Epox Mobo's

I've installed Epox mobo (3VSA) and Asus mobo (CU4X) and Epox seems faster. When I talk to my friends, most say that Epox are the Packard Bell's of mobo's.
Has anyone had problems with Epox? Is mine a timebomb waiting to blow up on me??
How would you rate Epox (I'm new to their boards)?

Both are using 1gig Celeron 256k L2 cache.

 

I've owned and know of people who had/have epox boards.

When forming and opinion of a motherboard/hardware/computer I like to look at it in the following light - If it does what I need it to do and doesn't present me with any excessive problems then I have no reason to view the item in a negative light.

I went through 3 of the same model FIC boards once and because of that I now shy away from their boards. PCChips also, as I have ran into a lengthy excursion each time I try to find information from their web site. But those are my own experiences, I know that thousands of people have used both brands without issue.

My last IWill board took such a long time to run through the bios and transfer to the OS that the first few times I restarted the machine I thought it had hanged in the bios. Proved to be nothing more than a long boot time on this particular model of board.

Of course how you view hardware/motherboards etc is entirely dependent upon what you desire out of that system. Someone who only wants a board for a basic web-surfing machine is likely to be less critical of a boards pros/cons than someone who needs an overclockable board for intense gaming.

Just my 2 cents.

Gary

 

iceolated, point taken. You're right. I'm very happen with my Epox board. Just surprised it performs better then my Asus since I hear good things about Asus boards.
Epox will be my mobo of choice.
Thanks for your input.

 

About a year ago when I upgraded to my AMD Athlon 1gighz CPU I had an asus board at first, then moved to an Epox 8kha+ and was really impressed. It seemed to be faster/run smoother. Forgot what asus board it was, but I remember it costing almost twice as much as the Epox.

 

Wow.......what kind of friends do you have?

That's a pretty strong statement to make against Epox. I have read many reviews, forums and the like and have never came across anything like that before. Sure people have problems and there are many that hate one brand or another, even though Epox isn't a Asus (which I feel is overpriced and overratted just as Sony is) board and neither is the price.

The only PB's out there are the big box computers: Dell, Compaq/HP, Gateway and of course e-machines! You never know what you are getting inside!

 

Actually only one said that (works in a computer store), and one other said basically the same (not relating Epox to PB, but the intent was clear). Most of my friends (I have more then two really, I think I have at least twice as much!) prefer Asus.
But like I say and like the above posters say, Epox is a mighty fine mobo, it is my mobo of choice. I agree about Asus being overpriced.

 

WHOA, dude! Your friend is way off. I started with Epox back in the Super Socket 7 days and would take one over any other maker including Asus and Abit. Epox has gone from making boring but stable mainboards to becoming of the premier mainboard makers today. Not only do they make very high quality boards but they are now known to make some of the highest performing boards available. I'm a mainboard junkie - I usually upgrade my mainboard every 9 months and to me Epox is the "gold standard ". If I want to get a good, cheap board I'll get a Shuttle and I've even had success with a couple of ECS K7S5As but if I see an Epox on sale, I'll snag it! I've still got Epox socket 7 boards that still work fine.

And btw, their support (e-mail) is the best I've encountered from a mainboard maker yet.

Your friend's comment sounds like it was made in 1997 - but even then I don't think it applied.

You can feel good about your Epox board.