EPoX EP-AF550G Pro/G (NVIDIA 6100-430) mainboard review intro 1/5
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Introduction

Last week, we reviewed the ECS single chipset 6100-405 mainboard. Today, we take a look at EPoX EP-AF550G Pro/G. This mainboard uses an enhanced version of the chipset known as 6100-430. (Comparison chart of the various NV integrtated chipsets)

In fact, both chipsets are quite similar in specifications The 6100-430 has 4 SATA II ports with  RAID 5 support, sDVO video encoder and a full PCIe x16 slot (6100-405 is PCIe x8). This mainboard supports four 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM sockets 1.8v DDR2-533/667/800 DIMMs with dual channel architecture. It can support up to 16 GB system memory
Support Asynchronous clocking mode between FSB and DIMM.

As mentioned before, the nVidia nF6100-430 Chipset comes with Integrated Programmable Shader model 3.0 DirectX 9 graphics processor , Support Microsoft DirectX 9.0c , Shader Model 3.0 Graphics Processing Unit , 300 MHz RAMDAC for display resolutions up to and including 1920 x 1440 at 75 Hz

In terms of expansoin, it supports four PCI connectors compliant with PCI v2.3, one PCI Express (x1) connectors compliant with PCI Express 1.0a, one PCI Express (x16) connector compliant with PCI Express 1.0a, 10 USB, 1 IDE channel, 4 SATAII RAID and 1 GbE connector. There is a 6 ch HDA audio.

As usual, the EPoX mainboard comes with the EZ BOOT, Magic Health, Support KBPO (Keyboard Power ON) function, Wake-On-LAN by PME, Post-Port LED display, Ghost BIOS for BIOS recovery and CPU Over Heat protect

The BIOS comes with many options for overclocking. For those who likes to flash BIOS, there is Thunder Flash BIOS update utility for Ghost BIOS function. Thunder Probe diagnostic utility for system hardware monitoring and you can also use Magic Screen for personal bootup screen design

The board support Windows 2000/XP and VISTA.

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