street-price" levels and the same may be true of the DFI nF4 boards.
We are told prices in Europe are higher. Reply
Rapsven - Thursday, February 03, 2005 - linkIt's because their motherboard is so ungodly. Reply
ChineseDemocracyGNR - Thursday, February 03, 2005 - linkAccording to the Inq the prices are:
"DFI is shipping three models: LANParty NF4 SLI-DR, LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-R and LANPartyUT NF4 Ultra-D. The first two boards are based on SLI and the last one is based on Nforce 4 Ultra chipset. Suggested retail prices for these boards are $229 and $189 for the two SLI boards, and $159 for Ultra board."]
Wesley, could you please check with DFI what the final suggested prices for these 3 boards are? The review mentions $140 but I believe they changed their minds after all the feedback.
Zebo - Thursday, February 03, 2005 - linkOwned... now Justin, go get yourself one of these bad mobos. OC or not I'd like to see you satisfed..she'll do it in spades.
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?desc... Reply
Wesley Fink - Thursday, February 03, 2005 - link#65 - The DFI is available for sale NOW, which you would know if you had actually read the review. AnandTech had an exclusive on this board which is why this is the first review posted of the DFI. I waited to post the review until the same day zipzoomfly and others would likely have the boards for sale - most are now sold out I am told by readers.
You would also know if you had read the review that we will be posting an SLI roundup next week comparing all SLI capable boards in single and SLI mode. We have been waiting for the Epox, but it will not likely be available in time for the roundup - which now includes Gigabyte (already tested here), DFI, Asus, and MSI.
Criticism is welcomed and helps us, but it would be appreciated if you actually read the review before you make comments like this. Reply
justinmann - Thursday, February 03, 2005 - linkIt seems a bit premature to call this "the best nf4 board" when it's the only production model nf4 board even in the review. Seems to me that with the arrival of the MSI board last week, and the asus, gigabyte and chaintech boards weeks before, Anandtech could easily include more nf4 competition. Instead they have chosen to put an unavailable board up against outdated competition. It's a strange call in my estimation.
When can we expect to see it compared to other boards with the same chipset?
Justin Reply
flachschippe - Thursday, February 03, 2005 - linkWhy is the A8N missing from the comparison? Reply
Zebo - Thursday, February 03, 2005 - linkWHAT BIAS??? Please spell it out for me as I don't see it. This a bad arse mobo... I wager best Wes ever seen and used in years of comp building time... I'm suprised he's not even more animated... and even to dwell on insignifigant "short comings" later in article shows me he was giving a fair shake...leaving "best" PCIe 939 title open even though he knows in back of mind DFI already won...:) Reply
byvis - Thursday, February 03, 2005 - link#55 I agree that this board is very good in overclocking and etc... But I'm telling what I thoughts came to me reading this article. Until now I haven't read such biased and praying article. Everything has drawbacks, even ultra extreme mbs... Professional shouldn't express their opinion like this. I can, you can, but not professionals... This is ofcours IMHO :) So don't flame me :) Reply
erios666 - Thursday, February 03, 2005 - link#60 - Ha! Excellent point Zebo and I'd have to agree. As an enthusiast I'll take care of the sound myself thank you. Just as I would the video. Reply
Zebo - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkCheeezzzusss...some people....
LOL get em flexy.
Also those people complianing about sound are kinda weird. even if they put 880 or SB live on there it's still crap if you're at all interested in hifi. Plus it adds $20 to mobo cost... for "just ok" sound. NO THANKS. I'd prefer they drop sound all together (save $8+) as this is an enthusiast board.. not an all in one..notice thiers no on-board graphics? Reply
Shinei - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkThe message is clear: DDR2 has failed! DDR636 at EXTREMELY reasonable latencies--color me impressed.
I'd like to see how this board handles Crucial's Ballistix RAM, since Ballistix is pretty cheap on the Egg (~$220 for the pair of 512MB sticks) and performs like TCCD; would be interesting to see what the DFI can take the Micron chips to, considering the legs it gives to TCCD chips... Reply
Gerbil333 - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link#54: Considering Abit's best engineer, Oscar Wu, has been working for DFI for a while, I doubt Abit will change much. Abit's last good board was the NF7-S. Since then, they seem to have gone downhill. DFI has only been improving. Reply
flexy - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkmy bad..nevermind...i confused the MSI board with the dfi....the dfi is NOT the one with the onboard sb live :) Reply
flexy - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link#42, you can have the SB live onboard sound with the SLI-DR...well....and the Ultra ius cheaper and comes with the crappy sound. WHO CARES ????
