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Chosen_One Senior Member Offline Keeper of the BIOS-files... Posts: 499 Germany Gender:	Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed Reply #15 - 20.12.08 at 10:25:38 2333 MHz... I own this CPU...
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed Reply #16 - 20.12.08 at 13:02:52 ps47 wrote on 20.12.08 at 04:50:57: its 2166MHz,actually. That's the 3000+
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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed Reply #17 - 20.12.08 at 17:47:18 ah yes.my mistake..
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed Reply #18 - 16.02.09 at 15:55:28 Whee, if all goes well I should be getting an AthlonXP 3000+ next week Already got everything else I need so I can start building a system when I get the proc. Yippee!
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed Reply #19 - 27.02.09 at 10:50:18 No building a system for me yet. The motherboard has bad capacitors. Don't know why I didn't see that before. Been trying to get new caps, but that's difficult since Epox is gone. thumbnails, click for larger.
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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed Reply #20 - 27.02.09 at 14:56:16 yeah,happened on one of my epox boards as well.funny thing,the board still runs fine,even with bad caps..
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Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed
Reply #21 - 28.02.09 at 00:25:18

WHOA! That's a LOT of bad caps...

BTW - The caps can be replaced with any Brand of Capacitor as long as they are the SAME micro farad value and the SAME or HIGHER voltage value.

I'd Recommend one of the following capacitor brands...

Rubycon
Nichicon
United Chemicon

...there are other good brands too, but they're the best.

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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed Reply #22 - 28.02.09 at 03:02:04 I know, but the only caps I can find with the same uF, have like 50+ Volts instead of 10Volts which seems a bit too much.
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oldskool Senior Member Offline I Love 3dfx Posts: 398 uk Gender:	Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed Reply #23 - 25.03.10 at 17:35:15 Its ok to go up on the voltage but I think a 50 v cap will be huge compared to the one its replacing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCSNWi3UHf4&feature=fvw
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed Reply #24 - 25.03.10 at 17:40:22 Bit late on the reply aren't you? Might as well give a small update; I ordered caps from badcaps.net and had someone solder them on. Board seems to work fine, haven't done any stresstesting yet though. Needs a new BIOS and AWDFlash does not seem to recognise my keyboard
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rottentreats God Member Offline 3dfx > Reality Posts: 616 Minnesota [USA] Gender:	Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed Reply #25 - 25.03.10 at 18:08:11 By chance do you have a list of the caps required to fix up an 8K3A? (would prefer to replace all most all of the caps)
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oldskool Senior Member Offline I Love 3dfx Posts: 398 uk Gender:	Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed Reply #26 - 25.03.10 at 18:22:11 NitroX infinity wrote on 25.03.10 at 17:40:22: AWDFlash does not seem to recognise my keyboard Strange
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Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed
Reply #27 - 25.03.10 at 18:38:50

rottentreats wrote on 25.03.10 at 18:08:11:

By chance do you have a list of the caps required to fix up an 8K3A? (would prefer to replace all most all of the caps)

Hi Brendan, here they are.

8K3A+

2200uf 10V CSG 13 pcs
1500uf 6.3V CSG 2 pcs
1200uf 6.3V CSG 6 pcs
1000uf 6.3V CSG 6 pcs
100uf 16V CSG 18 pcs
10uf 25V CSG 6 pcs

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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed Reply #28 - 25.03.10 at 18:55:16 Yep, except the 2200 are 6.3Volts when ordering from badcaps.net (no problem though) and I didn't replace the 100 and 10's.
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rottentreats God Member Offline 3dfx > Reality Posts: 616 Minnesota [USA] Gender:	Re: Epox 8K3A+ information needed Reply #29 - 25.03.10 at 19:22:55 Thank you for the information Tim! (and thank you NitroX for the additional info) I think I will undertake that as a small project for myself. (one of my three 8k3a+ boards could use a recap)
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