Opinions on Epox EP-8KTA3

[Tacoma99]

Considering this board. It received a perfect 5 review at motherboards.org. Thanks.

 

[Jeff7]

I have it; haven't had any problems with it yet. Lots of tweaking options, including a setting for AGP voltage. The main thing that hardcore overclockers don't like is that it doesn't have an option in BIOS to set the FSB in 1MHz incrememts. I don't know if they can ever add that in future BIOS updates. It's a very nice motherboard though.

 

[Schlief]

I'm one of your more recent ABIT to Epox converts, and I love it. It just worked right out of the box. Where as some of my previous ABIT boards (KT7 and KT7E) needed some coaxing to work properly (never got the KT7E quite right, thus the Epox).

The only thing I do miss about the Abit boards is the true jumperlessness. The Epox has that 100/133 FSB jumper that has caused me problems with my Duron 750. I have better luck running it at 9X100 vs 7X133, only because the Duron isn't a native 133 chip.

But enough of that. The board is solid, and more stable than any of the other Abit boards similar to it, at least that's my experience.

Hope this helps.

 

[Ajay]

Pretty good board, especially at the price ($90 at newegg). I can't get mine to support hibernation and suspend (win2k). The periphs are all from a board that did support all ACPI functions, so somethings screwy with my 8KTA3.

-AJ