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Monday, April 30, 2007
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The AD580 XR motherboard has all of the features you would expect from a Crossfire compatible motherboard and if you're in the market for an ATI graphics card would make an excellent choice. The board has 6 SATA ports, and many expansion slots, making it an excellent choice for the tweaker that wants to expand.
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Friday, March 2, 2007
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The highest offering from nVidia for AMD Athlon K8 is the nForce 590SLI boasting dual full-speed PCI Express x16 slots, advanced RAID features and overclocking that manages to score really high for the AMD platform. nVidia did announce the upcoming nForce 680a chipset and we are interested to see what that will bring but we have heard anything about motherboards based on this chipset as yet. Today we are looking at the nForce 590SLI chipset in a motherboard from EPoX, one of the biggest AMD supporters since the K7 era. EPoX back in the day made some of the best overclocking motherboards that money could buy but recently fell off the horse a little recently but is it time for them to make a comeback with their fancy Optimus EP-AF590 SLI2 Motherboard?
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Friday, February 9, 2007
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The Epox EP-AF550G Pro supports all Socket AM2 AMD Athlon64/X2/FX and Sempron processors, and up to 16GB of DDR2-800 memory. The board obviously includes an integrated DirectX 9.0C compatible Geforce 6-series videocard. The EP-AF550G Pro hits all the standard bullet points like Gigabit networking, high definition 5.1 channel audio, Serial ATA II with RAID options, nearly a dozen USB 2.0 slots, and one lowly IDE channel. The nVIDIA nForce 430 Southbridge supports RAID modes 0, 1, 0+1 and 5. Expansion comes care of the PCI Express x16 slot for videocards, a PCI Express x1 slot for higher bandwidth devices and four 32 bit PCI slots. All this for a retail price of just $105 CDN ($90 US, £45 GBP). The Epox EP-AF550G Pro a very enticing board for those looking to build an inexpensive PC, and with onboard graphics you can differ buying standalone videocard until you really need one.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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The Epox EP-5P945 Pro motherboard PCSTATS tested is a value-oriented alternative for those of you looking to build a machine on a budget. Built on the passively cooled Intel 945P Express and Intel ICH7 chipsets, the EP-5P945 Pro has a basic feature set and a nice collection of expansion options. It's a good no-frills kind of motherboard, and especially well suited for the upcoming Celeron processor which is based on the Core 2 Duo architecture.
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
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EPoX has done a good job with the 570 Ultra chipset. It has many of the features of last year's nForce 4 Ultra chipset. The only real glaring omissions from the board is the lack of a second PCI Express x16 slot, but the ordinary user won't need two video cards. Other than that the EPoX board features are second to none in the mainstream chipset.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2006
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Its also been some time since we have seen a motherboard in our labs from EPoX. This company really made a name for itself when Socket A was the big thing with boards that packed features and overclocking into a affordable package, proving you don't have to spend the earth in order to get a good board. Today from EPoX we have our first board in quite some time. Designated the MF570 SLI, it makes use of nVidia?s nForce 570 SLI chipset, how does it stack up? Come find out
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Monday, October 2, 2006
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This is an AMD socket AM2 motherboard, supporting all current 940-pin AMD Sempron, Athlon64 X2 and FX processors of that formfactor. It's four 240-pin DDR2 memory slots will accommodate a hardware upgrade up to 16GB of double-sided DDR2-800 memory in a dual channel configuration. Storage options are more varied than the new Core 2 Duo motherboards offer; the Epox EP-MF570 SLI has two IDE channels, one via the nVidia nForce 570 SLI chipset and one via a JMicron 3GB/s Serial ATA II/IDE controller. There are a total of eight Serial ATA II ports on the Epox EP-MF570 SLI, six of which support RAID modes 0, 1, 0+1 and 5 through the nVIDIA nForce 570 SLI chipset. All in all the Epox MF570 SLI makes a great computer upgrade, don't you think?
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Saturday, August 5, 2006
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Motherboards based on the new nForce 500 series chipsets are starting to make their way to retailer shelves. EPoX shows us what their MF570SLI is capable of. The MF570SLI is a well featured and solid motherboard. If you are looking for a home for your new AMD AM2 CPU, this might be the place
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
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EPoX has released a motherboard that just may satisfy an enthusiast's thirst for performance with great overclocking capabilities and if you're resourceful, you could unlock a gaming beast with an SLI multi-GPU setup, but is the EP-9U1697 GLI worth your time of day? Find out here...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005
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I have to say that this outing with EPoX was nice. The board really sets itself apart from EPoX's typical green PCB styling and offers those concerned with aesthetics an attractive product. The performance is all EPoX though, and their reputation for great reputation hasn't failed them in this product. While we weren't able to push the chipset (it officially supports a 1066 FSB), the stability this board was able to offer over previous boards I've used from MSI and Albatron using the same processor was excellent and allowed a much higher CPU frequency to be achieved...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
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It is clear that this board fits into a niche market, and we're not quite sure how big that market is at this moment. By transporting NVIDIA's increasingly popular SLI technology over to socket 754, Epox has done something that no other manufacturer has managed thus far. The board is well-implemented and generally stable, despite the consistent failures in our stress test at the 21 hour mark...
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Thursday, November 10, 2005
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If you were one of the early adopters of an AMD Athlon64 processor in the Socket 754 formfactor, congratulations! The bevy of new Socket 754 motherboards being released will extend the investment you made in that processor all those months ago. The Epox 8NPA SLI supports all Socket 754 Athlon64 or Sempron processors, comes equipped with two DIMM slots and supports a maximum of 2GB of PC3200 DDR memory. Other onboard goodies, some new to Socket 754 are nVIDIA's Serial ATA II RAID controller, Gigabit LAN, and 5.1 channel audio. My personal favorite is the Port 80 diagnostics card...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
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Boards like the Epox 5NVA+ SLI which support pretty much every Socket 775 processor on the market today, from 533/800/1066 MHz FSB Pentium 4/D/Extreme Edition and Celeron D processors. Even an impressive 8GB of DDR2 system memory! The board is a bit light with onboard devices, only sporting Gigabit LAN, IEEE 1394a and 7.1 audio however its two open PCI Express x1 (three if you count the second PCI E x16 slot when running a single videocard) and two PCI slots should give users ample room for expansion...
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Friday, August 26, 2005
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The Epox 9NPA+ SLI supports any current and future socket 939 AMD Athlon64 processor and is based on the Nvidia nForce4 SLI chipset with support for up to 4GB of PC3200 DDR memory. The Epox EP-9NPA+SLI motherboard adds on to this capability with an on board PCI Express-based Silicon Image SiI3132 Serial ATA II controller. The SIS SiI3132 supports two additional Serial ATA II channels, and thanks to port multiplier capabilities it can accommodate up to 30 SATA HDDs (fifteen on each port) with an appropriate port-multiplier device...
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Monday, June 27, 2005
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EPoX, with its EP-9NPA+ SLI, has taken onboard the chipset's attributes and added in discrete SATA (PCI-Express, which is nice) and FireWire400. What's also appealing is the voltage manipulation available in BIOS. Enthusiasts will be happy to see 3v+ DDR and up to 1.85v available for the CPU. The chipset, BIOS, and features implementation combine to make the 9NPA+ SLI a reasonably attractive proposition. Priced at around £105, the 9NPA+ SLI matches other manufacturers' similarly priced efforts in both features and performance, making it worthy of consideration if you want a fast, stable board that should overclock to 300MHz HTT and beyond.
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