EPoX EP-9NPA-SLI

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

A picture of the board is up at:

http://www.ocworkbench.com/index.stm

Before you shout "DFI" , please:

EPoX EP-8KDA3J: $74
DFI LANPARTY UT nF3 250Gb $103

That's a 40% delta.

 

[arswihart]

this is going to be the best SLI motherboard, since EPOX makes the best BIOS's and OC'ing abilities. The layout here is much better than the 9npa+ as well, they fixed the SATA location (used to be crammed next to IDE), the power cord aligned horizontal is better now (for air flow), the higher IDE is better so that they don't increase resistance to air flow from front intake fans and there's less of a stretch to CD/DVD drives, there's the nice extra mosfet exhaust fan (ala Fatal1ty).

It looks perfect, and I'm sure it will be cheaper than all the other SLI boards!

 

[arswihart]

anyone know the release date for this board?

 

[CALIKUSH]

This looks good, but I wonder when Epox plans on releasing socket 754 pci-e boards. Its almost March and theres no pics floating around. Come to think of it, I'm surprised no one in the industry has released a socket 754 with pci-e. I mean more people have s754 right?

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

MSI released the K8N Neo3-F, it's for sale in Japan already:
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/20050205/newitem.html
It costs 50% of a K8N SLI Platinum.

I'm sure more skt754 PCI-E boards will be showed at CEBIT. The problem is that they want to use the very few chipsets they can get now on skt939 boards.

 

[CALIKUSH]

thanks alot for the link. It's good to know that someone in some part of the world has options that I don't. How I envy that person.

 

[Megatomic]

You'll never see me shout "DFI" man. I tried them out in spite of my better judgement and wound up with 2 DOA DFI Ultra Infinity boards - in a row. So, never again says I.

I do like Epox though and that looks like a decent SLI board.

 

[Tanclearas]

Almost didn't see the PCIe x1 slot there. That's an interesting layout. There's nothing between the x16 slots. No point in pretending that people will install a card in a slot between the two.

Nice.

 

[cbass23]

I emailed epox support team and asked them when they would release the ultra version here in the US and heres the response they gave me. (side note they responded quick as a mofo)

This board should be released in two weeks. Please check back with us or one of our dealer. Thanks
http://www.epox.com/USA/purchase.asp

That was sent to me on the 28th of Jan hope sli version comes out too.

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

Thanks for the info cbass23!

 

[PENNSYLVANIARON]

EPOX ROCKS!