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EPoX 5EPA+ i915P Socket 775 Mainboard (1)
Bluetooth 2 Dec 2004

5EPA+

EPoX 5EPA+ is EPoX's offering for the Pentium Socket 775 processor based on the Intel® i915P chipset. It is similar to the 5EGA+ we reviewed earlier except that this board does not come with integrated graphics. With this board you do need of the expensive DDR2 memory as it uses conventional DDR400. It comes with a x16 PCI-E slot to pair it up with PCI-E graphics card.

The board comes with Four 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets and it support single-sided or double-sided 2.5v DDR-333/400 DIMMs with dual channel architecture in 256Mb/512Mb/1Gb technologies. It supports up to 4 GB system memory.

The board comes with Four PCI connectors compliant with PCI v2.3, Two PCI Express x1 connectors, compliant with PCI Express 1.0a, One PCI Express x16 connectors compliant with PCI Express 1.0a. Most of the boards do not come with more than 1 IDE slot. 5EPA+ did not forget those who needs IDE RAID as it supports two additional ATA-133 IDE ports with RAID 0, 1, 0+1 support from onboard ITE 8212F RAID controller. It also has Four S-ATA ports with up to 150MBps bandwidth from ICH6R with RAID 0,1 support, Hot-Plug and AHCI mode. On top of that the board supports Eight USB connectors compliant with USB2.0 from embedded USB controller (4 connectors at rear panel). As for LAN there is the 1Gb Ethernet from onboard PCI Marvell 88E8001 controller with Auto MDI/MDIX and Virtual Cable Net-Diagnostic support. 8 ch audio is support with the onboard Realtek ALC850 AC'97 v2.3 compliant CODEC with Auto Jack Sensing for fool-proof audio device installation.
 

The PowerBIOS provides excellent over clocking features and they include support of asynchronous FSB/DIMM timing mode and 1MHz fine tuning etc. We will take a look at the details in Gallery pg 3,4.

Specs

Specification
   
  CPU Socket:
Support Intel® Pentium 4®5xx series processors up to 4.0+GHz in LGA775 socket with 533/800 MHz front-side system bus
Support Intel® Celeron D®3xx series processors up to 3.2+GHz in LGA775 socket with 533 MHz front-side system bus
Support Intel 04B or 04A Platform Compatibility Guide

Chipset:
Intel® i915P chipset (i915P + ICH6R)

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 256Mb/512Mb/1Gb technologies
Support up to 4 GB system memory

Expansion Slots:
Four PCI connectors compliant with PCI v2.3
Two PCI Express x1 connectors compliant with PCI Express 1.0a
One PCI Express x16 connectors compliant with PCI Express 1.0a

IDE:
One IDE interface (up to 2 IDE devices) with UDMA-33, ATA-66/100 support from embedded IDE controller

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

S-ATA:
Four S-ATA ports with up to 150MBps bandwidth from ICH6R with RAID 0,1 support, Hot-Plug and AHCI mode

IDE RAID:
Two additional ATA-133 IDE ports with RAID 0, 1, 0+1 support from onboard ITE 8212F RAID controller

LAN:
1Gb Ethernet from onboard PCI Marvell 88E8001 controller with Auto MDI/MDIX and Virtual Cable Net-Diagnostic support

Audio:
Selectable 2, 6 or 8-CH audio from onboard Realtek ALC850 AC'97 v2.3 compliant CODEC with 18-bit ADC and 16-bit DAC resolution
Support Aux-In, CD-In, S/PDIF-in and S/PDIF-out
Optical & Coaxial S/PDIF-out available on rear panel
Rear panel audio jacks configuration;
For 2-channel mode; stereo Line-out (Lime), stereo Line-In (Light blue) and Mic-In (Pink)
For 6-channel mode; Front stereo-out (Lime), Rear stereo-out (Light blue), Center and Sub-woofer (Pink)
For 8-channel mode; stereo Line-In (Light blue), Mic-In (Pink), Front stereo-out (Lime), Rear stereo-out (Black), Center and Sub-woofer (Orange) and Side stereo-out (Gray)
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

I/O:
Onboard Winbond W83627THF(E) LPC bus I/O controller
Legacy peripheral interface for PS/2 keyboard & mouse, FDD, Parallel, Two Serial, Game and IrDA (v1.0 compliant), ¡K
Support Hardware Monitoring for fan speed monitoring, CPU/System temperature and ThermoStick temperature.
Intelligent fan speed control for CPU-fan (PWM) and Chassis-fan (DC) for quiet operation

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 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 & Core voltage, FSB clock, DIMM frequency and voltage settings

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

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

Accessories:
User's manual, IO shield
1 IDE round cables & 1 FDD cables; 2 S-ATA data and power cables
Powerpack bundle
CD for drivers, utilities and bundle software

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