New epox mobo!

[LBJGH]

Well I got some very cool mail today.... an Epox 8k5a2+

I had some concerns about the motherboard RMA's to me by the vendor after my original Epox 8k3a+ died. The original version was a 1.02 and the replacement was a 1.01.

Well to make a long story short was unable to provide a rev.1.02 motherboard and their supply replaced the 8k3a+ with a 8k5a2+!

This is awesome... now I've got onboard LAN, USB 2.0, lower temperatures and better overclocking.

Below are the results at the default voltage for my 1600+

[Drozdov]

nice dude, post a MBM 5 dashboard shot

[Shroomer]

Lets see that sucka juiced up dood

[LBJGH]

I had a crash while playing ut2003 so I increased the vcore in the bios to 1.775... mbm is reporting 1.80v+ which is much better than the previous board which was consistantly 0.05v low.

Oh ya, check those temps after about 2hrs of idle.

[N8]

LBJGH,

Lookin good man!

Don't stop now

[LBJGH]

well I've hit the wall with the current setup... I went as high as 1.95v and just can't do 1900MHz (which was my goal).... here are results so far with AMD chips:

600 duron @ 936 --> +363mhz
1000 t-bird @ 1539 --> + 539mhz
1600+ @ 1833--> +433mhz

[Drozdov]

on a stock multi correct?

Edit: nevermind, try decreasing the multi to 10 or 9.5 and increase the FSB more

[LBJGH]

Just gave some FSB a shot... man this is nice, I got all kinds of AGP tearing with the old board and none with this board... and I'm only using Corsair 2700

Originally posted by Drozdov
on a stock multi correct?

Edit: nevermind, try decreasing the multi to 10 or 9.5 and increase the FSB more

[Drozdov]

is ur system stable at 9.5x200?

[baller02]

your temps are lower because the epox 8k5a2+ doesn't read the internal temp diode, it uses the temp diode only for shutting down the cpu if it gets too hot.
the 8k3a+ reads out the temp diode and this is the reason for higher temps on your 8k3a+.

[LBJGH]

yep, although 3d gaming seems to crash back to the desktop... too much agp for my old radeon card I guess.

Originally posted by Drozdov
is ur system stable at 9.5x200?