Legend QDI Mainboard Recommends SX5EP, Attaining Perfection

The Legend 815EP chipset mainboard SX5EP, faced with the high-end customers in the distribution markets, is attaining perfection and functionally powerful in design. In particular, the designs of Legend innovative technology StepEasy and CPU adjustable core voltage have quenched DIYs thirst for excitement this time.

To satisfy the high-end customers, SX5EP is fitted with 815EP chipset but has removed the integrated graphic function. However, it makes AGP 4X slot available so that the users can select high-grade display cards. SX5EP Mainboard with COM1 and COM2 on board is in compliance with the standards of this industry and easier to use. It is the upgraded mainboard of SX2EP.

To sum up the features of SX5EP, we can go from the following aspects. Firstly, SX5EP is the first to use the latest innovative technology StepEasy, which is another one of Legend leading and innovative technologies three months after releasing BootEasy at COMDEX last November. It makes the stepless frequency change of the mainboard possible and breaks the fetters of FSB (outer frequency) jumping only from 66MHz to 100MHz then to 133MHz. Now in contrast, every 1MHz CPU core frequency can choose to jump frequency. For example, CPU with 800MHz can jump to 801MHz, 802MHz, 803MHz, etc. This has improved the applicability of DIYs system resource configuration, brought the system capability into full play and tapped the CPU's potential to the utmost. SX5EP seems to have added two wings to DIYs, thus rendering them a larger space.

Secondly, the core voltage of SX5EP is adjustable. Frequency overclocking lovers, in the case of specified voltage, can use StepEasy to a certain limit of frequency overclocking. But for super fanciers, it is not to their heart content. The adjustable CPU core voltage of SX5EP can help you challenge the maximal limit and feel the pleasure of conquering. (But I must warn you that for the sake of your CPU safety, you had better take care.)

Thirdly, four diagnostic LEDs are designed at the back panel of SX5EP Mainboard. This design is specific to DIY. When something is wrong with your PC, you, as a user, should not hurry to open the cabinet and conduct complicated inspections. Instead, you should see where the problems lie. Are they in CPU or in internal memory, or elsewhere? The diagnostic LEDs will tell you exactly where the problems are. What you need to do is just to find effective solutions to those problems.

Doubtless, SX5EP supports BootEasy technology, increasing the speed of bootstrap to a great extent with the whole "post” process taking only 4-5 seconds and saving the patience of the users waiting too long for the bootstrap process. SX5EP is a standard ATX specification mainboard, supporting FSB 133/100/66 MHz, with the maximal memory reaching 512 MB. It is fitted with 6 PCI slots and 1 CNR slot, supporting AC' 97. It also has 4 USB ports, which provide the high-end customers with an operating platform nearing perfection.