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Epox 4SDA+ SiS645 Socket 478 Motherboard
Epox 4SDA+ SiS645 Socket 478 Motherboard - PCSTATS
Epox has always had an adventurous side as a company. That trait was evident in their recent AMD boards which gained so much attention.
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External Mfg. Website: Epox Mar 01 2002   C. Sun  
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Overclocking and Benchmarks

In the screen shot above you can set the memory frequency to either 1:1 which runs the ram at 100 MHz fsb, 3:4 which runs the ram at 133 MHz or 3:5 which has the ram running at 166 MHz.

The CPU FSB can be adjusted 1 MHz at a time from 100-200 MHz and there are a whole bunch of voltages that can be chosen. CPU voltages range from 1.75-1.85V, DDR voltages go from 2.5-3.2V and AGP can be adjusted from 1.5-1.8V. The two that stand out are the memory and AGP. It's obvious that Epox is trying to catch those Pentium 4 overclockers and since the Northwood P4's don't have a hard time hitting those high FSB, memory voltage helps stabilize things.

As for AGP voltage, again it's for stability purposes. Increasing the AGP voltage to 1.8V also allowed us to overclock our GeForce3 Ti500 10 MHz higher (then we ever could before) on the core!

We were pretty sure the maximum our Pentium 4 2 GHz (Williamette) would clock was around 2.2 GHz, however we were very pleasantly surprised by how high we could get it on the EP-4DSA+!

We were able to run the CPU at 2.3 GHz with no stability problems whatsoever, and with just air cooling and a vCore 1.85V. It's amazing that this board allowed us to overclock 50% higher then the others! Great job Epox!

test system specs:

computer hardware:

processor: Intel 2.0GHz Pentium 4
Clock Speed: 2.00GHz
2.3 GHz (Overclocked)
Motherboards: Epox 4DSA+
VIA P4PA
ACorp 4D845A
Chipsets: SiS 645 (4DSA+)
VIA P4X266A (P4PA)
i845-D (4D845A)
Videocard:

MSI GeForce 3 Ti500 (MS-8850)

Sound Card: VIA AC'97 codec (onboard)
Network Card:

DLink DE-528CT

Memory:

256MB Corsair PC2400 CAS2 DDR

Hard Drive: Samsung SV6004H 5400RPM UDMA100 60GB
CDROM: Panasonic 48x CD-ROM CR-594-B
Floppy:

Panasonic 1.44MB Floppy Drive

Heatsink: AVC Sunflower
PowerSupply: Enermax 431Watt
Software Setup Windows 2000 Pro + SP2
SiS AGP 1.09
DetonatorXP 22.80
DirectX 8.1
Benchmarks SysMark 2001
Business Winstone 2001
Content Creation 2001
Winbench 99
SiSoft Sandra 2002 Pro
3DMark2001 SE
Quake III Arena

BAPCO Sysmark 2001 Source:MadOnion / BAPco

SYSmark2001 uses real world applications concurrently as an accurate way to test the system by following patterns that reflect the way real users work. SYSmark2001's workloads accurately represent today's updated business usage model. The benchmark runs at a realistic execution speed, with think times between application interactions, in order to emulate a desktop user's interaction with the operating system and applications.

Higher numbers denote better performance.

BapCo SysMark 2001 Benchmark Results
Motherboards Sysmarks Ranking
1. Internet Content Creation - 4SDA+100 MHz 213
2 Internet Content Creation - 4SDA+ 115 MHz 231
3. Internet Content Creation - P4PA 100 MHz 213
4. Internet Content Creation - 4D845A 100 MHz 208
1 Office Productivity - 4SDA+ 100 MHz 149
2. Office Productivity - 4SDA+115 MHz 177
3. Office Productivity - P4PA 100 MHz 152
4. Office Productivity - 4D845A 100 MHz 131

The performance of the EP-4SDA+ is on par with the other Pentium 4 DDR boards which is pretty good. Overclocking seems to boost performance quite a bit, it's probably due to the 300 MHz CPU gain.

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Contents of Article: Epox 4SDA+
 Pg 1.  Epox 4SDA+ SiS645 Socket 478 Motherboard
 Pg 2.  IDE RAID, SiS 645 Chipset
 Pg 3.  The EPox's BIOS Tweaks well
 Pg 4.  — Overclocking and Benchmarks
 Pg 5.  Winstone 2001, WinBench, SiSoft Sandra
 Pg 6.  Gaming Benchmarks and Conclusions

 
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