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Old 28th November, 2002, 05:32 AM
GreenBeret GreenBeret is offline
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Thumbs up First impressions with Epox 4PEA

Just got mine an hour ago. Here are my first impressions:

- Green PCB - ewwww
- rev 1.0
- 12V ATX - the previous one, Epox 4G4A, although was a very fast board, didn't have this so it had quite bad voltages.
- 4 phase power
- BIOS and OCing:
Vcore from -0.1 up to + 0.35
Vmem up to 3.2
Vagp up to 2.2 (this is stupid !)
AGP/PCI lock, selectable from 50 to 80MHz AGP.
3:4 divider for 400Mhz FSB CPU and 4:5 for 533MHz CPU.
Usual mem timings.

- Real voltages:

Vcore (stock): 1.488 idle, steady, doesn't move. 1.456 underload, steady, rarely moves. I like that ! The core voltage on the 4G4A and the Asus boards are all over the place.
Vmem (2.6V): 2.656 V real ! Doesn't move at idle. Full load rarely moves. goes down to 2.64 sometimes.
Vagp: 1.52 most of the time, sometimes goes down to 1.504.
+/-5V and +/-12V: stays slightly higher than 5 or 12 at both idle and full load. Almost don't change.

- Performance: no idea I'm on a thrashed OS that has been on 4 Intel boards and about 6 or 7 graphic cards (both NVIDIA and ATI ).

- OC result with 2.4B..........coming soon
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