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Epox EP-8RDA+ Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Epox EP-8RDA+ (3/5/2003 bios)
Soltek SL-75FRN-L (v1.3 Bios)

AMD Athlon XP2200+ Tbred processor
CoolerMaster xDream Heatsink
2x256megs Corsair Platinum TwinX paired memory
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Maxtor D740X 40GB ATA/133 HDD
Enermax 350watt power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1

Sandra is a software collection of synthetic benchmarks that will give us a basic idea as to what a system is capable of. It should be noted that SiSoft numbers change depending on what version you have installed, these where recorded using Sandra Professional Version 2003.1.9.26

2x256 Corsair Platinum TwinX DDR400

Cachemem is a synthetic benchmark used to test bandwidth and latency.

For the most part we can conclude that from a synthetic benchmark standpoint both boards perform excatly the same, as they should considering that they are using the same version Northbridge.

Real world benchmarks are next.