Goodbye EPoX, Hello SUPoX ?

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10Neon

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There is a rumor going around that EPoX has quietly gone out of business, and the former employees have moved to a new company called SUPoX. It looks like the new company has the same product lineup as EPoX.
http://www.supox.com.tw/product/home.php
Anyone know if that is correct, or what has happened?
 
Man thats sad.

I built my first computer with an Epox motherboard (8KHA+) and it was one of the best when it came out. I remember being able to hit close to ddr400 speeds with it using pc2100 ram.
 
Blows my mind how companies can go under and then come up as a complete different name and yet still maintain business.
 
This was a surprise to me as I used a 8npa SLI motherboard recently with my s754 Venice.
 
Isn't Epox a mainland China company as opposed to a Taiwanese based company? SUPox says they are based in Taiwan.
 
whatever you do dont buy one of their boards... if its defective you're stuck with it... they never answer their phone or return voice mails...
 
javisaman said:
Man thats sad.

I built my first computer with an Epox motherboard (8KHA+) and it was one of the best when it came out. I remember being able to hit close to ddr400 speeds with it using pc2100 ram.
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My first system build was also with an 8KHA+. It's running a memtest for me at the moment.

Isn't Epox a mainland China company as opposed to a Taiwanese based company? SUPox says they are based in Taiwan.
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No, EPoX is based in Taiwan, but like the other mainboard companies, they moved their factory to mainland China to cut costs.
 
LOL! go to the link in the first post and then go to "Contact Us" and you will find this....


Support [email protected]

Established in April 2007 in Taiwan, SUPoX endeavored to provide a whole range of high performance and top quality motherboards to users worldwide. SUPoX¡¯s product line of PC motherboard, embedded and IPC meets the requirements at all level.

With more than 15-year experience in Computer industrial field, our strong R&D team incorporates innovation and new technology in designing products. Our overclocking capability is well known among motherboard enthusiasts. And in addition to enhancing the performance, stability and cost-effectiveness are our value and key to success
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Overclocking is well know after just starting up in April '07? WTF??
 
The boys at Epox are under embezzlement investigation...

So they change their name, and bingo... keep on trucking...
 
These boys know each other in the industry well and there are always someone at the side ot help each othe rout and invest whenever there are finanacial issues. I will not be surprise if Epox is now part of MSI or Asus etc. under the hood.
 
Well I can't say I'll miss them if this is true. My experiences with EPoX have always been sub-par up until I received a couple of their review boards this last year. Aside from those two, all my experiences with EPoX have been bad. Sure they were great overclockers but none of the boards I ever worked with lived very long. (6 months to a year tops) and about a year and a half ago I was working part time as a service tech, and I saw several machines that came in with EPoX boards all with leaking capacitors.
 
Dan_D said:
Well I can't say I'll miss them if this is true. My experiences with EPoX have always been sub-par up until I received a couple of their review boards this last year. Aside from those two, all my experiences with EPoX have been bad. Sure they were great overclockers but none of the boards I ever worked with lived very long. (6 months to a year tops) and about a year and a half ago I was working part time as a service tech, and I saw several machines that came in with EPoX boards all with leaking capacitors.
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I never thought Epox was sub-par, if anything they might in later editions not been amazing OCers like in the past but they were always stable. I think they make awesome workstation boards. Sub-par if anything ECS and I don't think Epox is even close too being in that category
 
Glow said:
I never thought Epox was sub-par, if anything they might in later editions not been amazing OCers like in the past but they were always stable. I think they make awesome workstation boards. Sub-par if anything ECS and I don't think Epox is even close too being in that category
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Oh I do. All the recent ECS boards I've worked with that were using Intel chipsets were rock solid. They couldn't overclock for shit, but they were stable at the very least. The EPoX boards I've worked with haven't been that good honestly. The only exceptions were the two I reviewed for the [H], and like you said, they weren't stellar overclockers, but they were stable.
 
Dan, I have to disagree. My old D3VA (dual P3, VIA chipset) was rock solid for almost four years. My only complaint was with the AGP slot always working at 2x, and that was attributed to the VIA chipset- not an Epox issue at all.
 
Dan_D said:
Well I can't say I'll miss them if this is true. My experiences with EPoX have always been sub-par up until I received a couple of their review boards this last year. Aside from those two, all my experiences with EPoX have been bad. Sure they were great overclockers but none of the boards I ever worked with lived very long. (6 months to a year tops) and about a year and a half ago I was working part time as a service tech, and I saw several machines that came in with EPoX boards all with leaking capacitors.
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when i was doing reviews i used quite a few epox boards.... anyone remember the bong cooled 8k7a? lol

i think alot of epox problems can be resolved with a BIOS flash, but their bios techs suck and there aren't alot of modders of them (epox)
 
mavalpha said:
Dan, I have to disagree. My old D3VA (dual P3, VIA chipset) was rock solid for almost four years. My only complaint was with the AGP slot always working at 2x, and that was attributed to the VIA chipset- not an Epox issue at all.
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Everyone has their own experiences. There are some people that swore off ASUS years ago, and only recently have I had any trouble with them.
 
