Over the last couple of years, Epox has certainly established itself as a brand for the overclocking community. We take a look at their latest motherboard- the 4PDA5+ which sports an unusual combination of the 865PE Northbridge coupled with the older ICH4 Southbridge. While this would certainly help in cutting costs, lets find out if anything else is effected.
CPU:
Supports Socket 478 for Intel® Pentium 4 processor Supports up 3.6GHz/800MHz and higher speed
Supports Dual Channel (128 bit wide) Memory Interface Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 2.5V DDR SDRAM. Supports up to 4GB memory size
Audio:
8 channel output using Realtek ALC850 S/PDIF Interface
IDE/SCSI:
Dual Ultra DMA 66/100 IDE controllers integrated in ICH4- up to four Ultra ATA drives 4 Serial-ATA ports by Sil3114 for ATA-150 drives supports RAID 0,1,10 and 5
I/O Connectors:
2 x PS/2, 1 x Serial, 1 x Parallel, 1 x Media, 2 x SPDIF, 4+2 x USB, 1 x RJ-45
Expansion Slots:
1 x AGP (3.0) , 5 x PCI (2.3)
Additional Features:
Gigabit LAN by Marvell 88E8001 MagicScreen, MagicHealth, MagicFlash PowerBIOS, EZ Boot, PostPort Diagnostic LED
