anyone have the EPoX 8K9A2+ KT400?

[drewthomas14]

http://www.vr-zone.com/reviews/EPoX/8K9A2+/ i read this review and it looks it is a good board. anyone have it? i might get an amd system instead of a p4 system because of this board and the amd 2400+. my p4 sys would be 2.26,asusp4b533, 512 corsair pc3200 cas2. my amd sys would be 2400+, EPoX 8K9A2, corsiar pc3200 cas2. which would perform better?

 

[Deus]

I dont have the +, but I do have the 8K9A2, and I'm pretty happy with it. I can use multipliers from 5.5 to 23, and I've had my fsb up as high as 204. My only complaint was the passive northbridge cooling, but i fixed that with an amd stock hsf

Id say between those two systems, the 2400+ would probably edge out the p4...might be a little different story with an rdram setup though

 

[Mooky]

I have the 8K9A2+. It's is by far the easiest to OC board I have ever had. First of all, it unlocks all the multipliers in a T-bred. Just drop the multiplier and run at high FSB. If you can get it to run around 180-200, that should perform significantly better than a 2.26 P4.

 

[drewthomas14]

how does an overclocked 2.26 compare to an overclocked 2400

 

[Mooky]

how does an overclocked 2.26 compare to an overclocked 2400

A lot of it would have to do with how far you can overclock either one of them. Assuming you can get 2.35Ghz or so from the AMD, you'd have to get around 2.75Ghz from Intel. Since most people are having trouble getting more than 2.35Ghz on AMD without special cooling, if you can get more than 2.75Ghz with Intel, that'd be better than AMD.

 

[xgman]

Great board. 2800xp at 2500mhz on air at 200 fsb, great scores highly tweakable. Better scores than I got with dual ch. ddr on a Chaintech NF2 at similar settings.

 

[faaip]

i don't have it, but i know it is a very good mobo, especially for overclocking!

 

[kelvinblade]

u mean the board unlocks the processor so you don't have to do it yourself?

 

[Mooky]

u mean the board unlocks the processor so you don't have to do it yourself?

The board unlocks all T-Bred CPUs so you have ALL the multipliers available to you. I haven't tried it with a Pally, but I would assume you would still have to manually unlock those.

 

[RnPgrosz]

It only has Vcore to 2V which is a little disappointing. Otherwise it looks pretty good.

 

[Mooky]

Considering that the default voltage on the new T-Bred are 1.5 and 1.65, 2.0V should be sufficient. On the T-Bred A's, that's a 33 percent overvolt which it quite a bit and I've heard stories of guys setting it to 2.2V and burning their chips.