EPoX 4GEA+ Motherboard

Company: EPoX
Product: EP-4GEA+ Motherboard
Street Price: ~$135 USD
Date Reviewed: March 5, 2003
Reviewed By: Joey C. aka Chong345
Overall Rating: (9.5/10)

Introduction:

With memory speeds getting faster everyday, motherboard manufacturers are required to meet the demands of the current speed. Since PC2700 is the current JEDEC standard, Intel released the 845 GE and PE chipsets, which support fully DDR 333 and hyper threading versus the older 845 chipsets. Today we are looking at the EPoX 4GEA+ based on the Intel 845 GE chipset. EPoX has proven that they make some of the best overclocking motherboards in terms of price, stability, performance, and of course, overclocking. Most of the latest EPoX motherboards have given the user the ability to overclock much higher than other leading motherboard manufacturers because they provide much higher voltages options and more controls over the system in the BIOS. Of course when using these higher voltages you should always exercise extreme caution and understand the associated risks.

Specifications:

CPU
· Supports Intel Pentium 4 Socket 478 processors with 400/533 MHz Front Side Bus

Chipset
· Intel 845GE / ICH4

Memory
· Three 184-pin DIMM sockets (unbuffered Non-ECC DIMM)
· Supports 3 DIMM DDR 200/266 (Max. 2GB)

Expansion Slots
· AGP 1, 4x (1.5v) or A.D.D.
· PCI 5, 32-bit
· MR 1, CNR

Ports
· PS/2 1 mouse, 1 keyboard.
· Serial 2
· Parallel 1
· USB 4 onboard, 2 optional. USB 2.0
· Network 1 x Realtek RTL8100B(L) Fast Ethernet
· Floppy 2 drives max.
· IDE 2 x E/IDE Ultra DMA/100, 4 drives max.
· RAID IDE 2 x Highpoint HPT372 UDMA/ATA 133 RAID, 4 drives max.

Controllers
· Sound Realtek ALC650 6-channel full-duplex integrated sound
· Video Intel® 845G 256-bit Extreme Graphics
· Option Silicon Image Sil3112a SerialATA

Special Features
· Hardware Monitoring Function provided by Winbond
· Keyboard Power On (KBPO)
· Suspend To RAM (STR)
· CPU clock settings are adjustable by BIOS
· CPU V-core settings are adjustable by BIOS
· AGP voltage settings are adjustable by BIOS
· Memory voltage settings are adjustable by switch
· EZ Boot
· Magic Health
· Asynchronous transfer between the PCI and FSB
· Wake On Lan (WOL)
· Unified System Diagnostic Manager (USDM)
· IEEE1394 Firewire Interface

*Specifications Courtesy of EPoX Corp.