I got a Audigy 2 Value for $42.
If you NEED the good onboard sound..then get the SLI-DR board....if not get a pci soundcard.
flexy - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link>>>
The board is nice, but not outstanding, incredible, top performing, etc... Jesus AnandTech I have never seen you so biased. I hope that the benchmarks don't lie. Poor preview, poor...
ehrm...its the best and fastest enthusiast's NF4 board right now with the best overclocking capabilities AND a way to "mod" it to a SLI...what do you want more ? Cheeezzzusss...some people.... Reply
ShadowVlican - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkbeautiful analogy #22
for now i guess this is THE best AMD64 board money can buy... i wonder if Abit's AN8 will change the results... Reply
PrinceGaz - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkCan hard-drives be installed in non-RAID mode on the Sil3144 sockets with this board?
As far as I know, the additional controller on the Asus SLI Deluxe board requires SATA drives to be in a RAID configuration and does not support individual drives. Can you confirm if that is the case with the DFI board. Reply
erios666 - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link#49 - Thanks much Wesley. I did actually see that. I still feel it doesn't answer the question of whether or not you can span all those monitors. It will work great for when I'm at work. Which I can accomplish with an AGP plus a PCI vid card. But I am hoping to get some "surround gaming" going in UT2004, HL2 and NFSU2. So *span* capabilites with a 3840x1024 res' I guess is what I'm looking for rather than a simple multi-mon. Reply
Zebo - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkThis is what I call a "ten year board" ...a motherboard built to last (jap caps, mosfets, al cooled etc), with every feature imaginable... you DON"T have to be an overclocker to get this board. In fact it's probably the best mobo ever built for the price using componets found in high-end server boards costing hundreds more. You should buy this DFI reguarless if you plan to overclock or not.
That said... it's overclcoking options leave me speechless..never has a board came with these kind of heavy duty options..2.1 Vcore..4Vdimm..fuggin incredible. And it shows...guys at xtreme are posting over 400HTT with this bad boy.
Just awesome..you'd have to bee a damn fool to buy any other skt 939 mobo, or any mobo for that matter over DFI... Reply
Stiganator - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkBetween the A8n-SLI and this DFI SLI board which would you choose? Reply
Wesley Fink - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link#48 - DFI has responded to your question.
"That's what we call "Dual Xpress Graphics" technology, supporting 2 video cards simulatneously and therefore 4 monitors. The DFI Ultra-D in normal mode will support up to 4 monitors off 2 video cards"
erios666 - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkPlease please does anyone know if it will be possible to do a 3 monitor span on the Ultra-D?!
I beg of you! I want to do something like a Matrox Parhelia but with more 3D power. I've already got all my lcds and now I'm just sitting and waiting to see how this all pans out. Reply
nserra - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkAthlon 64 3200+ (Socket754) ALL 1003
Athlon 64 3000+ (Socket754) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 3400+ (Socket754) ALL ALL
Athlon 64 2800+ (Socket754) ALL 1003
Athlon 64 3700+ (Socket754) ALL 1003
Sempron 3100+ (CG version) (Socket754) ALL 1004
Sempron 3100+ (D0 version) (Socket754) ALL 1005
Any one know how sempron 3100+ D0 overclocks? Reply
Wesley Fink - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkInstead of answering emails, we asked DFI to name some vendors who would likely have boards this week. They suggested New Egg, Frys (and their outpost.com online store), NCIX, zipzoomfly, and Monarch Computer. DFI also says Tiger Direct and Microcenter will have them by next week.
That's all we know and it's straight from DFI, so PLEASE stop emailing us asking where to buy. Thanks! Reply
HardwareD00d - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkOnboard sound has pretty much always been crap, with a few exceptions (Sound Storm). I wasn't too impressed with Via Envy24 BTW. An add-in soundcard is the best way to go IMHO.
* waits for Creative to get off there a$$ and make a PCI-e soundcard with Dolby Digital Encoding * Reply
rjm55 - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkIt looks like your praise for the DFI riled the competition in #26. Frankly it is good to see your enthusiasm for the DFI. It is nice to see some excitement come through in the review.
Over the years of reading your reviews I've learned that if you get excited it's a product I'll be very happy with. I just wish you could persuade DFI to use a VIA Vinyl codec instead of that very pedestrian Realtek 850. It's a shame to waste the potential of the Audio Module on the 850. This board deserves better. Reply
bupkus - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkOops, my bad. I need to wait until Epox releases their nForce4. Reply
Illissius - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkAwesome board. Unfortunately, not perfect. I find the following faults with it:
- The second GbE is PCI and not PCIe.
