EPOX - EPoX 8RDA+ Overclocker’s Delight @ VR-Zone Hardware

VR-Zone Hardware has a nice review by Visionary of the EPoX 8RDA+ (nForce2 SPP/MCP-T). Great features, affordable price and powerful performance wins this the Editors Choice Overclockers’ Delight Award:

“Look at the current chipset market, the main challenge for nForce2 is VIA KT400 and SiS746FX. SiS has just launched SiS746FX to support DDR400 and AGP8X and is paired up with SiS963L on MuTIOL 1G technology. As for VIA, there is some plans later this month to launch KT400A to officially support DDR400 with no other features enhancements. On the whole, nForce2 still stands a good chance against VIA and SiS chipsets. EPoX 8RDA+ nForce2 board is one of the most after sought board by the enthusiasts with decent board features such as IEEE1394a Firewire and a good set overclocking options in the BIOS. The 8RDA+ board comes in a nice cool blue package and since this board is made for the overclockers definitely therefore i shall emphasize on the features as well as its overclockability……EPoX 8RDA+ provides a powerful set of BIOS settings for overclocking and performance tweaking. The BIOS allows FSB adjustment from 100-250Mhz in 1Mhz intervals, tweakable individual memory timings (CAS, Trcd, Tras, Trp), whole range of CPU:DRAM ratios (1:1, 1:2, 3:5, 4:5, 4:6, 5:6 etc), independent AGP frequency and locked PCI bus for additional stability under high FSB, VCore up to 2.2V that will definitely satisfy many overclockers, VDIMM up to 2.9V that will aid memory stability and VAGP up to 1.9V. With all these BIOS settings, i am able to increase the FSB to 200Mhz at 2-2-2-5 memory timings and further more to 225Mhz after VDD mod. Since VDD is an important factor in determining system stability under high FSB therefore EPoX might wish to consider allow VDD tweaking in the BIOS in the next revision of PCB.

EPoX 8RDA+ was given an Overclockers’ Delight Award!“


Full review: EPoX 8RDA+ nForce2 Review @ vr-zone.com
More details: EPoX.com.tw