Epox has been around as a company since February 1995 making computer motherboards and communication devices. Epox has made motherboards based upon both the AMD and Intel platforms, with many popular products, including products based upon the Intel i440BX chipset, to products based upon the latest nForce2 and i845 chipsets.

It’s been a few months since Epox released the EP-8RDA+, and unfortunately, it’s not till today that I’ve gotten the opportunity to review it. Our sister site, Motherboards.org had a long-standing relationship with Epox, with them providing review boards on a regular basis, until very recently. Unfortunately, that relationship has changed for the worse. I’m not going to make this a factor in this review, just thought I’d give an explanation as to the lateness of the review.

Today’s review is of Epox’s EP-8RDA+ which is based upon NVIDIA’s nForce2-ST chipset. First released last year, the nForce2 is the most popular AMD platform chipsets available today with boards from MSI, Asus, Abit, Gigabyte, Epox, Soltek, and virtually every motherboard manufacturer. The chipset has spawned several variations including ones with/without integrated graphics and the upcoming nForce2 400 Ultra/ nForce2 400 which support 400MHz FSB Athlon CPUs.