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Monkey Gadget
Epox 8KHA/L/+ Motherboard Review
-- Tuesday, January 22, 2002

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The Bigger Picture

 

The difference between the 8KHA/L and the 8KHA+ is the chipset. The + is running on the KT266A as opposed to the KT266. Both are great in their own respect, but in the interest of saving space, I will review those differences in a future article.

The 8KHA/+ have a few more features as opposed to the 8KHAL (light). It is basically same board, but with 1 fewer PCI slot, among other things.

I will be testing the 8KHA or as I like to call it, the happy medium. Besides subtle differences from the 8KHA/L to the +, the + might have slightly better results, so use my results as a jumping off point.

Racers, start your engines

Overclocking, as I mentioned before, is very simplistic, and easier then the 8K7A series of boards. Multiplier goes from 5.0 to 12.5 and the voltage goes up to 1.85. How well did the 8KHA stand up to pressure? Very well! I was able to OC my 1.2 GHz Athlon up to 1.33 with no problems. All that with very limited ventilation in my case is impressive.

Here is the rig I used for testing:

CPU

1.2 Ghz AMD Athlon

Memory

256 mb Crucial DDR

HD

10 GB Maxtor & 30 GB Western Digital

Video Card

ATI Radeon 8500 oem

Drivers

6011 for win2k/xp

OS

Windows 2000 professional with service packs

*note: bios I used are dated 10/31/01

Tests:

          Mad Onion 3Dmark2001
   
       SiSoft Sandra

 


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