SiS648 Based Mainboard from EPoX

by Anton Shilov
08/31/2002 | 07:42 PM

Although it is quite strange, but loads of mainboard makers announced their SiS648 powered products at the end of this week. One of them is EPoX who unveiled their EP-4SDA5+ with a very rich list of different features, allowing this newcomer to compete with advanced products based on far more expensive Intel 850E and Intel 845E core-logic sets.

Here are the specifications the EP-4SDA5+ has to offer:

• Supports Socket 478 Pentium 4 processors with 400/533MHz FSB;
• SiS648 + SiS963 core-logic;
• 3 DIMM slots for up to 3GB of PC1600 or PC2100 DDR SDRAM. 2 DIMM slots can also function with up to 2GB of PC2700 or DDR400 DDR SDRAM;
• 6 PCI, 1 AGP 8x;
• Integrated 2-channel ATA-133 controller;
• ATA-133 RAID controller from HighPoint
• 6 USB 2.0 ports;
• Integrated IEEE1394 controller;
• AC’97 6-channel audio solution;
• 10/100Mbit Fast Ethernet controller Realtek RTL8201BL;
• ATX Form Factor;
• POST 7-segment LED display;
• Allows overclockers to adjust FSB speed with 1MHz step as well as Vcore, Vmem and Vagp tuning.