- It uses the same crappy Realtek audio everyone else does, rather than Creative SBLive (a la MSI SLI) or VIA Envy24PT.
- Its color scheme is not blue thingies-that-are-not-the-PCB on a black PCB.
These shortcomings conspire to demote it from the status of 'awesomest motherboard in the history of history' to 'best A64 motherboard thus far, and possibly ever'.
Have a nice day :D.
As for the review; for the most part great, except... using 61.77 drivers for everything else, and 71.40 for the nForce4, probably invalidates all the gaming scores, as there have been significant performance improvements from the 61.77 to the 66.93, and I would imagine the 71.40 doesn't regress in this regard.
Also, I'm interested in the maglev chipset cooler. Is there any visual difference from a standard cooler? Is it quieter, at least? Reply
bupkus - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkWas there anything good about the competition? Were they cheaper and almost as good, like a second place winner for us cheap economy guys. How about the Epox? Reply
knitecrow - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkThe DFI board is very nice, and if anyone is going to overclock, this board is the one to get. For non-overclockers, MSI board looks good as well.
The chipset fan seems gimicky, I wish it had a bigger heatsink with a more efficient fan.
I am reading correctly between the lines? Is Nvidia charging some insane SLI tax? I like to see what DFI can do with the upcomming ATI chipset for athlon64.
I can tell you from personal experience that the realtek ALC850 (also used on my DFI UT nF3 250GB) is absolute crap. And I am not being picky either. My old soundblaster 16 sounds better. Gone are the days of good audio on the NFII. There are SO many better choices, why not go with a better AC'97 codec? Via Vinyl, sigmatel, cirius logic?
Its really dumb to go through all the trouble of having an add-in card and then use the worst AC'97 codec chip on the market. Reply
Wesley Fink - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link#39 - The FrontX is a "breakout box" that installs in a drive bay and provides front audio, usb, firewire, and SATA ports in this design. FrontX also features diagnostic LEDs that tell you how the board is functioning.
We covered FrontX in detail in past LANParty reviews which you can look up at AnandTech. It is a modular design. You can also find more info at www.frontx.com
SPDIF is a digital audio input and output. I'm sure others here will explain more about SPDIF. Reply
DeanO - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkDoes anyone know what the FrontX and Diagnostic LED Connector, that are included with the SLI-DR motherboard, do?
The manual says:
One FrontX device equipped with:
- 4 diagnostic LEDs, 1 S/PDIF-out, 1 mini 1394 port and 1 Serial ATA port
The article doesn't seem to mention it anywhere, and neither does the DFI website.
What do the LEDs do? And what is an S/PDIF-out?
Thanks ~ DeanO
Aileur - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkAny idea how much the SLI bridge will go for, seperately?
I can see it being as much as 20$, bringing the price difference between real SLI and modded SLI to a point where youd have to ask yourself, do i wanna risk it. Reply
Wesley Fink - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link#35 - 318 (DDR636) is the highest clock speed we have acheived with THIS memory at 1T with DS dimms in dual-channel mode AT ANANDTECH. The previous 1T record with this setup was 295.
We are aware you can reach higher speeds with single-sided dimms and a single dimm, but users don't generally run their machines with 2 256MB SS dimms. We have seen reports of memory speeds of DDR680 and even higher with single-sided dimms.
You can also reach higher speeds with a configuration with water-cooling or phase-change cooling or liquid nitrogen.
The important thing in our opinion is performance with the exact same setup, and here the DFI reached new performance levels with this memory and this CPU with air cooling.
mctmcpoop - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link318 is not the highest record ...
The HTT record of this board is 456mhz ...
The 1:1 DRAM record is DDR750 ...
http://www.coolaler.com/ipb/index.php?showtopic=38... Reply
bigtoe36 - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkregarding the NF3 939 i hear NF3 may disapear soon so we may never see an AGP version of this board. Reply
Wesley Fink - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkDFI has advised that the final nF4 product line will consist of 3 models. The information on page 2 has been revised to reflect the latest information.
bigtoe36 - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkThe extra molex is to add extra power to the board especially when using 2 video cards.
The chipset fan is very quiet and does work quite well. When stressed the chipset does get quite warm though but I have seen no instability on my boards here and all use stock chipset cooling.
The board will work with 20 and 24 pin ATX connectors.
