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We have reviewed EPoX's own MF570 SLI mainboard here. So, what does MF590 SLI based on NV 590SLI chipset got to offer?

EPoX EP-MF590 SLI2 AM2 mainboard

This new board is the top of the range board. This board is based on NV 590SLI chipset and supports Dual PCIe 16x slots for SLI. There are Six S-ATA II ports with up to 300MB/s from chipset with RAID 0,1,0+1,5 and Hot-Plug support by NVIDIA Mediashield, 10 USB ports, Dual GbE, 1394 and 2 more SATA II by Jmicron 363 chipset.

Detail Specs

CPU Socket:
Support Socket-AM2(940 pin) based AMD Athlon-AM2 2GTs 16X16 Hyper Transport processors
Support VMM(Virtualization-Machine-Monitoring)

Chipset:
nVidia nF SPP 190 + MCP590 SLI (C51XE+MCP55XE)

System Memory:
Four 240-pin unbuffered non-ECC DDR II SDRAM DIMM sockets
Support single-sided or double-sided 1.8v DDR II-533/667/800 DIMMs with dual channel architecture in 256/512Mb/1Gb technologies
Support up to 16 GB system memory
Support Asynchronous clocking mode between FSB and DIMM

Expansion Slots:
Two PCI-Express (x1) connectors
Two PCI Express (x16) connectors compliant with PCI Express 1.0a to support SLi technology
Two PCI connectors compliant with PCI v2.3
One Express Card connector compliant with PCI Express 1.0a

IDE:
One IDE interface (up to 2 IDE devices) with UDMA-33, ATA-100/133 support from embedded IDE controller

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

S-ATA RAID:
Six S-ATA II ports with up to 300MB/s from chipset with RAID 0,1,0+1,5 and Hot-Plug support by NVIDIA Mediashield

More S-ATA:
Two S-ATA II ports and One P-ATA port from JMicron’s JMB363 PCI Express to 2S1P controller and e-SATA support.
(Optional)

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

Dual Gigabit LAN:
Two Gigabit Ethernet from onboard Marvell 88E1116 Gigabit Ethernet PHY.
(Co-Layout with88E3016)

Audio:
Selectable 2, 6 or 8-CH audio Realtek ALC883 AC’97 compliant CODEC
Support Aux-In, CD-In, S/PDIF-in and S/PDIF-out
Optical & Coaxial S/PDIF-out available on rear panel
Support Jack detection for fool-proof audio device installation
(Colayout with ALC880/861)

I/O:
Onboard EPoX EP-1308 LPC I/O controller
Legacy peripheral interface for PS/2 keyboard & mouse, FDD, COM, IrDA (v1.0 compliant), …
Support Hardware Monitoring function such as fan speed monitoring and CPU temperature sensing.
Intelligent fan speed control for CPU-fan (DC) and Chassis-fan for quiet operation
Support BIOS recovery(Optional)

BIOS:
4Mb Flash EEPROM with Award Plug&Play BIOS
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 Thunder Guard : Post-Port ,LEDION display
Onboard EZ-Button for convenient power-on
Support Thermal Stick
Support Asynchronous clocking mode between FSB and PCI/PCI-E

PowerBIOS for excellent overclocking features:
Programmable FSB and PCI Clock output frequency with 1MHz fine tuning
Support BIOS adjustable CPU multiplier, FSB clock, PCI-E x16 clock, DIMM frequency
Support BIOS adjustable voltage for CPU Core, Chipset, VTT and DIMM