Bij TweakTown kun je een korte review vinden van de Epox EP-8KTA3. Dit moederbord is gebaseerd op de nieuwe VIA KT133A chipset die in tegenstelling tot zijn voorganger bussnelheden tot 266MHz ondersteunt. Verder is de 8KTA3 uitgerust met onboard RAID en is hij voorzien van een relaxte 1/6/1/4 AGP / PCI / ISA / DIMM layout. Ook op het gebied van overclocken is hij goed vertegenwoordigd; het bios geeft je de mogelijkheid tot voltage, FSB en multiplier tweaking. In de review vind je verder nog wat benchmarks van een 1GHz Athlon met een 100 en 133MHz FSB.
Overclocking on this board is easier than the other Socket A offering from Epox. On the 8KTA+ and 8KTA2 you needed to use Dipswitches to change the VIO, Vcore and multipliers. The 8KTA3 however allows multiplier, FSB, VIO and Vcore adjustments all through BIOS. One little hitch was the 133Mhz FSB setting. When we get it to 133Mhz FSB on BIOS the system would not post. We looked at the board and noticed a jumper on the board for 100MHz or 133MHz FSB, when we set this jumper to the 133Mhz FSB position the system booted fine. The stability of this board when overclocking was remarkable. Not once did we get a crash or any other glitches to show that the board was stressing, another very good point about this board.There is no doubt about it, the 8KTA3 based on the VIA Apollo KT133A chipset is a winner, stability, reliability and overclockability are all extremely good. The only major problem with this board is the clutter around the Socket A. To improve this Epox could take a page from ASUS's book with putting the voltage regulators and capacitors onto a riser card and more it out of the way. With this said this board is the best SDRAM solution to AMD Athlon and Duron Processors.
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