The SLI bridge can only be sold with SLI boards, you will be able to but it seperately though. Reply
jwix - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkI've been waiting and waiting and waiting for this board. Finally, Anandtech posts this review late last night just as someone posts in the forum that the board is stocked at ZZF. I surf to ZZF. Indeed, the board is in stock. I quicky read the review then return to ZZF to buy. Board is out of Stock. *sigh* I'm betting the price of this board goes up before it goes down. Reply
LoneWolf15 - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkA good review overall. Some questions I'd have liked to see answered though:
a)As others have said, what is the 5.25" Molex power connector on the board for?
b)ATX power connectors - does the board require the 24-pin, or, like other boards, will a 20pin +4pin P4 connector run it just fine?
c) I'd have liked a little more detail on the maglev chipset fan, was it noisy, the design, etc. I'm being picky, but it's a new feature and all of us get annoyed when a northbridge HSF fails, especially if it's in a location where you can't replace it with just anything due to expansion cards.
d)Question on the SLI finger-board: It seems like it doesn't come with the non-SLI boards, if it doesn't, how useful is it to be able to convert this to SLI? I've not seen retailers selling them separately.
I like the boards. Only minor gripe is, I still need an onboard serial port, I use it for things like configuring a router now and again. Hopefully they include a backplate for it at least, though I'd doubt it. Reply
Burbot - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link#22: It would be a good idea to look back at history of industries. When was the last time a sprinter broke a record by 8%? Probaby in first days of organized sprint. When was the last time processor speed increased by 8%? Every A64 200MHz speedbump gave slightly bettter improvements. 8% is difference between 2.4 and 2.6 GHz Athlon FX. Does one demolish the other? Or it is "merely" a fair improvement? I side with the latter.
I do not want to diminish DFI effort, but I'd reserve "demolished" to huge improvements, as in "that A64 machine demolishes my Duron box". Reply
lsman - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link#14. it provides extra current when under SLI mode so its more "stable" Reply
Aquila76 - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkI've said it before, I'll ask for it again:
SLI Mobo Roundup.
Please. Reply
byvis - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkThe board is nice, but not outstanding, incredible, top performing, etc... Jesus AnandTech I have never seen you so biased. I hope that the benchmarks don't lie. Poor preview, poor... Reply
Wesley Fink - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkChineseDemocrcyGNR - Thank you for all your replies to reader's questions.
#22 - Good analogy and a very accurate descrip-tion of breaking records at the top end. New CPU's are often hyped to the heavens and often they don't even do 8% more performance than the one they replace. Breaking new ground at the top is quite different than 8% in the middle. Reply
LordConrad - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkIt's been a year or two since the last time I researched motherboard features, so maybe I'm out of the loop. Isn't it unusual for a consumer level motherboard to offer RAID-5? This is certainly the first such board I've heard of. I wonder if the RAID-5 support is hardware or software based. Reply
ChineseDemocracyGNR - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link#17
"Few questions can you fit say a x1 pci-e card into a x4 pci-e slot??? "
Yes you can.
eetnoyer - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link#18 Would you consider a 100m sprinter who broke the old world record by 8% to have demolished the record? What you have to realized, is that these boards are performing at the very edge of what's possible today. While a compact car exceeding the Chevy Cobalt's top speed by 8% would make everybody yawn, a car that exceeds the Bugatti Veyron's top speed (252mph) by 8% would be pretty remarkable.
Irregardless, this looks to be a very respectable board whether you want to OC or not. For the features that are on the board, $140 for an nforce4 board isn't all that bad. And just like the S754 board, I'm sure the price will come down significantly after a little while. Reply
Trente - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkMan, I remember we used to laugh at DFI back in year 2000; How was it possible for a low-end maker to became the best brand for all die hard overclockers? someone should write a book about it... Reply
Manzelle - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link*yawn*
Where are the AGP/PCIe boards...better yet, where is DFI's nForce3 939 board... Reply
arfan - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link1. why another board maker don't try to make motherboard likes DFI Ultra have ? Because it's a big oppurtunity to buy Ultra than SLI
2. What do u think Nvidia do to make this board DFI Ultra not functionally likes SLI ? Just tweak driver or likes AMD in the past, change chipset in their factory ? so people can't do likes anand do. Reply
Burbot - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkI do not like this phrase from Final Words:
We reached 318x9 at 1T Command Rate - performance that demolished our previous best of 295 1T with this same memory.
This is a gain of 8% over old result. Would you consider a car with maximum speed 8% higher than competitor model to be "demolishing" it? I don't think so. I consider this to be a "fair improvement" over previous result, and not a "demolishing" one. Reply
1q3er5 - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkFew questions can you fit say a x1 pci-e card into a x4 pci-e slot???
