Bij HardOCP is een review verscheven over het 8KTA3 moederbord van Epox gebaseerd op de KT133A chipset. De plank is in het bezit van de populaire 1/6/1 ISA/PCI/AGP layout. Ook zijn er 4 DIMM sloten aanwezig voor de geheugen- hongerige tweakers. De broodnodige instellingen om de multiplier, de FSB of het voltage te wijzigen zitten keurig in het BIOS ingebakken. Features dus die zonder problemen kunnen concurreren met bijvoorbeeld het Abit KT7A moederbord. De plank kon overigens zonder problemen stabiel lopen op een FSB van 150MHz DDR . Dit alles verdient volgens de reviewer de eerste HardOCP top pick award:
Not that you would care, but I have had more fun these last few days testing this board. The VIA KT133A chipset on the EPoX board has brought some avenues of excitement back to the OCers that wanted to go the AMD route like myself. We now have CPUs we are pushing to the limits - along with chipsets, memory sticks, and mainboards to boot. Tweaking out the 8KTA3 was kinda like living on the edge again. Yeah, I know, I need to get out more....
EPoX has done a bang-up job on the 8KTA3. This is the third KT133A board we have had the pleasure of testing, and I have to say it is certainly a board you will want to look at when and if you go to buy yourself an upgrade any time soon. The features are honed for the overclockers and tweakers out there. Outside of having a built-in bidet, there is not much more they could have done to make this board perfect for the hardware that is out there now.
[...] This is the first time that we have given out an award of any kind to a manufacturer for a product, but I think EPoX has certainly earned it with their 8KTA3. Now I want to see them keep the quality work as standard operating procedure.
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Zoals je kan zien is er ook nog een handig diagnose systeem aanwezig om de BIOS post codes te laten zien (links onder) en is er nog ruimte op het PCB voor andere versies met RAID en/of twee BIOS chippies. Wel jammer dat de layout niet helemaal optimaal is...