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13.09.05 at 21:05:24

Hi at all!

I hope that someone can help me. I would like to know what is the best CPU for this mobo...

I am a bit confused about that Undecided

. I know that a good AthlonXP 2700+ Thoroughbred works pretty fine, probably is the better CPU

But the person that sell me the epox says that he have used the motherboard with a Barton 2600+ for one year and no problems are occurred

Barton compatibility is not documented by Epox, but it seems that the EP-8K5A3+ can run Barton cores (2600+ model at least). If is true that AMD Barton is compatibile, what is the best? The MAX?

Someone can help me to bring the light on?

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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Mainboard for VSA-100 based board: Epox EP-8K5 Reply #1 - 13.09.05 at 21:59:01 Barton 3000+ with 333 mhz bus I would imagine.
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goriath God Member Offline Ruggedized Retro Gamer Posts: 599 Italy/Slovenija Gender:	Re: Mainboard for VSA-100 based board: Epox EP-8K5 Reply #2 - 13.09.05 at 22:16:35 Ehm ok....It seems that i not explain my request clearly, sorry I will try again "Someone can confirm to me that EP-8K5A3+ can run Barton CPU? If yes, someone have experiences about AMD AthlonXP 3000+ Barton on this mobo?" Thanks to all
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Reisi YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 6	Re: Mainboard for VSA-100 based board: Epox EP-8K5 Reply #3 - 13.09.05 at 23:21:36 A Barton will work in this board! I had a Barton 3000+ in my 8K3A+ (same board with older southbridge) and it worked without any problems. And I also never heard of problem with Bartons in Epox KT333 boards.
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Chosen_One Senior Member Offline Keeper of the BIOS-files... Posts: 499 Germany Gender:	Re: Mainboard for VSA-100 based board: Epox EP-8K5 Reply #4 - 13.09.05 at 23:39:36 a XP-M 2600+ and overclocking! i bought a EP-8K3A+ and my XP-M 2600+ will work on this mobo in the future!
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Re: Mainboard for VSA-100 based board: Epox EP-8K5
Reply #5 - 13.09.05 at 23:49:04

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A Barton will work in this board!

I had a Barton 3000+ in my 8K3A+ (same board with older southbridge) and it worked without any problems. And I also never heard of problem with Bartons in Epox KT333 boards.

So Barton is supported! Ok very well! But i really not understand the reason why Epox did not report this precious info, as you can see here (Click directly on Open and select AMD CPU list of course)

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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Mainboard for VSA-100 based board: Epox EP-8K5 Reply #6 - 14.09.05 at 00:08:18 because in times of KT333 no bartons were made and the mobo companies mostly stop their support and CPU lists and so on for discontiued items...
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Mainboard for VSA-100 based board: Epox EP-8K5 Reply #7 - 14.09.05 at 00:08:33 hmm shouldn't it be the EPoX EP-8K5A2+ for great Voodoo5 5500/6000 support? never knew that there was an EP-8K5A3+ model
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Re: Mainboard for VSA-100 based board: Epox EP-8K5
Reply #8 - 14.09.05 at 04:00:56

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because in times of KT333 no bartons were made and the mobo companies mostly stop their support and CPU lists and so on for discontiued items...

Yeah, but if you look on top, at left corner of the first CPU support list page, date shown is June 2005 ???

EDIT: Ok, the CPU support list is a total list also for newer models like KT400/600/880 and nFORCE2/3 chipsets based boards.....So probably, Epox have upgraded list in June 2005 with new info only for some newer models, I guess...

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Eye-Q God Member Offline Posts: 522 Germany Gender:	Re: Mainboard for VSA-100 based board: Epox EP-8K5 Reply #9 - 14.09.05 at 08:00:03 Quote: hmm shouldn't it be the EPoX EP-8K5A2+ for great Voodoo5 5500/6000 support? never knew that there was an EP-8K5A3+ model The EP-8K5A3+ is basically an EP-8K5A2+ but has a separate IDE-RAID-Controller on board so it has four IDE-Channels instead of two. Otherwise it is exactly the same board.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Mainboard for VSA-100 based board: Epox EP-8K5 Reply #10 - 16.09.05 at 02:14:03 oh okay, never knew that hehe nice to lookout for , and yeah thanx for the tip Eye-Q
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goriath God Member Offline Ruggedized Retro Gamer Posts: 599 Italy/Slovenija Gender:	Re: Mainboard for VSA-100 based board: Epox EP-8K5 Reply #11 - 16.09.05 at 21:34:24 have bought! Thanks to all for support
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Mainboard for VSA-100 based board: Epox EP-8K5 Reply #12 - 17.09.05 at 02:24:35 Congrats Goriath good to hear you stuck the luck
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