4 volts for RAM but your going to need active cooling, and how do you manage that.
Bozo Galora - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkI dont see what all the shouting is about
Sure its a nice board, but, unless you are an EXTREME overclocker the NF3 is plenty close enough, and the big surprise here is the Epox Reply
johnson - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkI was hoping for a look at results of other memory as well, besides only the ocz ddr400. Perhaps the upcoming round up will use various memory sticks. Reply
Jynx980 - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkEh..whats the molex connector for? (4 picture, page 3, next to the fan connector) Just more power to the mobo? Havent put a new system together for awhile.. Reply
TheInvincibleMustard - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkAlso, does anyone know if the SI3114 chip does on-chip parity calculation for its RAID-5 or is that shoved off to the CPU? It's sad to see that the SI3114 doesn't support SATA-II, either. Reply
ChineseDemocracyGNR - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - link#6,
the first pics had the connector, but they have updated them since.
when nVidia says "top board maker" they don't care about quality, they care about how many chips the company buys from them. As an example I can mention Gigabyte and their nF3-Ultra boards.
I'm afraid that won't be possible until a new revision of the A64 is out.
24-pin. Reply
reactor - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linki count 24 pins.. Reply
johnson - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkIs it an atx 24 pin + 4 pin or the stated 20 pin + 4 pin? Reply
TheInvincibleMustard - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkLooks like a fantastic board, but just sad that it can't handle 4 DS DIMMs at 1T. I was really looking forward to having 2GB memory and still great response times. Oh well.
DFI's on my shortlist for my next purchase! (that is, if I can find them in stock ... they were at ZZF but sold out in about an hour (SLI) to two hours (Ultra) :`( Reply
arfan - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkGreat Job 4 DFI, now they are not bad or middle board maker but in the top board maker. I afraid what nvidia will do with this ??? They will not keep silence see this DFI board :( Reply
Googer - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkhttp://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=LANParty%20nF4... Reply
Penth - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkI've already placed my order for one. I did see the SLI PCB connector in the box in all the pictures I saw, so I am disappointed to read that I won't actually be receiving one. I hope it isn't too difficult to get my hands on one. Reply
Avalon - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkThis board is perfect for PCI-e users. Hot damn. Reply
ksherman - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkdamn i wish i had the money... Reply
Tiamat - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkWow, i really dig the board layout. Reply
erios666 - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkNow if someone could get the Ultra-D to a 3 monitor span like a Matrox Parhelia then I'd be all over this board! Reply
sxr7171 - Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - linkPretty confusing product line but nice boards. Reply


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Both fresh ginger and ground ginger add zip to this pumpkin pie filling. Be sure to buy canned pumpkin, not pumpkin pie filling, which already contains added spices.
Servings: 8
- 1 recipe Cream Cheese Pie Crust (see related recipe)
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 2/3 cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon peeled and finely grated ginger root
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups (15 ounces) canned pumpkin
- 1 tablespoon crystallized ginger, finely chopped (optional)
- 1 cup heavy cream, cold (optional)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
- 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar (optional)
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For the crust: Lightly butter a 9-inch pie pan. Lightly flour the rolling surface and rolling pin. Roll the dough out on a lightly floured work surface to a round about 4 inches wider than the bottom of the pie pan. Press the dough into the prepared pan. Trim the edge, leaving a 1/2-inch overhang and crimp the edge. Cover and refrigerate the crust until it is cold and firm, 30 minutes or up to overnight.
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Reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees. Bake for 5 more minutes to firm the crust. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool.
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Extraction of delay information from chaotic time series based on information entropy
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Using information entropy and embedding methods for reconstructing chaotic attractors, a technique for estimating time delay from experimental time data is proposed for chaotic systems governed by a delay differential equation. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated with numerical experiments with and without measurement noise. The quantization effect on information entropy is also discussed. The number of quantization levels is found not to effect the accuracy of the proposed delay extraction technique significantly.
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21st minute. Paul Scholes collided with Chelsea's Claude Makelele, earning both players yellow cards from Slovak referee Lubos Michel.
"When he came off at halftime he was very groggy and needed some tablets before going back on for the second half," said United manager Sir Alex Ferguson. "Tonight he got what he should have got in 1999-a winner's medal."
Scholes missed the 1999 championship after being suspended.
26th minute. United took the lead when Cristiano Ronaldo scored on a header that he imperiously nodded into the far post of the Chelsea goal for his 42nd goal of the season.
The goal was set up by fine work between Scholes and Wes Brown, who broke free of his marker to loft in the ball to the far side the penalty area, where Ronaldo broke free of Michael Essien and left his Ghanaian marker flat-footed.
