Epox 8RDA+ Motherboard by playafly187

[siq]

http://www.ocia.net/reviews/8rda%2B/8rda%2B.shtml

What do you think about this product?

[Roadracer_4ever]

I held out for the newer 8RDA3+ board myself and am as impressed with it as Playa is with the 8RDA+. the 8RDA3+, however comes with rounded IDE cables, SATA, Dual firewire, gameport, 4 USB 2.0 onboard and support for another 2, as well as the northbridge is actively cooled by a nice looking fan/heatsink combo, and the southbridge is cooled by a passive heatsink. The 3+ version also supports DDR400, and I picked it up for a whoppin 130 bucks Canadian....may be a future consideration for others looking into a reasonable cost motherboard upgrade.

[dukeman]

i have the same board. I have had it for 1 year with only minor problems.
I also put a different heatsink on the nb. i used the blue zalman one, i forget the name. one thing that i did was lap the HS, i tested it first and the center was not touching. after lapping it is now making really great contact and is getting pretty warm.
the main problem with this board is leaking caps. you can see the caps in my link. i am not going to change the caps right now, maybe in the near future.




http://home.comcast.net/~ppeede/eccleston.html

[dukeman]

forgot to add my sig

[jurtje]

Thanks, that's always nice to know.

Anyway, who are you in the pic? :wink:

[dukeman]

i am the one with the glasses, the other one is my son :D

[playafly187]

I held out for the newer 8RDA3+ board myself and am as impressed with it as Playa is with the 8RDA+. the 8RDA3+, however comes with rounded IDE cables, SATA, Dual firewire, gameport, 4 USB 2.0 onboard and support for another 2, as well as the northbridge is actively cooled by a nice looking fan/heatsink combo, and the southbridge is cooled by a passive heatsink. The 3+ version also supports DDR400, and I picked it up for a whoppin 130 bucks Canadian....may be a future consideration for others looking into a reasonable cost motherboard upgrade.

yeah, i wish the 8RDA+ had SATA... i REALLY wanna get one of those WD Raptors :)

[jurtje]

i am the one with the glasses, the other one is my son :D

Now don't talk crazy, man!