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DFI also made great boards, at least with the LanParty series. […]
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shevalier wrote on Yesterday, 11:19:

Pf... I hate Asus. The best motherboards for AMD were made by Epox. Let's start with the implementation of the BusDisconnect fun […]
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Pf... I hate Asus.
The best motherboards for AMD were made by Epox.
Let's start with the implementation of the BusDisconnect function for Athlon XP.
And I still prefer Soltek, although I don’t have their motherboards at the moment.

DFI also made great boards, at least with the LanParty series.

I still have my Abit NF7-S 2.0 which has been used in the same PC with the same overclocked XP 1700+ with the same cooler and fan for something like 23 years now. I use it regularly for testing AGP cards still.

I also have an EPoX 9NDA3J, Socket 939 with the Nforce 3 Ultra (AGP) chipset. This was the board that I replaced the NF7-S with when I upgraded back in the day. I originally ran it with an A64 3000+, later used the board in a PC I sold to someone and 10+ years later they asked me for a new PC and gave me this one back, still in 100% working order! Now it has the beta BIOS installed I have it running an X2 4200+.

The board I purchased after the EPoX was a DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D. Wish I still had that, but it went into another person's system and I'm sure it's long gone. Very likely it ended up with bad caps. So far the Epox and Abit boards are rock solid with no signs of cap issues. 😀

Prior to these boards I had Tyan KX133 (Slot A), ECS K7S5A and a Gigabyte KT333 board. Still have the ECS too, but it needs lots of caps replaced (I did some 12+ years ago, but it needs more now).

Anyway, the EPoX and Abit boards have definitely earned a good name with me. Too bad both companies are no longer around.

Ultra-D and NF7-S are my favorites from back then. The Ultra-D was insane running the memory off the 3volt rail. You'd modify the rail to overvolt to 3.3v with some OCZ PC4000 Gold VX cas 2,2,2,5 1t @ 250mhz ... Good times.

Dothan Burger wrote on Today, 03:35:

Dothan Burger wrote on Today, 03:26:

Ozzuneoj wrote on Today, 02:25:

DFI also made great boards, at least with the LanParty series. […]
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DFI also made great boards, at least with the LanParty series.

I still have my Abit NF7-S 2.0 which has been used in the same PC with the same overclocked XP 1700+ with the same cooler and fan for something like 23 years now. I use it regularly for testing AGP cards still.

I also have an EPoX 9NDA3J, Socket 939 with the Nforce 3 Ultra (AGP) chipset. This was the board that I replaced the NF7-S with when I upgraded back in the day. I originally ran it with an A64 3000+, later used the board in a PC I sold to someone and 10+ years later they asked me for a new PC and gave me this one back, still in 100% working order! Now it has the beta BIOS installed I have it running an X2 4200+.

The board I purchased after the EPoX was a DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D. Wish I still had that, but it went into another person's system and I'm sure it's long gone. Very likely it ended up with bad caps. So far the Epox and Abit boards are rock solid with no signs of cap issues. 😀

Prior to these boards I had Tyan KX133 (Slot A), ECS K7S5A and a Gigabyte KT333 board. Still have the ECS too, but it needs lots of caps replaced (I did some 12+ years ago, but it needs more now).

Anyway, the EPoX and Abit boards have definitely earned a good name with me. Too bad both companies are no longer around.

Ultra-D and NF7-S are my favorites from back then. The Ultra-D was insane running the memory off the 3volt rail. You'd modify the rail to overvolt to 3.3v with some OCZ PC4000 Gold VX cas 2,2,2,5 1t @ 250mhz ... Good times.

Yep! I was running this kit of 2x1GB OCZ Gold PC-4000 in that board when I had it! I kept the PC4000 RAM when I sold the system (the new user wasn't going to overclock). Funny thing, I sold the RAM for like $100-$150 in ~2012 when I found out it was selling for such crazy prices.

I overclocked my old X2 4200+ a bit (cooled by a Thermalright XP-90, which is back on a 4200+ on my EPox board now.. 🤣), but never got a lot out of it, even with the fancy RAM. As much as I liked my AMD rigs up to that point, switching to a Core 2 Duo E6750 on a P35 board and overclocking the snot out of it provided a surprisingly huge performance boost in CPU intensive titles.

Hard to believe how quickly CPU performance changed from Socket A-754-939-AM2 to the Core 2 era.

Ozzuneoj wrote on Today, 02:25:

DFI also made great boards, at least with the LanParty series. […]
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shevalier wrote on Yesterday, 11:19:

Pf... I hate Asus. The best motherboards for AMD were made by Epox. Let's start with the implementation of the BusDisconnect fun […]
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nd22 wrote on Yesterday, 11:04:

1. Unlike Asus, Abit was a small company focused on enthousiasts with no/very limited OEM presence and did not manufactured boards with every single chipset.

Pf... I hate Asus.
The best motherboards for AMD were made by Epox.
Let's start with the implementation of the BusDisconnect function for Athlon XP.
And I still prefer Soltek, although I don’t have their motherboards at the moment.

DFI also made great boards, at least with the LanParty series.

I still have my Abit NF7-S 2.0 which has been used in the same PC with the same overclocked XP 1700+ with the same cooler and fan for something like 23 years now. I use it regularly for testing AGP cards still.

I also have an EPoX 9NDA3J, Socket 939 with the Nforce 3 Ultra (AGP) chipset. This was the board that I replaced the NF7-S with when I upgraded back in the day. I originally ran it with an A64 3000+, later used the board in a PC I sold to someone and 10+ years later they asked me for a new PC and gave me this one back, still in 100% working order! Now it has the beta BIOS installed I have it running an X2 4200+.

The board I purchased after the EPoX was a DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D. Wish I still had that, but it went into another person's system and I'm sure it's long gone. Very likely it ended up with bad caps. So far the Epox and Abit boards are rock solid with no signs of cap issues. 😀

Prior to these boards I had Tyan KX133 (Slot A), ECS K7S5A and a Gigabyte KT333 board. Still have the ECS too, but it needs lots of caps replaced (I did some 12+ years ago, but it needs more now).

Anyway, the EPoX and Abit boards have definitely earned a good name with me. Too bad both companies are no longer around.

I got my 2 NF7-S 2.0 in storage. My permanently assembled retro system features an Athlon xp 3200 on an abit AN7.
Epox was Abit main competitor in the late 90's - early 2000's. My best friend got quite a few Epox boards and while the performance is good they all got bad capacitors, absolutely all.