8rda+...already pissing me off

[nexus_7]

just hit the crackpipe again.

Ill be looking for a new board soon.

Greg

[rogue]

I've never liked Epox..they may be known as being good overclockers, but their quality control/engineering is non-existant. Nexus, I would recommend either an Asus A7N8X or an Abit NF7-S version 1.2. Plus, Epox has the WORST tech support I have ever used.

[Lmandrake]

Epox has the WORST tech support I have ever used.

I don't dispute that. However, I can't think of any board I ever owned that had much in the way of tech support. Abit, Soyo, Epox, Iwill, Shuttle, MSI, and Biostar. You are pretty much on your own with all of them. The only thing that any of them seem to do better than the others is bios updates and those come once in a blue moon once the board stops being a "hot" product.

[wvjohn]

you might wanna check the epox forum at amdmb.com - there is a live epox tech floating there - i found it useful

[nexus_7]

I ordered a new 1700+ one of the Tbred's see if that helps...if not board is GOING back!

Greg

[rogue]

I don't dispute that. However, I can't think of any board I ever owned that had much in the way of tech support. Abit, Soyo, Epox, Iwill, Shuttle, MSI, and Biostar. You are pretty much on your own with all of them. The only thing that any of them seem to do better than the others is bios updates and those come once in a blue moon once the board stops being a "hot" product.

Well, Abit at least tried to troubleshoot the problem with me. Epox just sent me a FAQ and made no effort whatsoever to help. Plus, the RMA for my board took a whole month, and when I got the new one it had the same problem as the old one after a week of use.

[nexus_7]

Abit also charges $25 to RMA a dead board durring Waranty period AND also Refuses RMA on certain boards they know they make poorly. I think I would Stear clear of Abit.

Greg

[PreDatoR]

Epox has been good to me so i stick with what works for me... Asus is nothing but overpriced POS boards IMHO... Abit was good back in the BH6 days they got big and went to shit... Gigabyte seems to be holding its own these days just need the overclocking options that Epox runs with and i'd probably use their boards... And no offense but anyone who wastes their time with their tech support deserves what they get. You can go to AMDMB.com forums and there is more than enough info there to figure out your problems. More so than you'll ever get from tech support.

[Judg3]

I dunno, what does the overclocking on Gigabyte lack that the Epox uses? (Not an overclocker here, so I wouldnt know)

Just checked the CPUDatabase over at overclockers.com and the highest rated overclock of an XP 2000 is on a Gigabyte, he's running it at 2.4Ghz - seems decent to me - or am I missing something?

[Viperoni]

I find my 8kha+ really doesn't like Enermax PS's (mad +5v rail power draw causing it to dip down to as low as 4.6 ), but after I volt modded my PS (so the +5 does ~4.9-5.0 average and the +12 is at ~13), it's rock solid. It seems to be only Enermax PS's that cause trouble with the 8kha+'s though.

[nexus_7]

yea, the enermax wasnt helping at all. stupid pos.

Greg

[Bigal]

nexus_7 - just think how happy you'll be once you find the source of the problem. It might just be your memory selection. Are you running two sticks sychronously? Try taking out one and see if that helps. The samsung (3500/433) should be good, but there might be an issue. I would also consider trying another hard drive, or maybe a new IDE cable. You seem to have continuing issues that a reformatting is temporarily fixing, so you might be getting corrupted data through a bad IDE cable. That would be a quick thing to check....