35th minute. Goalie Petr Cech kept Chelsea in the game with two brilliant saves -- first on Carlos Tevez's diving header off a brilliant Ronaldo cross, then on Michael Carrick's shot from the edge of the penalty area following John Terry's feeble clearance.
45th minute. The complexion of the game changed shortly before halftime when Essien's shot deflected in the penalty area, and Frank Lampard was clear to slot the ball past keeper Edwin van der Sar. Lucky as it was, Chelsea went into halftime tied at 1-1.
"We were frustrated at halftime," Lampard said. "The players spoke, the manager spoke, we started passing the ball and in the second half we felt comfortable."
78th minute. Didier Drogba came within inches of putting Chelsea ahead when his curling shot from 25 yards hit the outside of the right post.
94th minute. Lampard had a chance to win the game for Chelsea, but his shot, which had van der Sar beaten, hit the crossbar and bounced out.
"Nobody could deny that after the first 30 minutes we dominated the game, we hit the post, we hit the bar, we were the stronger of the two teams," said Lampard, whose mother died late last month and who admitted his Chelsea duties had kept him focused.
100th minute. Ryan Giggs, who set a United record with his 759th appearance, breaking the record he shared with Bobby Charlton, nearly scored as he did on the final day of the EPL season that brought United the title. With Cech beaten, Giggs took Patrice Evra's pass and fired a shot that Terry headed away.
"What appearing in tonight's game proved is that I was right to remain at United throughout my career," said Giggs. "When I first came through, Serie A was the place to be and the best players went there. Now all the great players are playing in England."
116th minute. The turning point of the game? Drogba's red card in the second overtime. Drogba was on the losing end of his battle with United central defender Nemanja Vidic all night, and the Ivorian paid for his frustration when he was sent off for slapping the Serbian.
The slap proved costly as it deprived Chelsea of one of its most dependable penalty takers. It also meant that Terry would need to take the fifth attempt.
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Thanks for the photos, it look like a really nice place to visit.ReplyDelete
beautiful greenhouse. :)ReplyDelete
What wonderful gardens. I will have to pay a visit when they are open again. I live near Winchester, so it's not too far.ReplyDelete
Oh...this brought back memories of last time I went (with Sarah & Ethan)...,must've been 2 years ago now..I could happily spend hours in that greenhouse:o)ReplyDeleteReplies
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Looks beautiful at Farleigh Wallop (what a name!) I'm loving the wave hedge with the seagulls x JaneReplyDelete
Looks like a beautiful day and place to visit!! I always love going to gardens!! Have a lovely week! xo HeatherReplyDelete
What a gorgeous place top spend the day.ReplyDelete
I love Plantfairs. What a wonderful place!ReplyDelete
It all kooks gorgeous and that is one amazing looking greenhouse - not your average garden greenhouse! And Farleigh Wallop is a fantastic name!ReplyDelete
Its blowing a hoolie over here too!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
That greenhouse is just beautiful, could wander in there all day.
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What a wonderful place to visit. xReplyDelete
It looks a great place to visit, so well kept, and lots of things to see. I love the hedge and seagull display, very clever, and the tree covered in blossom over the gate is dreamy.ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous environment - both inside and out!! I can see why you like spending time there!!ReplyDelete
What a stunning greenhouse! Looks like a fab garden to visit. I too love the seagulls and sea hedge.ReplyDelete
It looks fab & what a lovely name, I do like the photo of the metal seagulls in the hedge.ReplyDelete
What a lovely venue for a plant sale the gardens and grrenhouse look wonderful. I love the wave clipped hedge and the seagulls!ReplyDelete
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I've always lusted after a walled kitchen garden but that's as near as I will get to one!ReplyDelete
What an incredibly beautiful garden! And yes, I too love huge old greenhouses :)ReplyDelete
I agree with Annie a gorgeous garden to visitReplyDelete
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This is done as follows - Find a comfortable position at any time
you prefere, either sitting or lying down. Doing it before going to
sleep is a good time as you are more open to receiving external
energy and input in a sleep mode. As you sit or lay down, relax your
body, and visualize yourself open up to receive the energy of me,
Edward Alexander, and say to yourself that you accept the energy I
send out to reach you and benefit you and help you with your desired
You may also ask your Spirit Guides and Guardian Angel to oversee the process and protect you and assist you in receiving the energy.
