8RDA v. 8RDA+ v. 8RGA+

[Guytalbot]

Is the only difference between these two boards is that the + board has onboard lan and firewire, or is it more than that?
Thanks

edit: On a further note I saw that epox was coming out witht he 8RGA+ which has onboard video but I think I read somewhere that the video performance was lacking somewhat in similar boards, is that the case?

 

[AMB]

The + version has the MCP-T which also features the Soundstorm, that has the option of DICE (Dolby Digital Interactive Encoding), along with the aforementioned features you mentioned

 

[jiffylube1024]

Yeah, the soundstorm is 5.1 Channel sound compared to the 2 channel AC'97 sound of the MCP chipset (like the 8RDA).

 

[mechBgon]

EPoX also includes a PCI bracket with the + that provides an additional two USB 2.0 ports besides the four on the mobo's I/O panel. The header exists on the non-+, so if you have a case with front USB ports, you can still have six. Side note: don't plug anything onto Pin 10 of the USB3 header... more info

 

[Guytalbot]

bump anyone know about the third board?

 

[adeno]

The 8RGA+ is pretty much the 8RDA+ with the exception that the former also has onboard video, specifically the GeForce4 MX.

 

[mechBgon]

The performance of the nForce2 IGPs' video is not all that high in the 3D department, compared to add-in 3D accelerators. Could be nice for the business user or student, since some boards (including the 8RGA+) have dual VGA-out and therefore are a natural for a multimonitor setup. Too bad they don't make 'em dual-DVI with DVI-to-VGA adapters included too... that would be awesome

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
The performance of the nForce2 IGPs' video is not all that high in the 3D department, compared to add-in 3D accelerators. Could be nice for the business user or student, since some boards (including the 8RGA+) have dual VGA-out and therefore are a natural for a multimonitor setup. Too bad they don't make 'em dual-DVI with DVI-to-VGA adapters included too... that would be awesome

LOL yeah it would be great, but expensive and hence defeat the purpose of onboard video... they may as well put a Ti4200 chip (or perhaps lower clocked one) in there and skimp out on the connectors offering just a single VGA port. That would be pretty sweet, a Ti4200 or so on the board. 3dmark and game performace would SKYROCKET with high memory overclocks! Imagine going from giving that chip 266 MHz DDR to near 500 MHz DDR!