EPOX 9NPA+(nForce 4 Ultra) Testing Report

[windwithme]

The package is very nice.


Show the picture of EPOX 9NPA+.


In the right side,It has the port-80 and Pown-on key and reset key


In the left side,


Input/Ouput


Near by CPU picture


This is BIOS optiion
CPU can reach 400MHZ


PCI-E Option


RAM option


CPU Ratio option


CPU Voltage. It is very great. And Its highest voltage is 0.35V.



RAM Voltage. It can reach 3.1V.


RAM: Dram-timing Option


BIOS Voltage and Temp


Very good Booting LOGO


Testing Environment
K8 939 3000+ (0.09) 0048SPAW
G-Skill TCCD LA 256MBX2
EPOX 9NPA+
Leadtek GeForce 6200
TEAC 512EB
Seasonic 430W

Show the picture.
It has three blue light. It can show the situation of CPU,CHIP,DIMM.
We can check that POWER-ON or POWER-OFF.


It is original FAN environment. It can 2.7G without additional Voltage.


DDR700 Ducal Channel Mode 1T pass


Benefit
1. CPU and RAM has more additional voltage.
2. It is more helpful to the overclocker-user.
3. It is very nice package in the market and beautiful Booting LOGO.
4. Good overclock ability in this Motherboard.


This may make progress in this situation. :
1.BIOS may support more CPU-RATIO option .in the down option.
2.The dram-parameter should powerful.
Ex:MSI_NF4 can boot in the –3-3-x option above 300MHZ (1T) environment.

This is the MSI_NF4 feature in my hand.
1.The voltage option is more powerful than EPOX.
2.I am collecting the 5 BRAND-MF4 Motherboard.(EPOX ,MSI,DF-.GAGABYTE,ASUS)
3.Only DFI motherboard is more difficult.

About the ASUS?
I have do it.
But it can not 300MHZ ‘1T”.I still wait the newest edition BIOS.
NEO4 and 9NPA+ can reach 350MHZ or above....easily
But asus still be unstable or it can not boot into LOGO in the 300MHZ environment.

[pik-ard v1.1]

looks awesome, except the cpu multiplier being so constricted...

about how much did it cost, will it be one of the more expensive boards?

[Michael]

Pretty weak Memory Frequency options.

[Skip]

well how can this thread possibly compete with the DFI thread.

epox looks to have a really good product, compared to MSI, and ASUS, and maybe Giga, but DFI just looks too good.

[cpulloverclock]

I love it

I want it or the nf4 DFI

[Cranox]

I think that the Epox is not so bad after all , but i think that i will go for the DFI

[Michael]

well how can this thread possibly compete with the DFI thread.

epox looks to have a really good product, compared to MSI, and ASUS, and maybe Giga, but DFI just looks too good.

The EPoX boards are a much better value. The EPoX 8KDA3J is $40 less than the DFI UT 250GB. Not to mention DFI hasn't come out with a Socket 939 nForce3 solution.

I will admit the DFI board does look pretty

[drunkenmaster]

dfi looks good but there can always be an issue with a board, it might end up using faulty caps or whatever. voltage options dfi wins hands down, but if you only need 1.75vcore to max your cpu and 2.7/2.8vdimm to max your tccd then the dfi offers NOTHING over any other nf4 board that can max your mem speeds out. something the neo 4 and epox can clearly do. though have to say, in the uk you can pick up the dfi UT for like £62 or something, thats about $100, haven't seen the epox 939-J version about here but the 3+ version was around £100, different countries weird price differences.

i'll grab a dfi, but IMHO the neo 4/epox/giga/asus with new bios will all perform about the same. Theres very little you can do with a ath 64 board with same chipset, you can screw up the bios, but when they don't they all are pretty similar.

[charlie]

wow!! real nice, and good voltages, too.

don't be surprised to see the Epox @ $199... $100 less than the DFI

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[Alexandrus]

Looks like a great board, too bad it does not feature higher VDIMM voltages and a second onboard LAN. And more Memory timmings tweaks in BIOS would have been nice.

[windwithme]

wow!! real nice, and good voltages, too.

don't be surprised to see the Epox @ $199... $100 less than the DFI

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9NPA+ is good

[b|gf|sh]

Any idea if this works with an ocz booster?

[apu673]

Does anyone know if this board will be competitivly priced with the MSI Neo4? Will they be around 150-200 bucks? It looks like both boards perform about the same.

[windwithme]

Any idea if this works with an ocz booster?

I cant buy ocz booster in taiwan

9NPA+ is better than NEO4 in CPU&RAM Voltage

[windwithme]

Does anyone know if this board will be competitivly priced with the MSI Neo4? Will they be around 150-200 bucks? It looks like both boards perform about the same.

NEO4 will be sell on next week
9NPA is unknown

[IvanAndreevich]

Nice FETs I think. How big are those caps? How is the CPU voltage fluctuation?

[Onepagebook]

I cant buy ocz booster in taiwan

9NPA+ is better than NEO4 in CPU&RAM Voltage

Ship your 9npa+ here, I 'll test it

OPB

[JasonDTM]

I'm wondering when this will come out..... I need to get off Nforce2 and Get myself a 3500+ winchester, some OCZ VX (Really hoping for 2x256 :/ but it wont happen) and this motherboard.

[omega65]

Nice! I may have to switch to PCIe sooner than I thought

[Stumpjumper5200]

Right now I'm waiting for the DFI, but my mind changes every 5 minutes.

The main ATX connector is in a horrible place if you're looking to hide the wires.

[kiwi]

looks sweet!

[DoGMaN]

Any idea if this works with an ocz booster?

I just got mine today, I'll test the booster later on.

[naelq]

so, is it the awake of EPoX?!

[DoGMaN]

windwithme - what chipset drivers are you using? Mine seems to spontaneously shut down for no reason. Only with the nforce chipset drivers installed though.

[omega65]

PSU?