Epox releases its AM2 board

EPOX TODAY announced its AM2 board, the EPoX EP-MF570 SLI, that features Nvidia's new Nforce 570 SLI chipset. We don't need to tell you that the point of the socket AM2 is to support DDR 2 memory and that is about it but all the vendors have to follow the industry currents.

The CPU, board and chipset supports DDR 2 800 or faster memory and can accommodate up to sixteen GB of it, at least on paper. Epox decided to offer a board with two PCIe 16X slots both supports 8X speeds when in SLI.

The board features eight SATA II connectors supporting HCQ and RAID 0,1, 0+1 and 5. Six connectors are supported by Nforce 570 SLI chipset while the other two gets controlled by JMB363 controller and supports eSATA as well. Nforce 570 supports only one IDE channel but Epox supports two via Jmicron integrated circle.

The board features 7.1 high definition audio powered by Realtek ALC883 and offers dual Marvell gigabit LAN. The board supports Epox Ghost Bios feature.

The board also supports up to 450MHz CPU bus overclocking and comes with bios-tweaking softwareblems.IIt should be available shortly and here is how it looks.

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