Vr-Zone Hardware Reviews

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Here's two reviews that were sent in by the guy's @ Vr-Zone: the first review is for EPoX's 8RGA+ nForce2 IGP mainboard and the second review is for Gainward's GeForce 4 PowerPack! Ultra/750-8X XP VIVO Golden Sample graphics card.

EPoX 8RGA+ nForce2 IGP: EPoX 8RGA+ board is follow up to the very popular 8RDA+ where most overclockers are getting now. This board is based on the nForce2 IGP chipset with decent set of board features such as LAN, 6 Channel Audio, Firewire and possess the same powerful set of overclocking options in the BIOS like the 8RDA+. EPoX has added an additional BIOS option to allow VDD tweaking up to 2.0V which is definitely most welcomed by many overclockers. With all these BIOS settings, i am able to increase the FSB to 220Mhz Dual Channel Mode at 2-2-2-5 memory timings and further more to 225Mhz at Single Channel Mode.

Gainward GeForce 4 PowerPack! Ultra/750-8X X: When we turn the card around you can see the ramsinks covering the 3.3ns BGA (Ball Grid Array) memory chips, the newest chips from Samsung. It is nice to see Gainward living up to expectations and using the best memory currently available, showing you that they don't cut corners on the production line.