[November 11, 2004, Taipei]-—EPoX, one of the world's foremost manufacturers of motherboards, VGA cards, communication devices, and industrial PC motherboards, has announced the debut of its nForce4 chipset family motherboards. The EP-9NPA+ Ultra is based on the newest nVidia chipset, the nForce 4 Ultra; delivering revolutionary technology like Dual Channel DDR 400, PCI-E Graphics interface, Serial ATA II, NV firewall, and NV Active Armor and of course powerful socket 939 AMD Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 processor support. This platform offers tremendous functionality never seen before.

NEW PLAFORM ERA & POWERFUL MEMORY
With AMD’s latest Socket 939 Athlon 64 / Athlon 64 FX processor, EP-9NPA+ Ultra provides full support for AMD's HyperTransport technology and high-speed LDT bus up to 1GHz for even further performance gains. For system memory, the board offers four dual-channel DDR DIMM slots that can accommodate ultra-fast DDR memory modules running at a blistering 400MHz effective rate.

PCI EXPRESS FEATURES
EP-9NPA+ Ultra provides revolutionary PCI Express interface including one PCI-E x 16 and three PCI-E x 1. PCI Express slots. This revolutionary technology does not only eliminate the bottleneck of AGP 8X, but also delivers twice the bandwidth of the legacy PCI interface with up to 250MB/s for new generation I/O peripheral devices.

STORAGE
Another new interface is SATA II which is introduced in this board to provide data transfer rates up to 3GB/sec - twice the bandwidth of SATA1. This revolutionary technology not only doubles the current SATA speed, but also offers more efficient bus utilization, faster data back up and retrieval and faster recovery from signal drop/failure.

NETWORKING SECURITY
The buit-in hardware firewall called NV ActiveArmor not only secures your PC from online threats and hacker attacks, but also reduces system overhead. This solution, according to NVIDIA, makes this the industries first true hardware-based PC firewall.
NV nTune
The NVIDIA nTune performance application enables enthusiasts and gamers to maximize the performance of their PCs by using the powerful, built-in tuning engine that customizes various system parameters to automatically adjust for the ultimate performance. NVIDIA nTune also offers customizable computing environments, ranging from extreme performance for 3D-intensive applications to quieted operation for DVD playback and other traditional PC applications.

Key Specifications

-Supports AMD Socket 939 AMD Athlon 64FX/Athlon 64
-Incorporates nForce 4 ultra chipset w/ 2GTs HT FSB
-Dual Channel DDR 400 w/ 4 DIMM
-SATA II up to 3Gbs & NCQ
-Integrated Gigabit LAN
-Supports NV ActiveArmor
-Supports NV nTune
-4 x SATA & 4 x PATA
For more information about the EP-9NPA+ Ultra, please visit the company homepage at http://www.epox.com.tw