I suppose EPOX is not alone on this one. HardOCP has a small news blurp on this:


Our pal George sent me a line expressing his anger at the fact that his new GeForce4 wont fit in his ECS K7S5A since the board smacks right into the secondary IDE header. We are gonna get some pics soon hopefully. I don't have jack for experience with ECS boards, other than I know they are budget boards... anyone else have the same problem??


I'm quite certain that the mem chips on the GFX card will interfere with the IDE header as shown here:

http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/socketa/k7s5a.htm

http://www.3dspotlight.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=445

So Epox had problems with some capacitors.
ECS with IDE header.
Are they just craming everything they can onto these boards and infringing standards for spacing around the AGP slot or are Geforce4 cards just too big?

Originally posted by Arris
[url]Are they just craming everything they can onto these boards and infringing standards for spacing around the AGP slot or are Geforce4 cards just too big?

I guess it's both! The GF4 cards are rather big and most of the mobos now are kinda packed with stuff. Perhaps it's time for another form factor?? ;)

If you ask me it's Nvidia's fault for making the card so chunky. They should've put all the guts on top of the card instead of facing down.

ECS simply needs to redesign the layout of their next generation board.