I have always been a fan of EPoX motherboards and have used them a lot because of their stability, features, and overclockability. I reviewed the EPoX 8K3A+ a while back here at OCmodshop which used the VIA KT333 chipset. This is the EPoX 8K9A2+ motherboard which uses the KT400 chipset.
The VIA KT400 chipset brings some good new features to the table like DDR400 support, 8x AGP, onboard LAN, SATA, ATA133, 6 USB 2.0 ports and many other things which can be seen below.
The main reason that I have always liked EPoX motherboards is because they are great overclockers. With the 8K3A+ Vcore voltages of above 2.00v being offered it gave a lot of room for overclocking. Along with the ability to use high voltages without doing any modifications they usually offer a large amount of memory tweaking options.
VIA KT400 Specifications
The EPoX 8K9A2+ has a lot of features which most current KT400 motherboards have. It supports Durons, Thunderbirds, Athlon XPs, and Thoroughbreds. There are 3 DDR Slots for PC3200 (it can handle faster RAM of course) and the voltage on the RAM can be increased to 3.2v. There are 4 USB 2.0 ports with another 2 optional, ATA-133 IDE and UltraDMA-100+33 RAID controller. Along with the IDE RAID available with this board SATA RAID is available which can do up to ATA150 speeds. This motherboard also comes with 6-channel full-duplex integrated sound and an onboard 10/100 LAN port.
The EPoX 8K9A2+ is not your basic motherboard by any standard, this thing comes with a lot to offer. This motherboard like the KT333 from EPoX has the ability to go past 1.85v for the Vcore all the way up to 2.03v. The EPoX 8K9A2+ does all of the voltage, multipler, memory and every other option you might need to change through the BIOS. The only 2 jumpers that are on this motherboard are for selecting the CPU host clock and to clear the CMOS.