** Official EPoX 9NDA3+ Thread ** S939

[siberain]

Now that the board has hit mainstream, any buyers with o/c storys?

anyone have any benchmark links comparing this board to MSI/Asus/Gigabyte?

 

[Kruse]

Im curious about this...I decided to get one of these boards over an Asus A8V(r2) and hope I made the right choice.

 

[Kruse]

Still no one using this board?

 

[siberain]

I guess theyre arent to many EpoX fans, I actually sent out an email to DFI to see when we would see

the board released and if they will be releaseing a board with the Nforce3 chipset since theyre have been rumors about them only releaseing a nforce4 board...


No one currently owns this EpoX board?

 

[FullRoast]

I just got a 9NDA3+ from Newegg this week. I haven't had time to do a lot with it, but I have started overclocking a 3000 to see what it will do (at least up to a point). I started by overclocking with the memory 1:1 and was stable (hours running Prime95) at 230 FSB. I jumped to 245 FSB (CPU at 2.2 GHz) and was not stable. I dropped the memory ratio to 4:5 and the HTT to x4 and ran Prime95 over night with no problems.

So far, the 9NDA3+ looks good. No issues, booted up the first time, etc. I am not too critical about board layout, but the diskette connector placement is a little odd- no big deal. I am using the board through a PS2 type KVM switch with no problem - no keyboard/mouse issues. I am using a ThemalRight XP-90 - no problem.

I have had the system on continuously for the last two days and the only problems I have had are related to overclocking - due to memory?

So far, I'm happy.

 

[SilverBack]

I'm moving from an A8V to this motherboard tomorrow morning. The A8V has a bad VIA disk controller.
I'll be posting my results in the evening I would imagine.

 

[ZoSo]

SilverBack, how did you make out?
Anyone else using this board?

 

[imported_burningrave101]

I am planning to buy this motherboard around Christmas when i upgrade to a s939 A64 3500+. I had thought about getting the K8N Neo2 Platinum from MSI but the forums are full or horror stories with that board. There was even an article posted on Sudhian today talking about how the boards half multipliers dont work how they are suppost to and cause the system to become unstable. This Epox board looks like a really good s939 board. Especially when there isn't alot of other boards to choose from for the nForce 3 Ultra chipset.

 

[siberain]

bump

 

[gimp0]

I've been up and running for a few weeks with this board and I'm glad I held out for it and didnt jump on the MSI bandwagon =)

seems stable andwas a breeze to setup.

 

[FullRoast]

My 9NDA3+ has been great so far. My only complaint is that the USDM app doesn't seem to update the CPU temp correctly.

You may have already seen this, but there is an updated bios at the Epox website. I haven't tried it, yet, but probably will this weekend.

 

[siberain]

Let us know how the bios fix comes along im looking to purchases this motherboard.

 

[mjm05]

I just ordered this board from mwave.com, their the only people that have it in stock right now. I tried a gigabyte GA-K8NS ultra, but had too many problems. Hopefully this will be better.

 

[siberain]

bump.

Anything new?

 

[imported_burningrave101]

What changes does the BIOS update bring? Anything besides whats listed on the epox site?

 

[lnin0]

Just ordered this board and a 3200+ from Mwave which should be here in a week.

 

[imported_burningrave101]

I'm going to order mine just as soon as i get my 3.0c and 8knxp sold. BTW, its for sale in the FS/FT forum .

 

[imported_gimper48]

DO NOT BUY THIS BOARD. Their technical support is horrible... it is only by e-mail too. no phone support. They do not support Kingston memory either. I have kingston Hyperx memory and they flat out told me to buy new memory for this board. Corsair didn't work either. Their support team had to have everything and I mean everything repeated to them they didn't even bother to read the stupid case. This system fails after 7-11 hours on prime95 and that is on DEFAULTS!!!. I will never buy an EPOX piece again. I am going back to MSI, and ASUS. This company=bunch of hacks.

 

[daweeze02]

ive checked a few reviews on this board and they used kingston memory with no problems.

 

[imported_gimper48]

Kingston memory works fine as long as stability is not all that important. Run prime95 for 1-11 hours and it will fail due to the memory. Also the board detects Hyperx memory as slower than it is. I am assuming you are refering to slow Kingston memory and not Hyperx. It blue screens when you enter the correct timings.

 

[BrianRVT]

I just build my new system with the 9nda3+ and a A64 3000+. Currently running very stable at 2205mhz (9x245), memory at 2-3-3-10-1T 4:5 ratio, HT at x4. Temps have been excellent. I can't get it over 40C with a TT Silent Boost. Despite what has been reported above the board has no problems with my Kingston HyperX 3200AK2 (Thanks hot deals). It doesn't read the SPD correctly, but it has no problems with manually entered timings. Overnight ram test showed no problems.

 

[Bad Dude]

Any one got this board fills with all 4 dimms slots and running at DDR400?
Thanks.

 

[Polaryzed]

Bad_Dude;

Yes I've populated all 4 DIMMS with OCZ Plat EB @ 2.5-3-2-8, ran DDR400 without a problem, except that I bought the XP-120 and an Ultra XConnect p/s. Bad combination due to layout of the board. I'm also running the latest Jan05 bios.

End-result, XP120 only Cannot fit ram into slots 0/1 (only 2/3) and the XConnect p/s with it's bulky connector is not able to let the XP-120 fit either.

 

[arswihart]

Come on 9nda3+ owners, what are you doing, please post your experiences here.

I just got a rev2.1 board with an athlon 3200+, running without any issues.
Epox 9nda3+ - latest bios
Athlon 3200+ @ 2.4 ghz = htt: 220, multi: 10x, vcore=1.45 (result of +0.1v in bios)
2x512mb Corsair XMS3200 Cas2 (2-3 years old): sockets 3/4, mem166 (ddr400), 1t 2-3-3-10 timings

I have not even tried to go higher than 2.4 ghz. My old but high quality Corsair RAM is working out fine right now at DDR400 with fast timings, very happy about that. CPU voltage seems kind of low by default, however; I had to increase it to +0.1v to get it stable at this speed. The CPU is spec'ed at 1.4, but this mobo seems to put out only like 1.35-1.38 when the bios settings are at default. Simply increasing this value fixes everything. I may be able to drop it to +0.075 or something, but haven't tried yet.

BTW nforce4 6.39 drivers work fine on this mobo, even though its nforce3.

Somewhere I heard that this mobo is now at rev 2.2 with new capacitors, is this true? Where is the evidence? Thanks

 

[arswihart]

The only rev 2.2 boards i see on a quick google search are the 8rda+ and 8kda3+/j boards. As far as I know, the 9nda3+ is still at rev 2.1, and it better have good capacitors. I've just recently had to RMA an 8rda+ for bad cap's.