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EPoX 9NPA+SLI Mainboard Intro 1/5
Bluetooth 28 Mar 2005

EPoX EP-9NPA+SLI

A couple of weeks ago, we looked at EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra which offers excellent performance and stability in overclocking. Today, we take a look at its SLI equivalent, the EPoX 9NPA+SLI mainboard.

EPoX 9NPA+SLI mainboard is based on the NVIDIA NF4 SLI chipset supporting 2 x PCI-E graphics card for best gaming performance. This mainboard supports the Socket 939 Athlon 64FX processors. It supports 1GHz HTT FSB, Dual Channel DDR400, 8 Channel Audio, 10 USB ports, 2 x PCI-E x 8 (or 1 x PCI-E x 16), GbE LAN, 6 SATA II RAID (4 by NV chipset, 2 others by Siliconimage) and 1394. Embedded Firewall with Active Armour comes with the chipset and it can be enabled for a more secured computing environment.

There are also abundant overclocking features built onboard in the PowerBIOS. They include ram timing adjustments, voltage adjustments (vdimm up to 3.1v, Vcore). FSB up to 400MHz, Maxmemclk etc (see gallery for more).

The package contains quite a good array of tools which can be used to enhance your experienece with this board. Firstly, there is this green coloured duct which can be fixed at the rear of the mainboard to cool down the MOSFETs near the power connectors. This area has been proven to be one of the hottest areas that needs adequate cooling. There are 2 brackets available in the package. One is for 2xUSB 2.0 and the other is 2 x 1394 ports. IDE and SATA cables are also provided. In the PowerPack you will see a heat sensor, a EPoX badget, SLI bridge, SATA power connector, small heatsinks, backplate and a screwdriver.

 

 

Specifications

nForce4 SLi chipset, ATX size
1.0 GTs HT FSB / DDR 400 / PCI-E VGA / 8ch audio /
10 USB2.0 / PCI-Ex1 / GbE LAN / 6 SATA II RAID / 1394
 
 
Specification
   
  CPU Socket:
Support Socket-939 based AMD Athlon-64/ Athlon-64 FX 2.0GTs Hyper Transport processors with up to 4000+

System Memory:
Four 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets
Support single-sided or double-sided 2.5v DDR-333/400 DIMMs with dual channel architecture in 128/256/512Mb technologies
Support Asynchronous clocking mode between FSB and DIMM
Support up to 4 GB system memory

ChipsetˇG
nVidia nForce4 SLi AGPset

Expansion Slots:
Three PCI connectors compliant with PCI v2.2
One PCI Express (x1) connectors compliant with PCI Express 1.0a
Two PCI Express (x16) connectors compliant with PCI Express 1.0a to support SLi technology
One SLi riser control card connector

USB:
Ten USB connectors compliant with USB2.0 from embedded USB controller (4 connectors at rear panel).

P-ATA IDE:
Two IDE ports (up to 4 IDE devices) with UDMA-33, ATA-66/100/133 support from embedded IDE controller.

S-ATA RAID:
Four S-ATA II ports from nForce4 SLi with nV RAID and up to 3Gbps bandwidth, HDD Alert

More S-ATA:
Two S-ATA II ports from Silicon Image Sil3132. Support external multi port function.
Support Red SATA II connectors.

1394a:
Two 1394a ports with up to 400Mbps bandwidth from onboard VT6307 1394a controller

LAN:
1Gb Ethernet from onboard Cicada CIS8201 Gigabit Ethernet PHY.
Support nV Firewall 2.0 , Active Armor

Audio:
Selectable 2, 6 or 8-CH audio from onboard RealTek ALC850 ACˇ¦97 v2.3 compliant CODEC.
Support Aux-In, CD-In, S/PDIF-in and S/PDIF-out
Support Front panel audio for Mic-In and stereo Line-out only.
(Front panel Line-out electrically shared with rear panel Line-out)
Support Auto Jack Sensing for fool-proof audio device installation
Support SPDIF Coaxial output.
Support SPDIF Optical output

I/O:
Onboard Winbond W83627THF LPC I/O controller
Legacy peripheral interface for PS/2 keyboard & mouse, FDD, COM, IrDA (v1.0 compliant), ˇK
Support Hardware Monitoring function such as fan speed monitoring and CPU temperature sensing.
Support Smart FAN Control

BIOS:
4Mb Flash EEPROM with Award Plug & Play BIOS
Support ACPI S3 (Suspend To RAM) mode in ACPI compliant O/S
Support EZ Boot for fast bootable device selection
Support Magic Health for system hardware status report during system boot-up

Special Features:
Support KBPO (Keyboard Power ON) function
Support Wake-On-LAN by PME
Support USB resume in S3
Onboard Post-Port LED display
Support CPU Over Heat protect
Support CPU, Chassis and Power FAN speed control.
PowerBIOS for excellent over clocking features:
Support Asynchronous FSB/DIMM timing mode
Support BIOS adjustable CPU clock and voltage, DIMM frequency and voltage settings.
Power Good LED for PCI-E 16X, V_in , V_DIMM
Power on and Reset button
Support Thermo stick

Powerful utilities for Windows:
USDM (Unified System Diagnostic Manager) for system hardware monitoring
Magic Flash for BIOS update without requiring DOS flash utility and bootable diskette
Magic Screen for personal bootup screen design

Form Factor:
305mm x 245mm x 40mm, ATX Size

Accessories:
Userˇ¦s manual, IO shield, Power Pack CD for drivers, utilities and bundle software
Round IDE & FDD cables. S-ATA data and power cable, S-ATA II cables with bracket
PWM Fan duct, PWM heat sink, Thermo stick cable
 

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