EPoX was a manufacturer of motherboard

Motherboard

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s, video card

Video card

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s and communication products. They manufactured mainboards for AMD

Advanced Micro Devices

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 and Intel processors, which are renowned for being overclock

Overclocking

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er-friendly yet affordable. Many of their products used the same StudlyCaps

StudlyCaps

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 naming convention as the company itself.

History

EPoX Computer Company was established in February 1995. In 1998 the company entered the communications field. EPoX has been listed since November 1999 on the Taiwan Stock Exchange

Taiwan Stock Exchange

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. (TAIEX

Taiwan Capitalization Weighted Stock Index

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: 5414)

EPoX was the first mainboard producer in the industry to announce the user-friendly technology KBPO (Keyboard Power On) in 1997. Their mainboards were manufactured in Jong Ho City, Taipei, and Ning-Bo Science Based Industrial Park, China

China

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.

The German and Dutch subsidiaries of EPoX closed in 2007. The USA subsidiary still offers RMA

Return Merchandise Authorization

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support on motherboards, and maintains an online store for some of their older products. The current status of the parent company is unclear. The Russian subsidiary still appears to be active.

EPoX old employees started a new company in 2009 called SUPoX and is only active in China.

External links

• EPoX International – USA branch
• EPoX Russia - Russian branch (currently not active)