I've been a big fan of Epox motherboards for a long time now, and when I heard that they were producing a SiS 648 based motherboard, I was very interested to see how it would really perform. The SiS 648 chipset is generally know as a good performer in most situations, sometimes even rivalling Intel's DDR chipsets. Unfortunately, most of the SiS boards we have tested have proven to be rather poor overclockers.

If any manufacturer can make a good overclocking SiS 648 based motherboard, it's Epox. Right?

Realistically speaking, Epox are not bewildered by the mention of "overclocking" - the actual number of consumers who partake in this sport are small. The real market motherboard makers need to supply are consumers like you and me - people who just need a board with a good feature set, and reliable performance. In this regard the 4SDA5+ should turn a few heads with the sheer variety of on board features.

In addition to the old standard IDE RAID we find 5.1 audio (software codec), 10/100 NIC, IEEE 1394, USB 2.0, three DIMM slots which support up to 3GB of PC1600/2100/2700/3200* (* - unofficial PC3200 support), 8x AGP and six PCI slots!