EPoX Requiem

[eplebnista]

RIP EPoX

 

[Stumps]

bummer, I liked Epox boards and I still have a couple of them waiting to be used.

 

[eplebnista]

^^^

 

[christopherzombie]

Very sad. The EPoX nForce 570 SLI mobo was a beast. It could overclock better than some 590 boards. They will be missed...

 

[DaveBC]

I had a skt 754 with a couple of 7800 GTX's from EpoX. It was a solid Nforce 4 board.

 

[Ultralight]

I have their 9NPA+Ultra board and it was a dream to put in, set up, boot and I haven't had an issue with it from day one. It is solid, stable and a good overclocker. Plus I have had nothing but good experience with their tech support. Bummer!

 

[hans007]

i used to work for a major software company where we built about 50 machines on epox nforce 2 boards. we ran out of epox boarsd and uses asus for the last 5 or so. these machines were for sofwtare qa of a very popular consumer internet security product that comes in a yellow box.

that said, the epox machines after a year or 2 all the epox machines were dead from bad caps and had caused tons of qa people to mistakeninly waste hours and hours thinking there was a bug in the software when all it was was leaky caps.

the asus machines worked fine the entire time. based on the giant pain in the ass that was for me as a qa engineer ill say good riddance epox.

 

[Killrose]

I've had a slew of Epox boards and am still using two 8RDA+ with OC'd Barton mobiles (and factory upgraded caps). Shame that they will be gone, but I do blame a capacitor failure on on an 8RDA for killing my 6800Ultra and figured because of that I had bought my last Epox board.

I wouldnt be surprised if the fall-out from the capacitor problem had a lot to do with it.

 

[Zap]

"Another One Bites the Dust" - Queen

 

[Avalon]

All my socket A and socket 754 boards were Epox. Loved em. Only had one s754 board go bad on me, after 3 years.

 

[eplebnista]

Reincarnated

 

[Shadin]

This is sad. I've loved every EPoX motherboard I've ever had. I got strapped for cash awhile back and sold my 9NPA+Ultra, I could just beat myself now.

Originally posted by: hans007
i used to work for a major software company where we built about 50 machines on epox nforce 2 boards. we ran out of epox boarsd and uses asus for the last 5 or so. these machines were for sofwtare qa of a very popular consumer internet security product that comes in a yellow box.

that said, the epox machines after a year or 2 all the epox machines were dead from bad caps and had caused tons of qa people to mistakeninly waste hours and hours thinking there was a bug in the software when all it was was leaky caps.

the asus machines worked fine the entire time. based on the giant pain in the ass that was for me as a qa engineer ill say good riddance epox.

This wasn't only EPoX. Around mid-late 2002 and early 2003, several companies were affected by bad batches of capacitors floating around the OEM market. It had nothing to do with the quality of the boards, and the only ones to blame were the cap manufacturers. However, I had one of the affected boards, and EPoX replaced it even though it was out of warranty because of the capacitor issue.