EPoX 8RDA3+ nForce2 Mainboard Review (1) Bluetooth 17th June 2003
EPoX 8RDA3+
EPoX 8RDA+ was highly sought after when it was released. The current version of
8RDA+ has also begun using the new stepping of the chipset. Although 8RDA+ is a
good choice, some users would like to have more features on board. The 8RDA3+ is
the one board that has all these ready for you. 8RDA3+ comes with dual LAN, SATA
RAID, IEEE 1394, Dual Channel DDR, 6 channel audio and support for the Barton
400Mhz CPU.
EPoX 8RDA3+ comes with 5 PCI slots and 1 AGP slot. The on board audio codec used
is Cmedia 9739Al. This board uses a 3 phase voltage regulator design is
implemented with +12v aux power connector for stable 12v line. At the back
panel, there are 4 USB ports, 6 channel audio ports and 2 LAN ports (supported
by Realtek and nVIDIA). The on board SATA RAID is supported by SiliconImage
Sil3112chip. 2 channels of IDE ATA133. 1394 supported (white connectors) by
agero fw323-60 chipset
3 DIMM slots supporting up to 4GB of DDR266/DDR333/DDR400 using 184pin
unbuffered ram.
SB Range : 100 ~ 250Mhz 1Mhz stepping
Multiplier : 3x ~ 24x at 0.5 interval
CPU Vcore voltages can be set from Default, 1.40v up to 2.20v
AGP voltage can be set up to 1.80v
DDR Voltages are selectable up to 2.90v
VDD can be set to 2.0v
