Review - EPoX 4G4A+ Intel 845G Motherboard
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Review by Edward Chang, call sign: Big_E
July 26, 2002
System Setup:
Test Systems:
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 1.6A (Provided by Directron) for Intel motherboards
Default clock: 1600 MHz (16x100) memory: DDR266 (2.5v)
Stable Overclock1: 2128 MHz (16x133, 1.65v) memory: DDR266/333 (2.5v)
Stable Overclock2: 2400 MHz (16x150, 1.85v) memory: DDR375 (2.9v)
EPoX 4G4A+ (Intel 845G) for Intel Test System (Provided by EPoX)
EPoX 4BEAV (Intel 845D) for Intel Test System (Provided by EPoX)
KingMax
512 MB PC2700 DDR RAM
128MB ATi Radeon 8500 (Provided by EPoX Tech Support)
Western
Digital 80GB 7200 RPM UDMA 100
Liteon 40X CDROM (Provided by Directron)
Windows XP
Drivers
ATi Radeon 6.13.6107 Catalyst
DirectX 8.1 Final
Intel Application Accelerator (For Intel)
Benchmarks
MadOnion 3DMark2001 Second Edition
MadOnion 3DMark2000 v1.1
Quake 3 Arena Quaver Demo
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Unreal Tournament v4.36 UTBench Demo
DroneZMark
VulpineGL Mark
MadOnion PCMark2002
SiSoft Sandra 2002 Standard
Content Creation Winstone 2002
Overclocking:
This board features all the overclocking tweaks an enthusiast will need to take his CPU to the brink! Using an Intel P4 Northwood 1.6A, we were able to attain a 150 MHz FSB or 2.4 GHz CPU speed. At 150 MHz FSB, the KingMax PC2700 memory was running at 375 MHz DDR. We were able to boot briefly at 2.56 GHz, or DDR400, before the system would crash. Thus, our overclock was limited by the memory.
On with the benchmarks!
