Review: EPoX EP-4G4A

It seems customary these days to start with 3DMark when we take a look at the performance of a motherboard so I wont disappoint you. You know the drill by now, 3DMark 2001 is a full system benchmark with each major component in your system affecting performance of the benchmark results.

5 different motherboards and 2 different processors and they all bunch up. The KT333 based SOYO takes the spoils home with the other AMD based system in second place and then the EPoX as the best of the Pentium 4 based entries.

Performance was incredibly close with SiS645DX and Intel i845G over 3 systems all performing within 6 points of each other. In this day and age, performance is derivative between boards hosting the same core logic with only features differentiating between them.

Strong performance from the EPoX and in the real world, no different to the other 4 systems on test.

Will Quake3 be the same? Expect the P4 based systems to win here but for performance to be largely generic across the board.

MSI 645E first, EPoX second and another strong showing from the 4G4A+ despite performance being entirely identical across the board. While we say that performance was identical, even for the slowest board on test and that's completely true, no manufacturer likes to come last in a graph like that and the EPoX didn't.

Good solid performance that was exactly as expected. Let's move on.