Epox nForce2

[RevyGurl]

Are there two versions of the Epox nForce2 motherboard? I know of the Epox 8RDA+, but I've also seen the Epox 8RDA (no plus) being sold, and I'm wondering if they are the exact same boards.

I'm thinking of getting this board and I want to make sure I get the right one. Any help appreciated. Thanks!

 

[OAPTyf]

Lo RevyGurl,

I just did a check for u on the Epox website (Europe) and there's no mobo named 8rda on their products list. So I'm thinking it's prolly an error and it's the same 8rda+ board(nforce2 chipset)

Eric G

 

[ad_rach]

yeah there is only the 8rda+.

no matter how hard you try, you can't polish a turd. :]

 

[OAPTyf]

Oops, I looked somewhere else as well, hehe!

http://www6.alternate.nl/html/nodes_info/gjex31.html
http://www6.alternate.nl/html/nodes_info/gjex30.html

the plus has LAN as well, which I thought but couldn't find on their webby! :^\

Eric G

 

[lwj81]

the 8rda has 2 channel audio,the 8rda+ adds 6 channel audio,onboard lan and a RJ-45 port.

 

[RevyGurl]

Thanks for finding those web pages.. wow I guess there really are two different models. The plus has 2 Com, 1 LPT and 1 Game.. ? and the non plus, only has 1 LPT.. and none of the others. um, I'm not sure what this means exactly. Both of the boards say they have Realtek ALC650E 6-channel. To have the lan, all I need is to just put a network card in one of the PCI slots, right..?

 

[lwj81]

you will need a network card for the 8rda.the + version has it built in.

 

[LancerEvolution7]

the price difference is about $10

 

[RevyGurl]

"The plus has 2 Com, 1 LPT and 1 Game.. ? and the non plus, only has 1 LPT.. and none of the others" What does this mean?

 

[ad_rach]

fair enough.i didn't think there would be two.not much point really when there is so little difference.you would think they would put sata on the + to make the gap a bit bigger.

no matter how hard you try, you can't polish a turd. :]

 

[Civilized]

All the plus version does is offer more features such as raid etc...but yet they are based on the same chipset and will offer similar performance

 

[RevyGurl]

can you tell me quickly what raid is anyway..? I've seen it being mentioned so many times, but never an explanation of what it exactly is. Thanks!

 

[finrod]

RAID = Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

what is does is allow a volume to be made up of the capacity of a number of disks. There are several different raid versions. I think it goes something like this (although I could be wrong)

RAID 0 = a mirred volume. You have two disks together which are exact duplicates. If one disk fails you have the data on the other disk. Gives you a performance increase for reads as there are two different sources to get the data.

RAID 1 = striping no parity. WHen you have three or more volumes together, when you write to the disk it writes the data across 3 volumes giving a performance increase as data can be accessed in parallel. There is no redundancy with this method

RAID 5 = striping with parity. For three or more drives where n = the number of drives in the stripe set. the data is written to n-1 drives and the parity information is written to the other drive. If one of the drives fails then the data can be recovered using the parity information.

RAID 0 + 1 aka RAID 10 - this is made up of a combination of striping without parity and mirroring. Requires at least 6 drives I think. YOu have a stripe set of 3 or more drives which are mirrored. Gives you the performance increase of raid 1 with the redundancy of raid 0.

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[Lamoni]

Actually you have it backwards.

Raid 0 has no redundancy, only striping. Requires at least 2 drives. If one goes bad, you lose all the data on both.

Raid 1 is mirrored. Each drive is an exact duplicate. It improves read access, decreases write performance. If one drive goes bad, everything still runs fine.

Raid 5 requires at least 3 drives. It is more complicated, but offers both data security and better performance, but not as good of performance as Raid 0

Raid 0+1 requires at least 4 drives. It is two Raid 0 arrays that are mirrored. So you have good performance and good data security. But you pay a lot for the 4 or more hard drives.

If you want more info on Raid, post in the Hard drive section.

 

[cefoskey]

the plus version has built in firewire as well. I got the standard version 3 days ago, and in the manual it says the plus version has LAN and firewire.

"Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my drive?"

 

[finrod]

Does the plus model come with a joystick port ? I have a ms force feedback joystick which doesn't work on USB.

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