Then take 13 deep inhalations through your nose, where you hold the
breath as long you can for each one, and slowly blow it out through
your mouth. As you do this, feel your body and muscles getting more
and more relaxed for each breath and each exhalation - your body
becoming soft and heavy and comfortable.
Feel how you become more peaceful and at rest both physically and
mentally from this simple breathing exercice.
Once the cycle of 13 inhalations have been done, send your awareness
to your body, and feel how relaxed it it, how at peace you are.
Imagine at this point a great brilliant pink light in the shape of a
ball above your head. Make it grow stronger, try feel and visualize
it above your head, and feel yourself becoming even more relaxed from
this comfortable, peaceful light that is filled with love and
As the ball of brilliant pink ligh fills up, imagine it open up and
sending a beam of light down trough your head, and this is the energy
I am sending you, filled within that ball sent there for you - along
with peace, love, relaxation, protection, cleansing and guidance in
addition to the goals you have for yourself with this energy.
Feel this great light, as it enters your head, filling up your head,
until your whole head is filled up completely with its great pink
light and my energy flowing through you and manifesting within you
the goal you have set for this energy. Imagine it spreading down from
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|Figure 1. Causes of failure in rolling bearings
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IOSEPA - Benjamin Pykles scans the southern edge of this old townsite in Utah's desolate Skull Valley, looking for the front wheel of a century-old tricyle. The New York anthropologist believes the relic reveals a lot about the Polynesian pioneer community that endured for a 28-year period straddling the turn of the 20th century.
"This is not just some dreary place. There were kids here and they were having fun," Pykles says as he finds his quarry during a tour Wednesday. He records the wheel's GPS position and gathers its parts, a rim, spokes, pedals and a crank once attached to the wheel's hub. A short distance away he finds the runner to an ice skate. "This is a cool story. What is this doing in the middle of the desert?"
These toys are among the artifacts left by the inhabitants of Iosepa (pronounced yo-see-pa), an agricultural community known for winning town beautification awards not long before it was abandoned in 1917. Some 100 residences, laid out among a dozen streets with Polynesian names, are little more than depressions, foundations and rock alignments. But their voices can be heard through metal and ceramic fragments of Iosepans' possessions, scattered among the cow dung and other detritus left by the cattle operation that succeeded the town under the Stansbury Mountains. Pykles, a professor from the State University of New York at Potsdam and an alumnus of Brigham Young University, is netting some of those voices as he conducts the first archaeological survey of Iosepa this month with a dozen SUNY anthropology students.
"We're finding evidence of everyday life," senior Claire McMahon says. "They have two identities. They are Mormon pioneers and South Pacific Islanders. The town is a testament to their faith. They made it as modern as possible for the time. The streets were gridded out in the way of Mormon settlements with the church in the center."
Utah Polynesians consider Iosepa sacred because their ancestors are buried there and some were initially skeptical about Pykles' archaeological project. It has since won the support of the Iosepa Historical Association, which maintains a pavilion by the cemetery for holding cultural celebrations.
"We're trying to preserve the memory of Iosepa and a place to gather to teach our kids some of our island traditions," past president Richard Poulsen says. The town is named in honor of Joseph Fielding Smith, who served two missions to Hawaii as a young man before becoming president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Iosepa is the Hawaiian pronunciation of Joseph. Smith converted many to the LDS faith, luring some to Utah where they scattered around the Salt Lake Valley. In the 1880s the church searched for a place for the cultural misfits, and decided on a working ranch in an inhospitable valley, about 75 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.
The first 46 settlers arrived in August 1889 and faced the harshest winter ever recorded in the West. They endured, and built homes, as well as a school and church on the 17-acre Imilani Square; they ran cattle and grew fruit for the church-owned Iosepa Agriculture and Stock Company. The town's population peaked in 1915 at 228. Approaching death, President Smith decided to establish a temple in Hawaii and called on Utah's South Pacific Islanders to help build it. By 1917 Iosepa's residents had departed for Oahu, and cattle, cowboys and the elements soon erased the town.
About the only things left standing are headstones marking some of the 88 graves in the cemetery - and a fire hydrant, manufactured by Ludlow Valve Co. of Troy, N.Y. Pykles happened upon the hydrant, encased in sage brush, while searching for stone monuments placed by surveyors in 1908. That year, water was piped from mountain springs to feed a municipal water system and a network of hydrants.
"This was supposed to be a permanent settlement," Pykles says. "Its size and the amount of money they put into it points to that conclusion."
