Epox schijnt het de laatste tijd erg druk te hebben met het uitdelen van moederborden aan reviewers. Ook bij Planet Savage kunnen we vandaag een review vinden van een stukje hardware van Epox. In dit geval gaat het om de 8K7A, Epox' implementatie van de AMD 760 chipset.
De 8K7A begint één van de populairdere 760 moederborden te worden. Enkele belangrijke redenen hiervoor zijn volgens de reviewer de aanwezigheid van multiplier dipswitches, de mogelijkheid om je CPU op hogere voltages dan 1,85V te laten draaien en de no-nonsense layout met 6 PCI sloten. De testresultaten zien er goed uit, maar worden helaas niet vergeleken met die van andere moederborden. De reviewer komt tot een positieve slotsom, met als enige echte nadeel de wat summiere handleiding:
The Epox 8K7A is one DDR Socket A solution that nobody should miss. It offers such great overclocking features and has a lot of power packed inside thanks to the many voltages available. Memory tweaking is so much fun thanks to the Advanced Chipset Features section of the 8K7A's bios. It allows all the settings to be manually set. The System Performance Setting is also good but it requires better part to at least live up to the fast setting. The layout of the board is simply nice and very spacious. The only drawback is the placement of the jumpers for voltages which could be a bit hard to reach. DDR boards are characterized by their being big in size but the Epox 8K7A would fit easily even in smaller cases.
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In summary, the Epox 8K7A is definitely an option and with the few available AMD 760 DDR boards out, the Epox 8K7A could prove to be a primary option thanks to the many tweaks and features the the Epox engineers have put in the board. Epox boards are also known to be priced a bit lower than the other more known boards but it has the capability to stand up to the competition. If I had the money and wanted a DDR board, I would definitely look into Epox.
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