Well I will start by saying I have an epox rig (4BDA) and while it is nice and allows me to have the system you see below I think it is a POS....
First off any real ocing on an epox 4BDA mobo takes a wire mod if you want anything above 1.65v due to the extreme undervolting...
Second it is by far the pickiest I have seen with ram...My old kingmax ran 410ddr on asus mobo with 2.7v but would only run 380max with damn lowest settings and 2.8 or 2.9v didn't matter...wasn't going any higher...Theguy I sold it to put it in a non epox mobo is doing 400mhz again...Pure crap I tell you....My corsair I feel is limited with this board.
Third my corsair pc3200 will boot from a cold start on command at 2.64ghz with 440mhz ddr...then run prime for 12 hours until I stop it....If I try a warm restart chances are it wont start and I can't reset it...takes a power up cold start to get it to go....I raised vcore above historically stable levels with non 400mhz ddr and no matter the vcore no go....Obvious mobo issue here...If it were PS it would have crashed or errored out during prime95 and it didn't.
I am willing to take a try with the 4g4a mainly cause of the 4:5 ratio...I have no issues with 430mhz ddr on this mobo so I think I could be fine....
Questions are:
1) How much does this board undervolt???
2) Are there reported higher temps with this board??
3) What are the rumors june bios will limit your oc??
4) Are ppl having to volt vdimm up to 2.8 an 2.9v levels to get things stable??
5) Are you having to run low settings to get things stable??
6) Any reboot issues due to undervollting vcore or vdimm??
I would settle for 1.6@2.672ghz at 1.68v actual and 418mhz ddr if I can get it...that would outproduce my 2.736ghz cpu with cas2 342mhz speed...should be equivalent to like 2.75-2.76ghz processor with 340-350 level ddr.
Let me know I would appreciate it....
First off any real ocing on an epox 4BDA mobo takes a wire mod if you want anything above 1.65v due to the extreme undervolting...
Second it is by far the pickiest I have seen with ram...My old kingmax ran 410ddr on asus mobo with 2.7v but would only run 380max with damn lowest settings and 2.8 or 2.9v didn't matter...wasn't going any higher...Theguy I sold it to put it in a non epox mobo is doing 400mhz again...Pure crap I tell you....My corsair I feel is limited with this board.
Third my corsair pc3200 will boot from a cold start on command at 2.64ghz with 440mhz ddr...then run prime for 12 hours until I stop it....If I try a warm restart chances are it wont start and I can't reset it...takes a power up cold start to get it to go....I raised vcore above historically stable levels with non 400mhz ddr and no matter the vcore no go....Obvious mobo issue here...If it were PS it would have crashed or errored out during prime95 and it didn't.
I am willing to take a try with the 4g4a mainly cause of the 4:5 ratio...I have no issues with 430mhz ddr on this mobo so I think I could be fine....
Questions are:
1) How much does this board undervolt???
2) Are there reported higher temps with this board??
3) What are the rumors june bios will limit your oc??
4) Are ppl having to volt vdimm up to 2.8 an 2.9v levels to get things stable??
5) Are you having to run low settings to get things stable??
6) Any reboot issues due to undervollting vcore or vdimm??
I would settle for 1.6@2.672ghz at 1.68v actual and 418mhz ddr if I can get it...that would outproduce my 2.736ghz cpu with cas2 342mhz speed...should be equivalent to like 2.75-2.76ghz processor with 340-350 level ddr.
Let me know I would appreciate it....