EPoX MF570 SLI is EPoX's first AM2 board based on the nForce 570 SLI chipset. The mainboard is packed with features, the mainboard supports 6 SATA II RAID ports via the N570 SLI chipset and 2 more SATA II ports by Jmicron chipset. It supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and 5. The board also comes with Dual Gigabit Ehernet based on the Marvell 88e1116 GBE PHY. Dual channel DDR2-800 is supported as well. High Definition Audio is also spport by the Realtek ALC883 codec supporting 24bit PCM audio playback with a 7.1 configuration.

Although this board do not have the perks that auto overclocks boards and gpus through bios, the stability and performance by its down to earth settings are amazing. In fact, if you have seen our benchmarks, the results in some of them even exceeded a 590 SLI mainboard. That is probably why EPoX decided to launch a 570 SLI instead of a 590 SLI first.

The overclocking options are very complete with many settings that you might not even be using unless you have the time to trial and error each and every combination out there. With our super X2 4000+ CPU, we managed to get it POST right at 300 x 10 with our ram running at DDR2-600 at c5, vcore +0.15v of default. The best spot is around 295x10 and we went into Windows. Lowering down the multiplier to 9x or 8x does not seem to help much and we were only managed to do only 8x305MHz. Anything with higher HTT does not want to POST even with a low multiplier.

Installation is easy for this board and i prefer the VGA rentention clips to the ones on the ASUS. The Debug LED also serve a dual purpose, that is, showing the CPU temperature in real time after it boots up.

Overall, it is quite a good board with o/c features that most would want. As 570 SLI chipset is cheaper and performance wouldn't differ too much. The EPoX MF 570 SLI should be able to attract users' attention. If the board were to include 1394 and eSATA, that would have made it more perfect.

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