EPoX EP-9GF6100-M NVIDIA GeForce 6100 @ the egg

Just wanted to add if this is as good as it's atx nforce4 brother, damn, this mobo would be sweet.
 
If only it wasn't 6100. The actively-cooled SB is tight, but the placement of the NB is godawful. Can't even put a decent aftermarket HSF on it. :(
 
Talk about a submission from left field, epox is the last company ide expect. Anyone look @ bios screenies yet?
 
if you go to the mobo's website, it says it has powerbios as a feature and in the manual you can download, shows a bios screen with 'Power Bios' option. so, it looks like this might be up there with the biostar in terms of overclocking.

damn, i just bought a tforce6100-939 too :(
 
Actively cooled chipset = unnecessary noise = not for me. I'll go with one of the passively cooled SFF boards instead.
 
the 24pin connectors are in a bad place because the big cable will be over the cpu fan thus causing bad airflow to it and for it. for all i know they have always put the power connectors on that side of the mobo.
 
Epox ALWAYS has a bad 24-pin connector placement. The connector is ALWAYS adhacent to the IO ports on the back, look @ all their other boards. God knows whyt hey do it....

Epox is a more reputable brand than biosuck, so hopefully this turns out to be a nice board!
 
Dillusion said:
Epox ALWAYS has a bad 24-pin connector placement. The connector is ALWAYS adhacent to the IO ports on the back, look @ all their other boards. God knows whyt hey do it....

Epox is a more reputable brand than biosuck, so hopefully this turns out to be a nice board!
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Just curious,
Have you actually owned a Biostar board?
 
Ive had my biostar for a month now and I havent had a single problem with it. ill admit that I would probably not buy an ATX board from them though, but they have a good mATX product.
 
"Reputable" seems to be linked to either A. The board manufacturer advertising heavily in Japan/Taiwan, which spills over to the rest of the world or B. At least one good overclocking board in the past

EPoX has one of the first, decent socket A boards so everyone remembers them as great, but they also used some cheap caps on it. Think they had something decent for 754 before they fell off the OC map. EPoX has good support.

Biostar has not really had anything spectacular on ATX, but they have been quietly spinning out some kickass mATX boards. Their socket A board was popular, although I finally gave up on it, because the reliability was even worse than anything put out by DFI. They must have used some cheapo caps or something.

Active cooling should be nice… Not a good sign that there is no sink on the southbridge, though. What’s-his-face was pulling some very nice overclocks on the TForce when he upgraded the northbridge sink. EPoX put out the best offering for mATX overclocking socket A, but they dropped the overclocking features with a later revision. So this one could be interesting…

Last, let’s get one thing straight…
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PClark99 said:
Just curious,
Have you actually owned a Biostar board?
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yes, i had a 6100-939. and one of their K8M800 boards. they may be a good company but their support in the US is lackluster and they make cheap boards, albeit their uv looking series has moderately good caps and comes out with nice OC's, theyre still a 'cheap' lower tier company any way you look at it.
 
Modbin tells me this should be the best board yet.

VCORE: 1.65 (technically +.25v)
VDIMM: 3.2v (about the same as Biostar with jumper)
VDD: 1.5v (board voltage HELLO! :eek: Biostar's stock voltage is 1.15v, Foxconn's is 1.25v)
HTT: 450
Adjustable HT multi, extensive timing tweaks

So on par with the Biostar, but with an actively cooled Northbridge that could mean 350+ HTT clocks. The optional 430 southbridge should also please you firewire lovers
 
I have owned several EpoX mobos before and I was always 100% satisfied. They had one era of leaky caps that killed their OCing, but thats long gone. I would definately get the EpoX, but I'ma wait to see if a 6150 arrives.
 
Dillusion said:
yes, i had a 6100-939. and one of their K8M800 boards. they may be a good company but their support in the US is lackluster and they make cheap boards, albeit their uv looking series has moderately good caps and comes out with nice OC's, theyre still a 'cheap' lower tier company any way you look at it.
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TForce 6100-939 or the generic one? Just wondering because I've heard mostly good things about the TForce. I'll wait and see with this one too :).
 
sleepeeg3 said:
Modbin tells me this should be the best board yet.

VCORE: 1.65 (technically +.25v)
VDIMM: 3.2v (about the same as Biostar with jumper)
VDD: 1.5v (board voltage HELLO! :eek: Biostar's stock voltage is 1.15v, Foxconn's is 1.25v)
HTT: 450
Adjustable HT multi, extensive timing tweaks

So on par with the Biostar, but with an actively cooled Northbridge that could mean 350+ HTT clocks. The optional 430 southbridge should also please you firewire lovers
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if all of this is true than this is going to be a really good board. makes me feel kinda bad since i just purchased the biostar. i'll see if it suits my needs of 9*300, if not then i'll grab this epox.
 
Biostar has been very forthcoming to me regarding the 6100 board they produce, my emails were answered in a timely fashion... I guess it's just who you contact there...

I emailed them today to see if they will produce a 6150 based board.

MD
 
Ya I think this board will probably be what the guys with x9 multi chips were looking for, but there's really nothing I would be missing from the Biostar.