Pykles' research began with church archives and Tooele County offices, where his students discovered a plat map, deeds and documents detailing the economic life of the town. Records identified 14 families who owned their own lots, which Pykles keyed to the map. It wasn't until he found the survey stones that he was able to determine the exact locations of these 3/4 -acre lots. His students are now excavating the two lots where John Mahoe built his home on Hawaii Avenue. One hole, once a trash pit or a privy, is yielding a bounty of artifacts.
"We have complete chicken skulls coming out, very large fish vertebrae. With these bones we will be able to reconstruct their diet," Pykles said. He suspects the fish bones are those of carp caught in a pond called Kanaka Lake, which served as a venue for ice skating in winter.
On Wednesday, Mahoe's great-grandson Mike Sadowski paid a visit and Pykles showed him the rock alignments that indicate the likely footprint of the home where 11 Mahoe children were born.
"It's incredible. We had no idea where our family's land was. We've been driving over the lot all these years because the road goes over it," says Sadowski, a television cameraman who lives in Tooele.
"I am honored Ben is starting this project with the lots my family used to live on."
Polynesian heritage
* Iosepa: Utah pioneer settlement inhabited by Polynesian Mormon converts from 1889 to 1917. Despite a massive investment in the town, it emptied after the LDS Church called on its residents to help build a temple in Laie on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu.
* Where: 75 miles southwest of Salt Lake City in Skull Valley. Take I-80 west to exit 77 and drive 15 miles south on Route 196.
* What: New York anthropology students and their professor are hosting a public archaeology event from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday with the blessing of the Polynesian community. Iosepa descendants will be available to tell their ancestors' stories and the Iosepa Historical Association will provide lunchtime refreshments at the town's cemetery.


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Archie Manning Shares His Favorite Game-Day Memories
He's a man that needs no introduction. Former Ole Miss quarterback legend and dad of NFL champions, Peyton and Eli, Archie Manning is synonymous with "the love of the game." He's even on the board of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.
While compiling facts for The Official SEC Tailgating Cookbook, we asked "Papa Bear" a few questions about game day:
1. Do you have any superstitions you practice the day of a football game?
"Not any one thing in particular, but I've developed some during football games. When I watch my children play, sometimes I have to take a walk and move around, but i still have to be able to see the game. I may hang in a spot in the tunnel. If Olivia and I are watching our sons play on television and things aren't going that well, we may swap chairs or I may watch on another television in a different room in the house."
2. Who is the greatest football player, coach, or icon of all time from Ole Miss?
"I'm partial to quarterbacks. Charlie Conerly, who played for the New York Giants, was my hero and one of the greatest players in Ole Miss football history. Jake Gibbs was great too. He went on to play professional baseball for the New York Yankees."
3. What is the most memorable SEC game you've ever been to?
"One I played in against Alabama in 1969, although I don't really like to say that because we lost. Another would be a convincing win that same year against No. 3 ranked Tennessee."
4. What's your favorite Southern food and who makes it best?
"Olivia's family had a cook named Bobbi and she made the best fried chicken. When we'd make trips to Philadelphia, Mississippi, after moving to New Orleans, she would always make fried chicken the first night we were there, especially for me. And we were always the most popular at the tailgates when we would arrive with her fried chicken."
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I have to say that Jessica Biel looks very nice here.
So, Justin Bieber is posing here for a campaign called Summer Of Smiles. Apparently he doesn't get the point.
He is making me smile though. Hooligan? Really?
Johnny Galecki and his Big bang Theory castmates are asking for a raise to $250K an episode. That is up from the $65k they get now.
You know what would be interesting to see? A picture of Jon Hamm without Jennifer Westfeldt always next to him.
Long time no see Justin Long.
Jennifer Love Hewitt shows off the look Jamie Kennedy would use when he wanted sex.
Kristen Bell and the pap mob.
KISS – Nurburgring, Germany
Khloe Kardashian says she is "just fat" and not pregnant. I don't believe her. She is saving it for her show.
Andres Velencoso seems distracted by the camera as he kisses Kylie Minogue.
Apparently Katie Price wouldn't wear one of the passes that is hanging from Alex Reid. She said that everyone knows who she is and she couldn't be bothered.
Kelly Rowland, Cyndi Lauper & Estelle – New York City
I have to say that Jessica Biel looks very nice here.


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Cappuccino has been updated to 0.8. This
version includes a table view implementation (which iPhone and Cocoa
developers will be all too familiar with), and other bug fixes and minor
The most exciting thing about this release is that the entire stack is
now JavaScript. That means the Cappuccino code has no external
dependencies -- it no-longer requires tools like Rake, opting instead
for JavaScript and Objective-J.
The Cappuccino blog has more details: Cappuccino