EPoX EP-3PTA Motherboard Recommendations

The EP-3PTA is a high-quality motherboard built by EPoX in the industry standard ATX format. It is based upon the Intel 815EP B-stepping series chipset providing AC97 PCI-based sound, and UltraDMA-100. In addition to the onboard sound this board offers six industry standard PCI, one 4x AGP slot and one CNR expansion buses as well as many other advanced system and BIOS features. ??Two bus mastering ATA 100 EIDE ports are provided plus a floppy disk port supporting two drives of any industry standard capacity including 2.88MB and LS/120 as well as 1.44MB and lower capacity types. In addition an IrDa infrared port allows the connection of remote devices. Plus this mainboard is already equipped with the new Intel standardized Communications-Network-Riser Slot (CNR) providing connectors for modem devices at the system's I/O backplane. The CNR slot allows the addition of multi-channel audio, V.90 analog modem, Home PNA, 10/100 LAN.