Those who've owned Epox know they made some of the best boards on the planet bar none, especially in the pre 8RDA+ days. Heck I've still got an 8K5A2+ (Via KT266?) that's been running essentially 24/7 FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS and an 8RDA+ rev2 for the past 3. The bad capacitor issue hit Epox a bit harder in the ass than the others.
 
arcturus said:
Those who've owned Epox know they made some of the best boards on the planet bar none, especially in the pre 8RDA+ days. Heck I've still got an 8K5A2+ (Via KT266?) that's been running essentially 24/7 FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS and an 8RDA+ rev2 for the past 3. The bad capacitor issue hit Epox a bit harder in the ass than the others.
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Some of the boards you mentioned are some of the terrible boards I hated. As I said, everyone's mileage will vary. My experience with them was just less pleasant than it was for most it would seem. Then again these people who think ASUS is horrible sound almost crazy to me as I've never had any issues with their boards aside from the Striker Extreme.
 
It's weird but true. 4 me it's been Junkabyte. Hate them. Biggest pices of junk. Always breaking down. 3 out of 4 have had problems. Their support is the worst.Hate em.
I liked Epox. Ugliest things but worked well.
 
Generally those who've owned older Epox boards (pre-NForce2) were very pleased with them. Some were legendary.
 
MC FLMJIG said:
It's weird but true. 4 me it's been Junkabyte. Hate them. Biggest pices of junk. Always breaking down. 3 out of 4 have had problems. Their support is the worst.Hate em.
I liked Epox. Ugliest things but worked well.
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I had real bad experiences with Gigabyte until these last few boards we've reviewed here at the [H]. The good Gigabyte boards started with the GA-P965-DQ6. DS3 and so on.

arcturus said:
Generally those who've owned older Epox boards (pre-NForce2) were very pleased with them. Some were legendary.
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Yeah, I know a guy who claims his old EPoX board was awesome even though the piece of shit had it's PS/2 ports fail on it. (Seriously, what kind of junk board has PS/2 port failures?)
 
Mr. Stryker said:
It could have been an user-related error. :D I love mine, though...
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No it wasn't. I checked it for him. No PS/2 keyboard or mouse would work, or even give any indication of power on it.

That board was a hunk of shit.
 
Dan_D said:
I had real bad experiences with Gigabyte until these last few boards we've reviewed here at the [H]. The good Gigabyte boards started with the GA-P965-DQ6. DS3 and so on.



Yeah, I know a guy who claims his old EPoX board was awesome even though the piece of shit had it's PS/2 ports fail on it. (Seriously, what kind of junk board has PS/2 port failures?)
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thats what happened to me... i have to use a USB dongle
 
arcturus said:
Which model?
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I can't remember. It was a socket A board. It was their super-high end Socket A board and that's all I can remember. I had the ABIT and later ASUS equivalents which were the KT7A-RAID and the A7V-133A respectively.

It had an 8RDA+ or some such model number.
 
arcturus said:
Those who've owned Epox know they made some of the best boards on the planet bar none, especially in the pre 8RDA+ days. Heck I've still got an 8K5A2+ (Via KT266?) that's been running essentially 24/7 FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS and an 8RDA+ rev2 for the past 3. The bad capacitor issue hit Epox a bit harder in the ass than the others.
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I had a 4PDA2+ with bulging/leaking caps at just under a year after I bought it, new (as in, not a refurb) direct from them.

fuck 'em. :mad:
 
Satyrist said:
I had a 4PDA2+ with bulging/leaking caps at just under a year after I bought it, new (as in, not a refurb) direct from them.

fuck 'em. :mad:
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MD_Willington said:
I owned 1 Epox board, a super socket 7 board... lasted me a whole year.. then dead...
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These are the types of experiences I've found most common to EPoX over the years. Certainly my experiences have always echoed those quoted above.
 
I would have to agree that Epox didn't treat me all that well. I had random incompatibilities with the 2800+ s754 CPU and their 8KDA3J board. My cousin has the same board running with a 3000+, but the 2800+ would freeze randomly in bios. Seemed like a simple bios fix, but they never did fix it before they discontinued support for the board :(.

I probably wouldn't buy Epox again (or Supox for that matter).
 
Dan I can say the same thing about ECS (never stupid enough to buy) and ASUS we all have different luck with these companies I guess.
 
I loved my Epox K6-2 super socket 7 board. Currently in the closet, it still works great. Reliable and 100% stable in the era where a lot of super socket 7 boards were crappy and win98 was crappy. I recommended one of those Athlon thunderbird socket a era boards to someone and he really liked it.

One of the things I liked was that the boards were well-labeled. It was always very easy to work on it without digging out the manual.
 
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