RIP DFI LanParty Motherboards

jmke · 3rd June 2010, 16:55

I finally contacted some other people associated/previously associated with DFI's LANParty group in Taipei, and arranged several meetings during Computex. Today, we finally got our answer: DFI told its LANParty team in 2009 there would be no more LANParty products. The division was losing money continually through 2009 and late in the year the sales team were told to clear their inventory before being moved to the far more profitable industrial division.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/mot...over-for-dfi/2

jmke · 3rd June 2010, 16:56

Oscar Wu "made" the LANparty brand for DFI, we saw some awesome OC boards sporting his BIOS files

thorgal · 3rd June 2010, 17:13

Ouch, this really makes me a little sad, really enjoyed working with DFI in the past. Wonder what Oscar Wu will be doing in the future...

Gamer · 3rd June 2010, 20:10

Like you said, in the past.

When I used my first and last X58 based DFI, I had troubles getting used to it.

leeghoofd · 3rd June 2010, 20:18

Think their biosses were too complicated and the board required massive tweaking to be as effective as an Asus board clock for clock...

Gamer · 3rd June 2010, 20:21

Indeed, when I used the Classified the same day, I could overclock it 300 mhz higher with stock settings.

4th June 2010, 03:29

Complex/complicated BIOS is fine, but they made a point to NOT explain the settings. Even common settings had unusual names as so were not understood. According to their own support rep, a DFI user is already supposed to know what they all mean, which is why the extremely thin manuals don't mention BIOS settings at all.

Had a rather absurd time trying to update a X58 DFI board to recognize a Core i7 930... early BIOS didn't recognize it. Not sure about other DFI boards, but that DFI had no BIOS option to update from a USB/HDD file, and the latest version of their own in-windows utility didn't work with the latest BIOS file for the board. Instead of fixing it they posted a work-around in Chinese. With product support and product service like that, 99% of the market is NOT going to want to buy their products.

blackened · 4th June 2010, 13:47

When my old MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum, nForce3 based motherboard died, I upgraded to a PCIex video card and got the LanParty NF4 Ultra-D board. It took me nearly 8hrs of tweaking, but I ended up with an extra ~150mhz out of my A64 3800+. I had had to use my friends laptop to look up what all the setting were as I did it.

3rd June 2010, 16:55	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	RIP DFI LanParty Motherboards I finally contacted some other people associated/previously associated with DFI's LANParty group in Taipei, and arranged several meetings during Computex. Today, we finally got our answer: DFI told its LANParty team in 2009 there would be no more LANParty products. The division was losing money continually through 2009 and late in the year the sales team were told to clear their inventory before being moved to the far more profitable industrial division. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/mot...over-for-dfi/2 __________________

3rd June 2010, 16:56	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Oscar Wu "made" the LANparty brand for DFI, we saw some awesome OC boards sporting his BIOS files __________________

3rd June 2010, 17:13	#3
thorgal [M] Reviewer Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,887	Ouch, this really makes me a little sad, really enjoyed working with DFI in the past. Wonder what Oscar Wu will be doing in the future... __________________

3rd June 2010, 20:10	#4
Gamer [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 4,587	Like you said, in the past. When I used my first and last X58 based DFI, I had troubles getting used to it. __________________

3rd June 2010, 20:18	#5
leeghoofd [M] Reviewer Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 3,209	Think their biosses were too complicated and the board required massive tweaking to be as effective as an Asus board clock for clock... __________________

3rd June 2010, 20:21	#6
Gamer [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 4,587	Indeed, when I used the Classified the same day, I could overclock it 300 mhz higher with stock settings. __________________

4th June 2010, 03:29	#7
Kougar Posts: n/a	Complex/complicated BIOS is fine, but they made a point to NOT explain the settings. Even common settings had unusual names as so were not understood. According to their own support rep, a DFI user is already supposed to know what they all mean, which is why the extremely thin manuals don't mention BIOS settings at all. Had a rather absurd time trying to update a X58 DFI board to recognize a Core i7 930... early BIOS didn't recognize it. Not sure about other DFI boards, but that DFI had no BIOS option to update from a USB/HDD file, and the latest version of their own in-windows utility didn't work with the latest BIOS file for the board. Instead of fixing it they posted a work-around in Chinese. With product support and product service like that, 99% of the market is NOT going to want to buy their products.

4th June 2010, 13:47	#8
blackened Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 79	When my old MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum, nForce3 based motherboard died, I upgraded to a PCIex video card and got the LanParty NF4 Ultra-D board. It took me nearly 8hrs of tweaking, but I ended up with an extra ~150mhz out of my A64 3800+. I had had to use my friends laptop to look up what all the setting were as I did it.

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