I think it's not that easy anymore. Yes, you can just take a Thoroughbred XY and see what happens. Personally, I also believe that the Thoroughbred B series are run on the board. But in the long term? Avenger, you said yourself that you and Bier already had problems with the board and a Barton. Who says this can not happen with a T-bred B?
Nice board, i love it. AMD761 is very fast. But this board has no AMD Athlon XP Barton support. My 8K7A+ died after i used a A-XP-M 2800+ (Barton, L2 Cache = 512KB) with it.
Bier.jpg had the same problem for a long time ago.
The mosfets become very hot and desoldering them self:
I remember that the issue was discussed 2001/2002 very hot. I rummaged through my old hardware magazines and found what they were looking for. PC Games Hardware published a compatibility list in its issue of 07/2003. (Kompatibilitaetsliste.pdf)
The list shows that only T-breds with the CPUID 680 are supported by the EpoX Board and this is the T-bred "A". If I transfer this now to an Athlon 2400+, then only one may be compatible: AXDA2400DKV3C with stepping code AQXDA (Athlon-XP 2400+.pdf, Source: http://www.cpu-world.com)
Obi, if you're running a T-bred on the board, you have to make sure that at least the Bios 2002/09/23 is flashed. In the "Release Note" is noted: - Added support for Thoroughbred CPUs
*FINAL*
*BETA*
8K7A3214.BIN (2003/02/14)
*LATEST BETA*
I would like to apologize if I panic unnecessarily here but I would not run a T-bred B on the board for a long time. The health of the old hardware is very important to me.
The safest way would be to grab an Athlon XP 2200+, in which the Stepping ends with "A".