8K3A+ vs other AMD?

Techneaux

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Aug 10, 2002
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I'm building a system for my brother and sister so I really don't want them to have to worry about stability problems in the future, or now. I mean, who wants to anyway? ;)

Is the EPoX 8K3A+ the way to go for that? From what I hear it sound like it's a great board...but I'm just overworried I suppose. I don't need some of the advanced features of SOYO and other boards like RAID and the such, just for my bro and sis' websurfing and playing games, so I'm really leaning towards the 8k3a+. I guess what I should ask, does anyone see any reason why I shouldn't get this board? Are they any major faults in it for websurfing, word processing, playing games type of activities? The most powerful thing in it will probably be a Geforce 3 (though I don't think that matters, I've seen people in other places saying they've got geforce 4's working on them?)

EPoX seems to have pretty good support so I'm not worried about that as much as I was when I was looking at my K7S5A which I just bought for someone else a little while back..

Well, thanks in advance for help. :)
 

Boonesmi

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Feb 19, 2001
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the 8k3a and 8k3a+ are both great boards (very stable/solid/mature/etc etc)

but epox has just released its newest kt333 based boards, the 8k5a2 and 8k5a2+ the 8k5a+ has usb 2.0 (unlike the 8k3a+)


both newegg.com and mwave.com have the new boards... seems like mwave had the non+ version for around $80 shipped and the + version was around $100