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Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra Socket 939 Motherboard Review
Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra Socket 939 Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
The EP-9NPA+ Ultra offers users a very flexible nForce 4/PCI Express platform, and has some useful integrated peripherals.
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External Mfg. Website: Epox Mar 10 2005   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: UT2004, Doom 3

Unreal Tournament 2004

Source: Epic

Unreal Tournament 2004 is the sequel to the highly popular UT2003 and uses the very latest Unreal Engine technology. Unreal Tournament 2004 employs the use of Vertex and Pixel Shaders and it's recommended that you use a DirectX 9 videocard if you plan to play competitively.

UT2004
dm-rankin FPS Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 109.64
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 113.86
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 121.22
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 126.86
Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 (K8T890 200/400) 127.64
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 120.91
Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 117.26
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 124.07
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 129.66
Epox EP-9NPA+ (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 116.09
as-convoy FPS Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 70.34
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 73.1
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 73.45
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 85.57
Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 (K8T890 200/400) 85.89
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 85.33
Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 75.56
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 79.43
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 87.22
Epox EP-9NPA+ (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 75.24
ctf-bridgeoffate FPS Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 150.44
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 156.65
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 158.15
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 176.08
Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 (K8T890 200/400) 178.22
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 175.29
Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 161.05
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 172.21
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 181.18
Epox EP-9NPA+ (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 161.38

The Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra performs quite slowly in UT2004, we also reran this benchmark several times.

Doom 3

Source: id Software

Doom 3 is the most advanced game to date. it takes advantage of the latest videocard technology and pushes the processing power of the CPU to its absolute limit. At its highest setting, Ultra quality, texture sizes pass the 500MB mark which means even tomorrow's videocards will have a hard time running everything. The frame rates in the game itself are locked at 60 fps so anything above that point is wasted. Each test is run three times with the third run being recorded.

Doom3
LQ 640x480: Points Ranking
ASRock K8 Combo-Z/ASR (Ali M1689 200/400) 102.7
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 (K8T800 Pro 200/400) 108.2
Epox 9NDA3+ (NF3 Ultra 200/400) 107.4
Albatron K8X890 Pro II (K8T890 200/400) 115
Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 (K8T890 200/400) 116.1
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 112.8
Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 110.1
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI (NF4 SLI 200/400) 117.5
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 114
Epox EP-9NPA+ (NF4 Ultra 200/400) 112.1

In Doom 3, the Epox motherboard makes a good showing and is only slightly slower than the fastest motherboard of the group.

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Contents of Article: Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra
 Pg 1.  Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra Socket 939 Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  Just the Basic Features
 Pg 3.  Overclocking and the Epox BIOS
 Pg 4.  Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra BIOS
 Pg 5.  Benchmarks: SYSmark 2004
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Winbench 99
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra 2004, Super Pi
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: PCMark04, 3DMark2001
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: 3DMark05, AquaMark3
 Pg 10.  Benchmarks: Comanche 4, X2: The Threat, UT2003
 Pg 11.  — Benchmarks: UT2004, Doom 3
 Pg 12.  A good board on a budget

 
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