DFI LanParty nF4 SLI-DR Review

The BIOS is crazy packed with features and really way too many to outline even if this review was dedicated to the BIOS alone. We have featured a select few of the BIOS screens to give you an idea as to what the LanParty UT SLI-DR BIOS is all about.

We'd like to take a moment and reflect on the SLI-DR BIOS. As the screenshots have shown there are a ton of features, actually, in a word, the setup is Overkill. Our feelings toward this approach are torn, in one hand you get the ability to tweak every little feature you could think of along with a few you never knew existed. And in the other hand we are left with the feeling that DFI decided to spend money exposing features for everyone to play with and didn't bother to "tune" the board for the best factory performance, aka adding their own IP (Intellectual property) to the product. Of course one group of users will feel strongly for one option and another group will feel strongly about another.

We're not saying either one is right or wrong but without guidance or a membership to xtremesystems.org I'm thinking that most users will find the low performance settings found in the default BIOS a bit unsatisfactory and demand more.

Maybe in the future there will be two styles of BIOS available for LanParty boards, one "mainstream" BIOS with factory tuned settings for the best all round performance and another BIOS for the tweaker with too much time on his/her hands.