I've got an ABIT KT7A (v1.2) running an Athlon 1400 and an AGP Voodoo 5 5500. No problems.

I've got another ABIT KT7A (v1.3) that didn't like working with AGP Voodoo 5 5500s. I tried two different AGP V5s in this system and neither worked right. The cards were definitely good and worked fine in other systems. I had to switch to a PCI V5 in that system and now I use it along with an AGP FX5950 Ultra. This configuration works well, but I still don't understand why I couldn't get an AGP V5 working. I've read accounts of other KT7A v1.3 users with AGP V5 cards that had no problems at all. Maybe mine is just cursed or something.

Anyway, I can vouch for the KT7A v1.2 working fine with an AGP 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500.

Epox 8K3A+ is the one you want.

NitroX infinity wrote:

Epox 8K3A+ is the one you want.

Are you sure? I heard that CPU caps on these are of very poor quality. Aside from that, is there options in the BIOS to manually set AGP voltage & speed?

You can replace the caps or have them replaced by someone else. I assume it has auto-detection for voltage and manual settings. If you're really worried about the voltage, put a pci card in first then check the bios.

Pretty much any AMD chipset is safe and most of the VIA are also safe except for the late models. There are a handful of 478 boards with sis chipsets that have 3.3v support but have issues with the V5 6000.

I have no problem with my AGP Voodoo 5 in my Asus P3B-F v1.03 (440BX chipset) with a Pentium III Tualatin 1.4ghz.

Dunno if you think that is a quick enough CPU for the Voodoo 5.

I run one on a MSI KT3 Ultra2 which is KT333. KT333 is the fastest Socket A chipset you can use, but from what I've read some KT333 are actually relabeled KT400 and will not work with 3.3v cards.

KT3 Ultra2 fully recognizes my Athlon XP-M 2500+ too. It surprised me at least.