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DFI

Type
Founded	1981
Headquarters	Hsi-Chih City, Taiwan
Industry	Computer
Products	Motherboards
Revenue	81 million USD^[1]
Employees	421
Website	www.dfi.com.tw

DFI, or Diamond Flower Inc., is a major motherboard manufacturer based in Taiwan. Recently there has been confusion over what DFI means, however Design for Innovation appears to simply be a slogan, a situation with close parallels to Lucky Goldstar and their slogan of Life's Good.

1 Corporate information
2 Popular products
3 Technical issues
4 DFI-ACP
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Corporate information

DFI is located in Hsi-Chih City, Taiwan with regional offices in the United States, Europe, China and Japan. Established in 1981, DFI is one of the largest computer motherboard manufacturers in the world.

DFI offers motherboards for both OEM manufacturers and retailers. Corporate partners include AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, ATI, VIA, SiS and other companies.

[edit] Popular products

DFI caters to the enthusiast market with motherboards with advanced overclocking features and a design with ultraviolet-reactive connectors on a black PCB.

The LANParty and LANParty UT line of products include:

LANParty Crossfire RD600-T2R/G (To Be Released)
LANParty Crossfire CFX3200-DR UT
LANParty Crossfire RDX200 CF-DR UT
LANParty nForce 590 SLI-M2R/G
LANParty nForce 4 SLI-DR Expert
LANParty nForce 4 SLI-DR (UT Version also available)
LANParty nForce 4 SLI-D
LANParty nForce 4 Ultra-D
LANParty nForce 3 250 gb
LANParty nForce 2 Ultra B
LANParty KT400A

DFI also has another line primarily aimed to overclockers on a budget. This line is the "Infinity" line, which started with the nForce 2.

nForce 4 DAGF
nForce 4 Ultra Infinity
nForce 4x Infinity
nForce 4 SLI Infinity
RS482 Infinity
nForce 2 Infinity

DFI is also manufacturing various motherboards for mainstream users. This product line is the "General" line. For those willing to build silent computers, there is a product line called "Silent PC".

[edit] Technical issues

Recently, many "cold boot" issues have been determined, relating to various issues in the power supply. Additionally, there have been no reproducible instances of CPU damage outside of user error.

DFI offers a wide range of motherboards with the ability to configure the memory timings well beyond what's normally available to users of other motherboards as well as countless other settings for changing things such as the speed and voltages of various parts. This allows for out of warranty overclocking to the point of several world records. The boards are designed with tight tolerances to provide this overclocking ability which has earned them the reputation of being picky about the components selected.

The DFI Infinity series is well known for having "cold boot" issues, with many people encountering this problem.

More recently, the DFI LanParty RDX-200 CF-DR has been having various functional issues with ATI's ATI CrossFire technology as well as non-working CPUs, from bugs in the BIOS code. Many of the issues found in the RDX-200 CF-DR have been fixed in the board's successor, the Lanparty CFX3200-DR UT.

DFI boards are generally considered to be 'fussy' about the types of memory used in them, preferring Samsung (TCCD, TCC5, TCC3, UCCC) or Winbond (BH5 UTT) chips over 'generic' branded RAM. DFI boards are also known to have issues with Crucial's Ballistix line of memory (using Micron memory), with hundreds of cases being reported of dead ram.

[edit] DFI-ACP

DFI is also manufacturing motherboards for various industrial purposes. DFI-ACP is a Wintel based platform provider for non-PC business, products range from board level, open frame, add-on boards to barebone systems.