Biostar's support is not bad. They've answered some really technical questions for me in the past. ...but for an in-warranty repair, they charged $30 for a repair, because the seller was not on their authorized distributors list (1 year standard, if so) and then another $10 for shipping the replacement from their oversea distributor.

In contrast, the best support I have ever received from Antec just recently, where the front panel on my ARIA was scratched to all hell (my fault), one of the CD springs popped off and disappeared and the CD-ROM cover finally broke because of this. I told them all of this and they shipped me an entirely new front panel! Very cool of them. :cool: MSI also did something similar with one of their boards.
 
Seems like a cool board, anybody gotten any good clocks with this thing yet?
 
Hey guys,

I'm almost 99.9% sure this is the board i'm going to buy next Friday...Just as soon as the Tax money is in the bank!! So if I order it next Friday then hopefully I'll have it in my hands by the following Wednesday...hopefully runnning by Thursday...If all goes well..

I'm sure I'll need some help..

Chappie
 
meh! i think its time to get a CPU that has atleast 10x multiplier
 
hopeing someone has bought this board or is going to purchase it to tell us how well it is. i am tired of seeing so many matx boards that have limited success


Jen
 
i will probably grab this mobo this coming week and maybe a opty 165 with it :p . wish me luck!
 
aiya said:
i will probably grab this mobo this coming week and maybe a opty 165 with it :p . wish me luck!
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If you have the extra cash, you might wanna consider a 170 with a 10x multi as insurance for a low HTT limit.
 
sadly, i dont have the extra cash :(. plus i cant decide between the 3800 x2 or the opty 165. i've seen one 3800 x2 on this forum that has the 0601 stepping date and that one did 9*300 @ 1.45-1.50v, which is the vcore i want to use without it being too hot in my Qpack. but opty is mostly guaranteed to run that same vcore with high htt. decisions! :confused:
 
I'd still take the Opty 165 for the extra cache and better potential.
 
i ordered this mobo and the opty 165 last night, should be here mid week hopefully.
 
dimm from 2.5v up to 3.2v

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chipset voltage from 1.2v up to 1.5v

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vcore voltage from 1.4v up to 1.75v, step by step of 0.025v (not too bad ;) )

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Nice, Spanish... Thank god for Altavista's Babelfish! Let's see...

Refrigeration of small NB of video which makes difficult the Overclocking
Relatively low levels of Overclocking, possible improvement with later update of BIOS
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Okay, first off, the NB isn't cooled, which means OCing is hurt pretty badly. Next, the BIOS has all the right options, but it still isn't enough. Seems all you need to do is cool the chipset sufficiently. Too bad the NB is in an awful position without a HSF.
 
M4rk said:
Nice, Spanish... Thank god for Altavista's Babelfish! Let's see...


Okay, first off, the NB isn't cooled, which means OCing is hurt pretty badly. Next, the BIOS has all the right options, but it still isn't enough. Seems all you need to do is cool the chipset sufficiently. Too bad the NB is in an awful position without a HSF.
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i think that is possible to sobstitute the epox cooler with a quiet zalman solution.... ZM-NB47J :D
 
Anyone also notice that the SB is in the way of the PCI-E slot? Not too good for cooling options if you have a video card. You could probably put a low profile chipset fan, but there doesn't seem to be any mounting holes around it... could use thermal adhesive then, but that's a pain to take off later on. bummer

Weird that they overlooked this cuz the SB gets pretty toasty.
 
pitx said:
Puntos Fuertes:
* Solución de Video Onboard extremadamente poderosa para reproducción de Video de todo tipo.
* Arquitectura extremadamente eficiente para absolutamente todo lo relacionado con Multimedia
* Posibilidad de actualizar a una placa de video mejor para convertir a esta pequeña plataforma en un rival de plataformas mucho mas costosas.
* Soporte de RAID5 con 4 conectores SATA + 2 IDE lo cual es ideal para casos donde se requiera mucho almacenamiento masivo.

Puntos Débiles:
* Refrigeración de NB de video pequeña lo cual dificulta el Overclocking
* Niveles de Overclocking relativamente bajos, posible mejora con actualización posterior de BIOS
* Mala performance de Solución integrada en lo que respecta a Juegos
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Pros:
+ great solution (video on board) for reproduce all videos
+ efficent architecture for multimedia solution
+ video performances and future upgradability
+ raid5 support, with 4 sata connector and 2 IDE

Cons:
- Refrigeration of small NB of video which makes difficult is Overclock the mainboard
- Relatively low levels of Overclocking, possible improvement with later update of BIOS
- Bad performance on the games with integrated graphics
 
pitx said:
Cons:
- Refrigeration of small NB of video which makes difficult is Overclock the mainboard
- Relatively low levels of Overclocking, possible improvement with later update of BIOS
- Bad performance on the games with integrated graphics
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That's exactly what I quoted. Read my post. It's not "refridgeration," it's "cooling." Duh. :rolleyes:
 
M4rk said:
That's exactly what I quoted. Read my post. It's not "refridgeration," it's "cooling." Duh. :rolleyes:
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if the cooling is LN2 or a cascade ia refrigeration :eek: :D :D
 
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