Epox 8RDA3+ Fan?

cjaddr-spcr · Post by **cjaddr-spcr** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:06 am

I'm in the process of building a quiet(er) pc. I have a seagate drive, AMD 2400+ and some memory. I need a case,motherboard,PS and CPU cooler.

I thought I had settled on the Epox 8RDA3+ because it seemed reasonably priced with a lot of features (firewre & serial ATA being ones that I really like). It's also undervoltable and is listed as fully supporting Nvidia's system utility (don't really now how useful this will be). I went to newegg to check it out and the pictures show a chipset fan. I have seen pictures of it at review sites and there was no chipset fan.

Which one is it? Does this motherboard have a fan or not? Does it matter? Should I be concerned if the motherboard has a fan on it? Seems like the fewer fans the better to me? Anybody own this motherboard? Is there a revision I should make sure I get.

Thanks a lot in advance for any replies.

Fan:
http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage.asp ... 198-06.JPG

No Fan:
http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image ... 82X2wuanBn

PorBleemo · Post by **PorBleemo** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:30 am

If the one at NewEgg has a fan it probably comes with one. However I would think that a tiny NB fan would make as much noise as a tiny GPU fan so I would try to get rid of it ASAP. The Zalman NBxx series are a good solution for this.

-Por

sthayashi · Post by **sthayashi** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:39 am

That's a tough question.... You should email or call Newegg and find out. Epox's website shows no fan, and another store, Axion Technologies, is showing it as having no fan.

trodas · Post by **trodas** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:34 am

IMHO it matter on what they godt and from where the pictures are made. After all, no big deal, just in case of fan is necessary to get a passive big Zalman block. Mine Epox 8RDA+ are passively cooled and working well with FSB 200Mhz (400):

However PorBleemo, my fan on my Sapphire Radeon9100 started making TERRIBLE noise about a week after i start used this card - but brother Abit mobo has running for more that year with tiny chipset fan, almost unaudible - witch means - it's a gamble - either you are lucky and the fan lun long and queit, or simply dies after few days...

Perhaps the "upside - down" installation of fan on GPU are the worsest one? Well, i got HP-80A Zamlan VHA heatpipe cooler and run it passively since then

AndrewC · Post by **AndrewC** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 1:37 pm

I have an Epox 8RDA3G which is the same but without SATA support. I just removed the fan from the northbridge and it has been doing fine for about a month now. The heatsink is good sized but you could just use a Zalman cooler if you wanted more security.