One more mainboard manufacturer couldn’t wait any longer for the Intel 845E chipset announcement and launched a new mainboard based on it (the first one was Acorp, as I mentioned in this news story). I am talking about EPoX.

The newcomer is called EP-4BEA+ and its specifications are similar to those of the solution built on i845. The board is designed in ATX form-factor, supports Socket478 Pentium 4 processors, features 3 DIMM slots for up to 2GB PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAM, 6 PCI, an AGP 4x and 1 CNR slot. The solution supports ATA/100, boasts 6 USB 2.0 ports (2 of them are optional) due to ICH4, is equipped with an integrated ATA/133 RAID controller from HighPoint, 6-channel sound (SPDIF). As for overclocking friendly functions, their set is pretty common for EPoX products: Vcore and Vagp adjustment, FSB frequency setting via BIOS Setup, Vdimm adjustment (via jumpers), two-digit LED display showing error codes during POST.